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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,550 Views
14 Pages

Meander Line Super-Wideband Radiator for Fifth-Generation (5G) Vehicles

  • Narayana Rao Palepu,
  • Jayendra Kumar and
  • Samineni Peddakrishna

23 January 2024

Designing antennas for vehicular communication systems presents several unique challenges due to the dynamic nature of vehicular environments, mobility, and the need for reliable connectivity. A wider bandwidth is a critical requirement of vehicular...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,367 Views
13 Pages

Low Profile Monopole Meander Line Antenna for WLAN Applications

  • Husam Hamid Ibrahim,
  • Mandeep Jit Singh,
  • Samir Salem Al-Bawri,
  • Sura Khalil Ibrahim,
  • Mohammad Tariqul Islam,
  • Mohamed S. Soliman and
  • Md Shabiul Islam

18 August 2022

An antenna assumes a significant role in expanding the levels of communication to meet the demands of contemporary technologically based industry and private data services. In this paper, a printed compact meander line patch antenna array for wireles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,443 Views
8 Pages

A stepped impedance resonator (SIR) is suitable for designing a dual-band bandpass filter (BPF) that can be adjusted to reject spurious bands. A BPF is proposed using an SIR T-shaped meander line and folded structure. The BPF mainly comprises a meand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,020 Views
12 Pages

18 May 2020

The multimode and dispersion characteristics of Lamb waves make them difficult to apply to nondestructive evaluation. This paper presents a paired configuration of a meander-line coil electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) to generate a single-mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,383 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Meander Line Metamaterial Absorber Operating at 24 GHz and 28 GHz for the 5G Applications

  • Syed Aftab Naqvi,
  • Muhammad Abuzar Baqir,
  • Grant Gourley,
  • Adnan Iftikhar,
  • Muhammad Saeed Khan and
  • Dimitris E. Anagnostou

15 May 2022

Fifth generation (5G) communication systems deploy a massive MIMO technique to enhance gain and spatial multiplexing in arrays of 16 to 128 antennas. In these arrays, it is critical to isolate the adjacent antennas to prevent unwanted interaction bet...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,699 Views
10 Pages

Study of an Attenuator Supporting Meander-Line Slow Wave Structure for Ka-Band TWT

  • Hexin Wang,
  • Shaomeng Wang,
  • Zhanliang Wang,
  • Xinyi Li,
  • Tenglong He,
  • Duo Xu,
  • Zhaoyun Duan,
  • Zhigang Lu,
  • Huarong Gong and
  • Yubin Gong

28 September 2021

An attenuator supporting meander-line (ASML) slow wave structure (SWS) is proposed for a Ka-band traveling wave tube (TWT) and studied by simulations and experiments. The ASML SWS simplifies the fabrication and assembly process of traditional planar...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,281 Views
16 Pages

4 June 2021

In light of the growth in demand for multiband antennas for medical applications, this research proposes a MICS/ISM meander-line microstrip antenna encapsulated in an oblong-shaped pod for use in diagnoses of the gastrointestinal tract. The proposed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,960 Views
9 Pages

7 October 2021

We present a new machine learning (ML) deep learning (DL) synthesis algorithm for the design of a microstrip meander line (MML) slow wave structure (SWS). Exact numerical simulation data are used in the training of our network as a form of supervised...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,119 Views
12 Pages

Multiple Dielectric-Supported Ridge-Loaded Rhombus-Shaped Wideband Meander-Line Slow-Wave Structure for a V-Band TWT

  • Yuxin Wang,
  • Yang Dong,
  • Xiangbao Zhu,
  • Jingyu Guo,
  • Duo Xu,
  • Shaomeng Wang and
  • Yubin Gong

A multiple dielectric-supported ridge-loaded rhombus-shaped meander-line (MDSRL-RSML) slow-wave structure (SWS) is proposed for a V-band wideband traveling wave tube (TWT). The high-frequency and transmission characteristics of the SWS are investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,794 Views
11 Pages

A new, compact, on-chip antenna architecture for 5G body-centric networks’ (BCNs) applications is presented in this paper. The integrated antenna combines two turns of dual-meander lines (DML) on two stacked layers and a metal ground layer. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,108 Views
16 Pages

27 October 2019

A high-sensitivity microstrip patch sensor antenna (MPSA) loaded with a meander-line slot (MLS) is proposed for the measurement of relative permittivity. The proposed MPSA was designed by etching the MLS along the radiating edge of the patch antenna,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,503 Views
18 Pages

Miniaturized Microstrip Dual-Channel Diplexer Based on Modified Meander Line Resonators for Wireless and Computer Communication Technologies

  • Yaqeen Sabah Mezaal,
  • Shahad K. Khaleel,
  • Ban M. Alameri,
  • Kadhum Al-Majdi and
  • Aqeel A. Al-Hilali

There has been a lot of interest in microstrip diplexers lately due to their potential use in numerous wireless and computer communication technologies, including radio broadcasts, mobile phones, broadband wireless, and satellite-based communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,015 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2020

This paper presents a new shape (s-shape monopole) of a super wideband antenna using stepped meander lines, a quarter waveguide transformer feeding line, and a defected ground structure (DGS). The antenna will be used for multiple wireless communicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,659 Views
10 Pages

21 October 2022

In this paper, a miniaturized very-high frequency (VHF) band antenna using both top and bottom meander lines is proposed. To design a compact size antenna in the VHF band, a Composite Right/Left-Handed (CRLH) transmission line is applied to antenna s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,217 Views
8 Pages

12 June 2018

This letter presents a high-performance micro-fabricated resonator based on inscribing a meandered-line square coupling capacitor in an air-bridged circular spiral inductor on the GaAs-integrated passive device (IPD) technology. The main advantages o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,791 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2022

This paper proposes an improved substrate integrated coaxial meander delay line to overcome the beam dispersion problem in a spaceborne synthetic aperture radar phased array antenna system with large bandwidth. The delay line operates in the range of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,916 Views
21 Pages

5 June 2023

In this paper, new single/double-layer N-way Wilkinson power dividers (WPDs) were designed by using slow-wave structures such as narrow-slit-loaded and meandered transmission lines. For size reduction, the slit-loaded and meandered lines were used in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,739 Views
11 Pages

5 August 2024

This work presents two Wilkinson power dividers (WPDs) using multi-layer pseudo coplanar waveguide (PCPW) structures. The PCPW-based WPDs were designed, implemented, and verified in a standard 180 nm CMOS process. The proposed PCPW features high slow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,061 Views
17 Pages

Design and Evaluation of a Flexible Dual-Band Meander Line Monopole Antenna for On- and Off-Body Healthcare Applications

  • Shahid M Ali,
  • Cheab Sovuthy,
  • Sima Noghanian,
  • Zulfiqur Ali,
  • Qammer H. Abbasi,
  • Muhammad A. Imran,
  • Tale Saeidi and
  • Soeung Socheatra

22 April 2021

The human body is an extremely challenging environment for wearable antennas due to the complex antenna-body coupling effects. In this article, a compact flexible dual-band planar meander line monopole antenna (MMA) with a truncated ground plane made...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,469 Views
26 Pages

5 December 2019

Wake meandering disturbs the stability of the far wake field and thus increases the fatigue loads of downstream wind turbines. A deep understanding of this phenomenon under atmospheric boundary layers and its relation to the structural loads helps to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,591 Views
17 Pages

In this work, we propose a novel multiband meander line antenna that can operate at three different frequency bands and offer suitable performance for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. The net geometry of the antenna is 36 × 30 &t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,346 Views
27 Pages

Planar Phase-Variation Microwave Sensors for Material Characterization: A Review and Comparison of Various Approaches

  • Jonathan Muñoz-Enano,
  • Jan Coromina,
  • Paris Vélez,
  • Lijuan Su,
  • Marta Gil,
  • Pau Casacuberta and
  • Ferran Martín

23 February 2021

Planar phase-variation microwave sensors have attracted increasing interest in recent years since they combine the advantages of planar technology (including low cost, low profile, and sensor integration with the associated circuitry for post-process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
9,965 Views
11 Pages

High Efficient and Ultra Wide Band Monopole Antenna for Microwave Imaging and Communication Applications

  • Shahid Ullah,
  • Cunjun Ruan,
  • Muhammad Shahzad Sadiq,
  • Tanveer Ul Haq and
  • Wenlong He

23 December 2019

The paper presents a highly efficient, low cost, ultra-wideband, microstrip monopole antenna for microwave imaging and wireless communications applications. A new structure (z-shape, ultra-wideband (UWB) monopole) is designed, which consists of stepp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,962 Views
12 Pages

8 November 2021

A method was proposed for solving the dyadic Green’s functions (DGF) and scalar Green’s functions (SGF) of multi-layered plane media in this paper. The DGF and SGF were expressed in matrix form, where the variables of the boundary conditions (BCs) ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,489 Views
39 Pages

From Symmetry to Asymmetry: The Use of Additional Pulses to Improve Protection against Ultrashort Pulses Based on Modal Filtration

  • Anton O. Belousov,
  • Evgeniya B. Chernikova,
  • Mariya A. Samoylichenko,
  • Artem V. Medvedev,
  • Alexander V. Nosov,
  • Talgat R. Gazizov and
  • Alexander M. Zabolotsky

5 July 2020

For the first time, the paper considers in a unified work the possibility of the appearance of additional pulses in various structures based on modal filtration technology, which is used to improve protection against ultrashort pulses (USP). We analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,829 Views
21 Pages

Body-Centered Double-Square Split-Ring Enclosed Nested Meander-Line-Shaped Metamaterial-Loaded Microstrip-Based Resonator for Sensing Applications

  • Air Mohammad Siddiky,
  • Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque,
  • Mohammad Tariqul Islam,
  • Sabirin Abdullah,
  • Mayeen Uddin Khandaker,
  • Nissren Tamam and
  • Abdelmoneim Sulieman

6 September 2022

The strong localization of the electric and magnetic fields in metamaterial-based structures has attracted a new era of radiation fields in the microwave range. In this research work, we represent a double split ring enclosed nested meander-line-shap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,699 Views
13 Pages

7 January 2013

A compact planar meander-bridge high impedance electromagnetic structure (MBHIES) was designed and its bandgap characteristics, mutual coupling reduction abilities were studied and compared in detail. Several parametric analyses were performed to obt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,549 Views
18 Pages

Compact Quad Band MIMO Antenna Design with Enhanced Gain for Wireless Communications

  • Sanjukta Nej,
  • Anumoy Ghosh,
  • Sarosh Ahmad,
  • Adnan Ghaffar and
  • Mousa Hussein

21 September 2022

In this paper, a novel microstrip line-fed meander-line-based four-elements quad band Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna is proposed with a gain enhancement technique. The proposed structure resonates at four bands simultaneously, that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,386 Views
18 Pages

A Compact Microwave Quadrature Hybrid Coupler Using Capacitive Composite Lines and Meandered Stubs

  • Sobhan Roshani,
  • Salah I. Yahya,
  • Maher Assaad,
  • Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary,
  • Fawwaz Hazzazi,
  • Yazeed Yasin Ghadi,
  • Sarmad M. Ali and
  • Saeed Roshani

3 December 2023

In this paper, a new structure of the quadrature hybrid coupler (QHC) with compact size is proposed using capacitive composite lines and meandered open stubs. The proposed coupler works at 1.6 GHz with a 0.4 GHz bandwidth, which shows 25% fractional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,857 Views
15 Pages

22 May 2023

A branch line coupler (BLC) with ultra-compact size and harmonic suppression ability using an LCL filter and meandered stubs is proposed in this paper. There are some important factors in microstrip coupler design, including size reduction, harmonic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,194 Views
30 Pages

A Compact Monopole Antenna for Underwater Acoustic Monitoring Beacons

  • Stefania Bucuci,
  • Andreea Constantin,
  • Mirel Paun,
  • Marius N. Pastorcici,
  • Razvan D. Tamas,
  • Alin Danisor and
  • Rodica Constantinescu

1 November 2022

Protected wetlands such as deltas, lakes or rivers provide a sanctuary for many endangered species. In order to protect these areas from illegal human interventions, it is necessary to monitor the unauthorized entrance of motor boats. In order to mit...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,781 Views
13 Pages

27 November 2020

A printed edge-fed counterpart of the wire Bruce array antenna, for frequency scanning applications, is presented in this paper. The unit-cell of the proposed antenna consists of bowtie and semi-circular elements to achieve wide bandwidth from below...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,566 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2025

This study examines how the effective dielectric characteristics of the human torso affect the carrier-link-margin (CLM) and data-link-margin (DLM) of a biocompatible gelatin-encapsulated implantable medical device (IMD) that consists of a small impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,938 Views
12 Pages

Multi-bit phase shifters are typically implemented by cascading multiple phase-shifting units, therefore incurring large dimensions and higher insertion losses. This paper presents highly compact single-unit two-bit reflection-type phase shifters (SU...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,538 Views
12 Pages

A sinuous antenna is a frequency-independent antenna known for its wide bandwidth and consistent gain, which makes it valuable in broadband applications such as ultrawideband (UWB) radar and ground-penetrating radar (GPR). However, sinuous antennas t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,436 Views
14 Pages

17 September 2019

In this paper, a novel meander split power/ground plane is proposed for reducing crosstalk between parallel lines crossing over it. The working mechanism of the meander split scheme is investigated by simulations and measurements. The LC equivalent c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,087 Views
14 Pages

16 April 2021

In this paper, a wideband-narrowband switchable tapered slot antenna (TSA) with a compact meander line resonator for an integrated microwave imaging and hyperthermia system was proposed. A compact meander line resonator, which exhibited band-pass cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
753 Views
22 Pages

Frequency Selective Surface Loaded Dual-Band Antenna for LoRa and GNSS Integrated System

  • Suguna Gunasekaran,
  • Manikandan Chinnusami,
  • Rajesh Anbazhagan,
  • Kondreddy Dharani Surya Manasa and
  • Kakularam Sai Neha Reddy

13 November 2025

A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Long Range (LoRa) technology play a crucial role in connected vehicles. The demand for antennas that cover both LoRa and GNSS bands is increasing. This work has developed a novel dual-band coplanar wave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,893 Views
7 Pages

Camera-Integrable Wide-Bandwidth Antenna for Capsule Endoscope

  • Jong Jin Baek,
  • Se Woong Kim and
  • Youn Tae Kim

31 December 2019

This paper presents a new antenna design for a capsule endoscope. The proposed antenna comprises a camera hole and meandered line. These features enable the antenna to be integrated on the same side as the camera, within the capsule endoscope. Moreov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,000 Views
12 Pages

Demagnetization Effect in a Meander-Core Orthogonal Fluxgate Sensor

  • Shaotao Zhi,
  • Xuecheng Sun,
  • Qiaozhen Zhang,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Xiangfen Zhang,
  • Hongyu Chen and
  • Chong Lei

9 August 2021

Demagnetization effect plays an important role in the magnetic core design of the orthogonal fluxgate sensor. In this paper, a meander-core orthogonal fluxgate sensor based on amorphous ribbon is described. The demagnetization model of meander-core s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,179 Views
29 Pages

Effect of Atmospheric Stability on Meandering and Wake Characteristics in Wind Turbine Fluid Dynamics

  • Bendik Peter Løvøy Alvestad,
  • Leon Fevang-Gunn,
  • Balram Panjwani and
  • Tania Kalogiannidis Bracchi

8 September 2024

This study investigates the impact of atmospheric stability on wind turbine flow dynamics, focusing on wake deflection and meandering. Using the high-fidelity large-eddy simulation coupled with the Actuator Line model, we explore three stability cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,876 Views
14 Pages

Microheater Topology for Advanced Gas Sensor Applications with Carbyne-Enriched Nanomaterials

  • Mariya Aleksandrova,
  • Belgina Ustova,
  • Tsvetozar Tsanev,
  • Ioannis Raptis,
  • Angeliki Tserepi,
  • Evangelos Gogolides and
  • Georgi Kolev

21 February 2024

The response characteristics of carbyne-enriched surface-acoustic-wave (SAW)-based gas sensors utilizing meander and rectangular microheater topologies were investigated to assess their desorption and recovery properties. Comparative analysis of cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,031 Views
17 Pages

21 June 2018

This paper proposes a low-profile textile-modified meander line Inverted-F Antenna (IFA) with variable width and spacing meanders, for Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) 2.4-GHz Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN), optimized with a novel metaheuristi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,828 Views
6 Pages

0.1 THz Imaging with a Monolithic High-Tc Superconducting Transition-Edge Detector

  • Rana Nazifi,
  • Roya Mohajeri,
  • S. Iman Mirzaei,
  • Mehdi Ahmadi-Boroujeni and
  • Mehdi Fardmanesh

1 November 2021

Terahertz imaging has attracted significant interest for its applications in noninvasive medical diagnosis, security systems, and industrial inspections. Superconducting bolometers are one of the promising technologies of ultra-sensitive terahertz de...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,433 Views
14 Pages

A Compact Sub-GHz Wide Tunable Antenna Design for IoT Applications

  • Rifaqat Hussain,
  • Saad I. Alhuwaimel,
  • Abdullah M. Algarni,
  • Khaled Aljaloud and
  • Niamat Hussain

This work presents a compact meandered loop slot-line 5G antenna for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Recently, sub-gigahertz (sub-GHz) IoT technology is widely spreading. It enables long-range communications with low power consumption. The pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,213 Views
22 Pages

Variability of Kuroshio Surface Axis Northeast of Taiwan Island Derived from Satellite Altimeter Data

  • Zhanpeng Zhuang,
  • Quanan Zheng,
  • Xi Zhang,
  • Guangbing Yang,
  • Xinhua Zhao,
  • Lei Cao,
  • Ting Zhang and
  • Yeli Yuan

25 March 2020

The spatial and temporal variability of the Kuroshio surface axis northeast of Taiwan Island is investigated using 24 years of surface geostrophic currents derived from satellite altimeter data from 1993 to 2016. The Kuroshio surface axis is derived...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,733 Views
7 Pages

Folded Heterogeneous Silicon and Lithium Niobate Mach–Zehnder Modulators with Low Drive Voltage

  • Shihao Sun,
  • Mengyue Xu,
  • Mingbo He,
  • Shengqian Gao,
  • Xian Zhang,
  • Lidan Zhou,
  • Lin Liu,
  • Siyuan Yu and
  • Xinlun Cai

14 July 2021

Optical modulators were, are, and will continue to be the underpinning devices for optical transceivers at all levels of the optical networks. Recently, heterogeneously integrated silicon and lithium niobate (Si/LN) optical modulators have demonstrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
4,875 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Meander Bowtie-Shaped Antenna with Multi-Resonant and Rejection Bands for Modern 5G Communications

  • Yanal S. Faouri,
  • Sarosh Ahmad,
  • Naser Ojaroudi Parchin,
  • Chan Hwang See and
  • Raed Abd-Alhameed

To support various fifth generation (5G) wireless applications, a small, printed bowtie-shaped microstrip antenna with meandered arms is reported in this article. Because it spans the broad legal range, the developed antenna can serve or reject a var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,801 Views
102 Pages

6 August 2025

Petroglyph motifs from 23 sites and 37 panels in northern Georgia and western North Carolina foothills and mountains are analyzed within their archaeological, ethnographic, and landscape contexts. The Track Rock Tradition comprises 10 chronologically...

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