Publications related to Beamforming

A mmWave Low Complexity and Low-Cost Super Wideband Dual-Polarized Aperture Coupled Antenna for 5G Applications

Advanced antenna system (AAS) is a viable option for 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) applications. AAS single element is favored to be dual-polarized, wideband, high gain, and compact in order to be utilized for 5G antenna arrays. In this paper, a low complexi ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Small antennas with broad beamwidth integrated on a drone enclosed in a protective structure

Anja Skrivervik, Ismael Vico Triviño

In this paper, we analyze the integration of small antennas in a drone protected by a conductive structure. They must be light and resistant to provide high collision resilience, which is critical for drones flown indoors and in complex environments. To ac ...

IEEE2023

Fifth-generation fractal antenna design based on the Koch Snowflake geometry. A fractal theory application

Maria-Alexandra Paun

The projection of fifth-generation (5G) fractal antennas and their advantageous geometry are examined. The fact that fractal-shaped antennas based on Koch Snowflake geometry are suitable for higher frequencies was shown above all. By the instrumentality of ...

WILEY2023

Chaotic microcomb inertia-free parallel ranging

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Stroganov, Anton Lukashchuk

Ever growing pixel acquisition rates in the fields of augmented reality, autonomous driving and robotics have increased interest in solid state beam scanning without moving parts. Modern photonic integrated laser ranging advances towards passive beam steer ...

AIP Publishing2023

Microstrip patch antennas with broad beamwidth

Ismael Vico Triviño

Microstrip antennas offer a broad set of advantages such as low profile, light weight, easy fabrication and low cost. As these are desirable or even critical for a broad range of applications, there has been a large interest for these antennas in the anten ...

EPFL2023

Beam Selection and Tracking for Amplify-and-Forward Repeaters

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Mobile network operators constantly have to upgrade their cellular network to satisfy the public's hunger for increasing data capacity. However, regulatory limits regarding allowed electromagnetic field strength on existing cell sites often limit or preven ...

IEEE2022

A Compressive Sensing Framework for EMI Source Localization Using a Metalens Structure: Localization Beyond the Diffraction Limit

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Hamidreza Karami

In this article, we propose a novel approach for the localization of electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources based on the concept of compressive sensing and metalenses. We show that using the spatial and frequency dispersion offered by the metalens, we ...

2022

Rules of Thumb to Assess Losses of Implanted Antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev, Zvonimir Sipus, Mingxiang Gao

Fundamental limits for implanted antennas should be able to evaluate the bounds on losses with the knowledge of physical limitations from antenna and tissue parameters. In this work, rules of thumb to assess losses of deeply implanted antennas are presente ...

IEEE2021

A portable picocell antenna for 5G

Danelys Rodríguez Avila

Deployable emergency communication systems are a backbone solution for replacing damaged network infrastructures and/or providing high-end services in case of an emergency event. It is important that such systems are up-to-date with the latest mobile netwo ...

EPFL2021

On the 5G Communications: Fractal-Shaped Antennas for PPDR Applications

Maria-Alexandra Paun

In this study, one method of using antennas based on fractals to cover few kinds of public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) communications was presented. Dedicated antenna forms, necessary for antenna design by 5G implementation, were enhanced to suit ...

WILEY-HINDAWI2021

Light microscope with reconfigurable sensor array

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A light microscope comprises a light source (10) for illuminating a specimen (35), a sensor array (60) comprised of photon-counting detector elements (61, 62) for measuring detection light (15) coming from the specimen (35), and a control device (70) for c ...

2020

Rapid Analysis of Arbitrary-Shaped Conformal Beam-Scanning Arrays

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

Conformal antenna arrays are able to fit seamlessly on curved 3D-shaped surfaces, which are found ubiquitously on vehicles, aircraft, a human body, etc. In addition, conformal structures can overcome the scan loss limitations of conventional planar arrays. ...

IEEE2020

Stacked patch antenna and hybrid beamforming network for 5G picocell applications

Anja Skrivervik, Danelys Rodríguez Avila

This paper addresses the design of an antenna array for a portable picocell station with omnidirectional coverage. The proposed solution includes a stacked patch antenna as a single radiating element of the antenna array and a hybrid beamforming network. T ...

IEEE2019

Throughput Analysis of Large Networks : Spatial Diversity, Beamforming Gain, and Transmission Modes

Serj Haddad

While wired infrastructure constitutes the backbone of most wireless networks, wireless systems appeal the most to the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of today's communication systems because of their ease of deployment and mobility, not to menti ...

EPFL2017

GNSS Multipath Estimation and Mitigation Using a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

We describe the experimental framework that we have developed to study the use of synthetic aperture in GNSS receivers to estimate and mitigate multipath interference. By combining the signal received by a single moving antenna during different time instan ...

2017

Beamforming-deconvolution: A novel concept of deconvolution for ultrasound imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Yves Wiaux, Adrien Georges Jean Besson

In ultrasound (US) imaging, beamforming is usually separated from the deconvolution or some other post-processing techniques. The former processes raw data to build radio-frequency (RF) images while the latter restore high-resolution images, denoted as tis ...

2017

Blind calibration of sensors of sensor arrays

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Giovanni Cherubini, Sanaz Kazemi

Embodiments include methods for calibrating sensors of one or more sensor arrays. Aspects include accessing one or more beamforming matrices respectively associated to the one or more sensor arrays. Source intensity estimates are obtained for a set of poin ...

2017

Wideband Omnidirectional Planar Antenna with Vertical Polarization

Juan Ramon Mosig, Lei Wang

In this paper we propose a circular leaky wave-antenna with omnidirectional radiation in the H-plane. The design utilizes double-layered strips to create an end-fire antenna. A linear tapering of the stripes in the design endows the antenna with a 27% impe ...

Ieee2017

Flexarray: Random phased array layouts for analytical spatial filtering

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni

We propose a method for designing phased-arrays according to a given, analytically-specified, target beamshape. Building on the flexibeam framework, antenna locations are sampled from a probabilistic density function. Naturally scalable with the number of ...

Ieee2017

Estimation Bounds for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Techniques

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

This paper characterizes the estimation performance of synthetic aperture (SA) techniques in the context of moving GNSS receivers. Under the assumption of a stationary channel, SA techniques transform a single antenna into a virtual array. We first introdu ...

2017