Publications associées à Collinear antenna array

Technology challenges and integration of the plasma position reflectometer in RFX-mod2

The integration of the new plasma position reflectometer in the RFX-mod2 experiment (the upgraded version of the previous RFX-mod that operated until 2015) is presented in this contribution. Particular attention has been devoted to the high field side subs ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

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

Multi-antenna 3D pattern design for millimeter-wave vehicular communications

German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave

The transformation of the automotive industry towards ubiquitous connection of vehicles with all kind of external agents (V2X) motivates the use of a wide range of frequencies for several applications. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) connectivity represents a par ...

2022

Zero Index Metamaterial for High Gain Array

Tingyong Jiang

Many metamaterials, including metal wire grid, was invented to enhance the performance of the antenna in the last decade. A novel zero index metamaterial (ZIM), consisting of double metal layers with periodic circular perforation cells, was proposed and st ...

IEEE2020

Erosion, transport and deposition of a sediment replenishment under flood conditions

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Severin Stähly, Christopher Robinson

River reaches downstream of dams with constant residual discharge often lack sediment supply and periodic high flows due to dam sediment retention and flow regulation, respectively. To test a novel multi-deposit methodology for defining environmental flows ...

2020

A human cerebral and cerebellar 8-channel transceive RF dipole coil array at 7T

Rolf Gruetter, Özlem Ipek, Jérémie Daniel Clément

PURPOSE: Dipole antennas that provide high transmit field penetration with large coverage, and their use in a parallel transmit setup, may be advantageous in minimizing B 1+ -field inhomogeneities at ultra-high field, i.e 7T. We have developed and evaluate ...

Wiley2019

Patch Antenna System for CubeSats in L band

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic

An L-band patch-antenna system for CubeSat applications is presented in this paper. The high-permittivity dielectric loading reduces the size of individual antennas to make them suitable for a CubeSat platform. Two circularly polarized patch antennas were ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2019

Two-Element Antenna-Active Phase Shifter Packaging at 77 GHz

Anja Skrivervik, Efe Öztürk

This work presents a low cost and wire-bonded active phase shifter chip to RF circuitry on PCB board packaging for implementing a two-element phased array antenna at 77 GHz. The 1.5 mm × 1.1 mm chip is embedded in RO3003 PCB board and its GSG ports are wir ...

IEEE2019

A combined 32‐channel receive‐loops/8‐channel transmit‐dipoles coil array for whole‐brain MR imaging at 7T

Rolf Gruetter, Özlem Ipek, Jérémie Daniel Clément

Purpose Multichannel receive arrays provide high SNR and parallel‐imaging capabilities, while transmit‐only dipole arrays have been shown to achieve a large coverage of the whole‐brain including the cerebellum. The aim of this study was to develop and char ...

Wiley2019

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

Broadbeam microstrip patch antenna using higher order modes

Anja Skrivervik, Ismael Vico Triviño

The aim of this contribution is to assess the potential of using various microstrip radiating elements excited with different modes to achieve wide pattern beamwidths. The proposed antenna is made in classic microstrip technology and consists of a circular ...

The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2019

Engineering Parallel Transmit/Receive Radio-Frequency Coil Arrays for Human Brain MRI at 7 Tesla

Jérémie Daniel Clément

Magnetic resonance imaging is widely used in medical diagnosis to obtain anatomical details of the human body in a non-invasive way. Clinical MR scanners typically operate at a static magnetic field strength (B0) of 1.5T or 3T. However, going to higher fie ...

EPFL2019

Four-Port Broadband Orthomode Transducer Enabling Arbitrary Interelement Spacing

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Tomislav Debogovic, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Esteban Menargues Gomez

This paper reports a novel methodology to design broadband orthomode transducers with two arbitrarily spaced ports carrying orthogonal linear polarizations. The component is based on a combination of two Boifot junctions through a series of power dividers ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Low-dimensional data embedding for scalable astronomical imaging in the SKA telescope era

Vijay Kartik

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences known to humanity. We have been studying celestial objects for millennia, and continue to peer deeper into space in our thirst for knowledge about our origins and the universe that surrounds us. Radio astronomy -- ob ...

EPFL2018

Carrier Tracking using Extended Kalman Filters for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Processing with a Rotating Antenna

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

A single GNSS antenna moving along a known trajectory can be used to synthesize a virtual array in order to apply spatial diversity techniques, e.g. beamforming. With these techniques, referred as synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, the receiver can mitiga ...

2017

Design of novel radiating elements for SATCOM phased arrays in Ku-Band

Baptiste Fernand Hornecker

The present thesis deals with the design of a planar antenna array for the communication between a civil aircraft (Dassault's Falcon) and an Inmarsat satellite. The final goal is to provide high speed Internet access in X/Ku-Band (8-12GHz / 12-18GHz), and ...

EPFL2016

Reconfigurable Pixel-Layer Isolator for Frequency-Tunable On-Frequency Repeaters

Daniel Rodrigo Lopez

The maximum gain in on-frequency repeaters is limited by the isolation level between their two antennas due to close-loop stability conditions. In this letter, a novel pixel-layer isolator for tunable on-frequency repeaters is presented. The scattered fiel ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

TOLPA (Tripod Omnidirectional Low Profile Antenna): a vertically polarized antenna with 90% bandwidth

Jean-François Zürcher

A new vertically polarized omnidirectional antenna, inspired by an old design, has been studied, optimized, realized and measured. With a radiation pattern similar to the classical monopole on a ground plane, the proposed antenna concept provides a much la ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Shaped Beam Synthesis of Arrays via Sequential Convex Optimizations

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Benjamin Fuchs

A method to synthesize shaped beams with antenna arrays is presented. Specifically, the element excitations are determined such that the array radiates a power pattern that approximates a desired shape. To efficiently solve this problem, an iterative algor ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Analytical Methods for the Study and Design of Integrated Switched Oscillators and Antennas for Mesoband Radiation

Jose Felix Vega Stavro

This thesis was carried out within the framework of a scientific cooperation project entitled “Application of High Power Electromagnetics to Human Safety” developed by the EPFL, the National University of Colombia and Los Andes University, Colombia. The pr ...

EPFL2013