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van Schelven, R.M. (author), Syed, Waqas (author), Carluccio, G. (author), Doris, Kostas (author), de Graauw, Anton (author), Neto, A. (author), Cavallo, D. (author)In this work, we investigate antenna architectures to implement dual-mode operation in phased array designs. Planar slot antenna elements are used in array configuration, in combination with artificial dielectrics layers (ADLs) located in the close proximity of the array, to achieve pattern shaping. The artificial dielectric superstrate...journal article 2023
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Patel, Kartik (author), Myers, N.J. (author), Heath, Robert W. (author)Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology can achieve high-speed communication due to the large available spectrum. Furthermore, the use of directional beams in mmWave system provides a natural defense against physical layer security attacks. In practice, however, the beams are imperfect due to mmWave hardware limitations such as the low-resolution...journal article 2023
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van Schelven, R.M. (author)The fifth generation of mobile communication poses challenges in the form of increased data volume, network scalability and efficient network operation. An important part in meeting these requirements is the use of the mm-wave frequency range, enabling the use of a wide bandwidth and therefore the desired high-data rates. However, a challenging...doctoral thesis 2022
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Bosma, S. (author), van Rooijen, N. (author), Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Spirito, M. (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)We report on the first demonstration of dynamic beam steering using a scanning lens phased array. A scanning lens phased array relies on a combination of mechanical and electrical phase shifting to dynamically steer a high-gain beam beyond the grating-lobe free region using a sparse array. These two concepts have been demonstrated separately in...journal article 2022
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Myers, N.J. (author), Heath, Robert W. (author)Phased arrays, commonly used in IEEE 802.11ad and 5G radios, are capable of focusing radio frequency signals in a specific direction or a spatial region. Beamforming achieves such directional or spatial concentration of signals and enables phased array-based radios to achieve high data rates. Designing beams for millimeter wave and terahertz...journal article 2022
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Aslan, Y. (author)Optimal design of uniformly-fed aperiodic millimeter-wave phased array topologies for site-specific and quasi interference-free operation is presented. Several use cases with different number of line-of-sight cells in the close vicinity of the base station, and for various widths and shapes of the cells, are analyzed. The arrays are synthesized...conference paper 2022
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Patel, Kartik (author), Myers, N.J. (author), Heath, Robert W. (author)Eavesdropping attacks are a severe threat to millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks that use low-resolution phased arrays. Although directional beamforming in mmWave phased arrays provides natural defense against eavesdropping, the use of low-resolution phase shifters induces energy leakage into unintended directions. This energy leakage can be...conference paper 2022
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Zhang, L. (author), Shen, Y. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Babaie, M. (author)This letter presents a millimeter-wave (mm-wave) vector-modulated phase shifter (VMPS) for phased-array applications. To improve the phase-shift accuracy without drastically increasing design complexity, the proposed VMPS structure employs variable-gain amplifiers (VGAs) that offer 2× better resolution at their low-gain...journal article 2022
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Puskely, J. (author), Mikulasek, Tomas (author), Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this article, a concept of a phased antenna array based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology for 5G base stations is proposed. The array has a cosecant radiation pattern in the vertical plane for uniform illumination in a sector area. The array itself consists of 16 SIW traveling wave subarrays of 12 slot-coupled microstrip...journal article 2022
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Rivandi, H. (author), Ghosh, Ishaan (author), Lopes Marta da Costa, T.M. (author)New non-imaging ultrasound applications, such as ultrasound stimulation and ultrasonic power transfer, need sub-millimeter volumetric spatial resolution, electronically control of the focal spot location, high ultrasound intensity, and a tiny form factor. Satisfying these requirements demands a high-frequency phased array ultrasound transducer....conference paper 2022
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Kruithof, Richard (author)This master thesis focuses on developing an integrated system capable of performing ultrasonic phased array measurement on composite parts in an automated fashion. This could potentially be used in the manufacturing process of fiber laminate composite parts to obtain more accu- rate detection of manufacturing defects. Phased array ultrasonics...master thesis 2021
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Buenaventura Camps, Marta (author)New generations of mobile communications are much more demanding in order to provide critical real-time services and extremely fast connections that have become feasible with 5G. A wider spectrum is needed to achieve such high data rates and millimeter-wave frequencies are used for this purpose. Adaptive beamforming is applied at base stations...master thesis 2021
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Gîrdianu, Alex (author)There is an increasing demand for a highly accurate weather system on the runway for early detection and warning of severe weather phenomena. Due to the high performances of a phased array radar system in terms of time-resolution and elevation-resolution, an already existing fast-rotating phased array radar, 60 RPM, is studied to find the...master thesis 2021
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van Rooijen, Nick (author)This thesis is concerned with a first time demonstration of a high frequency scanning lens phased-array with dynamic steering. Such phased-array could provide the high gain, wide bandwidth, and steering capability that the next generation of wireless applications requires. The phased-array development was divided into three distinct parts....master thesis 2021
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Aslan, Y. (author)Multi-port multi-mode antenna elements have the ability to move their phase centers and modify their radiation patterns electronically. Arrays composed of such elements are referred to as virtually aperiodic arrays in this paper. Herein, optimization of the mode excitation coefficients in virtually aperiodic sparse linear arrays is proposed,...journal article 2021
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Alonso Del Pino, M. (author), Bosma, S. (author), Jung-Kubiak, Cecile (author), Chattopadhyay, Goutam (author), Llombart, Nuria (author)In this article, we propose a hybrid electromechanical scanning lens antenna array architecture suitable for the steering of highly directive beams at submillimeter wavelengths with field-of-views (FoV) of ±25°. The concept relies on combining electronic phase shifting of a sparse array with a mechanical translation of a lens array. The use...journal article 2021
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Anand, C. (author), Groves, R.M. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)There has been an increase in the use of ultrasonic arrays for the detection of defects in composite structures used in the aerospace industry. The response of a defect embedded in such a medium is influenced by the inherent anisotropy of the bounding medium and the layering of the bounding medium and hence poses challenges for the...journal article 2021
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Petrov, N. (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)This paper presents an analysis of a new method of automotive radar self-calibration which uses targets of opportunity. While conventional offline calibration of a phased array antenna requires accurate knowledge of the positions of calibration targets relative to the radar, such information is not available in a dynamic scenario. To...journal article 2021
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Aslan, Y. (author), Roederer, A.G. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A novel stepped-amplitude aperiodic phased array synthesis method is proposed. The presented technique is based on iterative convex element position perturbations and uses pre-defined excitation amplitudes. A 64-element irregular array with two discrete amplitude levels (0.5 at the edge-elements and 1 at the center-elements) is synthesized for...conference paper 2021