Reconfigurable Conformal Antenna Arrays for Broadband in the Sky Networks

Funding: 2016: $110,000
2017: $130,000
2018: $110,000

Project Member(s): Guo, Y., Huang, X.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2016

Summary: The project aims to develop the fundamental theory and technology for a novel type of antennas, namely, reconfigurable conformal antenna arrays, for future broadband in the sky networks (BISNets). The antenna would be conformal to the surface of the mounting platform, and its elements would be reconfigured in situ to generate the optimum radiation characteristics to suit the radio environment. It is expected that the research will advance the scientific knowledge of space-borne wireless communications and sensing in general, and antennas in particular. It will significantly enhance the performance and reduce the cost of BISNets. It will create a competitive edge to Australia’s broadband infrastructure and Australian industries.

Publications:

Bah, AO, Qin, P-Y, Ziolkowski, RW, Guo, YJ & Bird, TS 2019, 'A Wideband Low-Profile Tightly Coupled Antenna Array With a Very High Figure of Merit', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2332-2343.
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Chen, S-L, Karmokar, DK, Li, Z, Qin, P-Y, Ziolkowski, RW & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Circular-Polarized Substrate-Integrated-Waveguide Leaky-Wave Antenna With Wide-Angle and Consistent-Gain Continuous Beam Scanning', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 4418-4428.
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Karmokar, DK, Chen, S-L, Bird, TS & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Single-Layer Multi-Via Loaded CRLH Leaky-Wave Antennas for Wide-Angle Beam Scanning With Consistent Gain', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 313-317.
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Li, Z, Guo, YJ, Chen, S-L & Wang, J 2019, 'A Period-Reconfigurable Leaky-Wave Antenna With Fixed-Frequency and Wide-Angle Beam Scanning', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3720-3732.
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Li, Z, Zhang, S, Wang, J, Li, Y, Chen, M, Zhang, Z & Guo, YJ 2019, 'A Method of Generating Radiation Null for Periodic Leaky-Wave Antennas', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 4241-4246.
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Lin, W & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Compact, High Directivity, Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Antenna Array', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 4537-4547.
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Lin, W & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Electrically Small Huygens Antenna-Based Fully-Integrated Wireless Power Transfer and Communication System', IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 39762-39769.
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Lin, W, Ziolkowski, RW & Huang, J 2019, 'Electrically Small, Low-Profile, Highly Efficient, Huygens Dipole Rectennas for Wirelessly Powering Internet-of-Things Devices', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3670-3679.
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Qin, P-Y, Song, L-Z & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Beam Steering Conformal Transmitarray Employing Ultra-Thin Triple-Layer Slot Elements', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 5390-5398.
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Rahman, AU, Geng, J, Ziolkowski, RW, Hang, T, Hayat, Q, Liang, X, Rehman, SU & Jin, R 2019, 'Photoluminescence Revealed Higher Order Plasmonic Resonance Modes and Their Unexpected Frequency Blue Shifts in Silver-Coated Silica Nanoparticle Antennas', Applied Sciences, vol. 9, no. 15, pp. 3000-3000.
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Shi, T, Tang, M-C, Wu, Z, Xu, H-X & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Bandwidth-Enhanced Electrically Small Antenna Augmented With Internal Non-Foster Elements', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2763-2768.
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Sun, H-H, Ding, C, Zhu, H, Jones, B & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Suppression of Cross-Band Scattering in Multiband Antenna Arrays', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2379-2389.
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Tang, M-C, Duan, Y, Wu, Z, Chen, X, Li, M & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Pattern Reconfigurable, Vertically Polarized, Low-Profile, Compact, Near-Field Resonant Parasitic Antenna', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1467-1475.
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Tang, M-C, Li, D, Chen, X, Wang, Y, Hu, K & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Compact, Wideband, Planar Filtenna With Reconfigurable Tri-Polarization Diversity', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 5689-5694.
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Tang, M-C, Wu, Z, Shi, T & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Dual-Band, Linearly Polarized, Electrically Small Huygens Dipole Antennas', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 37-47.
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Wen, Z, Tang, M & Ziolkowski, RW 2019, 'Band‐ and frequency‐reconfigurable circularly polarised filtenna for cognitive radio applications', IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 1003-1008.
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Wu, K, Ni, W, Su, T, Liu, RP & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Efficient Angle-of-Arrival Estimation of Lens Antenna Arrays for Wireless Information and Power Transfer', IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 116-130.
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Wu, K, Ni, W, Su, T, Liu, RP & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Expeditious Estimation of Angle-of-Arrival for Hybrid Butler Matrix Arrays', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2170-2185.
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Wu, K, Ni, W, Su, T, Liu, RP & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Exploiting Spatial-Wideband Effect for Fast AoA Estimation at Lens Antenna Array', IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 902-917.
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Yang, T, Ding, C & Guo, YJ 2019, 'A Highly Birefringent and Nonlinear AsSe<inline-formula> <tex-math notation='LaTeX'>$_2$</tex-math> </inline-formula>–As<inline-formula> <tex-math notation='LaTeX'>$_2$</tex-math> </inline-formula>S<inline-formula> <tex-math notation='LaTeX'>$_5$</tex-math> </inline-formula> Photonic Crystal Fiber With Two Zero-Dispersion Wavelengths', IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
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Yang, T, Ding, C, Ziolkowski, RW & Guo, YJ 2019, 'A Terahertz (THz) Single-Polarization-Single-Mode (SPSM) Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF)', Materials, vol. 12, no. 15, pp. 2442-2442.
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Zhu, H, Sun, H, Jones, B, Ding, C & Guo, YJ 2019, 'Wideband Dual-Polarized Multiple Beam-Forming Antenna Arrays', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1590-1604.
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Karmokar, DK, Chen, S-L, Qin, P-Y & Guo, YJ 1970, 'Open-Stopband Suppression and Cross-Polarization Reduction of a Substrate Integrated Waveguide Leaky-Wave Antenna', 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), IEEE, New Delhi, INDIA, pp. 1-4.
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Liu, Y, Luo, Q, Li, M & Guo, YJ 1970, 'Thinned Massive Antenna Array for 5G Millimeter-Wave Communications', 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation Eucap 2019, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE, Krakow, Poland.

Arslanagić, S & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Highly Subwavelength, Superdirective Cylindrical Nanoantenna', Physical Review Letters, vol. 120, no. 23, pp. 237401-237401.
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Hu, K-Z, Tang, M-C, Li, M & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Compact, Low-Profile, Bandwidth-Enhanced Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filtenna', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1552-1556.
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Karmokar, DK, Guo, YJ, Qin, P-Y, Chen, S-L & Bird, TS 2018, 'Substrate Integrated Waveguide-Based Periodic Backward-to-Forward Scanning Leaky-Wave Antenna With Low Cross-Polarization', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3846-3856.
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Lin, W & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Electrically Small, Low-Profile, Huygens Circularly Polarized Antenna', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 636-643.
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Lin, W, Chen, S-L, Ziolkowski, RW & Guo, YJ 2018, 'Reconfigurable, Wideband, Low-Profile, Circularly Polarized Antenna and Array Enabled by an Artificial Magnetic Conductor Ground', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 1564-1569.
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Lin, W, Wong, H & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Circularly Polarized Antenna With Reconfigurable Broadside and Conical Beams Facilitated by a Mode Switchable Feed Network', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 996-1001.
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Liu, Y, Cheng, J, Xu, KD, Yang, S, Liu, QH & Guo, YJ 2018, 'Reducing the Number of Elements in the Synthesis of a Broadband Linear Array With Multiple Simultaneous Frequency-Invariant Beam Patterns', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5838-5848.
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Nicholson, KJ, Baum, TC, Ziolkowski, RW, Ghorbani, K & Bain, G 2018, 'Tomographic Characterization of a Multifunctional Composite High-Impedance Surface', IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 2904-2913.
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Tang, M-C, Chen, Y, Shi, T & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Bandwidth-Enhanced, Compact, Near-Field Resonant Parasitic Filtennas With Sharp Out-of-Band Suppression', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1483-1487.
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Tang, M-C, Wu, Z, Shi, T, Zeng, H, Lin, W & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Dual-Linearly Polarized, Electrically Small, Low-Profile, Broadside Radiating, Huygens Dipole Antenna', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3877-3885.
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Tang, M-C, Zhou, B, Duan, Y, Chen, X & Ziolkowski, RW 2018, 'Pattern-Reconfigurable, Flexible, Wideband, Directive, Electrically Small Near-Field Resonant Parasitic Antenna', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 2271-2280.
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Yang, T, Ding, C, Ziolkowski, RW & Guo, YJ 2018, 'Circular hole ENZ photonic crystal fibers exhibit high birefringence', Optics Express, vol. 26, no. 13, pp. 17264-17264.
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Yang, T, Ding, C, Ziolkowski, RW & Jay Guo, Y 2018, 'A Scalable THz Photonic Crystal Fiber With Partially-Slotted Core That Exhibits Improved Birefringence and Reduced Loss', Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 36, no. 16, pp. 3408-3417.
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Yang, X, Qin, P-Y, Liu, Y, Yin, Y-Z & Guo, YJ 2018, 'Analysis and Design of a Broadband Multifeed Tightly Coupled Patch Array Antenna', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 217-220.
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Chen, S-L, Qin, P-Y, Ding, C & Guo, YJ 2017, 'Cavity-Backed Proximity-Coupled Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna With Agile Polarizations and Steerable Beams', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 5553-5558.
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Chen, S-L, Qin, P-Y, Guo, YJ, Liu, Y & You, P 2017, 'Generalized 2-D Numerical Pattern Synthesis Algorithm for Low Cross Polarization and Low Sidelobe Synthesis', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 16, pp. 2578-2581.
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Chen, X, Qin, P-Y, Guo, YJ & Fu, G 2017, 'Low-Profile and Wide-Beamwidth Dual-Polarized Distributed Microstrip Antenna', IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 2272-2280.
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Ding, C, Sun, H, Ziolkowski, RW & Guo, YJ 2017, 'Simplified Tightly-Coupled Cross-Dipole Arrangement for Base Station Applications', IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 27491-27503.
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Huang, J, Lin, W, Qiu, F, Jiang, C, Lei, D & Guo, YJ 2017, 'A Low Profile, Ultra-Lightweight, High Efficient Circularly-Polarized Antenna Array for Ku Band Satellite Applications', IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 18356-18365.
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Li, H & Huang, X 2017, 'Multicast Systems With Fair Scheduling in Non-identically Distributed Fading Channels', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 8835-8844.
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Lin, W, Ziolkowski, RW & Baum, TC 2017, '28 GHz Compact Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Antenna for Device-to-Device Communications in the Future 5G Systems', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 6904-6914.
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Sun, H, Ding, C, Jones, B & Guo, YJ 2017, 'A Wideband Base Station Antenna Element With Stable Radiation Pattern and Reduced Beam Squint', IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 23022-23031.
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Tang, M-C, Chen, X, Li, M & Ziolkowski, RW 2017, 'A Bandwidth-Enhanced, Compact, Single-Feed, Low-Profile, Multilayered, Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 16, pp. 2258-2261.
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Tang, M-C, Chen, Z, Wang, H, Li, M, Luo, B, Wang, J, Shi, Z & Ziolkowski, RW 2017, 'Mutual Coupling Reduction Using Meta-Structures for Wideband, Dual-Polarized, and High-Density Patch Arrays', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 3986-3998.
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Tang, M-C, Shi, T & Ziolkowski, RW 2017, 'A Study of 28 GHz, Planar, Multilayered, Electrically Small, Broadside Radiating, Huygens Source Antennas', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 6345-6354.
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Tang, M-C, Wen, Z, Wang, H, Li, M & Ziolkowski, RW 2017, 'Compact, Frequency-Reconfigurable Filtenna With Sharply Defined Wideband and Continuously Tunable Narrowband States', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 5026-5034.
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Tang, M-C, Zhou, B & Ziolkowski, RW 2017, 'Low-Profile, Electrically Small, Huygens Source Antenna With Pattern-Reconfigurability That Covers the Entire Azimuthal Plane', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 1063-1072.
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Ziolkowski, RW 2017, 'Using Huygens Multipole Arrays to Realize Unidirectional Needle-Like Radiation', Physical Review X, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1-13.
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Keywords: Reconfigurable antenna, conformal antenna arrays, broadband in the sky

FOR Codes: Antennas and Propagation, Broadband and Modem Technology, Satellite Communications, Network Infrastructure Equipment, Command, Control and Communications, Communications engineering not elsewhere classified, Command, control and communications