一种宽频带双极化印刷偶极子基站天线

设计并优化了一款适用于LTE天线系统的基站天线振子单元。在印刷偶极子天线以及微带巴伦的基础上,通过等效电路模型进行分析,设计出该天线的多级阻抗匹配巴伦。采用寄生贴片、领结型设计等技术,有效地拓展了天线频带带宽,实现了±45°双极化。仿真结果表明,天线的VSWR≤1.5和回波损耗大于15 d B的带宽达到了54.5%,可以覆盖GSM1800,CDMA2000,WCDMA,TD-SCDMA和LTE系统。在此频带范围内,该天线的驻波特性、方向性、增益和隔离度等指标均满足LTE多模式系统的指标。同时该天线也易于制作,适用于LTE多模式基站天线系统。     

一种考虑互耦的脉冲天线阵列快速计算方法

基于有源单元方向图思想,提出了一种可用于计算脉冲天线阵列时域辐射场的快速方法.该方法在考虑单元间互耦的情况下,将大型阵列的时域辐射场计算问题转化为一个小型阵列的计算问题,大大地减少了计算量.采用文中的阵列综合方法,结合有限积分法软件,仅对一个5×5元阵列进行模拟,即可推算出大型阵列的远场方向图,其计算时间不超过全波模拟时的十分之一.计算结果与仿真软件的仿真结果吻合较好,验证了方法的正确性.     

宽带宽波束圆极化微带八木天线

提出了一种具有两级双贴片引向器结构的双馈圆极化微带八木天线.通过移除部分接地板结构,有效地增大了天线在端射前向的圆极化增益和波束宽度.等幅异相的同轴双馈模式使得该天线具有较宽的工作频带.数值仿真与实验结果表明:该天线同时满足驻波比R vsw≤1.5及端射方向轴比RA≤3 dB的相对带宽为11％.天线在俯仰面仰角0°至80°的范围内具有良好的圆极化辐射特性,方位面主极化半功率波瓣宽度达到88°,同时具有较高的辐射前后比.良好的工作特性表明此天线可作为机载或弹载通信的备选天线.     

具有两块非对称接地面的高紧凑型超宽带天线

针对超宽带无线通信的应用,提出了一种新颖的具有两块非对称接地面结构的紧凑型超宽带(Ultra-Wideband,UWB)天线.本设计采用半椭圆辐射单元和两块非对称接地平面结构,以获得较宽的工作频率和较小的几何尺寸.对影响天线性能的主要几何参数进行了研究和优化并对所设计天线进行了加工制作与测量.测试结果表明:反射系数S11小于-10 dB时,所设计天线的工作频率覆盖3～12 GHz的范围,满足标准UWB带宽(3.1～10.6 GHz)的要求,且平均增益达到4.5 dBi天线具有较小的几何尺寸,仅为14 mm×18 mm=252 mm2.     

低剖面双频双圆极化平板缝隙天线的设计

提出一种新型双频(Ku/Ka)双圆极化平板缝隙天线.三层平行平板构成双层的径向波导,缝隙对螺旋排布于最上层平板,低频与高频缝隙对分别逆时针和顺时针排布,对应实现右旋圆和左旋圆极化辐射.低频与高频段分别采用单根探针与多根探针的馈电形式.在组成高频径向波导的平板外围加上一圈金属通孔使低频馈电端口易于阻抗匹配.仿真结果表明:该新型双频天线在Ku和Ka频段最高的辐射效率达到60.5％和55.7％,-1 dB增益带宽分别为8.3％和6.2％,具有较宽的轴比带宽以及较高的端口隔离度,该天线具有很好的工程应用价值.     

一种小型化八频段可重构手机天线设计

提出了一种新型频率可重构的手机天线,尺寸为43 mm×9 mm×3 mm.该天线由曲折馈电枝节、耦合枝节,以及多路射频开关(RF-Switch)组成.通过RF-Switch接入不同的电感改变天线的感抗值和带线的有效电长度,在低频段得到了四种不同的工作状态,天线的低频带宽显著增加.研究结果表明:所设计天线能够很好地覆盖长期演进(Long Term Evolution,LTE)、无线广域网(Wireless Wide Area Network,WWAN)八个频带且频段内回波损耗小于一6 dB.实测表明天线具有良好的辐射效率和辐射增益,能够实现全向覆盖,具有很好的应用前景.     

现代谱估计在窄带天线测试中的应用

在暗室中对窄带天线进行测量时,由于间接时域方法的测试带宽不足而无法有效地去除多径信号所产生的干扰,文中提出将现代频谱估计技术应用于此类天线的测试。以最大熵为约束条件,利用现代谱估计中的Burg算法求解接收到频域信号的AR模型参数,并对其进行频谱外推。从而在频域拓宽信号的测试带宽,在时域提高信号的分辨率,并运用间接时域测量技术精确加载时域门,达到去除多径干扰的目的。仿真和实测都验证了该方法的有效性及可靠性。     

Multicast communications in cognitive radio networks using directional antennas

This paper presents a study on multicast communications in cognitive radio networks (CRNs)using directional antennas. The objective is to maximize the throughput of the CRN. The spectrum is divided into multiple channels and licensed to the primary network. While the CRN is accessing the spectrum, the interference power is carefully controlled to avoid impacting the operation of the primary network. The mathematical model is presented and subsequently formulated as a mixed integer non‐linear programming (MINLP) problem, which is non‐deterministic polynomial‐time hard. Therefore, a greedy algorithm is designed to approximate the optimal performance. The MINLP problem is then relaxed and an upper bound is developed. Simulation results are presented to compare the performance of the greedy algorithm and the upper bound, which demonstrates the efficacy of the greedy algorithm as well as the tightness of the upper bound. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Opportunistic interference management: a new approach for multiantenna downlink cellular networks

A new approach for multiantenna broadcast channels in cellular networks based on multiuser diversity concept is introduced. The technique called opportunistic interference management achieves dirty paper coding capacity asymptotically with minimum feedback required. When there are K antennas at the base station with M mobile users in the cell, the proposed technique only requires K integer numbers related to channel state information between mobile users and base station. The encoding and decoding complexity of this scheme is the same as that of point‐to‐point communications, which makes the implementation of this technique easy. An antenna selection scheme is proposed at the base station to reduce the minimum required mobile users significantly at the expense of reasonable increase in feedback. In order to guarantee fairness, a new algorithm is presented that incorporates opportunistic interference management into existing Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) standard. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Graphene screen‐printed radio‐frequency identification devices on flexible substrates

Despite the great promise of printed flexible electronics from 2D crystals, and especially graphene, few scalable applications have been reported so far that can be termed roll‐to‐roll compatible. Here we combine screen printed graphene with photonic annealing to realize radio‐frequency identification devices with a reading range of up to 4 meters. Most notably our approach leads to fatigue resistant devices showing less than 1% deterioration of electrical properties after 1000 bending cycles. The bending fatigue resistance demonstrated on a variety of technologically relevant plastic and paper substrates renders the material highly suitable for various printable wearable devices, where repeatable dynamic bending stress is expected during usage. All applied printing and post‐processing methods are compatible with roll‐to‐roll manufacturing and temperature sensitive flexible substrates providing a platform for the scalable manufacturing of mechanically stable and environmentally friendly graphene printed electronics.