ANTENNALAB - Grup d'Antenes i Sistemes Radio
L'objectiu del Grup de Recerca d'AntennaLab és promoure la recerca i la formació en els àmbits de les antenes, sistemes de comunicacions i visualització electromagnètica, tot fent avançar el coneixement científic i donant resposta a les necessitats de la indústria.
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Design and characterization of non-planar 3D-printed passive UHF-RFID tag
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper presents the design and preliminary characterization of a novel 3D passive UHF-RFID tag. The prototype is fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques: 3D printing and copper electroplating. The design, ... -
Wireless sensing of concrete setting process
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-10-21)
Article
Open AccessAn RFID-based wireless system to measure the evolution of the setting process of cement-based materials is presented in this paper. The system consists of a wireless RFID temperature sensor that works embedded in concrete, ... -
Terahertz frequency-scaled differential imaging for Sub-6 GHz vehicular antenna signature analysis
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-10-02)
Article
Open AccessThe next generation of connected and autonomous vehicles will be equipped with high numbers of antennas operating in a wide frequency range for communications and environment sensing. The study of 3D spatial angular responses ... -
3D-printed UHF-RFID tag for embedded applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-08-10)
Article
Open AccessThis paper presents the design, manufacture and characterization of a novel 3D passive UHF-RFID tag for embedded applications. The prototype is fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques: 3D printing and copper ... -
3D beamsteering low complexity reconfigurable multilevel antenna
(2020-04)
Article
Open AccessA low-complexity reconfigurable antenna (RA) capable of steering its beam into nine different directions corresponding to ¿={-42°,0°,42°} in the ¿={25°,0°,155°} planes, and ¿=±25° in the ¿=90° plane, using a reduced number ... -
A 3D printed lens antenna for 5G applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference lecture
Open AccessA switchable multi-antenna architecture for lens-assisted beamsteering in the Ka-band region allocated for 5G communications (24-30 GHz) is proposed. The radiating elements are bow-tie antennas mounted with a 3D printed ... -
Study of interconnecting switch currents in reconfigurable parasitic layer antennas
(2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis work presents an approach for calculating the currents across the switches of a reconfigurable parasitic layer intended to add beam-steering capabilities to a reference antenna. The method of analysis is based on the ... -
Efficient and accurate electromagnetic scattering analysis of perfectly conducting thick plates
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe scattering analysis with the Electric-Field Integral Equation by the Method of Moments of perfectly conducting plates is normally carried out through the thin-plate approximation, which models the closed surface as an ... -
Geometric algebra formulation of the Calderon Projector
(2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyGeometric Algebra provides a mathematical frame-work that allows to express many equations of physics in a more compact way [1]. It unifies the electric and the magnetic field in a single mathematical object: a multivector. ... -
Grid-robust discretization of integral equations in the electromagnetic scattering analysis of homogeneous targets with geometric singularities
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe conventional method-of-moment schemes of discretization for the scattering analysis of homogeneous targets, perfectly conducting or dielectric, rely on edge-based basis functions. This restricts the modelling of the ... -
A model for photocurrent generation in photoconductive antennas
(2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe laser-induced current carrier generation and transport under large biasing voltages in photoconductive materials located in electrode gap region of photoconductive antennas is a complex process involving many different ... -
An architecture analysis for millimeter-wave optically steerable antenna array
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyA lens-based integrated photodiode-antenna array for a Radio over Fiber (RoF) 5G wireless base station at millimeter-wave frequencies is proposed and analyzed. The elements of the array are based on slot bow-tie antennas ...