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Interaction Between Closely Packed Array Antenna Elements Using Meta‐Surface for Applications Such as MIMO Systems and Synthetic Aperture Radars (2018)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Shukla, P., See, C. H., Abd‐Alhameed, R., Khalily, M., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018). Interaction Between Closely Packed Array Antenna Elements Using Meta‐Surface for Applications Such as MIMO Systems and Synthetic Aperture Radars. Radio Science, 53(11), 1368-1381. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018rs006533

The paper presents a technique to enhance the isolation between adjacent radiating elements that is common in densely packed antenna arrays. Such antennas provide frequency beam‐scanning capability needed in multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) syst... Read More about Interaction Between Closely Packed Array Antenna Elements Using Meta‐Surface for Applications Such as MIMO Systems and Synthetic Aperture Radars.

Study on isolation improvement between closely‐packed patch antenna arrays based on fractal metamaterial electromagnetic bandgap structures (2018)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd‐Alhameed, R., Hussein Ali, A., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018). Study on isolation improvement between closely‐packed patch antenna arrays based on fractal metamaterial electromagnetic bandgap structures. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 12(14), 2241-2247. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2018.5103

A decoupling metamaterial (MTM) configuration based on fractal electromagnetic‐bandgap (EMBG) structure is shown to significantly enhance isolation between transmitting and receiving antenna elements in a closely‐packed patch antenna array. The MTM‐E... Read More about Study on isolation improvement between closely‐packed patch antenna arrays based on fractal metamaterial electromagnetic bandgap structures.

Study on Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Using Integrated Metasurface Isolator for SAR and MIMO Applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., Andujar, A., Anguera, J., & Limiti, E. (2018, September). Study on Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Using Integrated Metasurface Isolator for SAR and MIMO Applications. Presented at 2018 48th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Madrid, Spain

A metasurface based decoupling structure that is composed of a square-wave slot pattern with exaggerated corners that is implemented on a rectangular microstrip provides high-isolation between adjacent patch antennas for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR... Read More about Study on Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Using Integrated Metasurface Isolator for SAR and MIMO Applications.

A New Waveguide Slot Array Antenna with High Isolation and High Antenna Bandwidth Operation on Ku- and K-bands for Radar and MIMO Systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018, September). A New Waveguide Slot Array Antenna with High Isolation and High Antenna Bandwidth Operation on Ku- and K-bands for Radar and MIMO Systems. Presented at 2018 15th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), Madrid

In this paper a novel technique is proposed to reduce the mutual coupling between the radiating elements of a waveguide slot array antenna. This is achieved by inserting slots between the waveguide oval shaped slots. The reference waveguide array ant... Read More about A New Waveguide Slot Array Antenna with High Isolation and High Antenna Bandwidth Operation on Ku- and K-bands for Radar and MIMO Systems.

Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Over Wideband Using Embedded Periphery Slot for Antenna Arrays (2018)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Shukla, P., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Khalily, M., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018). Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Over Wideband Using Embedded Periphery Slot for Antenna Arrays. Electronics, 7(9), 198. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics7090198

This paper presents a new approach to suppress interference between neighbouring radiating elements resulting from surface wave currents. The proposed technique will enable the realization of low-profile implementation of highly dense antenna configu... Read More about Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Over Wideband Using Embedded Periphery Slot for Antenna Arrays.

A 1 x 8 Linear Ultra-Wideband Phased Array With Connected Dipoles and Hyperbolic Microstrip Baluns (2018)
Journal Article
He, R., Zhang, H., See, C. H., Su, Y., Ma, Y., Kong, D., Zhu, X., & Abd-Alhameed, R. (2018). A 1 x 8 Linear Ultra-Wideband Phased Array With Connected Dipoles and Hyperbolic Microstrip Baluns. IEEE Access, 6, 52953-52968. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2868779

A 1×8 linear single polarized ultra-wideband connected dipole phased array with wide angle scan range is proposed. The dipoles in the array are connected with each other in E-plane to improve the impedance matching on the low end of the frequency ban... Read More about A 1 x 8 Linear Ultra-Wideband Phased Array With Connected Dipoles and Hyperbolic Microstrip Baluns.

Mutual-Coupling Reduction in Metamaterial Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slotted Antenna Arrays Using Metal Fence Isolators for SAR and MIMO Applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018, August). Mutual-Coupling Reduction in Metamaterial Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slotted Antenna Arrays Using Metal Fence Isolators for SAR and MIMO Applications. Presented at 2018 12th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), Espoo

A new type of mutual coupling reduction technique is applied to metamaterial substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) slotted antenna array. The circular shaped reference SIW antenna array is constructed from Alumina substrate with dimensions of 40×5×1.5... Read More about Mutual-Coupling Reduction in Metamaterial Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slotted Antenna Arrays Using Metal Fence Isolators for SAR and MIMO Applications.

New Approach to Suppress Mutual Coupling Between Longitudinal-Slotted Arrays Based on SIW Antenna Loaded with Metal-Fences Working on VHF/UHF Frequency-Bands: Study, Investigation, and Principle (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018, July). New Approach to Suppress Mutual Coupling Between Longitudinal-Slotted Arrays Based on SIW Antenna Loaded with Metal-Fences Working on VHF/UHF Frequency-Bands: Study, Investigation, and Principle. Presented at 14th Conference on PhD research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME 2018), Prague, Czech Republic

In this work it is demonstrated that substrate integrated waveguide longitudinal slotted array antenna (SIWLSAA) which is loaded with metal fences exhibits highisolation across VHF/UHF bands. A reference SIWLSAA used for comparison purpose comprises... Read More about New Approach to Suppress Mutual Coupling Between Longitudinal-Slotted Arrays Based on SIW Antenna Loaded with Metal-Fences Working on VHF/UHF Frequency-Bands: Study, Investigation, and Principle.

Wideband printed monopole antenna for application in wireless communication systems (2018)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, A., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018). Wideband printed monopole antenna for application in wireless communication systems. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 12(7), 1222-1230. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2017.0894

Empirical results of an electrically small printed monopole antenna is described with fractional bandwidth of 185% (115 MHz–2.90 GHz) for return-loss better than 10 dB, peak gain and radiation efficiency at 1.45 GHz of 2.35 dBi and 78.8%, respectivel... Read More about Wideband printed monopole antenna for application in wireless communication systems.

Array Antenna for Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating in X and Ku-Bands: A Study to Enhance Isolation Between Radiation Elements (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Limiti, E., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Falcone, F. (2018, June). Array Antenna for Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating in X and Ku-Bands: A Study to Enhance Isolation Between Radiation Elements. Presented at 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), Aachen, Germany

Modern synthetic aperture radars (SAR) require a system bandwidth of greater than 1 GHz. Waveguide slot antennas are popular for use in SAR applications because of their inherent advantages, namely high efficiency and power handling capability, but s... Read More about Array Antenna for Synthetic Aperture Radar Operating in X and Ku-Bands: A Study to Enhance Isolation Between Radiation Elements.

Mutual Coupling Reduction Using Metamaterial Supersubstrate for High Performance & Densely Packed Planar Phased Arrays (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alibakhshikenari, M., Salvucci, A., Virdee, B. S., Polli, G., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., Andújar, A., Anguera, J., & Limiti, E. (2018, May). Mutual Coupling Reduction Using Metamaterial Supersubstrate for High Performance & Densely Packed Planar Phased Arrays. Presented at 22nd International Microwave and Radar Conference MIKON, Poznań, Poland

This paper proposes on an effective mutual coupling suppression technique for planar phased array. This is achieved locating a metamaterial superstrate patch between radiation elements of phased array. The superstrate patch is realised by incorporati... Read More about Mutual Coupling Reduction Using Metamaterial Supersubstrate for High Performance & Densely Packed Planar Phased Arrays.

Meta-surface wall suppression of mutual coupling between microstrip patch antenna arrays for THz-band applications (2018)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B., Shukla, P., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2018). Meta-surface wall suppression of mutual coupling between microstrip patch antenna arrays for THz-band applications. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 75, 105-111. https://doi.org/10.2528/pierl18021908

This paper presents a novel 2D meta-surface wall to increase the isolation between microstrip patch radiators in an antenna array that is operating in the teraherz (THz) band of 139-141 GHz for applications including communications, medical and secur... Read More about Meta-surface wall suppression of mutual coupling between microstrip patch antenna arrays for THz-band applications.

Simulation of PMSM in maxwell 3D/simplorer to optimize direct flux control (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mueller, T., See, C., Ghani, A., & Thiemann, P. (2017, June). Simulation of PMSM in maxwell 3D/simplorer to optimize direct flux control. Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2017), Edinburgh, Scotland

This paper discusses the problem of a sensorless control method for permanent magnet synchronous machines named Direct Flux Control (DFC). Direct Flux Control provides its users with the angle of the total flux in the machine at all working points, i... Read More about Simulation of PMSM in maxwell 3D/simplorer to optimize direct flux control.

Compact wideband printed MIMO/diversity monopole antenna for GSM/UMTS and LTE applications (2017)
Book Chapter
See, C. H., Saleh, A., Alabdullah, A. A., Hameed, K., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Jones, S., & Majeed, A. H. (2018). Compact wideband printed MIMO/diversity monopole antenna for GSM/UMTS and LTE applications. In I. Elfergani, A. Hussaini, J. Rodriguez, & R. Abd-Alhameed (Eds.), Antenna Fundamentals for Legacy Mobile Applications and Beyond (191-209). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63967-3_10

Over the last decade, significant research effort has been devoted to enhance the isolation between multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna elements. This has led to offer several solutions, which in terms of band calcifications may be categori... Read More about Compact wideband printed MIMO/diversity monopole antenna for GSM/UMTS and LTE applications.

Dual-band planar inverted F-L antenna structure for bluetooth and ZigBee applications (2017)
Book Chapter
See, C. H., Oguntala, G. A., Shuaieb, W., Noras, J. M., & Excell, P. S. (2018). Dual-band planar inverted F-L antenna structure for bluetooth and ZigBee applications. In I. Elfergani, A. Hussaini, J. Rodriguez, & R. Abd-Alhameed (Eds.), Antenna Fundamentals for Legacy Mobile Applications and Beyond (39-52). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63967-3_2

This chapter will present and analyse a compact and dual frequency inverted L-F antennas for the operating frequency bands to meet the requirement for IEEE 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth and ZigBee standards; the optimal design providing a compromise between... Read More about Dual-band planar inverted F-L antenna structure for bluetooth and ZigBee applications.

Calibration model for detection of potential demodulating behaviour in biological media exposed to RF energy (2017)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Ghani, A., Ali, N. T., Excell, P. S., McEwan, N. J., & Balzano, Q. (2017). Calibration model for detection of potential demodulating behaviour in biological media exposed to RF energy. IET Science, Measurements and Technology, 11(7), 900-906. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2017.0105

Potential demodulating ability in biological tissue exposed to radio-frequency (RF) signals intrinsically requires an unsymmetrical diode-like non-linear response in tissue samples. This may be investigated by observing possible generation of the sec... Read More about Calibration model for detection of potential demodulating behaviour in biological media exposed to RF energy.

Current technologies and location based services (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, I., Asif, R., Abd-Alhameed, R., Alhassan, H., Elmegri, F., Noras, J., See, C., Obidat, H., Shuaieb, W., Riberio, J., Hameed, K., Alabdullah, A., Ali, A., Bin Melha, M., Al Khambashi, M., Migdadi, H., Child, M., Al-Sadoon, M., Abdussalam, F., Dunjuma, I., …Jones, S. (2017, September). Current technologies and location based services. Presented at 2017 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA), Wrexham

This paper examines the benefits and drawbacks of these services, reviewing differences in infrastructure, power requirements, sensing devices, and other factors. Technologies covered include Radio Frequency Identification, GSM, GPS, A-GPS, Smart Ant... Read More about Current technologies and location based services.

Direct flux control – sensorless control method of PMSM for all speeds – basics and constraints (2017)
Journal Article
Müller, T., See, C. H., Ghani, A., Bati, A., & Thiemann, P. (2017). Direct flux control – sensorless control method of PMSM for all speeds – basics and constraints. Electronics Letters, 53(16), 1110-1111. https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2017.1772

The limitations of sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) are discussed and a viable solution is proposed. The main concept of sensorless control of drives relies on additional information given by the machine during its... Read More about Direct flux control – sensorless control method of PMSM for all speeds – basics and constraints.

Link Budget Maximization for a Mobile-Band Subsurface Wireless Sensor in Challenging Water Utility Environments (2017)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Atojoko, A. A., McEwan, N. J., & Excell, P. S. (2018). Link Budget Maximization for a Mobile-Band Subsurface Wireless Sensor in Challenging Water Utility Environments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 65(1), 616-625. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2017.2719602

A subsurface chamber transceiver system and associated propagation channel link budget considerations for an underground wireless sensor system (UWSS) are presented: the application was a sewerage system for a water utility company. The UWSS operates... Read More about Link Budget Maximization for a Mobile-Band Subsurface Wireless Sensor in Challenging Water Utility Environments.

Miniaturized Balanced Antenna with Integrated Balun for Practical LTE Applications (2017)
Journal Article
Elfergani, I. T. E., Rodriguez, J., Abdussalam, F. M., See, C. H., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2017). Miniaturized Balanced Antenna with Integrated Balun for Practical LTE Applications. Radioengineering, 26(2), 444-452. https://doi.org/10.13164/re.2017.0444

A design of dual-band balanced antenna structure operating in the 700 and 2600MHz LTE bands is studied and investigated. The overall dimensions of the radiator are 50 × 18 × 7 mm3 allowing it to be easily concealed within mobile handsets. A broad-ban... Read More about Miniaturized Balanced Antenna with Integrated Balun for Practical LTE Applications.