Novel and Simple High-Frequency Single-Port Vector Network Analyzer

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Abou-Khousa ◽  
M.A. Baumgartner ◽  
S. Kharkovsky ◽  
R. Zoughi
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.5) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Ghulam Ahmad Raza ◽  
Garima Saini ◽  
Naveen Kumar

This paper presents a novel patch antenna for TV white spaces applications. The shape of the proposed antenna is based on the shape of a wineglass. The dimension of the proposed antenna is 170 mm x 120 mm x 1.6 mm. After simulation, the proposed antenna resonates at 703 MHz with a return loss of -21.97 dB and covering a bandwidth from 495 MHz to 1540 MHz. Overall bandwidth coverage is 1045 MHz. So the proposed antenna is a wide band antenna covering almost the entire TV Ultra High Frequency (UHF) range. Simulated VSWR obtained at 703 MHz is 1.38 dB and simulated gain is 2.32 dB. The proposed antenna is fabricated using FR4 substrate and tested on Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). The measured return loss of fabricated antenna is -20.20 dB at 596 MHz. Proposed antenna shows the simulated radiation efficiency of 95%. Simulated and measured results showed good match between them. Proposed design is compared with few designs available in literature to validate its novelty and advantages. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Shcherbinin ◽  
S. O. Volchkov ◽  
V. N. Lepalovskii ◽  
A. A. Chlenova ◽  
G. V. Kurlyandskaya

Author(s):  
Joel Carpenter ◽  
Benjamin J. Eggleton ◽  
Jochen Schröder

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 874-886
Author(s):  
Alberto Maria Angelotti ◽  
Gian Piero Gibiino ◽  
Troels S. Nielsen ◽  
Dominique Schreurs ◽  
Alberto Santarelli

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5415
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Gorst ◽  
Kseniya Zavyalova ◽  
Aleksandr Mironchev ◽  
Andrey Zapasnoy ◽  
Andrey Klokov

The article investigates the near-field probe of a special design to account for changes in glucose concentration. The probe is designed in such a way that it emits radiation in both directions from its plane. In this paper, it was proposed to modernize this design and consider the unidirectional emission of the probe in order to maximize the signal and reduce energy loss. We have done extensive research for both bidirectional and unidirectional probe designs. Numerical simulations and field experiments were carried out to determine different concentrations of glucose (0, 4, 5.3, 7.5 mmol/L). Numerical modeling of a unidirectional probe showed that the interaction of radiation generated by such a probe with a multilayer structure simulating a human hand showed a better result and high sensitivity compared to a bidirectional probe. Further, based on the simulation results, a phantom (physical model) of a human hand was recreated from layers with dielectric properties as close as possible to the properties of materials during simulation. The probe was constructed from a copper tube and matched both the geometric and physical parameters of the model. The experimental measurement was carried out using a vector network analyzer in the frequency range 2–10 GHz. The experimental measurement was carried out using a vector network analyzer in the frequency range 2–10 GHz for the unidirectional and bidirectional probes. Further, the results of the experiment were compared with the results of numerical simulation. According to the results of multiple experiments, it was found that the average deviation between the concentrations was 2 dB for a unidirectional probe and 0.4 dB for a bidirectional probe. Thus, the sensitivity of the unidirectional probe was 1.5 dB/(mmol/L) for the bidirectional one 0.3 dB/(mmol/L). Thus, the improved design of the near-field probe can be used to record glucose concentrations.


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