LAPC 2007 papers can be downloaded from IEEE Xplore.
Monday April 2nd 2007
Registration and Coffee 8:00am - 9:00am
Conference Opening 9:00am - 9:15am
Invited Presentations #1 9:15am - 11:15am
9:15 – 9:45am
Challenges in Antenna Designs and Some Novel Techniques for Meeting Them
Prof. Raj Mittra, Pennsylvania State University, USA
9:45 – 10:15am
Periodic Materials and Printed Structures for Miniature Antennas
Prof. John Volakis, Ohio State University, USA
10:15 – 10:45am
Millimetrewave Antennas: Past, Present and Future
Prof. Clive Parini, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
10:45 – 11:15am
Enabling RF/Microwave Devices and Antennas Using Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission-Line (NRI-TL) Metamaterials
Prof. George Eleftheriades, University of Toronto, Canada
Refreshments and Poster Session 1, Exhibition Area A & B 11:15am - 12:45pm
A1 Combined Fractal Dipole Wire Antenna
Mustafa Tahir
A2 Direct BPSK Demodulation by Polarization Rotation in the Presence of Channel Noise
Sajid Ahmed; Muhammad Amin; Vincent Fusco; Tharmalingam Ratnarajah
A3 Textured Surface Slot Antenna
Stephen Simms; Vincent Fusco
A4 A High Data Rate Wireless Leaky Feeder System for Vehicular Tunnel Applications
Terry Quinlan; S. Dudley; S. Walker
A5 Two-Dimensional Luneburg Lens RCS Augmentation Using MMIC Reflection Amplifier
Liang Xue; Horacio Cantu; Vincent Fusco
A6 Use of animation software in the simulation of On-Body communication channels
Michele Gallo; Peter Hall; Michele Bozzetti
A7 The Optimal Combination of Transmit Diversity and Beamforming
Lijun Liu; Myoung-Seob Lim
A8 Cost-variant SAGE: Field Trials and Results
Neville Tyler; Ben Allen; Hamid Aghvami
B1 Signal Frequency And Bandwidth Effects On The Performance Of UWB Time-Reversal Technique
Ali Khaleghi; Ghais El Zein
B2 Stealth Solutions to Solve the Radar-Wind Farm Interaction Problem
James Matthews; Jon Pinto; Carlos Sarno
B3 Attenuation Time Series Generator with Markov Model of Fade and Interfade Durations
Laszlo Csurgai; Janos Bito
B4 Planar Roof Mounted Automotive Antenna
Richard Langley; Lester Low; Richard Breden; Peter Callaghan
B5 Low Profile Multi-frequency Dipole Antenna Array Based on Planar Meta-surfaces
Elena Saenz; Pekka Ikonen; Ramon Gonzalo; Iñigo Ederra; Sergei Tretyakov; Peter de Maagt
B6 Printed Dipole Array for MIMO Wireless Networks
Evangelos Michailidis; Charalampos Tsimenidis; Graeme Chester
UWB Antennas: From Hype, Promise to Reality
Dr Zhi Ning Chen, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
2:30 – 3:00pm
Compact Antenna Test Range Based on a Computer-Generated Hologram and its use at Submillimeter Wavelengths
Prof. Antti Räisänen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
3:00 – 3:30pm
Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements: A Review of Correction Techniques
Dr Doren Hess, MI Technologies, USA
3:30 – 4:00pm
Modelling and visualization of the communication link for UWB consumer applications
Dr.-Ing. Dirk Manteuffel, IMST GmbH, Germany
Refreshments and Poster Session 2, Exhibition Area A & B 4:00pm - 5:30pm
A1 An Efficient Selective Transceiver for Beamforming and Transmit Diversity Combining Scheme
Lijun Liu; Myoung-Seob Lim
A2 Dual band Body Worn Antenna
Shaozhen Zhu; Luyi Liu; Richard Langley
A3 E-Plane Cut UWB Monopole
Benito Sanz-Izquierdo; John Batchelor
A4 Intelligent Radio Frequency Identification Positioning Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Alex Mason; Andrew Shaw; Ahmed Al-Shamma'a
A5 Design of a planar EBG structure to reduce mutual coupling in multilayer patch antennas
Eva Rajo-Iglesias; Oscar Quevedo-Teruel; Luis Inclan-Sanchez; Luis-Enrique Garcia-Muñoz
A6 Antenna pattern reconstruction from nonuniformly distributed PWMS data
Francesco D'Agostino; Flaminio Ferrara; Claudio Gennarelli; Rocco Guerriero; Giovanni Riccio; Carlo Rizzo
A7 Comparison of the Impedance Function of Biconical and Bowtie Dipoles
Neil McEwan; Mark Child
A8 Fast And Accurate Antenna Alignment Correction Performed Using A Vector Isometric Rotation
Stuart Gregson; Clive Parini; John McCormick
B1 Estimation of the single obstacle attenuation in MF Band from field data
Susana López; David de la Vega; David Guerra; Gorka Prieto; Manuel Velez; Pablo Angueira
B2 Effect Of Laminate Properties On Passive Intermodulation Generation
Dmitry Zelenchuk; Aleksey Shitvov; Alex Schuchinsky
B3 Circularly Polarized Array of Ring Antennas Using Novel Proximity-Coupled Feeds
Leonidas Marantis; Erik De Witte; Kin-Fai Tong; Paul Brennan
B4 Dual representation of field evolution in dielectric waveguide with time discontinuity
Alexander Nerukh; Nataliya Sakhnenko
B5 Characterization of Small-size Microstrip Patch Antennas for Wireless Applications
Boutheina Tlili
B6 Analysis of Microstrip Fractal Antennas By Means of RWG MOM and Wavelet Transformation
Maryam Rahmani; Ahad Tavakoli; Hamidreza Amindavar; Ali Reza Moghaddamjoo
B7 Novel metamaterial: magnetized ferrite - wire medium
Igor Nefedov; Anne-Claude Tarot; Wafa Abdouni
B8 Full Wave Analysis of a Ferrite Cross-Patch Antenna
Tarief Elshafiey
Conference Dinner (Restaurant) 7:00pm - 10:30pm
Tuesday April 3rd 2007
Invited Presentations #3 9:15am - 11:15am
9:15 – 9:45am
Applications of Wire Media Layers for Coupling Reduction in Antenna Arrays and Microwave Devices
Prof. Sergei Tretyakov, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
9:45 – 10:15am
On the Use of Metamaterial Surfaces for EBG Antenna Improvements
Prof. Bernard Jecko, XLIM Research Institute, France
10:15 – 10:45am
Antenna Possibilities using 2.5D Textured Surfaces
Prof. Vincent Fusco, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
10:45 – 11:15am
Small Antenna with Dielectric, Magneto-Dielectric and Metamaterial Loadings
Dr Yang Hao, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Refreshments and Poster Session 3, Exhibition Area A & B 11:15am - 12:45pm
A1 Antenna over ground plane for wideband communications
Prachaya Paivech; Richard Langley
A2 Conformal spiral antenna above a cylindrical PEC groundplane
Jun Wu; Salam Khamas; Greg Cook
A3 A Novel Ultra Wideband Anyenna for UWB Applications
Aidin Mehdipour; Hadi Aliakbarian; M. Kamaarei
A4 Design, Implementation and analysis of a robust system to measure GSM radiation
Tarief Elshafiey; Omar Hosny; Judy Sirafim; Ramy Gamal
A5 Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Approach to the Modeling of Time Reversal Technique for Communication
Ali Khaleghi; Ghais El Zein
A6 Validation of deterministic radio propagation algorithms for UHF mobile network planning in mountain environment
Marco Allegretti; Claudio Lucianaz; Riccardo Notarpietro; Giovanni Emilio Perona
A7 Maximum Doppler Frequency in Reverberation Chamber With Continuously Moving Stirrer
Paul Hallbjörner; Anders Rydberg
A8 Experimental verification of a modified Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM) head used for SAR measurements
Chinthana Panagamuwa; William Whittow; Robert Edwards; John Vardaxoglou
B1 Dispersion characteristics of a perturbed EBG waveguide with resonant loads
George Goussetis
B2 Study of a Differential – Fed UWB Antenna
Elena Pancera
B3 Time domain version of the Bertoni's frequency domain hill model
Piotr Górniak; Wojciech Bandurski
B4 Applying Negative Permittivity Media to Microstrip Patch Antennas for Harmonic Supression
Abid Ali; Mohammad Khan; Zhirun Hu
B5 Modified Designs For UWB Planar Monopole Antennas
Ioannis Makris; Dirk Manteuffel; Rob Seager; John Vardaxoglou
B6 Slit-Slot Loaded Parallel Coupled-Line Filter
James Kelly; Rob Seager
B7 Modal Decomposition Equivalent Circuit Method Application For Dual Frequency FSS Analysis
Rostyslav Dubrovka; Javier Vazquez; Clive Parini; David Moore
B8 Conformable and controllable radome in X band using electromagnetic band gap material
Stephanie Hache; Shah Nawaz Burokur; Frederique Gadot; Gerard-Pascal Piau; André de Lustrac
Lunch Day 2 (Restaurant) 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Invited Presentations #4 2:00pm - 3:30pm
2:00 - 3:30pm
Panel Session on Metamaterials for Antenna Applications
Introduction by Dr Alexander Schuchinsky
Panel: Prof. Raj Mittra, Prof. George Eleftheriades, Prof. Brian Collins and
Dr. Yang Hao
Provisional discussion topics include:
1.
Metamaterials - what can they offer to antenna and RF front end
designer?
Prof. George Eleftheriades
2. Unresolved challenges in antenna design - how can metamaterials be
of help?
Prof. Raj Mittra
3. Practical aspects of metamaterial application to implementation of
small antennas
Dr Yang Hao
4. What can metamaterials offer to meet the real antenna requirements?
Prof. Brian Collins
5. Wish list of metamaterial features sought by the designers of RF
front end and antenna.
Audience
Refreshments and Poster Session 4, Exhibition Area A & B 3:30pm - 5:00pm
A1 Hermite Polynomial Expansion for Analysis of Electromagnetic Slow Waves in Coupled Nano Conducting Layers with Gaussian Profile
Peyman Sarrafi; Khashayar Mehrany; Bizhan Rashidian
A2 Characteristic of UWB pulse over Powerline communication
Shuxian Chen; Choo Chiap Chiau; Xiaodong Chen; Clive Parini
A3 Lower Bound on the Shannon Capacity of MIMO Space-Time Communications Systems Baased on the Leakage Level
Pat Chambers; Conor Downing; Hussein Baher
A4 Specific absorption rates in the human head due to circular metallic earrings at 1800MHz
William Whittow; Chinthana Panagamuwa; Robert Edwards; John Vardaxoglou
A5 Miniaturised Multiband PIFA Antenna using a Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) ground plane
Ignacio Garcia Zuazola; John Batchelor; Richard Langley
Registration and Coffee
8:00am - 9:00am
