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A2.3
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Wideband & Multiband Antennas
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Peter Balling
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pballing@asc-consult.dk
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This Vertical Activity coordinates and structures European reseach in Wideband and Multiband Antennas. We consider a wide range of antenna technologies and applications:
- Wideband, ultra wideband and multiband antennas
- Future short range and/or high data-rate communications systems
- Gridded & unfurlable reflectors, radomes, FSS and EBG surfaces
- Ground or surface penetrating or probing radars, medical imaging
The antenna technology ranges from large reflectors to small terminal types. The Activity is divided into three Work Packages:
The participating organisations are listed in a table below. Exchanges between the partners are listed in another table. The Activity is lead by Peter Balling, ASC (pballing@asc-consult.dk).
An overview of the full Activity was presented by P. Balling et al., "ACE Activity 2.3 structuring of wideband & multiband antenna research" at ICECom in Dubrovnik, Sep. 2007.
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The work in WP2.3-1 on Wideband & Multiband Radiators is in ACE-2 divided in four groups:
- WB/UWB antenna design methods
- WB/UWB terminal antennas
- WB/UWB antenna verification
- WB/UWB radar antennas
In
ACE-2 there is a stronger focus on low power UWB applications than in
ACE-1 and there is a current activity to review the UWB antenna
specifications also in the light of the new European UWB regulations. An overview was given by M. Bonnedal et al., "Activities in ACE WP 2.3-1 on wideband and multiband radiators" at EuCAP, Nov. 2006.
The
ACE-1 deliverables are available for ACE Community members from the
"ACE Results". Of particular interest is the deliverable
ACE1-A2.3D1.pdf, which contains the WideBand Element DataBase,
WBEDB. The PDF document contains descriptions and links (indicated by
blue underlined text) Database documents with the detailed information.
The Database is divided into Antenna Type documents and Antenna Application documents, where the Applications define the requirements for the Antennas.
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The work in WP2.3-2 on Reflector Surface Models is in ACE-2 divided in four subject areas:
- Improved design techniques
- Measurements
- Curved FSS
- Strip grid with dielectric
An overview was given by K. Pontoppidan et al. "Reflector surface modelling - A European collaboration" at EuCAP in Nice, Nov. 2006. and by M. Albani et al. "Reflector surface modelling - A European collaboration" at EuCAP in Edinburgh, Nov. 2007.
The ACE-1 and ACE-2 WP2.3 deliverables are available for ACE Community members from the "ACE Results" area. The deliverables are three self-contained documents:
- ACE1-A2.3D3 Collected literature and software for reflector surface models (Part 1 & 2)
- ACE1-A2.3D4 Reflector surface model investigation and evaluation
- ACE2-A2.3D2 Final Report on Reflector Surface Modelling Research incl. European Research Structuring
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The work in WP 2.3-3 on Antennas for Ground Probing Radars is in ACE-2 divided in four areas:
- GPR antenna measurements
- GPR antenna design
- Medical imaging
- Characterisation of loading materials
The
ACE-1 and ACE-2 deliverables are available for ACE Community members from the
"ACE Results" area. Of particular interest is the deliverable
ACE1-A2,3D5.pdf, which contains the GPR Antenna Catalogue.The PDF document contains descriptions and links (indicated by blue
underlined text) to the Database documents with the detailed information. The
Database is divided into GPR Antenna descriptions and GPR Antenna Test Facility descriptions.
The WP participants joined by ACE Community partners greatly benefit from sharing the use of the few special GPR antenna test facilities in Europe. Results of the first joint measurement campaign were presented by P. Meincke et al., "Joint ACE Ground Penetrating Radar Antenna Test Facility at the Technical University of Denmark" at AP-S/URSI in Washington, D.C., July 2005.
A more recent review describing the ongoing work including the complementary GPR antenna test facility at Delft Univ. of Technology, the medical imaging facility at Univ. of Bristol and requirements to next generation GPR antennas was presented by A. Yarovoy at al., "Development of antennas for subsurface radars within ACE" at ICUWB in Singapore, Sep. 2007.
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Participants in Activity 2.3 on Wideband & Multiband Antennas
WP 2.3-1
Wideband & multiband radiators
| WP 2.3-2
Reflector surface models |
WP 2.3-3
GPR antennas |
ACE Partners
Univ. Karlsruhe
ICCS/NTUA
UP Catalunya
UP Valencia
Chalmers Univ. Techn.
FOI
Saab Space
Univ. Liverpool
Delft Univ. Technology
Czech Tech. Univ. Prague |
ACE Partners
TICRA
Polytechn. Univ. Turin
Univ. Siena
Lund Univ.
TNO
Univ. Zagreb |
ACE Partners
IDS
Tech. Univ. Denmark
Univ. Nice - Sophia Antipolis
Univ. Bristol
Univ. Liverpool
Delft Univ. Technology
Czech Tech. Univ. Prag.
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ACE Community
Brno Univ. Techn.
Wroclaw Univ. Techn.
Middle East Tech. Univ.
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ACE Community
Univ. Granada
Geozondas
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Part of the work in WP1 and WP3
are being continued by the COST ASSIST (IC0603) Focus Areas on
"Broadband Antennas" lead by Yi Huang, Univ. Liverpool (Yi.Huang@liverpool.ac.uk) and Eva Antonino-Daviu, UP Valencia (evanda@doctor.upv.es) and "Body Area Networks & Biomedical Sensors"
lead by Ian Craddock, Univ. Bristol (Ian.Craddock@bristol.ac.uk) and Yang Hao, Queen Mary College (Y.Hao@elec.qmul.ac.uk) - see http://www.cost-ic0603.org.
The WG2 participants in WG2 cooperate with external partners on a joint ESA research project on "dual-gridded" reflectors for circular polarisation lead by Peter Balling, ASC (pballing@asc-consult.dk).
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