Proceedings of

The European Conference Antennas and Propagatio

EuCAP 2006

6-10 November 2006 Nice, France

EUCAP CHAIRS

J. Mosig (General Chair), EPFL, CH P. Ingvarson (Vice Chair), Saab Ericsson Space, S B. Arbesser-Rastburg (Vice Chair), ESA-ESTEC, NL A. Roederer (Honorary Chair), ESA-ESTEC, NL P. Brachat (Local Chair), France Telecom R&D, F C. Pichot (Local Chair), Univ. de Nice, F

Publication Proceedings of the European Conference on Ante Propagation 'EuCap 2006', Nice, France (ESA SP-626, October 2006)

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CONTENTS

Plenary Sessions - Invited Papers

437898 COST: Its Recent Past and Its Future F. Fedi

431091 Near-Field Technology - An Emerging RF Discipline H. Schantz & J. Fluhler

430857 A Perspective on Array Antenna Developments L. Josefsson

362121 Observed Relation Between The Relative MIMO Gain And Distance B.W.M. Kuipers &L.M. Correia

431505 Propagation Issues for Mobile-Satellite Applications D. V. Rogers

415906 State of the Art and the Future in Modelling RF Components T. Weiland & I. Munteanu

430866 Electromagnetics in South Africa: Perspectives and Recent Achievements KD. Palmer & H. C. Reader

431108 Antenna Arrays: What Does it Mean a Good Channel? M.A. Lagunas & A.I. Perez-Neira

430862 A Wide Band Low Profile Array of End Loaded Dipoles with Dielectric Slab Compe B.A. Munk

366691 Anisotropie Metamaterials and their Fabrication for Applications to Antennas and Microwave Devices J.L. Volakis

366655 Electronic Steerable MEMS Antennas R Sorrentino, R. V. Gatti, L. Marcaccioli & B. Mencagli

431145 Antennas for Radio Astronomy A. van Ardenne

431357 Terahertz Technology for Space and Earth Applications P. de Maagt

349593 Planar Reconfigurable Antennas

ANTENNAS

Session OA1: UWB Antennas for Mobile Communication

Chairs: D. Manteuffel, H. Schantz

428016 Low-Profile Embedded Ultra-Wideband Antennas for Portable Devices Z.N. Chen, D. Liu & B. Gaucher

381132 Overview of Planar Monopole Antennas for UWB Applications M. Ferrando-Bataller, M. Cabedo-Fabres, E. Antonino-Daviu & A. Valero-Nogueira

384359 Assessment of Antenna Performance for Ultra-Wideband Systems T. Dissanayake & K.P. Esselle

363918 Optimizing Antenna Performance for UWB Impulse Systems W. Sörgel, C. Sturm, M. Porebska & W. Wiebeck

378865 Ultra Wideband Wide Slot Antenna with Band-Rejection Characteristics X. Begaud

372918 Ultra Compressed Parametric Modelling of UWB Antenna Measurements Ch. Roblin

385768 An Ultra Wideband Linear Array Beamforming Concept Considering Antenna and Channel Effects M. Neinhüs, M. El-Hadity, S. Held, T. Kaiser & K Solbach

Session OA2: Numerical Techniques for Antennas 350320 Design of High Gain Slotted Waveguide Antenna Using Metamaterials

X. Dardenne, C. Craeye & A. O. Boryssenko

363938 A Unified Approach to Model Planar Multilayered Structures with Lateral Perfect Electric/Magnetic and Periodic Boundary Conditions P. Crespo-Valero, I. Stevanovic &J.R. Mosig

312288 Input Susceptance of an Arbitrarily Large, Circular Loop Antenna H.T. Anastassiu

350947 Quick SAR Assessment Using Dual-Plane Amplitude-Only Measurement

Session OA3: Smart and Signal Processing Antennas, MIMO, Antenna Beamforming & Reconfigurable Antennas

347542 A Simple Pattern Correction Approach For High Frequency Surface Wave Radar On Buoys A. Bourges, R Guinvarc'h, B. Uguen & R Gillard

350267 Experiments of Closely Coupled Monopoles with Load Matching in a Random Field Y. Fei, B. K Lau, A. Sunesson et dl.

363909 Smart Antennas Control in Complex Scenarios through a Memory Enhanced PSO-Based Optimization Approach R. Azaro, M. Benedetti, F. De Natale & A. Massa

363898 A SVM-Based Multi-Resolution Procedure for the Estimation of the DOAs of Interfering Signals in a Communication System M. Donelli, R. Azaro, L. Lizzi et dl.

346171 Implementation of a Miniaturised Antenna Array with Predefined Orthogonal Radiation Patterns J. Weber, C. Volmer, K Blau et dl.

363957 Design of a Focal Plane Array System at Cryogenic Temperatures J. Simons, J. G. Bij de Vaate, M. V. Ivashina et dl.

350361 Optimal Uncoupled Impedance Matching for Coupled MIMO Arrays M. A. Jensen & B. Booth

347400 Shaped Single-Feed-Per-Beam Multibeam Reflector Antenna P. Balling, C. Mangenot & A. G. Roederer

Session OA4: Active Elements, Integrated & -MM Wave Antennas & MEMS 371886 Electronics Insertion into Printed Antennas

D.S. Goshi, K.M.K.H. Leong & T. höh

346096 Planar Antenna Arrays Using a Feed Network with Nonradiative Dielectric (NRD) Waveguide U. Schmid & W. Menzel

346805 Off-Axis Performances of Half Maxwell Fish-Eye Lens Antennas at 77 GHz B. Fuchs, O. Lafond, M. Himdi et dl.

349559 Composite Right/Left-Handed Leaky Wave Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Automotive Applications K. Sato, S. -i. Matsuzawa & Y. Inoue

Session OA5: EM Interactions with Biological Tissues & H 431993 Failure UModes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) on the RF Performance of Mobil

R. Tay, N. Chavannes, P. Futter et al.

432860 Electromagnetic, Thermal and Convection Dosimetry for In Vitro Microwave E? P. Leveque, A. Collin, M. Cueille & A. Perrin

432871 Public Exposure to RF from Installed Sources: Site Measurement and Personal I G. Thuröczy, F. Molnär, J. Szabö et al.

432867 Modelling of the Interactions between Implanted Auditory Prosthesis and 900 MHz Radiofrequency: Application to Cochlear Implants P. Ravazzani, C. Franzoni, M. Parazzini & G. Tognola

432855 Assessment of Human Exposure to Realistic Radio-Frequency Source by Means of Analytical and Computational Methodologies A. Faraone, G. Bit-Babik & R Zaridze

360964 Development of a Japanese 7-Month Pregnant Woman Model and Evaluation of SAR Generated by Mobile Radio Terminals T. Togashi, T. Nagaoka, K Saito et al.

360903 SAR Distributions in the Abdomen of a Pregnant Woman Generated in a Bird Cage Coil for the MRI System K Saito, S. Kikuchi, M. Takahashi et al.

432851 SAR Assessment Using Tissues Homogenization Technique A. Pradier, F. Lacroux, D. Lautru et al.

381030 RF Dosimetry Using Japanese Anatomical Models T. Onishi, H. Ebara, P. Pongpaibool et al.

Session OA6: Printed Elements & Associated Circi 319727 Dual Polarised Sub-MM Wave Frequency Selective Beamsplitter

R Dickie, R Cahill, H. S. Gamble et al.

347586 Novel Circularly Polarized Loop Coupled Dipole Antenna A.S. Andrenko

347956 Broadband Dipole Antenna on Electromagnetic Bandgap Ground Planes L. Akhoondzadeh-Asl & P. S. Hall

350446 Miniature Multiantenna for Optimal Capacity in Wireless Microsystems R Serrano, M. Alonso, S. Capdevila et al.

363985 An Elliptic-Card UWB Antenna for Wireless Communications K Bahadori & Y. Rahmat-Samii

371889 Mode Switching for Printed Antenna Structures D.S. Goshi, K.M.K.H. Leong & T. Itoh

Session OA7: Antenna for Mobile Communicatioi 362657 Quasi-Omnidirectional Back-to-Back E-Shaped Patch Antenna for Dual-Band 2

Laptop Integrated Wireless Interface /. Guterman, Y. Rahmat-Samii, A. A. Moreira & C. Peixeiro

360198 Small Size Wearable Button Antenna B. Sanz-Izquierdo, F. Huang & J. C. Batchelor

363935 Dual-Band Composite Right/Left-Handed Ring Antenna with Linear/Circular Polarization Capability A. Rennings, S. Otto, T. Liebig et dl.

363875 Effect of Antenna's Positioning on a Handset for a Miniature Dielectric-Loaded Folded Half-Loop Antenna C. C. Chiau, X. Chen & C. G. Parini

350366 Novel Internal Multi-Antenna Configuration Employing Folded Dipole Element Y. Okano & K. Cho

350250 Coplanar-Square-Patch Antenna for IRIDIUM Satellite Reception W.J. Krzysztofik

361063 A Low-Profile Equiangular Spiral Antenna Backed by a Cavity with an Absorbii H. Nakano, K Kikkawa & J. Yamauchi

289958 New Toroidal Beam Antennas For WLAN Communications: Validation of Two /. C. Bregains, G. Franceschetti, A. G. Roederer & F. Ares

Session OA8: Optimisation Techniques & Synthe 359937 Optimization Using Taguchi Method for Electromagnetic Applications

W.-C. Weng, F. Yang, V. Demir & A. Elsherbeni

346070 Mode Converter Synthesis by the Particle Swarm Optimization A. Bogdashov & Y. Rodin

346908 Constrained Least-Squares Optimization in Phase Synthesis of Conformal Array L. Vaskelainen

348095 An Effective Hybrid Strategy in Some Array Synthesis Problems M. D'Urso&T. Isernia

302008 Waveguide Antenna Synthesis According to the Amplitude Radiation Characteristics in the Frequency Band M.I. Andriychuk & O.F. Zamorska

349528 Very Fast Subarray Position Calculation for Minimizing Sidelobes in Sparse Lin C. Lee, D. Leigh, H. Miyashita et dl.

347588 Optimal Design of Switched Beam Antenna Arrays Using Particle Swarm Optim K. A. Papadopoulos, C. A. Papagianni, I. E. Foukarakis et al.

Session OA9: Smart & Signal Processing Antennas: IV 375250 Reconfiguration Techniques to Enhance Cognitive Networks Efficiency

P. Demestichas, G. Dimitrakopoulos & A. Alexiou

347817 Frobenius Norm Based Receive Antenna Subarray Formation for MIMO Systen P. Theofilakos & A. G. Kanatas

363920 An Efficient Channel Estimation Scheme for Realistic SFBC MISO OFDM Syst A.D. Marousis & P. Constantinou

368181 Reconfigurability to Antenna Correlation: System Level Performance Enhancem K Peppas, F. Lazarakis, A. Alexiou et al.

370684 Application of SDMA with Scheduling for MIMO MC-CDMA V. Monteiro, J. Rodriguez & A. Gameiro

372151 Evaluation of MIMO Arrays Using Antenna Patterns, Reverberation Chamber, and Channel Measurements B. Lindmark, L. Garcia-Garcia, N. Jalden & C. Orlenius

350045 The Influence of MIMO Terminal User's Hand on Channel Capacity T. Zervos, A. Alexandridis, K. Peppas et al.

313569 BER Variation in an UWB OFDM MIMO Communications System Based on Measurements Made in a Picocell Wireless Environment P. Chambers, C. Downing & H. Baher

345486 On the Design of a Broadband Wireless MIMO-OFDM Demonstrator X. Nieto & L.M. Ventura

Session OA10: Antennas & Propagation for Body Cc Wireless Communication

430864 Antennas and Propagation for Body Centric Communications P.S. Hall & Y.Hao

347269 Modeling of Interaction Between Body-Mounted Antennas R Mittra, J. Bringuier, J. Wiart & K. Yoo

347317 Comparison of Antennas for On-body Propagation Using the Method of Equiva R Dubrovka, A. Alomainy, P. Hall et al.

349466 Textile Antennas: Effects of Antenna Bending on Input Matching and Impedanc P. Sahnen & Y. Rahmat-Samii

349763 Characterization of the UWB On-Body Propagation Channel H. Ghannoum, R. D'Errico, C. Roblin & X. Begaud

350479 Performance Measures of Implant Antennas A.J. Johansson

433699 Textile UWB Antennas for On-Bodv Communications

Session OA11: Phased and Active Array Antennas <S 345392 Post-Wall Waveguide Slot Array Antennas

/. Hirokawa & M. Ando

347257 Recent Developments of Wide Band Arrays / . / . Lee, S. Livingston & A. Neto

350156 Alternating Phase Fed Single-Layer Waveguide Slot Array with Interchangeable Slot Plates for Multi-Frequency Operation Y. Tsunemitsu, M. Zhang, Y. Miura et dl.

351158 Efficient Dual-Band Planar Array Suitable to Galileo P. Valle, A. Netti, M. Zolesi et dl.

375541 PAMIR with Reconfigurable Antenna Frontend H. Wilden, O. Peters, O. Saalmann et dl.

378657 Current Activities on SAR Antennas at AAS-I P. Capece, R Mizzoni, A. Meschini et dl.

^12416 Two High-Frequency Methods (UTD & BDW) for Predicting the Collective Radiation by Large Finite Planar Arrays P. Janpugdee, P.H. Pathak & RJ. Burkholder

Session OA12: Wideband & Multiband Ante 435668 Activities in ACE WP 2.3-1 on Wideband and Multiband Radiators

M. Bonnedal, E. Angelopoulos, E. Antonino et dl.

^6^911 Ultra Wideband Antenna of Two Bow-Tie Unipoles J. Bartolic, M. Knezevic & T. Debogovic

349772 Design Guidelines for the UWB Pyramid Antenna S. Bruni, A. Neto & F. Marliani

363575 Double Ridged Structures Mode Study for Broadband Antennas Design Z. Hradecky, M. Mazanek & T. Korinek

345651 Ultra Wideband Spiral Antenna - Time Delay Removal I. Nicolaescu & P. van Genderen

345644 A Wideband BOR-PaRP Antenna H. Nakano, H. Iwaoka & J. Yamauchi

347914 Reflector Surface Modelling - a European Collaboration K Pontoppidan, P. Balling, G. Gerini et dl.

347183 Wideband antennas for Radio Astronomy P. Pate!

349438 Wide Bandwidth Vivaldi Antenna Arrays - Some Recent Developments D.H. Schaubert, S. Kasturi, M. W. Elsallal & W. van Cappellen

363571 Characteristics of a Broad-Band Wide-Scan Fragmented Aperture Phased

Session OA13: Diffraction, RCS & Inverse Diffr 345431 An Effective Orbit Estimation Algorithm for a Space Debris Radar

Using the Quasi-Periodicity of the Evaluation Function K Isoda, T. Sakamoto & T. Sato

345133 RCS Predictions for Stealthy Wind Turbines J.C.G. Matthews, .I.A. Lord&J. Pinto

347836 Efficient SIE/VIE Scattering Analysis of Ferro electric, Inhomogeneous Mate with High Permittivity for Microwave Applications G.K Avdikos, T. Zervos, H.T. Anastassiu &N.K. Uzunoglu

347673 Three Dimensional Complex Permittivity Reconstruction by Means of Newtc Microwave Imaging /. De Zaeytijd, A. Franchois, C. Eyraud & J. -M. Geffrin

344584 Alternative Current Expressions for Overcoming Shadowing Treatment Arisi in the Physical Optics Approach C. Delgado & F. Cätedra

363866 Analysis of the Potentialities and Limitations of the Integration between the 1 and the Level Set Method for Inverse Scattering M. Benedetti, D. Lesselier, A. Massa & M. Lambert

362216 Shape Reconstruction Algorithms for Buried Conductors And Voids R Pierri, F. Soldovieri & G. Leone

348076 Efficient RCS Calculation of Fighter Airplane on a PC Using Maximally Orthogonalized Higher Order Basis Functions D.S. Sumic & B.M. Kolundzija

363852 Detection of Multiple Defects in Industrial Products by Means of a Non-Des Microwave Approach

Session OA15: Reflector Antennas, Lenses & Feed 350297 Development of Three Models of the Eleven Antenna: A New Decade

Bandwidth High Performance Feed for Reflectors P. -S. Kildal, R Olsson & J. Yang

345797 Polarization Properties of Planar Stratified Dielectric Lenses Excited by Linearly Polarized Point Sources A. Polemi & S. Maci

346035 A Dual Reflector Antenna with Adjustable Subreflector for Hybrid Mechanical-E A. Gar da Pino, J. A. Martinez Lorenzo, C. Compostizo et al.

315490 2-Turn Helical Antenna with Extremely Small Pitch Angle W. Ze-Hai&E.KN. Yung

349455 Benchmark of Lens Antennas for KA-Band Global Earth Observation from LEO J.R. Costa, CA. Fernandes, G. Godietal.

351904 A Compact On-Board Aircraft Sectorial Antenna P. Brachat, P. Bongibault, Y. Beniguel et al.

349863 EBG Enhanced Feeds for High Aperture Efficiency Reflector Antennas A. Neto, M. Bonnedal, P. De Maagt et al.

350377 Control of Reflection and Mutual Coupling Losses in Maximizing Efficiency of D Arrays M. V. Ivashina, M. Ng Mou Kehn, P.S. Kildal & R Maaskant

349829 Small Size Dielectric Lens Analysis in 2_D: Comparison of FDTD and Boundary A. V. Boriskin, A. Rolland, R Sauleau & A.I. Nosich

355699 High Power PIM-Free Spike-Free Ortho-Mode Transducer S. Sierra-Garcia, Y. Demers &J.P. Langevin

Session OA16: Small Antennas & Terminals 382133 Dual Broadband Folded Antenna Embedded into Access-Point Devices

W.K. Toh&Z.N. Chen

382926 ACE 2 Activities on Small Terminal Technologies and Applications M. Martinez-Väzquez

382996 Optimal Antenna Placement for Mobile Terminals Using Characteristic Mode An /. Rahola & J. Ollikainen

383096 Small Antenna Fundamentals and Technologies: Future Trends R Serrano, S. Blanch & L. Jofre

383461 Antenna Optimization Technique Using Parametric Analysis with Distributed Co S. Ooi & D. Thompson

351772 Small Array Antenna for 2x2 MIMO Terminal Using Folded Loop Antenna H Sato T Havashi Y Kovanaei & H Movishita

383020 Limitations for Mobile Terminals in Simultaneous Maximization of Bandwidth and Efficiency in Presence of a User B. Derat, J. - C. Bolomey & Y. Li

421294 Results and Experiences from Two Years of Benchmarking of Measurement Facilities for Small Antennas and Terminals within ACE /. Carlsson

Session OA17: Wideband & Multiband Antennas 349858 Mobile Terminal Antennas Implemented by Using Direct Coupling

/. Holopainen, J. Villanen, C. Ichein & P. Vainikainen

363826 A Single Matching Network Design for a Dual Band PIFA Antenna via Simplified Real Frequency Technique P. Lindberg, M. Sengul, E. G. Cimen et dl.

350244 Multi-Band Internal Monopole Antenna for Mobile Station SM. Kim, Y.H. Kim & W.G. Yang

350492 Multiband Patch Antenna with Perturbation Elements Generated by Genetic Alge M. Polivka, M. Drahovzal, J. Rohan & P. Hazdra

349397 Compact Dual-Band Reduced Size PIFA Antenna for Automotive Applications M. Brzeska & G.-A. Chakam

347453 A New Wideband Antenna: Comprising Planar-Dipole and Short-Circuited-Patch H. Wong&KM. Luk

363820 Synthesis and Optimization of Pre-fractal Multiband Antennas R. Azaro, E. Zeni, M. Zambelli & A. Massa

346937 Improving Radiation Pattern of Microstrip Antennas M.M. Nikolic&A. Djordjevic

Session OA18: New materials, EBG, Active & Integrated i 363825 A Broadband High-Gain Resonant Cavity Antenna with Single Feed

A. P. Feresidis & J. C. Vardaxoglou

362244 Analysis and Design of an Omni-Directional Antenna with Enhanced E-Plane Directivity Using Cylindrical EBG Surfaces G. K Palikaras, A. P. Feresidis & J. C. Vardaxoglou

350305 Membrane-Supported Yagi-Uda MM-Wave Antennas D. Neculoiu, G. Konstantinidis, L. Bary et dl.

350196 EBG Resonator Antennas with Highly Reflecting Metallic Grids and Embedded Planar Array: A Design Methodology O. Ronciere, K Mahdjoubi & R. Sauleau

350400 Frequency Selective Surfaces for the RCS Reduction of Low Frequency Antennas

Session OA19: Fast & Multilevel Techniques 350152 Methods for The Accelerated Computation of Green's Functions

with 2-D Periodicity in Layered Media P. Baccarelli, A. Galli, V. Volski et al.

349431 Adaptive Integral Method for Higher-Order Hierarchical Method of Moments O.S. Kim & P. Meincke

Ml611 Fast Direct Solution of the Method of Moments Linear System A. Heldring, J.M. Tamayo &J.M. Rius

347871 Multilevel PO Algorithm for Non-Uniform Triangulations A. Manyas & L. Gürel

350094 Efficient Parallelization of Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Ö. Ergül & L. Gürel

349852 Multi-Resolution Enhancement of Fast Method of Moments Analysis of Antenna P. Pirinoli, A. Freni, P. De Vita et al.

350386 Incomplete LU Preconditioning for the Electric-Field Integral Equation T. Malas & L. Gürel

347354 Multilevel Field Interpolation Algorithm for Large PEC Objects H. G. Espinosa, A. Heldring, J.R. Mosig et al.

347795 Preconditioning Techniques for the Method of Auxiliary Sources Applied to Geometries Characterized as Perturbations of a Circle A.T. Vouldis, G.K Avdikos &H.T. Anastassiu

347420 Fast Monostatic RCS Computation in FEM Based Solvers Using QR Decomposi N. V. Venkatarayalu, Y. -B. Gan, K Zhao & J. -F. Lee

Session OA20: UWB Antennas for Radar & Remote Se 362347 Dual Polarised Wideband Antenna Arrays with Reconfigurable

Beamforming and Beamshaping R. Erickson, A. Ouacha, B. Carlegrim et al.

377760 Investigation of Wideband Antennas in the W-Band C. Migliaccio, B.D. Nguyen, J. Lanteri et al.

404943 Paraboloidal and Prolate-Spheroidal Impulse Radiating Antenna with Illustrative Examples D. V Giri

380710 Pulsed UWB Array and Beam Steering M. Y.-W. Chia, S.-W. Leong & C.-K. Sim

383057 Near-Field Focusing within a UWB Antenna Array A. Yarovoy, P. Lys, P. Aubry et al.

384016 Baluns for Feeding Ultra Wideband Antennas

Session OA21: Reflect-Arrays 346112 Folded Reflectarray Antennas for Shaped Beam Applications

W. Menzel & R. Leberer

345526 ERASP: A New Reflectarray Antenna for Space Applications C. Apert, T. Koleck, T. Dousset et dl.

347021 Study on Three-Layer Reflectarray of Microstrip Patches with Polarisation Transform H.H. Chen, W.-X. Zhang, Z.-H Wu&H.-L. Sun

344576 A Broadband Reflectarray Antenna with Double Square Ring as the Cell 1 M.R. Chaharmir, J. Shaker, M. Cuhaci&A. Ittipiboon

425037 Multiscale Approach for the Electromagnetic Modelling of MEMS-Controlled Reflectarrays H. Aubert, N. Raveu, E. Perret & H. Legay

318844 Analysis of Mutual Coupling for the Simulation of Reflectarrays Radiatin M. -A. Milon, R Gillard, D. Cadoret & H. Legay

350626 Special Issues and Features of a Scanning Reflectarray Antenna Based on Ferroelectric Thin Film Phase Shifters RR Romanofsky

346584 Integrated MEMS Reflectarray Elements S. V. Hum, G. McFeetors & M. Okoniewski

Session OA22: Antennas for Space Communications 351444 Mobile Antenna Developments in EADS Astrium

S.J. Stirland &J.R Brain

361961 European Large Deployable Antenna: Development Status and Applicatic F. Mini, D. Caswell, A. Cherniavsky, I. Vorobey et dl.

345162 High Performance Antenna Feeds and Components for Space Applicatior C. Lee-Yow

345159 Advanced Antenna Technologies for Satellite Communication Payloads S. Rao, M. Tang, C.-C. Hsu & J. Wang

359671 High Performance Communications and Tracking Multi-Beam Antennas E. Amyotte, Y. Demers, L Martins-Camelo et dl.

366988 Development Results of a Proto Flight Model of the Ka-band Active Phas Array Antenna for WINDS N. Kojima, M. Yajima et dl.

Session OA23: Measurements for New Antennas Techm 357862 Designing Reverberation Chambers for Measurements of Small Antennas

Accuracy, Frequency Resolution, Lowest Frequency of Operation, Loadin P. -S. Kildal, C. Orlenius, J. Carlsson et al.

368102 New Pattern Correction Techniques for Submm-wave CATRs V. Viikari, J. Mallat, J. Ala-Laurinaho et al.

366672 Far Field MiUimetric Band Antenna Test Facility: Positioning Procedure I L. Le Coq, G. Godi, B. Fuchs et al.

366224 Amplitude-only Measurement Technique on Strategie Near-Field Scannin S. Costanzo & G. Di Massa

369401 Evaluation of Two Novel Non-Invasive Measurement Methods for Small R. Serrano, J. Romeu, S. Blanch & L. Jofre

306275 3D Antenna Measurement System - Low Gain Antenna Measurements an DJ. Gray

402498 Antenna Directivity Evaluation by Planar Spiral Scanning F. D'Agostino, F. Ferrara, C. Rizzo et al.

402532 A Note to Show How an Alternative Spherical Mode Normalization Simp the Relationship Between Transmitting and Receiving Characteristics D. W. Hess

402546 Practical Aspects of Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements Using a T. Laitinen, S. Pivnenko, J.M. Nielsen & O. Breinbjerg

Session OA24: New Materials, Metamaterials, EB 383414 Metamaterial Antennas for Dual-Band and Dual-Mode Applications

A. Lai, K.M.K.H. Leong & T. Itoh

386075 Characterization of a Volumetrie Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission Metamaterial for Incident Waves From Free-space A. K Iyer & G.V. Eleftheriades

349441 Miniaturized Circular Patch Antenna with Metamaterial Loading F. Bilotti, A. Alu, N. Engheta & L. Vegni

348065 Investigations of Metamaterial-Based Ultra-Dense Antenna Arrays R W. Ziolkowski & A. Erentok

363761 Microwave Devices with Enhanced Phase-Compensation Principle T. Mynttinen, M. Lapine, J. Säily et al.

359354 Adaptive Beam Steering Base Station Antenna: Performances Optimizatio of the Reconfigurable EBG Material

Session OA25: Modular Software Tools for Anteim 362774 Goals and Structuring of the Antenna Software Initiative (ASI) within ACE

G. A. E. Vandenbosch & R Gillard

362763 Overview of the Software Integration Activities within ACE V. Volski, G. Vandenbosch, J. Yang etat

363611 The ACE Activity on Standardized File Formats for Electromagnetic Software /. -P. Martinaud, P. E. Frandsen & G. Vandenbosch

346486 Combining the Characteristic Basis Function Method with Rooftops and Razor-Blade Testing Functions over NURBS Patches C. Delgado, F. Cätedra & R Mittra

422339 Recent Developments in Parallelized Softwares Based on Iteration-Free Techniques for Solving Very Large Problems R. Mittra, W. Yu & A. Monorchio

386011 Overview of the Current State of Development of Antenna Modeling Methods in Ukraine and the Former Soviet Union A.I. Nosich, A.A. Kirilenko, L.A. Rud& VI. Tkachenko

349816 Wideband Radiating Element for Mobile Handsets for a European Antenna Software Benchmarking in ACE network /. -M. Ribero, S. Collardey, D. L. Paul et al.

349898 Integration of UPC AntennaLab Block-LU Direct Solver in MoM Codes J.M. Rius, M. Mattes, A. Valero et al.

Session OA26: Small Antennas, Tag and RFID 347136 Some Novel Design for RFID Antennas and their Performance Enhancement witl

R. Mittra, M. Stupf, J.R. Mosig & J. Yeo

359549 Modal Analysis of a radiating Slotted PCB for Mobile Handsets M. Cabedo-Fabres, A. Valero-Nogueira, E. Antonino-Daviu & M. Ferrando-Batalle

Ml521 Performance Evaluation of Periodically LC Loaded Small Patch Antennas M. Schüßler, C. Damm, J. Freese & R Jakoby

362593 Enhanced Diversity Antennas for UMTS Handsets A. Diallo, C. Luxey, P. Le Thuc et al.

350802 Reverberation Chamber Evaluation of Multi-Antenna Handsets Having Low Mutual Coupling and High Efficiencies A. Diallo, M. Franzen, P. -S. Kildal et al.

347215 Optimal Partial Filling of Microstrip Antennas with Dielectric and Magnetic Subs O. Luukkonen, P. Ikonen & S. Tretyakov

347532 Matching Shielded Loops for Cryptographic Analysis W. Aerts, E. De Mulder, B. Preneel et al.

Session OA27: UWB Antennas 363739 Uwb Wearable Button Antenna

B. Sans-Izquierdo, J. C. Batchelor & M. Sobhy

350197 A Novel CPS-Fed Balanced Wideband Dipole for Ultra-Wideband Applications K C. L. Chan & Y. Huang

349869 Small Semi-Directional Antenna for UWB Terminal Applications R. D'Errico, H. Ghannoum, C. Robin & A. Sibille

348050 Longitudinally Tapered Coplanar Waveguide UWB Antenna S.R. Pennock & P.R. Shepherd

363720 An Improved Design of Orthogonal Half Disk UWB Antenna L. Guo, Z. Yang, J. Liang et al.

347764 A Printed Planar UWB Triangulär Monopole Antenna on Rigid Ground Plane C.-C. Lin, H.-R. Chuang & Y.-C. Kan

347479 Wide Band Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Monopole Antenna J. Kim, S. Chol, W. Lee & Y. Jee

363959 Compact Dipole for Low Frequency Band UWB Applications F. Demeestere, C. Delaveaud, J. Keignart & S. Bories

355068 Fractal-Spiral Antenna for UWB Standard P. Labbe & D. Bateman

345472 Small UWB Antenna Using Triangulär Elements on UWB Unit A. Kuramoto

Session OA28: Antenna Measurement 350534 Reduction of Multi-Path Effects in a Low Frequency Spherical Near-Field Test F

M. Giles & S. Mishra

346074 A Dipole Antenna with Calculable Gain over the Frequency Range 20 MHz to 2. M. Alexander, M. Salter & B. Loader

351496 Effective Antenna Characterization at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies and its Experimental Validation at 100 GHz A. Capozzoli, C. Curcio, G. D'Elia & A. Liseno

350508 RFID-Assisted Indoor Localization and Communication for First Responders J.R. Guerrieri, M.H. Francis, L.E. Miller et al

350052 A Vector Beam Measurement System for 211-275 GHz O. Nyström, M. Pantaleev, V. Vassilev et al.

3777A3 The Array Antenna of Element Apertures with Coupling Devices between Apertu T. Takano, T. Isono, T. Imura & D. Radenamad

348054 The Influence on Finite Measurement Accuracy on the SWE-to-PWE Antenna D

Session OA29: Conformal Antennas 363737 Development of a Hemi-Spherical Wideband Antenna Array for Breast Cancer Ir

/./. Craddock, R Nilavalan, R Benjamin et al

363897 Closed-Form Green's Function Representations in Cylindrically Stratified Media for Method of Moments Applications S. Kar an, V. B. Ertürk & A. Altintas

366766 Efficient UTD Representation for the Collective Radiation and Surface Fields Pn by Large Conformal Arrays on Convex Surfaces P. Janpugdee, R.J. Burkholder & P.H. Pathak

364013 Design and Development of a Spherical Array Antenna E. De Witte, L. Marantis, K -F. Tong et al.

364829 Synthesis of a Large Conical Array RF.E. Guy

345496 Design of a Triple Patch Antenna Element for Double Curved Conformal Antenr P. Knott

364432 Hybrid Spectral Domain - UTD Method Applied to Conformal Antennas Analy M. Bosiljevac, P. Persson & Z. Sipus

Session OA30: New Materials, EBG, Active and Integratec 349976 Near-Zero Refractive Index Structures to Simplify the Feeding of Antenna Array

F. Inigo- Villacorta & D. Segovia- Vargas

348043 Bandwidth Analysis of Highly-Directive Planar Radiators Based on Partially-Ref G. Lovat, P. Burghignoli, F. Capolino &D.R. Jackson

362038 Miniature Coplanar Waveguide and Microstrip Stop-Band Filters Using Spiral R /. Meto & R. Sauleau

306293 Realization of Perfectly Anisotropie Impedance Boundary I. V. Lindeil, A.H. Sihvola &I. Hänninen

319880 Phase Control of Reflectarray Patches Using Liquid Crystal Substrate W. Hu, M. Y. Ismail, R. Cahill, S.P. Rea et dl.

362663 Reconfigurable Reflectarray Element Characterization H. Rajagopalan & Y. Rahmat-Samii

349675 How Well Can a PEC-Backed Gyrotropic Layer Approximate the Ideal PEMC I H. Wallen & A. Sihvola

PROPAGATION

Session OP1: MIMO Channel Characterization 363933 Measurements of MIMO Capacity at 1800 MHz with In- and Outdoor Transmitt

L. Garcia-Garcia, N. Jalden, B. Lindmark et al.

346886 Outdoor to Indoor MIMO Radio Channel Measurements at 5.25 GHz - Charact of Propagation Parameters M. Alatossava, V. -M. Holappa & J. Ylitalo

363842 MIMO Channel Characterization Through Ray Tracing Simulation E. Vitucci, V. Degli-Esposti & F. Fuschini

348075 Propagation Measurement in Indoor Environment for MIMO Systems Using Polarization Property H. Hirayama, A. Kurose, N. Kikuma & K Sakakibara

346545 Testing MIMO Systems with Coupled Reverberations Chambers: A Wideband C O. Delangre, Ph. De Doncker, M. Lienard & P. Degauque

354953 Empirical Characteristics of Urban Macrocell Multiple-Input Multiple-Output C A. Taparugssanagorn & J. Ylitalo

362688 MIMO Cube in Realistic Indoor Environment L. Nagy

363946 Near-Field Correction for Incoherent Source Location: Simulations and Measure /. Mora-Cuevas & L. de Haro-Ariet

Session OP2: Novel Propagation Aspects 346753 PO/PTD Ray Tracing for Arbitrary Metallic and Dielectric Objects

F. Weinmann

347413 Electromagnetic Transient Analysis of Radiation by Canonical Sources in Planarly Layered Media Using Leaky Modes A.B. Yakovlev & G. W. Hanson

347935 GeoStatistical Interpolation for Mapping Radio-Electric Exposure Levels Y. Ould Isselmou, H. Wackernagel, W. Tabbara & J. Wiart

346539 Study of Depolarization in Urban Environments T. Tenoux & Y. Lostanlen

363823 Forward Propagation Above Sea at Grazing Angles: Improvements of Modelling by Parabolic Wave Equation V. Fabbro & C. Bourlier

^49503 Simulation of the Effects of Different Urban Environments on GPS Eocation

Session OP3: Special Propagation I 361821 Wideband Sounder and Measurements in the 60 GHz Band

S. Feeney & S. Salous

315451 UWB Through-Wall Propagation Measurements Z. Nemec, J. Mrkvica, V. Schejbal et dl.

368108 Preliminary Characterisation of the Propagation Channel at 60 G D. Eden, A.S. Lockton & A.H. Y. Chan

350287 Out-of-Cell Channel Statistics at 5.2 GHz L. Thiele & V. Jungnickel

302619 Study of Wideband Propagation in Millemetric Band A. Väzquez Alejos, M. Garcia Sänchez & I. Cuinas

346426 Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) over Multi-Channel Multipo Distribution Service (MMDS) Frequency Band O. W. Ata

349578 Measuring and Modeling the Wideband Mobile Channel for Abo K Maliatsos, P. Constantinou, P. Dallas & M. Ikonomou

363947 Millimeter-Wave Propagation Experiment in Madrid J.M. Riera, J.M. Mostaza, P. Garcia & A. Benarroch

350447 Outage Prediction of BFWA Services Caused by Rain Attenuatio G. Szlädek & J. Bitö

Session OP4: Impairment Mitigation Techniqu* 345353 A Statistical Approach to Generate Propagation Fade Time Serie

M. Caron

346780 Interference Mitigation Techniques for Single and Multi Antenna H. Saarnisaari, H. Puska & P. Lilja

362830 Space - Time Dynamic Channel Model for Broadband Fixed Wir M. Cheffena, L. E. Braten, T. Tjelta & T. Ekman

363887 Spatial Interference Cancellation Techniques for Mobile Satellite M. Neri, M. Casadei, A. Vanelli- Coralli & G. E. Corazza

363877 Characterisation and Modelling of Time Diversity in 20-50 GHz V. Fabbro & L. Castanet

Oral Session OP5: Propagation for Radar and Navigation Systems 344659 Experimental Study and Modeling of HF Radio Wave Propagation in the Course of Substorm Event

D. V. Blagoveshchensky, T.D. Borisova &J. W. MacDougall

345776 Ionospheric Clutter Cancellation and Wavelet Analysis F. Jangal, S. Saillant & M. Heller

"hdlTh^ Investigation of Signal Correlation for Spaced and Co-located Antennas on Multipath HF links and Implications for the Design of SIMO and MIMO Systems HJ. Strangeways

315290 Novel Digital Broadcast / Communication Systems and Groundwave Propagation Prediction Requirements L. Sevgl

347955 Radar Coverage Prediction over Ocean: Duct Mapping Using Least Squares Support Vector Machines R. Douvenot, V. Fabbro, C. Bourller & J. Salllard

360166 Effect of Scintillations on the Correlation of Different Frequency L-band Satellite Navigation Signals on the Same Transionospheric Link VE. Gherm, N.N. Zernov &H.J. Strangeways

349748 Effects of Objects with Moving Parts like Wind Turbines on Maritime RF Safety and Navigation Systems D. Trappenters, E. Van LH & A. Van de Capelle

Session OP6: Precipitation and its Effect on Propagation 349862 Potentiality of the SC EXCELL Model in the Prediction of Rain Attenuation

C. Capsoni, L. Lorenzo, A. Paraboni & C. Riva

345937 Cellular Automata for Predicting Three-State Rain Rate and Rain Attenuation Field Dynamics A. Nünez, V. Pastoriza, U.-C. Fiebig et al.

347987 Spatial Structure of Rain in the Amazon Region J.L. Cerqueira, M.S. Assis & L.A.R. da Silva Mello

313427 Performance of the Synthetic Storm Technique in a Low Elevation 5° Slant Path at 44.5 GHz in the French Pyrenees E. Matricciani, C. Riva & L. Castanet

350422 Analysis of Rain Cell Size Distribution for Application in Site Diversity S. Begum, C. Nagaraja & I. Otung

362826 Modelling Microwave Scattering by Solid Precipitation Particles F. Teschl, W.L. Randeu & M. Schönhuber

349770 Second Order Statistics of Rain Attenuation Time Series Generated with N-State Markov Chain Model B. Heder & J. Bitö

350086 Joint Modeling of Fade and Interfade Duration on Radio Connections Applying Markov Chain L. Csurgai-Horväth & J. Bitö

346747 Dynamic Calibration of Tipping-Bucket Raingauges and Rainfall Intensity Data Processing V. Kvicera & M. Grabner

349821 Fractal Modelling of Rain Fields: From Event-On-Demand to Annual Statistics S.A. Callaghan

Session OP7: Ultrawideband Propagation Modelling 347228 Frequency Dependence of Correlation Coefficients in Ultra Wideband Antenna Arrays

C. Sturm, W. Sörgel, C. Kuhnert & W. Wiesbeck

356689 A Deterministic Indoor UWB Space-Variant Multipath Radio Channel Modelling Compared to Measurements on Basic Configurations Y. Lostanlen, G. Gougeon, S. Bories & A. Sibille

361632 Ultra Wideband Indoor Propagation Channel: Measurements, Analysis and Modeling Z. Irahhauten, A. Yarovoy, G.J.M. Janssen et al.

312286 Numerical Simulation of UWB Radar Propagation Effects V. Schejbal, Z. Nemec, D. Cermak & P. Bezousek

345933 Measurement of Local Environmental Effects in UWB Channels M.D. Vural, M. Yildiz & A. Kara

347167 Multihop Channel Model in UWB Ad Hoc Networks at 60 GHz A. Bendjaballah, L. Ciavier, N. Rolland et al.

357468 Ultra Wideband Tracking for Sports and Entertainment S.R. Pennock, P.R Shepherd, G. Trewartha & A.N. Bramley

Session OP8: Spatial Properties of the Troposphere in Propagation Modelling 361839 Statistics on Low-Lying Liquid and Liquid-Dominant Mixed-Phase Clouds over Ottawa

P. Bouchard &D.V. Rogers

361389 Assessment of Performance of a Ka-Band Broadcasting Reconfigurable Satellite Antenna with Adaptive Mitigation for Atmospheric Attenuation A. Paraboni, P. Gabellini, A. Martellucci et al.

347272 Some Observations Oon the Spatial and Temporal Scaling Properties of Rain RJ. Watson&D.D. Hodges

357386 Spatial Properties of Cloud Cover and Rainfall Rate based on Data from Spanish Sites A. Benarroch, P. Garcia del Pino &J.M. Riera

350264 Cloud Liquid Models for Propagation Studies: Evaluation and Refinements V. Mattioli, P. Basili, S. Bonafoni et al.

363974 Modeling of Effective Rainfall Rate Based on Attenuation Measurements in Converging Terrestrial Links L. A. R. da Silva Mello, M. S. Pontes, R S. L. de Souza & E. Couto de Miranda

371375 Drop Shape and Size Distributions in Rain from 2-D Video Disdrometer and Propagation Calculations at 20 GHz M. Thurai, M. Schönhuber & V.N. Bringt

Session OP9: Channel Characterisation for Urban and Indoor Environments 347220 Verification of 3D Ray Tracing with Measurements in Urban Macrocellular Environments

T. Fügen, M. Porebska, S. Knörzer et al.

348073 Measurements and Channel Modeling for Short Range Indoor UHF Applications L. W. Mayer, M. Wrulich & S. Caban

346425 Adaptive Channel Characterization for Wireless Sensor Network Performance B. Shehzad & M. Ndoh

348032 Simulations and Measurement of the Satellite to Indoor Propagation Channel at L- and S-Band R Hoppe, T. Hager, T. Heyn et al.

346243 Influence of Humidity Contained in Building Material on Wedge Diffraction P. Valtr, J. Kucera, H. Barak & P. Pechac

354167 The Shower Curtain Effect in Time-Reversal Wireless Communications P. Kyritsi & G. Papanicolaou

347923 Percolation-Based Approaches for Ray-Optical Propagation in Inhomogeneous Random Distributions of Discrete Scatterers A. Martini, M. Franceschetti & A. Massa

346339 A Dynamic Way of Simplifying Objects by Homogenization for Electromagnetic Field Prediction in Urban Environment G. Dauron, E. Richalot, M.F. Wong et al.

349776 Verifying 3G License Requirements when Every dB is Worth a Billion C. Beckman, L. Eklund, B. Karlsson et al.

Session OP10: MIMO Propagation Modelling 345514 Low-Complexity Geometry Based MIMO Channel Emulation

F. Kaltenberger, G. Steinbock, G. Humer & T. Zemen

347236 Estimated Capacities for a Multiple Input Multiple Output System Based on Outdoor to Indoor Measurements E. Yepez, D. Falconer & R Bultitude

347457 Statistical Distribution of Eigenvalues in MIMO Channels T. Taniguchi, S. Sita & Y. Karasawa

350174 Modeling Antenna Coupling and Correlation in Rapidly Fading MIMO Channels J. W. Wallace & M. A. Jensen

349788 Performance Analysis of Various MIMO Schemes by using Measured MIMO Propagation Data in Residential Home Environment K Sakaguchi, G.K Tran, N.D. Dao et al.

349884 The Interdependence of Cluster Parameters in MIMO Channel Modeling N. Czink, E. Bonek, L. Hentilä et al.

347491 A Twin-Cluster MIMO Channel Model H. Hofstetter, A.F. Molisch & N. Czink

Session OP11: Terrain and Building Diffraction 345756 Deterministic Propagation Prediction Method Developed by the European Broadcasting Union

R. Grosskopf

349467 Digital Elevation Data and their Use for Improved Broadcast Coverage and Frequency Utilization M.A.N. da Silva, E. Costa &M. Liniger

350232 Time Variation Characteristics of Wireless Broadband Channel in Urban Area H. Suzuki, C. D. Wilson & K Ziri- Castro

346955 Analysis of Over-Rooftop Multiple-Building Diffraction in Urban Areas with Shadowing Caused by Terrain Effects L. Juan-Lläcer, J.-V. Rodriguez &J.-M. Molina-Garcia-Pardo

347670 Analysis of the Dominant Propagation Mechanisms for Radio Coverage and Interference Prediction in Urban Scenarios at 2.4, 5.8 & 28.0 GHz N.J. Thomas, M.J. Willis & K.H. Craig

362778 Indoor Coverage Maps over Large Urban Areas: An Enhanced Ray-Tracing Method Y. Lostanlen & Y. Corre

347552 A 3D Formulation of MR-FDPF for Simulating Indoor Radio Propagation G. de la Roche & J. -M. Gorce

349835 Combined Urban and Indoor Network Planning Using the Dominant Path Propagation Model R. Wahl & G. Wölfle

Session OP12: Slant Path Propagation Measurements and Models 347194 A Fundamental Differential Equation that Links Rain Attenuation to the Rain Rate

Measured at one Point, and its Applications to Slant Paths E. Matricciani

350176 Experimental Assessment of Atmospheric Depolarization at Ka and V Band Based on OLYMPUS and ITALSAT Propagation Campaigns A. Paraboni, C Oestges & A. Martellucci

349413 Earth-Satellite Ice Depolarization Revisited: New Data A. Rocha & R Teixeira

347275 Initial Comparisons of Forecast Attenuation and Beacon Measurements at 20 and 40 GHz D.D. Hodges &R.J. Watson

314577 EHF Propagation Experiment with Syracuse 3 satellite T. Marsault, J.D. Hermant, F. Bouyer et al.

345231 Outage Prediction and Error Performance for Dual Polarized Fixed Satellite Systems Using Weibull Distribution A.D. Panagopoulos, A. Lazaropoulos & P.G. Cottis

359487 Prediction of Scintillation Cumulative Statistics Using Classical and High Resolution Radiosoundings D. Vanhoenacker-Janvier, C. Oestges & A. Martellucci

361602 Dynamic Characteristics of Fading on a 50 GHz Slant Path P. Garcia del Pino, J. M. Riera & A. Benarroch

Posters - Antennas

Poster Session PA1: Antenna Theory and Modelling

347949 Scattering Center Analysis of a Dielectric Coated Cone H.E. Abd-El-Raouf & R. Mittra

307757 Integral Equation Algorithms for Equivalent Currents Distribution Retrieval over Arbitrary Three-Dimensional Surfaces Y. Alvarez, F. Las-Heras & M. R. Pino

348069 Simulation and Design of Wide-Band Patch Antennas for Wireless Technology M. Aminah, N. Saman & H. AbdEl-Raouf

349642 Improvement of the Process of Installing Antennas on Aircraft by Domain Decomposition Methods A. Barka & J. Lemorton

TiAldTtTi Analysis of Semi-Anechoic Chambers Using the Frequency Dependent Transmission Line Modeling F. Bellamine

347629 Un Algorithme pour l'Excitation d'un Milieu Dielectrique Infini par une Onde Plane en Incidence Non-Perpendiculaire avec la Methode TLM C. Blanchard, J. A. Porti, J. A. Morente & A. Salinas

347039 Influence of the Junction of Perfectly Conducting and Impedance Parallel Plate Semi-Infinite Waveguides to the Dominant Mode Propagation A. Büyükaksoy, I. Hakki Tayyar & G. Uzgören

349680 Using Fictitious Domain Method with a Time Domain Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation. Application to Antenna Modelisation A. Bouquet, C. Dedeban & S. Piperno

363762 Accurate Modeling of Frequency Selective Surfaces Illuminated by a Non-Uniform Incident Field M. Bozzi, M. Formaggi, M. Pasian & L. Perregrini

384711 Analysis and Design of Field Patterns of Multidimensional Structures A.M.E.S. Casimiro & F. B. Emidio

347384 Combination of Multipole and Macro Basis Function Approaches for the Analysis of Finite Arrays with Dielectric Elements C. Craeye & T. Gilles

349404 A General Treatment for the Electromagnetic Modeling of Composite Structures with the Method of Moments C. Craeye, M. Piette & T. Gilles

347983 Efficient Green's Function Factorization for the Analysis of Large Patch Antennas on Multilayered Media with the SM/AIM Method F. De Vita, I. Stevanovic, A. Freni & J.R Mosig

363896 Comparing Two Methods to Solve the Layered Sphere Problem, Application to Electromagnetic Induction Sensors P. Druyts, C Craeye & M. Acheroy

319008 On the Modeling of Thin Sheets and Coatings in the Time-Domain Finite-Element Method F. Edelvik & E. Abenius

349439 An Approximate Method for Analysis of Azimuthally Magnetized Circular Ferrit Shifter G.N. Georgiev &M.N. Georgieva-Grosse

348016 Combining GTD with MoM in Analysing the Scattering from the LICEF Antenn Satellite F. Jensen & K Pontoppidan

361998 Analysis of Wires Inside a Reverberation Chamber Using the Method of Moment Spectral Domain Techniques and Asymptotic Extraction K Karlsson, J. Carlsson & P. -S. Kildal

362520 Simulation of Radiation Pattern of a Large MM Wave Radio Telescope with Offs V B. Khaikin & M.K. Lebedev

358164 Numerical Analysis of Antenna Fields Using Multipole Expansions L. Klinkenbusch & J. Adam

339845 Maximum Accessible Gain of an Antenna B.L. Kogan

344652 Application of Faraday's Vectors in Antenna Theory B.L. Kogan

363786 Use of the FDTD for the Periodic Analysis of a 2-D Leaky-Wave Planar Antenna P. Kosmas, A. P. Feresidis & G. Goussetis

347965 Transient Analysis of Microwave Antennas by Method of Moments: Feeding Port MOT and MOO Methods /. Lacik, Z. Raida & Z. Lukes

360490 Numerical Analysis of VLF Antennas Using an Arbitrarily-Oriented-Thin-Wire T B. Larbi, J.-L. Dubard & C. Pichot

359398 Synthetic Function Expansion with Multi-Grid Approach V.A. Laza, L. Matekovits & G. Vecchi

362116 Relevance of the Resonances of Green's Functions when Solving Shielded Cavity-an MPIE Strategy S. Löpez-Pena, M. Mattes & J.R. Mosig

358796 CBMOM — An Highly Scalable MoM Approach for Electrically Large Multiscal Scattering Problems E. Lucente, A. Monorchio & Raj Mittra

346832 A Combined Electromagnetic and Microwave Antenna System Simulator for Rad R Maaskant & B. Yang

346271 CAD of Axisymmetric Antennas Through Finite Element and Global Optimiser /. Monge, J. M. Gil & J. Zapata

350219 Wiener-Hopf Analysis of the Electromagnetic Behavior of a Finite Thin Slot Ante Dielectric Stratified Structure D. Monopoli & R. E. Zieh

291657 Efficient Method for RCS Computation of Long and Complex Dielectric Objects S. Perez, M. Fares & B. Souny

350298 Two Layers Dielectric Cylinder in Homogeneous Field M.T. Peric, Z.Z. Cvetkovic &S.R Äleksic

349840 Models of Multilayer Antenna Radomes with Anisotropie Materials V.N. Peshlov, P.I. Dankov & B. Hadjistamov

360794 Resolution of Maxwell's Equations in a Non-Staggered Grid Model P. Pinho, S.M. Gome, P.J. Ferreira et al.

348078 Incremental Theory of Diffraction for Complex Source Illumination A. Polemi, M. Albani, G. Carluccio et al.

349931 Evaluation of Stationary Block Iterative Techniques for the Solution of Finite Arrays Using the FE-BI Method and Domain Decomposition A. C. Polycarpou

289632 A Füll Numerical Method for Propagation Modelling E.A. Rachid

362128 Vertical Dipole Antenna Above a Lossy Half-Space: Efficient and Accurate Two-Image Approximation for the Sommerfeld's Integral M.P. Ranäc &P.D. Ranäc

349929 New and More Efficient Formulation of MLMDA for Arbitrary 3D Antennas and Scatterers J.M. Rius, A. Heldring, J.M. Tamayo &J. Parrön

351032 Full-Wave Analysis of the GALILEO System Navigation Antenna by Means of the Generalized Scattering Matrix of a Finite Array /. Rubio, M.A. Gonzalez, J. Zapata et al.

339778 New Capabilities of Semi-Analytic Field Solvers: From Diffraction on Solitary Particles to Modeling of Metamaterials A.M. Serebrennikov

349453 Possible Applications of Perfect Electromagnetic Conductor (PEMC) Media A. Sihvola &I.V. Lindeil

347934 Solution of Time Domain Maxwell Equations in Lossy Media Using the One-Step Method /. Silly-Carette, D. Lautru, M.F Wong et al.

349476 An Integral Equation Method Dealing with Surface Waves on Large Finite Periodic Structures D. Sjöberg

345619 A Method of Auxiliary Sources Approach for Modelling the Impact of Ground Planes on Antenna Radiation N. Vesterdal Larsen & O. Breinbjerg

363945 A New 2D Fast Physical Optics Method F. Vico, M. Ferrando, A. Valero & M. Baquero

361309 Spectral Filtering for Space-Domain Analysis of Periodic Structures F. Vipiana, A. Polemi, G. Vecchi & S. Maci

349667 Analysis of Planar Multi-Layered Structures Using the Combination of MoM Codes and Multi­Resolution Functions V. Volski, F. Vipiana, P. Pirinoli et al.

339991 Efficient Calculation of Green's Functions for Periodic Arrays Using a New Asymptotic Extraction Technique V. Volski, Y. Schob & G. A. E. Vandenbosch

350025 Parametric Study of Coaxial Radiating Cables /. Vrba & P. Pechac

359829 Füll Wave MoM Analysis & Tricks for EM Interactions Inside a Rectangular Cavity (Part 1: Green's Functions & the Out-of-Singularity Zone) J.P. Estienne

Poster Session PA2: UWB, Mobile Communication Antennas, Printed Element, Planar and Conformal Array

358649 Design of a New Broadband EMC Double Ridged Guide Hörn Antenna M. Abbas-Azimi, F. Arazm & J. Rashed-Mohassel

364003 Tapered-CPW Fed Printed Triangulär Monopole Antenna M.P. Abegaonkar, Y. Chhikara, A. Basu &S.K. Koul

349877 An Eigencurrent Approach for the Analysis of Leaky Coaxial Cables G. Addamo, D. Bekers, A. G. Tijhuis et dl.

350513 Arbitrary Pattern Synthesis Through the Concept of Best Approximation in Hubert Spaces A. Aghasi, A. Ghorbani & J. R Mohassel

349963 Slot Array Fed by an Oversized TEM Waveguide E. Alfonso, A.-V. Nogueira, J.I. Herranz & V.-M. Rodrigo-Penarrocha

350208 Two-Step Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna G. Almpanis, C. Fumeaux & R. Vahldieck

363914 A Compact Dual-Band Antenna for WLAN Applications M. Alunno Corbucci, R Vincenti Gatti, L. Marcaccioli & R Sorrentino

361672 A Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Ka Printed Array E. Arnieri, L. Boccia, G. Amendola & G. Di Massa

349430 Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Switchable Band-Notched Behaviour E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Ferrando-Bataller, M. Cabedo-Fabres & C. A. Suarez-Fajardo

350068 Small Internal Antennas for Indoor UMTS Base Station with WLAN Access Point A. Arkko & J. Ollikainen

350278 A Dual Linear Polarization Patch Antenna for Base Station Arrays M. Barba

361464 A Novel Low Cost and Easy to Fabricate Single Fed Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna L. Bernard

349832 Low Profile UWB Monopole Antenna Havine a Sharp Band Notch Function

362262 Technology Concepts for Sector Antennas Used in Point-to-Multipoint Access Systems J. Christ, M. Munk, H. Teil & U. Oehler

363798 Scanning Characteristics of a Linear Array of Laminated Waveguides M. Cimet, D. Lee, G.A. Morin & Y.M.M. Antar

352117 An Enhanced Method to Extrapolate in 3D Antenna Radiation Patterns in the Context of the Radio Network Planning Y. Corre & Y. Lostanlen

363955 Design of a New Broadband Dielectric Resonator Antenna Y. Coulibaly, T.A. Denidni, H. Boutayeb &L. Talbi

346956 Optimization of Resonant-Cavity Antenna A. R Djordjevic & A. G. Zajic

349810 Monopulse Scanning Beam Planar Array for Signal Identification System C Dominguez-Grano De Oro, J.L. Masa-Campos &M. Sierra-Perez

347561 Compact EBG Antenna 0. Folayan & R Langley

357196 Experimental and TLM Characterization of Antennas for UWB Telecommunications N. Fortino, J-L. Dubard, J- Y. Dauvignac et dl.

347754 Low Profile Mobile Scanning Phased Array Antenna System for DBS Reception M. Gatchev, E. Totomanov, V. Boyanov et dl.

347237 An Investigation of a Compact UWB Antenna by Measurement and FDTD Simulation D.R. Gibbins, A. Yamsiri, I.J. Craddock et al.

349986 Lumped High-Low Pass Balun for Ultra Wide Band Printed Balanced Antennas V. Gonzalez-Posadas, D. Castro-Galan, J.L: Jimenez-Martin et al.

347342 In Search of Ultra Wideband Performance of the Monopole-Dielectric Resonator Antenna D. Guha, Y.M.M. Antar, A. Ittipiboon et al.

347660 Flexible Antennas for GPS Reception /. Heikkinen, T. Laine-Ma, A. Ruhanen & M. Kivikoski

349796 New Topologies of Radial-Line Slot-Dipole Array Antennas /./. Herranz-Herruzo, A. Valero-Nogueira, E. Alfonso-Alös, D. Sanchez-Escuderos

347851 Dipole Multireflector Antennas 1. Hertl, Z. Raida & L. Oliva

347465 Optimum Design of Bow-Tie Antennas Suitable for Broadband Antenna Array T. Hori & M. Fujimoto

350027 Microstrip Patch Antenna with Compact Feed to Reduce Harmonics L. Inclän-Sänchez, J.L. Väzquez-Roy &E. Rajo-Iglesias

302147 GSM + UMTS Penta - Band Folded Dipole Antenna for Mobile Phone K Ishimiya, Z. Ying & J. -I. Takada

382208 Gain Enhancement Methods for Microstrip Patch Antennas M. Kamaszuk

346718 Wearable Antennas for FM Reception T. Kellomaki, J. Heikkinen & M. Kivikoski

349603 Relationship Between Vertical Beam Shaping and Dow Antenna Y. Kimura, Y. Ebine & T. Imai

353574 High Performance Microstrip Antenna with Optimized N. Koch

385765 Miniaturization of Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wire Electromagnetic Band Gap Substrate E. G. Korkontzila, D. B. Papafilippou & D. P. Chrissoulid

349445 Dual Frequency Microstrip Patch Antenna, Reduced ii Peripheral Slits E. G. Korkontzila, P. C. Liakou & D. P. Chrissoulidis

339910 Single-Layer Single-Feed Multi-Band Antennas for ITJ S. Kumagai, Y. Kazama & T. Shiokawa

346324 Experimental Investigation of the Mutual Coupling Re of Patch Antennas I.E. Lager & M. Simeoni

349590 Wideband Patch Antenna Fed by Wide Meandering St H. W. Lai & K M. Luk

366721 Small and Ultra Wide Band Antennas: A New Challen L. Le Coq, C. Marchais, P. Besnier et al.

350194 A Stepwise and Effective Procedure for Impedance Ma to the Design of Wide Band Printed Antennas and Rec L. Le Coq, O. Ronciere, R. Sauleau & K Mahdjoubi

347759 Automotive Antenna Performance and Simulation L. Low, R Langley, R Breden & P. Callaghan

350143 Towards the Design of a Low-Cost Wideband Demons R. Maaskant, M. Popova & R van den Brink

347549 Band-Notched UWB Stripline Slot Antenna C. Marchais, G. Le Ray & A. Sharaiha

346254 Ultra Wide-Band Optimized Profile Monopole Antenn

297691 Antenna Diversity Evaluation for Mobile Terminals V. Plicanic, Z. Ying, T. Bolin et al.

349670 Base Station Antenna Synthesis for High Sites CDMA Networks /. Pontes, M. Porebska, T. Fugen & W. Wiesbeck

350206 Mutual Coupling Reduction for Patch Antenna Array S. Ranvier, C. Luxey, R. Staraj et al.

289287 A Dual-Band Printed Dipole Antenna for IMT-2000 and 5-GHz WLAN Wireless Applications H. Rmili, J.M. Floc'h, P. Besnier & M. Drissi

299360 Study of an Electrochemically-Deposited 3D-Fractal Tree Monopole Antenna H. Rmili, O. Mrabet, J.-M. Floc'h & J.-L. Miane

362332 A Compact Corporate Probe Fed Antenna Array M. Secmen, S. Demir, L. Alatan et al.

363810 Application of Vilenkin's Addition Theorem in the Analysis of Spherical Antennas and Periodic Structures Z. Sipus & S. Skokic

295403 Geometrie Parameters Analysing of Unequidistant Antenna Array with Unequal Amplitude Distribution on its Working Frequencies S.I. Starchenko

346344 Antenna Mutual Coupling Effects on Correlation, Efficiency and Shannon Capacity A. Stjernman

305567 Applying Textile Materials for the Design of Antennas for Wireless Body Area Networks A. Tronquo, H. Rogier, C. Hertleer & L. Van Langenhove

350125 Investigation of Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna Coupled by Microstrip Feed Line on Different Substrates and Offset Distances S. Theng Low &Z. Wu

349499 Hybrid Phased Array Antenna for Mobile Ku-Band DVB-S Services F. Tiezzi & S. Vaccaro

349769 A Directive Ultra Wideband Sinuous Slot Antenna M. Vahdani & X. Begaud

358678 Wideband Polarization-Agile Planar Microstrip Patch Array Antenna A. Vallecchi

358596 Small Printed Antenna for UWB Applications K Yekeh Yazdandoost & R. Kohno

306710 Analysis of Antenna Arrays with Finite Frequency Selective Surfaces N. Yuan, X. C. Nie, Y.B. Gan & T.S. Yeo

Poster Session PA3: Diffraction, RCS, Diffraction Inverse, Optimisation, Synthesis

363908 Convex Hüll Detection of a Scattering System in an Inhomogeneous Background A. Capozzoli, G. D'Elia & P. Vinetti

363886 Fuzzy-Logic Reasoning for Estimating the Reliability of Noisy Data in Inverse Scattering Problems A. Casagranda, D. Franceschini, M. Benedetti & A. Massa

363889 The Multi-Frequency Diagonalized Contrast Source Method for Electromagnetic Inversion A. Casagranda, D. Franceschini, A. Massa et al.

348079 Microwave Tomography of Breast Cancer: A Feasibility Study I. Catapano, L. Crocco, M. D'Urso et al.

350252 Resonances of Complex Shape Scattering Objects: Modelling by Resonant Circuits /. Chauveau, N. de Beaucoudrey & J. Saillard

350061 Fast and Accurate Modelling of Large Plane Array Antenna R Chiniard, A. Barka & O. Pascal

359400 Microwave Links Used as Electromagnetic Raingauges: A Real Time Pilot Experiment in Italy M. D'Amico, G. Mannucci & M. Pinotti

354035 3D Inverse Scattering by Level Set with Zero Capacity Connecting Set. Wave Guide Optimization by "Zone" P. Dubois, C. Dedeban & J. -P. Zolsio

350403 Circular Arrays of Log-Periodic Antennas for Broadband Applications Ö. Ergül & L. Gürel

347316 An Iterative Procedure for Combining the Advantages of a Multi-Frequency and Multi-Resolution Inversion Algorithm D. Franceschini, M. Donelli, E. Tamanini & A. Massa

363894 Electromagnetic Inversion of Amplitude-Only Data Through a Two-Step Strategy G. Franceschini, D. Franceschini, M. Donelli et al.

349524 Fuzzy Genetic Algorithms for the Synthesis of Unequally Spaced Microstrip Antennas Arrays B. Kadri & F. T. Bendimered

314368 A Robust and Fast Imaging Algorithm without Derivative Operations for UWB Pulse Radars S. Kidera, T. Sakamoto & T. Sato

350177 Meta-PSO in Array Optimization Problems M. Mussetta, S. Selleri, P. Pirinoli et al.

345835 Radar Cross Section of some Simple and Collected Targets to be Used for Classification I. Nicolaescu & M. Cernat

361196 On the Simulation of RCS from Trees and Forests Above Real Finite Ground D.I. Olcan & B.M. Kolundzija

349941 An Approximation for Bistatic Scattering Matrix of a Target Above a Ground Plane A. Osipov & E. Kemptner

345635 Scattering and Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves in Inhomogeneous Bodies B. Panchenko, E. Glotov & M. Gizatullin

346982 Optimization of Antennas Using a Hybrid Genetic-Algorithm Space-Mapp M.F. Pantoja, A.R. Bretones, P. Meinckeo et al.

349939 Synthesis of Linear Arrays Using Particle Swarm Optimisation J.R. Perez Lopez &J. Basterrechea Verdeja

360642 Application of Ant Colony Optimization Based Algorithm to Solve Differe O. Quevedo-Teruel & E. Rajo-Iglesias

349424 Time-Domain Multi-Objective Optimization of Antennas Z. Raida, I. Hertl, P. Smid et al.

290160 Arbitrary Footprint Patterns Obtained by Circular Apertures J.A. Rodriguez, A. Trastoy, F. Ares & E. Moreno

292386 Beam Reconfiguration of Linear Antenna Arrays by Using Parasitic Eleme J.A. Rodriguez, G. Franceschetti & F. Ares

350107 Including Antenna Models in Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Screen T. Rubcek & P. Meincke

306687 An Edge-Preserving Stabilization for a Fast 3-D Imaging Algorithm with a T. Sakamoto, S. Kidera, T.Sato &S. Sugino

3A773A Currents Reconstruction with High Resolution Using the FFT Iterative Me D. Sänchez-Escuderos, M. Baquero-Escudero, E. Alfonso-Aids & F. Vico-Bon

346468 Retrodirective Surfaces with Loaded Dihedral Corner Reflectors A.G. Schuchinsky &V.F. Fusco

363771 A Novel Method for Electromagnetic Target Classification Using the Musi Small-Scale Aircraft Targets M. Secmen & G. Turhan-Sayan

347859 Enhanced Neural Modeling of Planar Antennas and Filters P. Smid, Z. Raida & J. Horäk

349892 Acceleration of Total Field's Reconstruction for Visualization of Scatterer 5 V. Tabatadze, D. Kakulia, A. Bijamov Jr et al.

347893 Modeling a Millimeter Wave Imaging System with a 2.5D BiCGS-FFT Vol Equation Technique S. Van den Bulcke, A. Franchois, L. Zhang & J. Stiens

350000 High Electromagnetic Field Measurement by Using Target Diffraction S. Vauchamp, J-C. Diot, M. Lalande et al.

Poster Session PA4: EBG Structures Metaim FSS Reflectarray

363900 Artificial Magnetic Substrate: Application on Size Reduction Patch Antenn W. Abdouni, D. Seetharamdoo &A.-C. Tarot

376545 Design of a Reflectarray with Three Shaped Beams Using the Near-Field R M. Arrebola, J. A. Encinar, Y. Alvarez et al.

348063 Near-Field Distribution, Directivity and Differential Scattering Cross Secti Source-Excited Metamaterial-Coated Electrically Small Cylinder S. Arslanagic, R. W. Ziolkowski & O. Breinbjerg

344927 Design of Planar Antennas for Galileo Using EBG-Structures R Baggert, M. Martinez- Väzquez, J. Leiß & S. Holzwarth

349921 Investigation on Annular-Ring Patch Antenna with EBG Structure X.L. Bao, G. Ruvio &M.J. Ammann

350309 Suitable Planar Transmit-Arrays in X-Band M. Barba, E. Carrasco & J. A. Encinar

363615 Reconfigurable Reflectarray Using RF MEMS Technology O. Bayraktar, K Topalli, M. Unlu et al.

347863 FSS-EBG Antenna with Improved Directivity Bandwidth F. Bichelot & R. Loison

362856 Characterization of Metamaterial Slabs in Terms of Scattering Parameters Plane Wave Incidence F. Bongard, I. Stevanovic, O.J.F. Martin &J.R Mosig

346675 Bandwidth Widening Techniques for High-Gain Antennas Based on Partia H. Boutayeb & T. A. Denidni

350065 Improvement of the Performances of a Metallic Electromagnetic Band Gap Dedicated to Illuminate a Mulitbeam Reflector Antenna R. Chantalat, C. Menudier, M. Thevenot et al.

362785 Application of Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Lines to Anten A. Diaz-Bolado, F. Bongard, J. Perruisseau-Carrier &J.R Mosig

347654 Advances in Reflectarray Bandwidth Enlargement G. Di Massa, S. Costanzo & F. Venneri

346751 Scan Blindness Free Phased Array Antennas with an EBG Substrate Made Resonators Antennas G Donzelli & F Cnnolino

SP-626 October 2006

Proceedings of

The European Conference on Antennas and Propagation:

EuCAP 2006

6-10 November 2006 Nice, France

CONTENTS

Plenary Sessions - Invited Papers

437898 COST: Its Recent Past and Its Future F. Fedi

431091 Near-Field Technology - An Emerging RF Discipline H. Schantz & J. Fluhler

430857 A Perspective on Array Antenna Developments L. Josefsson

362121 Observed Relation Between The Relative MIMO Gain And Distance B.W.M. Kuipers & L.M. Correia

431505 Propagation Issues for Mobile-Satellite Applications D.V. Rogers

415906 State of the Art and the Future in Modelling R F Components T. Weiland & I. Munteanu

430866 Electromagnetics in South Africa: Perspectives and Recent Achievements K.D. Palmer & H.C. Reader

431108 Antenna Arrays: What Does it Mean a Good Channel? M.A. Lagunas & A.I. Pérez-Neira

430862 A Wide Band Low Profile Array of End Loaded Dipoles with Dielectric Slab Compensation B.A. Munk

366691 Anisotropic Metamaterials and their Fabrication for Applications to Antennas and Microwave Devices J.L. Volakis

366655 Electronic Steerable MEMS Antennas R. Sorrentino, R.V. Gatti, L. Marcaccioli & B. Mencagli

431145 Antennas for Radio Astronomy A. van Ardenne

431357 Terahertz Technology for Space and Earth Applications P. de Maagt

349593 Planar Reconfigurable Antennas C.G. Christodoulou, L.F. Feldner, V. Zachou & D. Anagno

432430 Channel Characterization and Modeling for MIMO and Other Recent Wireless Technologies W. Wiesbeck, T. Fügen, M. Porebska & W. Sörgel

Session OA3: Smart and Signal Processing Antennas, MIMO, Antenna Beamforming & Reconfigurable Antennas

347542 A Simple Pattern Correction Approach For High Frequency Surface Wave Radar On Buoys A. Bourges, R. Guinvarc’h, B. Uguen & R. Gillard

350267 Experiments of Closely Coupled Monopoles with Load Matching in a Random Field Y. Fei, B.K. Lau, A. Sunesson et al.

363909 Smart Antennas Control in Complex Scenarios through a Memory Enhanced PSO-Based Optimization Approach R. Azaro, M. Benedetti, F. De Natale & A. Massa

363898 A SVM-Based Multi-Resolution Procedure for the Estimation of the DOAs of Interfering Signals in a Communication System M. Donelli, R. Azaro, L. Lizzi et al.

346171 Implementation of a Miniaturised Antenna Array with Predefined Orthogonal Radiation Patterns J. Weber, C. Volmer, K. Blau et al.

363957 Design of a Focal Plane Array System at Cryogenic Temperatures J. Simons, J.G. Bij de Vaate, M.V. Ivashina et al.

350361 Optimal Uncoupled Impedance Matching for Coupled MIMO Arrays M. A. Jensen & B. Booth

347400 Shaped Single-Feed-Per-Beam Multibeam Reflector Antenna P. Balling, C. Mangenot & A.G. Roederer

Session OA4: Active Elements, Integrated & -MM Wave Antennas & MEMS 371886 Electronics Insertion into Printed Antennas

D.S. Goshi, K.M.K.H. Leong & T. Itoh

346096 Planar Antenna Arrays Using a Feed Network with Nonradiative Dielectric (NRD) Waveguide U. Schmid & W. Menzel

346805 Off-Axis Performances of Half Maxwell Fish-Eye Lens Antennas at 77 GHz B. Fuchs, O. Lafond, M. Himdi et al.

349559 Composite Right/Left-Handed Leaky Wave Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Automotive Applications K. Sato, S.-i. Matsuzawa & Y. Inoue

350231 Optimization of Polarization/Pattern Diversity in Reconfigurable Antennas B. Poussot, L. Cirio, O. Picon et al.

350458 Single- and Double-Shell Shaped Lens Antennas with Asymmetrical Radiation Characteristics G. Godi, R. Sauleau & D. Thouroude

362346 Millimetre Wave Antennas Using Microstrip and Air Spaced Suspended Line Techniques for Vehicular Communications and Radar P. Gardner, P.S. Hall, E. Lee et al.

350497 Miniaturisation of Conventional Radio-Link Reflector Antennas by Using of Active Arrays J. Segador-Álvarez, L. Fernández-Martinez, L. de Inclán et al.

384314 Miniature Dual-Polarized L-Shaped Horn Antenna Array for Broadband Millimeter-Wave Electronically Scanned Arrays L. Schulwitz & A. Mortazawi

346219 Fresnel Reflector Antennas for MM-Wave Helicopter Obstacle Detection Radar C. Migliaccio, B.D. Nguyen, Ch. Pichot et al.

Session OA7: Antenna for Mobile Communications 362657 Quasi-Omnidirectional Back-to-Back E-Shaped Patch Antenna for Dual-Band 2.4/5.2GHz

Laptop Integrated Wireless Interface J. Guterman, Y. Rahmat-Samii, A.A. Moreira & C. Peixeiro

360198 Small Size Wearable Button Antenna B. Sanz-Izquierdo, F. Huang & J.C. Batchelor

363935 Dual-Band Composite Right/Left-Handed Ring Antenna with Linear/Circular Polarization Capability A. Rennings, S. Otto, T. Liebig et al.

363875 Effect of Antenna's Positioning on a Handset for a Miniature Dielectric-Loaded Folded Half-Loop Antenna C.C. Chiau, X. Chen & C.G. Parini

350366 Novel Internal Multi-Antenna Configuration Employing Folded Dipole Elements for Notebook PC Y. Okano & K. Cho

350250 Coplanar-Square-Patch Antenna for IRIDIUM Satellite Reception W.J. Krzysztofik

361063 A Low-Profile Equiangular Spiral Antenna Backed by a Cavity with an Absorbing Strip H. Nakano, K. Kikkawa & J. Yamauchi

289958 New Toroidal Beam Antennas For WLAN Communications: Validation of Two Prototypes J.C. Brégains, G. Franceschetti, A.G. Roederer & F. Ares

Session OA8: Optimisation Techniques & Synthesis 359937 Optimization Using Taguchi Method for Electromagnetic Applications

W.-C. Weng, F. Yang, V. Demir & A. Elsherbeni

346070 Mode Converter Synthesis by the Particle Swarm Optimization A. Bogdashov & Y. Rodin

346908 Constrained Least-Squares Optimization in Phase Synthesis of Conformal Array Antennas L. Vaskelainen

348095 An Effective Hybrid Strategy in Some Array Synthesis Problems M. D'Urso & T. Isernia

302008 Waveguide Antenna Synthesis According to the Amplitude Radiation Characteristics in the Frequency Band M.I. Andriychuk & O.F. Zamorska

349528 Very Fast Subarray Position Calculation for Minimizing Sidelobes in Sparse Linear Phased Arrays C. Lee, D. Leigh, H. Miyashita et al.

347588 Optimal Design of Switched Beam Antenna Arrays Using Particle Swarm Optimization K.A. Papadopoulos, C.A. Papagianni, I.E. Foukarakis et al.

314658 Design of Frequency-Selective Radomes Using Parallel Particle Swarm Optimisation M. Sabielny

346101 Fast Optimization of 3D Focusing System Using Genetic Algorithm E. Jehamy, M.M. Ney & G. Landrac

Session OA11: Phased and Active Array Antennas & Subsystems 345392 Post-Wall Waveguide Slot Array Antennas

J. Hirokawa & M. Ando

347257 Recent Developments of Wide Band Arrays J.J. Lee, S. Livingston & A. Neto

350156 Alternating Phase Fed Single-Layer Waveguide Slot Array with Interchangeable Slot Plates for Multi-Frequency Operation Y. Tsunemitsu, M. Zhang, Y. Miura et al.

351158 Efficient Dual-Band Planar Array Suitable to Galileo P. Valle, A. Netti, M. Zolesi et al.

375541 PAMIR with Reconfigurable Antenna Frontend H. Wilden, O. Peters, O. Saalmann et al.

378657 Current Activities on SAR Antennas at AAS-I P. Capece, R. Mizzoni, A. Meschini et al.

372476 Two High-Frequency Methods (UTD & BDW) for Predicting the Collective Radiation by Large Finite Planar Arrays P. Janpugdee, P.H. Pathak & R.J. Burkholder

Session OA12: Wideband & Multiband Antennas 435668 Activities in ACE WP 2.3-1 on Wideband and Multiband Radiators

M. Bonnedal, E. Angelopoulos, E. Antonino et al.

363977 Ultra Wideband Antenna of Two Bow-Tie Unipoles J. Bartolic, M. Knezevic & T. Debogovic

349772 Design Guidelines for the UWB Pyramid Antenna S. Bruni, A. Neto & F. Marliani

363575 Double Ridged Structures Mode Study for Broadband Antennas Design Z. Hradecky, M. Mazanek & T. Korinek

345651 Ultra Wideband Spiral Antenna – Time Delay Removal I. Nicolaescu & P. van Genderen

345644 A Wideband BOR-PaRP Antenna H. Nakano, H. Iwaoka & J. Yamauchi

347914 Reflector Surface Modelling – a European Collaboration K. Pontoppidan, P. Balling, G. Gerini et al.

347183 Wideband antennas for Radio Astronomy P. Patel

349438 Wide Bandwidth Vivaldi Antenna Arrays - Some Recent Developments D.H. Schaubert, S. Kasturi, M.W. Elsallal & W. van Cappellen

363571 Characteristics of a Broad-Band Wide-Scan Fragmented Aperture Phased Array Antenna A. Ellgardt & P. Persson

Session OA15: Reflector Antennas, Lenses & Feeds 350297 Development of Three Models of the Eleven Antenna: A New Decade

Bandwidth High Performance Feed for Reflectors P.-S. Kildal, R. Olsson & J. Yang

345797 Polarization Properties of Planar Stratified Dielectric Lenses Excited by Linearly Polarized Point Sources A. Polemi & S. Maci

346035 A Dual Reflector Antenna with Adjustable Subreflector for Hybrid Mechanical-Electronic Scanning A. García Pino, J.A. Martínez Lorenzo, C. Compostizo et al.

315490 2-Turn Helical Antenna with Extremely Small Pitch Angle W. Ze-Hai & E.K.N. Yung

349455 Benchmark of Lens Antennas for KA-Band Global Earth Observation from LEO Satellites J.R. Costa, C.A. Fernandes, G. Godi et al.

351904 A Compact On-Board Aircraft Sectorial Antenna P. Brachat, P. Bongibault, Y. Beniguel et al.

349863 EBG Enhanced Feeds for High Aperture Efficiency Reflector Antennas A. Neto, M. Bonnedal, P. De Maagt et al.

350377 Control of Reflection and Mutual Coupling Losses in Maximizing Efficiency of Dense Focal Plane Arrays M.V. Ivashina, M. Ng Mou Kehn, P.-S. Kildal & R. Maaskant

349829 Small Size Dielectric Lens Analysis in 2_D: Comparison of FDTD and Boundary Integral Equations A.V. Boriskin, A. Rolland, R. Sauleau & A.I. Nosich

355699 High Power PIM-Free Spike-Free Ortho-Mode Transducer S. Sierra-Garcia, Y. Demers & J.P. Langevin

Session OA16: Small Antennas & Terminals 382133 Dual Broadband Folded Antenna Embedded into Access-Point Devices

W.K. Toh & Z.N. Chen

382926 ACE 2 Activities on Small Terminal Technologies and Applications M. Martínez-Vázquez

382996 Optimal Antenna Placement for Mobile Terminals Using Characteristic Mode Analysis J. Rahola & J. Ollikainen

383096 Small Antenna Fundamentals and Technologies: Future Trends R. Serrano, S. Blanch & L. Jofre

383461 Antenna Optimization Technique Using Parametric Analysis with Distributed Computing S. Ooi & D. Thompson

351772 Small Array Antenna for 2x2 MIMO Terminal Using Folded Loop Antenna H. Sato, T. Hayashi, Y. Koyanagi & H. Morishita

386364 A Discussion on Electrically Small Antennas Surrounded by Lossy Dispersive Materials S.R. Best

244664 Some Important Antenna Innovations in the Mobile Terminal Industry in the Last Decade Z. Ying

Session OA19: Fast & Multilevel Techniques 350152 Methods for The Accelerated Computation of Green’s Functions

with 2-D Periodicity in Layered Media P. Baccarelli, A. Galli, V. Volski et al.

349431 Adaptive Integral Method for Higher-Order Hierarchical Method of Moments O.S. Kim & P. Meincke

347677 Fast Direct Solution of the Method of Moments Linear System A. Heldring, J.M. Tamayo & J.M. Rius

347871 Multilevel PO Algorithm for Non-Uniform Triangulations A. Manyas & L. Gürel

350094 Efficient Parallelization of Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Ö. Ergül & L. Gürel

349852 Multi-Resolution Enhancement of Fast Method of Moments Analysis of Antennas P. Pirinoli, A. Freni, P. De Vita et al.

350386 Incomplete LU Preconditioning for the Electric-Field Integral Equation T. Malas & L. Gürel

347354 Multilevel Field Interpolation Algorithm for Large PEC Objects H.G. Espinosa, A. Heldring, J.R. Mosig et al.

347795 Preconditioning Techniques for the Method of Auxiliary Sources Applied to Geometries Characterized as Perturbations of a Circle A.T. Vouldis, G.K. Avdikos & H.T. Anastassiu

347420 Fast Monostatic RCS Computation in FEM Based Solvers Using QR Decomposition N.V. Venkatarayalu, Y.-B. Gan, K. Zhao & J.-F. Lee

Session OA20: UWB Antennas for Radar & Remote Sensing 362347 Dual Polarised Wideband Antenna Arrays with Reconfigurable

Beamforming and Beamshaping R. Erickson, A. Ouacha, B. Carlegrim et al.

377760 Investigation of Wideband Antennas in the W-Band C. Migliaccio, B.D. Nguyen, J. Lanteri et al.

404943 Paraboloidal and Prolate-Spheroidal Impulse Radiating Antenna with Illustrative Examples D.V. Giri

380710 Pulsed UWB Array and Beam Steering M.Y.-W. Chia, S.-W. Leong & C.-K. Sim

383057 Near-Field Focusing within a UWB Antenna Array A.Yarovoy, P. Lys, P. Aubry et al.

384016 Baluns for Feeding Ultra Wideband Antennas K.D. Palmer & S.J. Marais

368937 Ultrawideband Array Antennas for Radars V. Koshelev

Session OA23: Measurements for New Antennas Technologies & AMTA 357862 Designing Reverberation Chambers for Measurements of Small Antennas and Wireless Terminals:

Accuracy, Frequency Resolution, Lowest Frequency of Operation, Loading and Shielding of Chamber P.-S. Kildal, C. Orlenius, J. Carlsson et al.

368102 New Pattern Correction Techniques for Submm-wave CATRs V. Viikari, J. Mallat, J. Ala-Laurinaho et al.

366672 Far Field Millimetric Band Antenna Test Facility: Positioning Procedure Using Phase Measurements L. Le Coq, G. Godi, B. Fuchs et al.

366224 Amplitude-only Measurement Technique on Strategic Near-Field Scanning Surfaces S. Costanzo & G. Di Massa

369401 Evaluation of Two Novel Non-Invasive Measurement Methods for Small Antennas R. Serrano, J. Romeu, S. Blanch & L. Jofre

306275 3D Antenna Measurement System – Low Gain Antenna Measurements and CTIA OTA Testing D.J. Gray

402498 Antenna Directivity Evaluation by Planar Spiral Scanning F. D'Agostino, F. Ferrara, C. Rizzo et al.

402532 A Note to Show How an Alternative Spherical Mode Normalization Simplifies the Relationship Between Transmitting and Receiving Characteristics D.W. Hess

402546 Practical Aspects of Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements Using a High-Order Probe T. Laitinen, S. Pivnenko, J.M. Nielsen & O. Breinbjerg

Session OA24: New Materials, Metamaterials, EBG Structures 383414 Metamaterial Antennas for Dual-Band and Dual-Mode Applications

A. Lai, K.M.K.H. Leong & T. Itoh

386075 Characterization of a Volumetric Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission-Line (NRI-TL) Metamaterial for Incident Waves From Free-space A.K. Iyer & G.V. Eleftheriades

349441 Miniaturized Circular Patch Antenna with Metamaterial Loading F. Bilotti, A. Alù, N. Engheta & L. Vegni

348065 Investigations of Metamaterial-Based Ultra-Dense Antenna Arrays R.W. Ziolkowski & A. Erentok

363761 Microwave Devices with Enhanced Phase-Compensation Principle T. Mynttinen, M. Lapine, J. Säily et al.

359354 Adaptive Beam Steering Base Station Antenna: Performances Optimization of the Reconfigurable EBG Material P. Ratajczak, P. Brachat & J.-M. Fargeas

350532 Circularly Polarized Dual Band Ring Antenna Using Composite Right and Left Handed Metamaterial A. Yu, F. Yang & A. Elsherbeni

315026 Traveling Waves on Two- and Three-Dimensional Periodic Arrays of Lossless Magnetodielectric Spheres R.A. Shore & A.D. Yaghjian

Session OA27: UWB Antennas 363739 Uwb Wearable Button Antenna

B. Sans-Izquierdo, J.C. Batchelor & M. Sobhy

350197 A Novel CPS-Fed Balanced Wideband Dipole for Ultra-Wideband Applications K.C.L. Chan & Y. Huang

349869 Small Semi-Directional Antenna for UWB Terminal Applications R. D'Errico, H. Ghannoum, C. Robin & A. Sibille

348050 Longitudinally Tapered Coplanar Waveguide UWB Antenna S.R. Pennock & P.R. Shepherd

363720 An Improved Design of Orthogonal Half Disk UWB Antenna L. Guo, Z. Yang, J. Liang et al.

347764 A Printed Planar UWB Triangular Monopole Antenna on Rigid Ground Plane C.-C. Lin, H.-R. Chuang & Y.-C. Kan

347479 Wide Band Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Monopole Antenna J. Kim, S. Choi, W. Lee & Y. Jee

363959 Compact Dipole for Low Frequency Band UWB Applications F. Demeestere, C. Delaveaud, J. Keignart & S. Bories

355068 Fractal-Spiral Antenna for UWB Standard P. Labbé & D. Bateman

345472 Small UWB Antenna Using Triangular Elements on UWB Unit A. Kuramoto

Session OA28: Antenna Measurement 350534 Reduction of Multi-Path Effects in a Low Frequency Spherical Near-Field Test Facility

M. Giles & S. Mishra

346074 A Dipole Antenna with Calculable Gain over the Frequency Range 20 MHz to 2.2 GHz M. Alexander, M. Salter & B. Loader

351496 Effective Antenna Characterization at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies and its Experimental Validation at 100 GHz A. Capozzoli, C. Curcio, G. D’Elia & A. Liseno

350508 RFID-Assisted Indoor Localization and Communication for First Responders J.R. Guerrieri, M.H. Francis, L.E. Miller et al.

350052 A Vector Beam Measurement System for 211-275 GHz O. Nyström, M. Pantaleev, V. Vassilev et al.

377743 The Array Antenna of Element Apertures with Coupling Devices between Apertures T. Takano, T. Isono, T. Imura & D. Radenamad

348054 The Influence on Finite Measurement Accuracy on the SWE-to-PWE Antenna Diagnostics Technique C. Cappellin, O. Breinbjerg & A. Frandsen

PROPAGATION

Session OP1: MIMO Channel Characterization 363933 Measurements of MIMO Capacity at 1800 MHz with In- and Outdoor Transmitter Locations

L. Garcia-Garcia, N. Jaldén, B. Lindmark et al.

346886 Outdoor to Indoor MIMO Radio Channel Measurements at 5.25 GHz – Characterization of Propagation Parameters M. Alatossava, V.-M. Holappa & J. Ylitalo

363842 MIMO Channel Characterization Through Ray Tracing Simulation E. Vitucci, V. Degli-Esposti & F. Fuschini

348075 Propagation Measurement in Indoor Environment for MIMO Systems Using Polarization Property H. Hirayama, A. Kurose, N. Kikuma & K. Sakakibara

346545 Testing MIMO Systems with Coupled Reverberations Chambers: A Wideband Channel Model O. Delangre, Ph. De Doncker, M. Lienard & P. Degauque

354953 Empirical Characteristics of Urban Macrocell Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Channel at 2.53 GHz A. Taparugssanagorn & J. Ylitalo

362688 MIMO Cube in Realistic Indoor Environment L. Nagy

363946 Near-Field Correction for Incoherent Source Location: Simulations and Measurements J. Mora-Cuevas & L. de Haro-Ariet

Session OP2: Novel Propagation Aspects 346753 PO/PTD Ray Tracing for Arbitrary Metallic and Dielectric Objects

F. Weinmann

347413 Electromagnetic Transient Analysis of Radiation by Canonical Sources in Planarly Layered Media Using Leaky Modes A.B. Yakovlev & G.W. Hanson

347935 Geostatistical Interpolation for Mapping Radio-Electric Exposure Levels Y. Ould Isselmou, H. Wackernagel, W. Tabbara & J. Wiart

346539 Study of Depolarization in Urban Environments T. Tenoux & Y. Lostanlen

363823 Forward Propagation Above Sea at Grazing Angles: Improvements of Modelling by Parabolic Wave Equation V. Fabbro & C. Bourlier

349503 Simulation of the Effects of Different Urban Environments on GPS Location Errors Using Digital Elevation Models and Building Databases E. Costa & M. Lustosa

290554 Oceanic Propagation Measurements for Beyond Line-of-Sight Links at Q-Band J.R. Hampton, S.D. Jones, N.M. Merheb et al.

347792 Computation of Electromagnetic Radiation by Heavy Curved Interfaces Using Conformal Gaussian Beams J. Hillairet, S. Bolioli & J. Sokoloff

Oral session OP5: Propagation for Radar and Navigation systems 344659 Experimental Study and Modeling of H F Radio Wave Propagation in the Course of Substorm Event

D.V. Blagoveshchensky, T.D. Borisova & J.W. MacDougall

345776 Ionospheric Clutter Cancellation and Wavelet Analysis F. Jangal, S. Saillant & M. Hélier

362239 Investigation of Signal Correlation for Spaced and Co-located Antennas on Multipath HF links and Implications for the Design of SIMO and MIMO Systems H.J. Strangeways

315290 Novel Digital Broadcast / Communication Systems and Groundwave Propagation Prediction Requirements L. Sevgi

347955 Radar Coverage Prediction over Ocean: Duct Mapping Using Least Squares Support Vector Machines R. Douvenot, V. Fabbro, C. Bourlier & J. Saillard

360166 Effect of Scintillations on the Correlation of Different Frequency L-band Satellite Navigation Signals on the Same Transionospheric Link V.E. Gherm, N.N. Zernov & H.J. Strangeways

349748 Effects of Objects with Moving Parts like Wind Turbines on Maritime R F Safety and Navigation Systems D. Trappeniers, E. Van Lil & A. Van de Capelle

Session OP6: Precipitation and its Effect on Propagation 349862 Potentiality of the SC EXCELL Model in the Prediction of Rain Attenuation

C. Capsoni, L. Lorenzo, A. Paraboni & C. Riva

345937 Cellular Automata for Predicting Three-State Rain Rate and Rain Attenuation Field Dynamics A. Núñez, V. Pastoriza, U.-C. Fiebig et al.

347987 Spatial Structure of Rain in the Amazon Region J.L. Cerqueira, M.S. Assis & L.A.R. da Silva Mello

313427 Performance of the Synthetic Storm Technique in a Low Elevation 5° Slant Path at 44.5 GHz in the French Pyrénées E. Matricciani, C. Riva & L. Castanet

350422 Analysis of Rain Cell Size Distribution for Application in Site Diversity S. Begum, C. Nagaraja & I. Otung

362826 Modelling Microwave Scattering by Solid Precipitation Particles F. Teschl, W.L. Randeu & M. Schönhuber

349770 Second Order Statistics of Rain Attenuation Time Series Generated with N-State Markov Chain Model B. Héder & J. Bitó

350086 Joint Modeling of Fade and Interfade Duration on Radio Connections Applying Markov Chain L. Csurgai-Horváth & J. Bitó

346747 Dynamic Calibration of Tipping-Bucket Raingauges and Rainfall Intensity Data Processing V. Kvicera & M. Grabner

349821 Fractal Modelling of Rain Fields: From Event-On-Demand to Annual Statistics S.A. Callaghan

Session OP9: Channel Characterisation for Urban and Indoor Environments 347220 Verification of 3D Ray Tracing with Measurements in Urban Macrocellular Environments

T. Fügen, M. Porebska, S. Knörzer et al.

348073 Measurements and Channel Modeling for Short Range Indoor UHF Applications L.W. Mayer, M. Wrulich & S. Caban

346425 Adaptive Channel Characterization for Wireless Sensor Network Performance B. Shehzad & M. Ndoh

348032 Simulations and Measurement of the Satellite to Indoor Propagation Channel at L- and S-Band R. Hoppe, T. Hager, T. Heyn et al.

346243 Influence of Humidity Contained in Building Material on Wedge Diffraction P. Valtr, J. Kucera, H. Bartik & P. Pechac

354167 The Shower Curtain Effect in Time-Reversal Wireless Communications P. Kyritsi & G. Papanicolaou

347923 Percolation-Based Approaches for Ray-Optical Propagation in Inhomogeneous Random Distributions of Discrete Scatterers A. Martini, M. Franceschetti & A. Massa

346339 A Dynamic Way of Simplifying Objects by Homogenization for Electromagnetic Field Prediction in Urban Environment G. Dauron, E. Richalot, M.F. Wong et al.

349776 Verifying 3G License Requirements when Every dB is Worth a Billion C. Beckman, L. Eklund, B. Karlsson et al.

Session OP10: MIMO Propagation Modelling 345514 Low-Complexity Geometry Based MIMO Channel Emulation

F. Kaltenberger, G. Steinböck, G. Humer & T. Zemen

347236 Estimated Capacities for a Multiple Input Multiple Output System Based on Outdoor to Indoor Measurements E. Yépez, D. Falconer & R. Bultitude

347457 Statistical Distribution of Eigenvalues in MIMO Channels T. Taniguchi, S. Sha & Y. Karasawa

350174 Modeling Antenna Coupling and Correlation in Rapidly Fading MIMO Channels J.W. Wallace & M.A. Jensen

349788 Performance Analysis of Various MIMO Schemes by using Measured MIMO Propagation Data in Residential Home Environment K. Sakaguchi, G.K. Tran, N.D. Dao et al.

349884 The Interdependence of Cluster Parameters in MIMO Channel Modeling N. Czink, E. Bonek, L. Hentilä et al.

347491 A Twin-Cluster MIMO Channel Model H. Hofstetter, A.F. Molisch & N. Czink

Posters - Antennas

Poster Session PA1: Antenna Theory and Modelling

347949 Scattering Center Analysis of a Dielectric Coated Cone H.E. Abd-El-Raouf & R. Mittra

307757 Integral Equation Algorithms for Equivalent Currents Distribution Retrieval over Arbitrary Three-Dimensional Surfaces Y. Alvarez, F. Las-Heras & M.R. Pino

348069 Simulation and Design of Wide-Band Patch Antennas for Wireless Technology M. Aminah, N. Saman & H. AbdEl-Raouf

349642 Improvement of the Process of Installing Antennas on Aircraft by Domain Decomposition Methods A. Barka & J. Lemorton

347633 Analysis of Semi-Anechoic Chambers Using the Frequency Dependent Transmission Line Modeling F. Bellamine

347629 Un Algorithme pour l’Excitation d’un Milieu Diélectrique Infini par une Onde Plane en Incidence Non-Perpendiculaire avec la Méthode TLM C. Blanchard, J.A. Portí, J.A. Morente & A. Salinas

347039 Influence of the Junction of Perfectly Conducting and Impedance Parallel Plate Semi-Infinite Waveguides to the Dominant Mode Propagation A. Büyükaksoy, I. Hakkı Tayyar & G. Uzgören

349680 Using Fictitious Domain Method with a Time Domain Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation. Application to Antenna Modelisation A. Bouquet, C. Dedeban & S. Piperno

363762 Accurate Modeling of Frequency Selective Surfaces Illuminated by a Non-Uniform Incident Field M. Bozzi, M. Formaggi, M. Pasian & L. Perregrini

384711 Analysis and Design of Field Patterns of Multidimensional Structures A.M.E.S. Casimiro & F.B. Emídio

347384 Combination of Multipole and Macro Basis Function Approaches for the Analysis of Finite Arrays with Dielectric Elements C. Craeye & T. Gilles

349404 A General Treatment for the Electromagnetic Modeling of Composite Structures with the Method of Moments C. Craeye, M. Piette & T. Gilles

347983 Efficient Green’s Function Factorization for the Analysis of Large Patch Antennas on Multilayered Media with the SM/AIM Method F. De Vita, I. Stevanovíc, A. Freni & J.R. Mosig

363896 Comparing Two Methods to Solve the Layered Sphere Problem, Application to Electromagnetic Induction Sensors P. Druyts, C. Craeye & M. Acheroy

319008 On the Modeling of Thin Sheets and Coatings in the Time-Domain Finite-Element Method F. Edelvik & E. Abenius

291657 Efficient Method for RCS Computation of Long and Complex Dielectric Objects S. Perez, M. Fares & B. Souny

350298 Two Layers Dielectric Cylinder in Homogeneous Field M.T. Perić, Z.Ž. Cvetković & S.R. Aleksić

349840 Models of Multilayer Antenna Radomes with Anisotropic Materials V.N. Peshlov, P.I. Dankov & B. Hadjistamov

360794 Resolution of Maxwell's Equations in a Non-Staggered Grid Model P. Pinho, S.M. Gome, P.J. Ferreira et al.

348078 Incremental Theory of Diffraction for Complex Source Illumination A. Polemi, M. Albani, G. Carluccio et al.

349931 Evaluation of Stationary Block Iterative Techniques for the Solution of Finite Arrays Using the FE-BI Method and Domain Decomposition A.C. Polycarpou

289632 A Full Numerical Method for Propagation Modelling E.A. Rachid

362128 Vertical Dipole Antenna Above a Lossy Half-Space: Efficient and Accurate Two-Image Approximation for the Sommerfeld's Integral M.P. Rančić & P.D. Rančić

349929 New and More Efficient Formulation of MLMDA for Arbitrary 3D Antennas and Scatterers J.M. Rius, A. Heldring, J.M. Tamayo & J. Parrón

351032 Full-Wave Analysis of the GALILEO System Navigation Antenna by Means of the Generalized Scattering Matrix of a Finite Array J. Rubio, M.A. González, J. Zapata et al.

339778 New Capabilities of Semi-Analytic Field Solvers: From Diffraction on Solitary Particles to Modeling of Metamaterials A.M. Serebrennikov

349453 Possible Applications of Perfect Electromagnetic Conductor (PEMC) Media A. Sihvola & I.V. Lindell

347934 Solution of Time Domain Maxwell Equations in Lossy Media Using the One-Step Method J. Silly-Carette, D. Lautru, M.F Wong et al.

349476 An Integral Equation Method Dealing with Surface Waves on Large Finite Periodic Structures D. Sjöberg

347544 An Algorithm Based on the Hybrid Galerkin Method for Analysis of Arrays of Circular Waveguides with Protruding Dielectric Rods S.P. Skobelev

349442 Modelling of Microwave Antennas for Digital Systems M.I. Sobhy, B. Sanz-Izquierdo & J.C. Batchelor

345145 Numerical Analysis of Characteristic Modes on the Chassis of Mobile Phones C. Tamgue Famdie, W.L. Schroeder & K. Solbach

346194 Time-Domain Analysis of Open Resonators and Resonance Antennas L.G. Velychko, Y.K. Sirenko & O.S. Velychko

313679 Analytical Solution to the Diffraction on a Slot I.L. Verbitskii

Poster Session PA2: UWB, Mobile Communication Antennas, Printed Element, P lanar and Conformal Array

358649 Design of a New Broadband EMC Double Ridged Guide Horn Antenna M. Abbas-Azimi, F. Arazm & J. Rashed-Mohassel

364003 Tapered-CPW Fed Printed Triangular Monopole Antenna M.P. Abegaonkar, Y. Chhikara, A. Basu & S.K. Koul

349877 An Eigencurrent Approach for the Analysis of Leaky Coaxial Cables G. Addamo, D. Bekers, A.G. Tijhuis et al.

350513 Arbitrary Pattern Synthesis Through the Concept of Best Approximation in Hilbert Spaces A. Aghasi, A. Ghorbani & J.R. Mohassel

349963 Slot Array Fed by an Oversized TEM Waveguide E. Alfonso, A.-V. N ogueira, J.I. Herranz & V.-M. Rodrigo-Peñarrocha

350208 Two-Step Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna G. Almpanis, C. Fumeaux & R. Vahldieck

363914 A Compact Dual-Band Antenna for WLAN Applications M. Alunno Corbucci, R. Vincenti Gatti, L. Marcaccioli & R. Sorrentino

361672 A Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Ka Printed Array E. Arnieri, L. Boccia, G. Amendola & G. Di Massa

349430 Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Switchable Band-Notched Behaviour E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Ferrando-Bataller, M. Cabedo-Fabres & C.A. Suarez-Fajardo

350068 Small Internal Antennas for Indoor UMTS Base Station with WLAN Access Point A. Arkko & J. Ollikainen

350278 A Dual Linear Polarization Patch Antenna for Base Station Arrays M. Barba

361464 A Novel Low Cost and Easy to Fabricate Single Fed Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna L. Bernard

349832 Low Profile UWB Monopole Antenna Having a Sharp Band Notch Function R. Bourtoutian, C. Delaveaud & S. Toutain

363919 Processing Band-Limited Antenna Measurements to Reconstruct Antenna Impulse Response on Example of Resistively Loaded Vivaldi Antenna A. Butrym, S. Pivnenko & N. Kolchigin

362009 Transient Response Optimization of Ultra Wideband Antennas (Using Particle Swarm Optimization) P. Černý, M. Mazánek, P. Piksa et al.

347195 Aperture Coupled, Differentially Fed Planar Inverted F Antenna K.M. Chan, E. Lee, T.Y. Lee et al.

348096 Non Uniformly Curved Conformal Wideband Array F. Chauvet, R. Guinvarc'h & M. Hélier

347271 Metallic EBG A n tenna with Omnidirectional Pattern in the Azimuth for Base Station Applications H. Chreim, E. Pointereau, P. Dufrane & B. Jecko

349603 Relationship Between Vertical Beam Shaping and Downlink Capacity for W-CDMA Base Station Antenna Y. Kimura, Y. Ebine & T. Imai

353574 High Performance Microstrip Antenna with Optimized Shape on Printed Circuit Substrate Material N. Koch

385765 Miniaturization of Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications by Use of Multilayered Electromagnetic Band Gap Substrate E.G. Korkontzila, D.B. Papafilippou & D.P. Chrissoulidis

349445 Dual Frequency Microstrip Patch Antenna, Reduced in Size by Use of Triangularly Arranged Peripheral Slits E.G. Korkontzila, P.C.Liakou & D.P.Chrissoulidis

339910 Single-Layer Single-Feed Multi-Band Antennas for ITS Applications S. Kumagai, Y. Kazama & T. Shiokawa

346324 Experimental Investigation of the Mutual Coupling Reduction by Means of Cavity Enclosure of Patch Antennas I.E. Lager & M. Simeoni

349590 Wideband Patch Antenna Fed by Wide Meandering Strip H.W. Lai & K. M. Luk

366721 Small and Ultra Wide Band Antennas: A New Challenge for Characterisation L. Le Coq, C. Marchais, P. Besnier et al.

350194 A Stepwise and Effective Procedure for Impedance Matching of Slot-Fed Planar Antennas. Application to the Design of Wide Band Printed Antennas and Reconfigurable EBG Resonator Antennas L. Le Coq, O. Roncière, R. Sauleau & K. Mahdjoubi

347759 Automotive Antenna Performance and Simulation L. Low, R. Langley, R. Breden & P. Callaghan

350143 Towards the Design of a Low-Cost Wideband Demonstrator Tile for SKA R. Maaskant, M. Popova & R. van den Brink

347549 Band-Notched UWB Stripline Slot Antenna C. Marchais, G. Le Ray & A. Sharaiha

346254 Ultra Wide-Band Optimized Profile Monopole Antenna J. Martinez-Fernandez, J.M. Gil & J. Zapata

349902 Genetic Algorithm Optimization for Multiband Patch Antenna Design K. Michael & A.A. Kucharski

346186 Cost/Performance Optimized IEEE802.11a/B/G Front End with Integrated Antenna Diversity P. Minard, P. Chambelin & A. Louzir

345610 About New Trends in Development of Microstrip Antennas Based on Sectioned Structures B.A. Mishoostin, V.G. Slyozkin & M.S. Sinkovsky

290317 Design of Dual-Band, Switched-Beam Dipole Arrays S.A. Mitilineos, S.C.A. Thomopoulos & C.N. Capsalis

363564 A PIFA – Parasitic Optimization Utilizing the Genetic Algorithms Technique S.C. Panagiotou, N.K. Kouveliotis, T.D. Dimousios et al.

350054 Modelisation of Wide Band Antennas for Global Simulation of Transmission Systems I. Pelé, A. Chousseaud & S. Toutain

347772 Antenna over Ground Plane for Wide Band Communications P. Plaivech & R. Langley

Poster Session PA3: Diffraction, RCS, Diffraction Inverse, Optimisation, Synthesis

363908 Convex Hull Detection of a Scattering System in an Inhomogeneous Background A. Capozzoli, G. D'Elia & P. Vinetti

363886 Fuzzy-Logic Reasoning for Estimating the Reliability of Noisy Data in Inverse Scattering Problems A. Casagranda, D. Franceschini, M. Benedetti & A. Massa

363889 The Multi-Frequency Diagonalized Contrast Source Method for Electromagnetic Inversion A. Casagranda, D. Franceschini, A. Massa et al.

348079 Microwave Tomography of Breast Cancer: A Feasibility Study I. Catapano, L. Crocco, M. D’Urso et al.

350252 Resonances of Complex Shape Scattering Objects: Modelling by Resonant Circuits J. Chauveau, N. de Beaucoudrey & J. Saillard

350061 Fast and Accurate Modelling of Large Plane Array Antenna R. Chiniard, A. Barka & O. Pascal

359400 Microwave Links Used as Electromagnetic Raingauges: A Real Time Pilot Experiment in Italy M. D'Amico, G. Mannucci & M. Pinotti

354035 3D Inverse Scattering by Level Set with Zero Capacity Connecting Set. Wave Guide Optimization by “Zone” P. Dubois, C. Dedeban & J.-P. Zolsio

350403 Circular Arrays of Log-Periodic Antennas for Broadband Applications Ö. Ergül & L. Gürel

347316 An Iterative Procedure for Combining the Advantages of a Multi-Frequency and Multi-Resolution Inversion Algorithm D. Franceschini, M. Donelli, E. Tamanini & A. Massa

363894 Electromagnetic Inversion of Amplitude-Only Data Through a Two-Step Strategy G. Franceschini, D. Franceschini, M. Donelli et al.

349524 Fuzzy Genetic Algorithms for the Synthesis of Unequally Spaced Microstrip Antennas Arrays B. Kadri & F.T. Bendimered

314368 A Robust and Fast Imaging Algorithm without Derivative Operations for UWB Pulse Radars S. Kidera, T. Sakamoto & T. Sato

350177 Meta-PSO in Array Optimization Problems M. Mussetta, S. Selleri, P. Pirinoli et al.

345835 Radar Cross Section of some Simple and Collected Targets to be Used for Classification I. Nicolaescu & M. Cernat

361196 On the Simulation of RCS from Trees and Forests Above Real Finite Ground D.I. Olcan & B.M. Kolundzija

349941 An Approximation for Bistatic Scattering Matrix of a Target Above a Ground Plane A. Osipov & E. Kemptner

345635 Scattering and Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves in Inhomogeneous Bodies B. Panchenko, E. Glotov & M. Gizatullin

Poster Session PA4: EBG Structures Metamaterial FSS Reflectarray

363900 Artificial Magnetic Substrate: Application on Size Reduction Patch Antenna W. Abdouni, D. Seetharamdoo & A.-C. Tarot

376545 Design of a Reflectarray with Three Shaped Beams Using the Near-Field Radiated by the Feeds M. Arrebola, J.A. Encinar, Y. Álvarez et al.

348063 Near-Field Distribution, Directivity and Differential Scattering Cross Section for a Line Source-Excited Metamaterial-Coated Electrically Small Cylinder S. Arslanagić, R.W. Ziolkowski & O. Breinbjerg

344927 Design of Planar Antennas for Galileo Using EBG-Structures R. Baggen, M. Martínez-Vázquez, J. Leiß & S. Holzwarth

349921 Investigation on Annular-Ring Patch Antenna with EBG Structure X.L. Bao, G. Ruvio & M.J. Ammann

350309 Suitable Planar Transmit-Arrays in X-Band M. Barba, E. Carrasco & J.A. Encinar

363615 Reconfigurable Reflectarray Using R F MEMS Technology O. Bayraktar, K. Topalli, M. Unlu et al.

347863 FSS-EBG Antenna with Improved Directivity Bandwidth F. Bichelot & R. Loison

362856 Characterization of Metamaterial Slabs in Terms of Scattering Parameters Under Oblique Plane Wave Incidence F. Bongard, I. Stevanovic, O.J.F. Martin & J.R. Mosig

346675 Bandwidth Widening Techniques for High-Gain Antennas Based on Partially Reflecting Surfaces H. Boutayeb & T.A. Denidni

350065 Improvement of the Performances of a Metallic Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure Dedicated to Illuminate a Mulitbeam Reflector Antenna R. Chantalat, C. Menudier, M. Thevenot et al.

362785 Application of Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Lines to Antenna Matching A. Diaz-Bolado, F. Bongard, J. Perruisseau-Carrier & J.R. Mosig

347654 Advances in Reflectarray Bandwidth Enlargement G. Di Massa, S. Costanzo & F. Venneri

346751 Scan Blindness Free Phased Array Antennas with an EBG Substrate Made of Dielectric Resonators Antennas G. Donzelli & F. Capolino

346557 Analytical Method for EBG Resonator Antennas Design, FDTD Validation J. Drouet, M. Thevenot, T. Monediere & B. Jecko

292286 EBG Identification by the Reflection Phase Method (RPM), Design for Application Wifi Antenna M. Elayachi, P. Brachat & P. Ratajczak

349985 Design of a 1-Metre Reflectarray for DBS Application with 15% Bandwidth J.A. Encinar, M. Arrebola, M. Dejus & C. Jouve