Advanced Antenna Array Engineering for 6G and Beyond Wireless Communications (eBook)

Y. Jay Guo, PhD, is the Director of the Global Big Data Technologies Centre and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has over thirty years of academic, industrial and CSIRO experience. He holds 26 international patents, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is the author of Ground-Based Wireless Positioning and more than 550 research papers. Richard W. Ziolkowski, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the Global Big Data Technologies Centre at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, USA. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He was the recipient of the 2019 IEEE Electromagnetics Award and was the 2005 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He was the 2014-2015 US Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced Science and Technology sponsored by the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO). He is the co-editor of Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations.

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Chapter 1 A Perspective of Antennas for 5G and 6G

1.1 5G Requirements of Antenna Arrays

1.2 6G and Its Antenna Requirements

1.3 From Digital to Hybrid Multiple Beamforming

1.4 Analog Multiple Beamforming

1.5 Millimeter-Wave Antennas

1.6 THz Antennas

1.7 Lens Antennas

1.8 SIMO and MIMO Multi-beam Antennas

1.9 In-Band Full Duplex Antennas

1.10 Conclusions



Chapter 2 Millimeter-Wave Beam Forming Networks

1. Circuit-Type BFNs: SIW Based Bulter and Nolen Matrixes

2. Quasi Optical BFNs: Rotman Lens and Reflectors

3. Conclusions



Chapter 3 Decoupling Methods for Antenna Arrays

3.1. Electromagnetic Band-gap Structures

3.2. Defected Ground Structures

3.3 Neutralization Lines

3.4. Array-Antenna Decoupling Surfaces

3.5 Metamaterial Structures

3.6 Parasitic Resonators

3.7 Conclusions



Chapter 4 De-scattering Methods for Coexistent Antenna Arrays

4.1 De-scattering vs Decoupling in Coexistent Antenna Arrays

4.2 Mantle Cloak De-Scattering

4.3 Lumped-Choke De-Scattering

4.4 Distributed-Choke De-Scattering

4.5 Mitigating the Effect of HB Antennas on LB Antennas

4.6 Conclusions



Chapter 5 Differentially-fed Antenna Arrays

5.1 Differential Systems

5.2 Differential-fed Antenna Elements

5.3 Differential-fed Antenna Arrays

5.4 Differential-fed Multi-Beam Antennas

5.5 Conclusions



Chapter 6 Conformal Transmitarrays

6.1 Conformal Transmitarrays Challenges

6.2 Conformal Transmitarrays Employing Triple-Layer Elements

6.3 Beam Scanning Conformal Transmitarrays

6.4 Conformal Transmitarray Employing Ultra-thin Dual-Layer Huygens Elements

6.5 Elliptically Conformal Multibeam Transmitarray with Wide-Angle Scanning Ability

6.6 Conclusions



Chapter 7 Frequency Independent Beam Scanning Leaky Wave Antennas

7.1 Reconfigurable Fabry-Pérot (FP) LWA

7.2 Period-Reconfigurable SIW Based LWA

7.3 Reconfigurable Composite Right/Left-Handed LWA

7.4 Two Dimensional Multibeam Leaky Wave Antenna

7.5 Conclusions



Chapter 8 Beam Pattern Synthesis of Analogue Arrays

8.1 Thinned Antenna Arrays

8.2 Arrays with Rotated Elements

8.3 Arrays with Tracking Abilities Employing Sum and Difference Patterns

8.4 Synthesis of SIMO Arrays8.5 Conclusions