Substrate Integrated Suspended Line Antenna and Arrays

Kaixue Ma received B.E. and M.E. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, China, and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 1997 to 2002, he worked in Chinese Academy of Space Technology (Xi’an) as a group leader. From 2005 to 2007, he was with MEDs Technologies as an R&D Manager. From 2007 to 2010, he was with Singapore based public listed company ST Electronics as R&D manager, Project Leader, technique management Committee and technique consultant in 2011. From 2010 to 2013, he was with NTU as a Senior Research Fellow and Millimetre-wave RFIC team leader for 60-GHz Flagship Chipset project. From 2013 to 2018, He is Full Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. Since Feb. 2018, he has been the Dean and Distinguished Professor of the School of Microelectronics in Tianjin University, PI of National IC Innovation & Entrepreneurship Platform of Tianjin,the Director of Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronics Technology and the Chairperson of Tianjin IC Association. Dr. Ma proposed a variety of RF and microwave integrated circuits based on advanced CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, GaAs and SOI technologies, and microwave circuit and system design technology patented with “quasi-planar circuits with embedded air cavity” named as SISL in publication. He was responsible for designing the first low-power reconfigurable 60 GHz SiGe millimetre-wave transceiver SOC, packaging and system testing, and completed a high-speed dual-chip wireless communication system. He is currently working on GaAs and silicon-based RF millimeter-wave and THz integrated circuits and systems for wireless communication and sensor applications. He has filed more than 40 patents, two books, over 170 IEEE journal articles and 190 international conference papers. Dr. Ma is Fellow of Chinese Institute of Electronics and awardee ofthe Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He received 10 technique awards including best paper award etc. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and Guest Editor of IEEE Microwave Magazine and the organizers for international conferences. He was the Coordinator IEEE MTT-S R10 for China and Singapore from 2016 to 2022 and current member of MTT-4 etc.  Ningning Yan received the B. E and Ph. D. degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2012 and 2019, respectively. From 2016 to 2017, she was a joint Ph.D. student Scholar at the Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory, University of Houston, Houston, USA. Since 2019, she has been with Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, where She is currently an associate professor. She has authored and co-authored over 70 science citation index/engineering index (SCI/EI) indexed articles.  Her current research interests include substrate integrated suspended line (SISL) antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, Yagi antennas, leaky-wave antennas, multiband antennas, antenna arrays and feeding networks. She was the session chair of several international conferences and the serves as a reviewer of several international journals.  Yu Luo received his B.Eng. and Doctorate degrees in electronic engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He worked as a research assistant at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, during Apr. 2014-Sep. 2014, worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, during Sep. 2015-Aug. 2016 and worked as a research fellow at National University of Singapore during Sep. 2016-Sep. 2018. Currently, he is a full professor in the School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University. He has authored orco-authored more than 120 technical papers, including IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (IEEE TAP), IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (IEEE TMTT) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). His research interest focuses on antennas in new-generation mobile communications and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, such as SIW antennas, base-station antennas, circularly polarized antennas, MIMO antennas, Yagi-Uda antennas, and mmW/THz antennas.  He is the Co-Chair of the technical program committee (TPC) of UCMMT 2020 and associated editor of Frontiers of Physics. He is also the TPC member or the session chair of more than ten international conferences. He is the vice chair of IEEE Tianjin AP/MTT/SSC Joint Chapter. He is the TOP reviewer IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2021 and 2022. He won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award in 2023.

Chapter 1    Substrate Integrated Suspended Line
1.1   SISL Technology1.1.1  Structure of SISL1.1.2  Advantages of SISL1.2   SISL Average Power Handling Capability1.2.1  Analysis of Heat Transfer Characteristics1.2.1.1  Heat Transfer Characteristics of Self-encapsulating Enclosures1.2.1.2  Heat Transfer on The Outer Surface1.2.1.3  Heat Transfer Inside1.2.2  Modeling Calculation of Internal Maximum Temperature1.2.3  Practical Design Rules1.3   SISL Tolerance
Chapter 2   SISL Antenna Array Feeding Network
2.1 Transition Structure2.1.1 SISL-to-Microstrip Line Transitions2.1.2 SISL-to-Waveguide Transitions2.1.3 SISL-to-Conductor Backed CPW Transitions2.2 Power Divider2.2.1 1:4 Power Divider2.2.2 Bandpass Filtering Power Divider2.2.3 Coupled Line Power Divider2.3 Butler Matrix2.3.1 SISL Honeycomb Concept Butler Matrix2.3.2 SISL Self-Packaged Butler Matrix2.4 Six-Port Network2.4.1 SISL Six-Port Network2.4.2 Design of SISL Six-Port Junction Circuit
Chapter 3   SISL Broadside Antenna
3.1 SISL Wideband Antenna3.1.1 A Wideband Air-filled Cavity-backed Slot Antenna Array3.1.2 A Wideband SISL Stacked Patch Antenna Array for WLAN3.1.3 A Wideband SISL Circularly polarized Stacked Patch Antenna Array3.2 SISL Multi-band Antenna3.2.1 An SISL Dual Band Patch Array Antenna3.2.2 A Dual Band Antenna with Comb Radiators Using SISL Technology3.2.3 An SISL Triple-band Multi-mode Stacked-patch Antenna3.3 SISL Patch Antenna with Cross-Polarization Reduction 3.4 SISL Solar Cell Patch Antenna
Chapter 4   SISL Antennas Based on Characteristic Mode Analysis 
4.1  Multi-Mode Wideband SISL Antennas Based on Characteristic Mode Analysis4.1.1  Dual-mode Wideband Slotted Patch Antenna Using SISL Technology4.1.2  An n-shaped multimode wideband substrate integrated suspended line antenna using characteristic mode analysis,4.2  Mode-Suppression SISL Antennas Based on Characteristic Mode Analysis 4.2.1 Common-Mode Suppression SISL Differentially-Fed Dual-Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna4.2.2 High-order Mode Suppression SISL Gain-enhanced Antenna

Chapter 5   SISL End-fire Antenna
5.1  SISL Diople Array Antenna5.1.1  A Cavity-Backed Endfire Dipole Antenna Array Using SISL5.1.2  An SISL 4×4 Cavity-Backed Endfire Dipole Antenna Array5.2  A Self-packaged SISL Quasi-Yagi Antenna5.3  SISL Vivaldi Array Antenna
Chapter 6   SISL Filtering Antenna
6.1  SISL Filtering MIMO Antenna6.1.1  Enhanced Isolation Filtering MIMO Antenna6.1.1.1  Design Procedure6.1.1.2  Parametric Study6.1.2  Enhanced Isolation Filtering MIMO Antenna Examples6.2  SISL Filtering Patch Antenna6.2.1  Low-Cost High-Gain Filtering Patch Antenna6.2.1.1  Design Procedure6.2.1.2  Tolerance Analysis6..2.2  Low-Cost High-Gain Filtering Patch Antenna Examples
Chapter 7   Substrate Integrated Dielectric Resonant Antenna
7.1  The Cylindrical DRA7.1.1  The Cavity-Backed Cylindrical DRA7.1.2  The Loaded Cavity-Backed Cylindrical DRA7.2  The Rectangular DRA7.2.1  The High Gain Rectangular DRA7.2.2  The Filtering Rectangular DRA
Chapter 8   Substrate Integrated Radar Antenna
8.1  The 77 GHz Automotive Radar Antenna Array8.1.1  Antenna Array8.1.2  Differential-Fed Antenna Array8.2  Rotman Lens Multi-Beam Antenna Array8.2.1  Rotman Lens8.2.2  Quasi-Yagi Antenna and Patch Antenna8.2.3  Rotman Lens Multi-Beam Quasi-Yagi Antenna Array8.2.4  Rotman Lens Multi-Beam Patch Antenna Array8.3  The 24 GHz Radar System Antenna8.3.1  The Cavity-Backed Dipole Antenna8.3.2  The Cavity-Backed Endfire Dipole Antenna Array8.3.3  The U-Slot Antenna Array