New Generation Design of Antennas
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 7398
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antennas for 5G and beyond; millimeter-wave antennas; flexible and printed electronics; RF sensors; wireless communication
Interests: basics of antennae and electromagnetism, from megastructures and metasurfaces to novel applications in telerobotics, cognitive radio, wearable electronics, nanoscale networks, healthcare, and bioengineering
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Interests: nano communication; biomedical applications of millimeter and terahertz communication; wearable and flexible sensors; compact antenna design; RF design and radio propagation; antenna interaction with human body; implants; body centric wireless communication issues; wireless body sensor networks; non-invasive health care solutions; physical layer security for wearable/implant communication and multiple-input–multiple-output systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The antenna performance is of critical importance in analyzing the reliability and efficiency of the wireless systems. Recent developments in materials and fabrication technologies are now facilitating high-performance antenna designs with reduced size, weight, aerodynamic drag, and cost. For instance, some novel trends in antenna designs for 5G and beyond include composite materials and efficient selective metallization processes. These advances have enabled versatile, tunable, robust, lightweight, and programmable antennas with additive advantages of cost-effective mass production, conformity and compactness.
This Special Issue aims to address the recent development in this emerging area of versatile antennas, integration of programmable materials in antennas, and advanced manufacturing techniques, such as inkjet printing, flexo printing, 3D printing, etc., as well as the deployment of advanced materials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, metamaterials, etc. We are looking forward to high-quality submissions that highlight the scope and applications of advanced antenna design techniques, such as massive multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO), phased arrays, on-chip antennas, etc., and address the recent developments in manufacturing processes and advanced materials, as well as the prospective advantages of novel antenna design techniques that lead to adaptive, ultra-fast and highly secure wireless communication. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Millimeter-wave antennas;
- 5G, 6G and beyond antennas;
- Flexible, conformal, 3D-printed antennas;
- Smart antennas;
- Multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antennas;
- Antennas for biomedical applications;
- Phased arrays and massive MIMO antennas.
Dr. Syeda Fizzah Jilani
Dr. Akram Alomainy
Prof. Dr. Qammer Hussain Abbasi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- millimeter-wave antennas
- 5G, 6G and beyond antennas
- flexible, conformal, 3D-printed antennas
- smart antennas
- multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antennas
- antennas for biomedical applications
- phased arrays and massive MIMO antennas
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