Advanced Antenna Design Techniques and Energy Harvesting Methods for 5G and beyond Technologies
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 10707
Special Issue Editors
Interests: RF microwave and antenna design; computational electromagnetic; wireless sensor networks; embedded systems
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Interests: wireless networking; wireless communications; networking protocols; radio frequency integrated circuits; wireless sensor networks; video streaming; system optimization; evolutionary computing
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Interests: high-frequency design; simulation-driven design; design automation; numerical modeling, optimization, design of experiments
Interests: surrogate modeling; simulation-driven design; design optimization; design automation; antenna engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the explosive and rapid development of wireless technologies, the ambient wireless power density is growing, since there are an increasing number of various electromagnetic power sources such as cellular mobile base stations, digital TV towers, and Wi-Fi routers. Energy harvesting or energy scavenging is a process by which energy is extracted from external sources and stores for small, wireless sensor networks and handheld devices. The energy harvesting has a variety of natural and artificial energy sources such as radiofrequency (RF) energy, thermal energy, vibration energy, and solar energy, which are used to give power to devices directly and stored in batteries or capacitors for later use. The energy harvesting resources are divided into five categories: photonic, thermal, kinetic, electromagnetic, and structure power. Among all these sources, RF energy harvesting has gained a lot of popularity in recent years because of the increased power density of ambient RF energy. RF energy harvesting by using rectifying antenna technologies is a feasible solution to convert the ambient RF power to usable DC power. A rectenna is a particular type of antenna that rectifies incoming electromagnetic waves into DC current. A typical RF energy harvesting system consists of four main components: receiving antenna, matching network, rectifying circuit, and DC output. An antenna is the main part, which is used to capture the incident RF energy. With the rapid growth of wireless systems, and addition of 5G technology in the industry, an antenna design needs to be compact and small, cost effective, light-weight, omnidirectional radiation pattern, and easily integrated with the modern wireless communication systems’ advanced technologies.
The objective of this Special Issue is to publish new research in the field of advanced antenna techniques and energy harvesting algorithms for 5G and beyond technologies. We request researchers, engineers, and scientists to contribute their peer review research that explains research gaps including, but not limited to:
- 5G antennas;
- reconfigurable antennas;
- metamaterials and meta-surface;
- 6G antennas;
- wearable technology;
- SIW-based antennas;
- smart and compact antennas;
- multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas;
- rectenna design;
- impedance matching network;
- rectifying circuits.
Dr. Adnan Ghaffar
Dr. Xuejun Li
Prof. Dr. Anna Pietrenko-Dabrowska
Prof. Dr. Slawomir Koziel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 5G antennas
- reconfigurable antennas
- metamaterials and meta-surface
- 6G antennas
- wearable technology
- SIW-based antennas
- smart and compact antennas
- multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas
- rectenna design
- impedance matching network
- rectifying circuits
