Innovative Antennas for Mobile and Satellite Systems

Antennas are key components in communications systems. During the last decades, the ever increasing demands of end users have pushed forward the development of highly performing devices providing high gain, wide bandwidth, high reconfigurability and electronically beam-steerable capabilities. In this framework, members of the ELEDIA Reserch Center are developing effective multi-objective strategies able to address such challenging requirements for mobile and satellite antenna design, including the following

UWB/stacked UWB antennas
reconfigurable antennas
plasma antennas
wide-beam antennas for wide-scanning applications
frequency-agile antennas
spatially filtering antennas
reflectarrays and transmitarrays.

Related Projects: PANDORA, SALT, uLTRA, uLTRA-II, ATLAS, MOTION, EPT.COM, ADRIA, ARCANE

For additional information contact us at contact@eledia.org

F. Viani, M. Salucci, F. Robol, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Design of a UHF RFID/GPS Fractal Antenna for Logistics Management," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 480-492, January 2012 (DOI: 10.1163/156939312800030640)
F. Viani, M. Salucci, F. Robol, and A. Massa, "Multiband fractal Zigbee/WLAN antenna for ubiquitous wireless environments," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications vol. 26, no. 11-12, pp. 1554-1562, July 2012 (DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2012.704553)
G. Oliveri, F. Viani, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Synthesis of Multilayer WAIM Coatings for Planar-Phased Arrays Within the System-by-Design Framework," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 2482-2496, June 2015 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2415516)
G. Oliveri, M. Salucci, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Multiscale System-by-Design Synthesis of Printed WAIMs for Waveguide Array Enhancement," IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques vol. 2, pp. 84-96 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/JMMCT.2017.2701833)
G. Oliveri, G. Gottardi, F. Robol, A. Polo, L. Poli, M. Salucci, M. Chuan, C. Massagrande, P. Vinetti, M. Mattivi, R. Lombardi, and A. Massa, "Codesign of Unconventional Array Architectures and Antenna Elements for 5G Base Stations," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 6752-6767, December 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2738065)
M. Salucci, F. Robol, N. Anselmi, M. Hannan, P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, M. Donelli, and A. Massa, "S-Band Spline-Shaped Aperture-Stacked Patch Antenna for Air Traffic Control Applications," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 4292-4297, August 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2838583)
M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Material-by-Design Synthesis of Conformal Miniaturized Linear Phased Arrays," IEEE Access vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 26367-26382 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2833199)
M. Salucci, C. Castlunger, D. Marcantonio, G. Oliveri, F. Robol, P. Rosatti, L. Tosato, F. Zardi, and A. Massa, "High Density Interconnect Microstrip Patch Antenna for 5G Base Stations with Integrated Filtering Performance," Technologies vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 45, April 2018 (DOI: 10.3390/technologies6020045)
M. Salucci, A. Gelmini, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Synthesis of Shaped Beam Reflectarrays With Constrained Geometry by Exploiting Nonradiating Surface Currents," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5805-5817, November 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2869036)
M. Salucci, L. Tenuti, G. Gottardi, A. Hannan, and A. Massa, "System‐by‐design method for efficient linear array miniaturisation through low‐complexity isotropic lenses," Electronics Letters vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 433-434, April 2019 (DOI: 10.1049/el.2018.6653)
G. Oliveri, A. Gelmini, A. Polo, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "System-by-Design Multiscale Synthesis of Task-Oriented Reflectarrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2867-2882, April 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2955217)
G. Oliveri, A. Polo, M. Salucci, G. Gottardi, and A. Massa, "SbD-Based Synthesis of Low-Profile WAIM Superstrates for Printed Patch Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 3849-3862, July 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3044686)
A. Massa and M. Salucci, "On the Design of Complex EM Devices and Systems Through the System-by-Design Paradigm: A Framework for Dealing With the Computational Complexity," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1328-1343, February 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3111417)
G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Holographic Smart EM Skins for Advanced Beam Power Shaping in Next Generation Wireless Environments," IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques vol. 6, pp. 171-182 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/JMMCT.2021.3121300)
P. Rocca, P. Ru, N. Anselmi, M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, D. Erricolo, and A. Massa, "On the Design of Modular Reflecting EM Skins for Enhanced Urban Wireless Coverage," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 8771-8784, October 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3146870)
M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "An Innovative Inverse Source Approach for the Feasibility-Driven Design of Reflectarrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 5468-5480, July 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3161558)
G. Oliveri, M. Salucci, R. Lombardi, R. Flamini, C. Mazzucco, S. Verzura, and A. Massa, "Wide-Angle Impedance Matching Layer-Enhanced Dual-Polarization sub-6 GHz Wide-Scan Array for Next-Generation Base Stations," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 5506-5520, July 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3161555)
G. Oliveri, F. Zardi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Building a Smart EM Environment – AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 8757-8770, October 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3151354)
G. Oliveri, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Towards Efficient Reflectarray Digital Twins – An EM-Driven Machine Learning Perspective," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 5078-5093, July 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3155204)

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