Quasi-optical multi-beam antenna technologies for B5G and 6G mmWave and THz networks: A review

YJ Guo, M Ansari, RW Ziolkowski… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-beam antennas are critical components in future terrestrial and non-terrestrial wireless
communications networks. The multiple beams produced by these antennas will enable …

Multibeam 3-D-printed Luneburg lens fed by magnetoelectric dipole antennas for millimeter-wave MIMO applications

Y Li, L Ge, M Chen, Z Zhang, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 3-D-printed Luneburg lens with a novel simplified geometry is presented. The rod-type
structures are employed as the unit cell of the gradient-index material to realize the required …

A 3-D-printed wideband circularly polarized parallel-plate Luneburg lens antenna

C Wang, J Wu, YX Guo - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This communication presents a 3-D-printed wideband parallel-plate circularly polarized
Luneburg lens (LL) antenna. The proposed structure of dielectric posts truncated by two …

Wideband and high-efficiency parallel-plate Luneburg lens employing all-metal metamaterial for multibeam antenna applications

JW Lian, M Ansari, P Hu, YJ Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A parallel-plate Luneburg lens (LL) based on all-metal metamaterial is presented in this
article. To achieve the required refractive index distribution of the LL, an all-metal unit cell …

A 3-D-Printed Multibeam Dual Circularly Polarized Luneburg Lens Antenna Based on Quasi-Icosahedron Models for Ka-Band Wireless Applications

C Wang, J Wu, YX Guo - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a multibeam dual circularly polarized (CP) Luneburg lens (LL) antenna
based on quasi-icosahedron (QICO) models. The lens is sliced into multiple shells and each …

Design optimization of multishell Luneburg lenses

B Fuchs, L Le Coq, O Lafond… - … on antennas and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Guidelines are provided for designing multishell Luneburg lenses (LL) whatever the primary
source is. Three different optimization problems that minimize three different norms of the …

A 3D printed nearly isotropic Luneburg lens antenna for millimeter-wave vehicular networks

Y Guo, Y Li, J Wang, L Ge, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A three-dimensional (3D) printed Luneburg lens with nearly isotropic properties is
presented. The cubical-lattice-type and the rod-type gradient-index materials are employed …

Three-dimensional gradient-index materials and their applications in microwave lens antennas

HF Ma, BG Cai, TX Zhang, Y Yang… - … on Antennas and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce a method to realize 3-D inhomogeneous and nearly isotropic
gradient-index materials in the microwave regime. The unit cells of such gradient-index …

Characterization of an OAM flat-plate antenna in the millimeter frequency band

R Niemiec, C Brousseau, K Mahdjoubi… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electromagnetic waves bearing orbital angular momentum in the radio frequency range is a
growing subject of study. The design of systems able to produce and/or to receive such …

Air-filled parallel-plate cylindrical modified Luneberg lens antenna for multiple-beam scanning at millimeter-wave frequencies

C Hua, X Wu, N Yang, W Wu - IEEE transactions on microwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel design of cylindrical modified Luneberg lens antenna at
millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies in which no dielectric is needed as lens material …