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    Groove Gap Waveguide Crossover for Butler Matrices and Beamforming in Millimeter-Wave Satellite Antenna Systems
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2025) Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Parand, Peiman; Zidour, Ali; Virdee, Bal S.; Kouhalvandi, Lida; Longhi, Patrick; Saber, Takfarinas; Limiti, Ernesto
    This paper presents an innovative H-plane crossover based on groove gap-waveguide (GGW) technology for high-performance millimeter-wave (mm-wave) circuits. The design facilitates the development of key transmission components, such as Butler matrices (BMs) and beamforming feeding networks (BFNs), for multi-beam antenna systems operating in the V-band spectrum (40-50 GHz). The proposed crossover is built by cascading two identical 3-dB/90° hybrid couplers. Each coupler is designed with GGW unit-cells constructed from metallic pins spaced less than a quarter-wavelength apart. This configuration creates a wide stopband of 20-57 GHz, ensuring minimal signal interference and strong impedance matching. The coupler achieves 90° phase shift, 50 dB isolation, and low insertion loss of 0.02 dB at 45 GHz, with a fractional bandwidth of 22.22%. The crossover demonstrates excellent performance over the entire V-band, making it suitable for advanced antenna systems in satellite communications and space applications. The design reduces complexity, cost, and losses typically associated with 3D and multilayer crossover technologies, providing a compact and efficient solution for mm-wave networks
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    Wideband Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array for 5G mmWave Mobile Applications
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Zidour, Ali; Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Ayad, Mouloud; See, Chan Hwang; Limiti, Ernesto
    In this paper, a wideband hybrid dielectric resonator antenna (HDRA) array design is presented for fifth-generation (5G) millimeter wave (mmWave) applications. The hybrid antenna integrates three resonant radiators of feeding slot, ring patch, and DRA to generate four resonances around 28 and 38 GHz frequency bands. The antenna element within an overall size of 0.46λL × 0.46λL× 0.1λL(λLis the free-space wavelength at 28 GHz) can achieve wide impedance bandwidth, covering n257, n259, n260 and n261, simultaneously. The 1 × 4 HDRA array is designed and simulated based on the antenna element which can achieve high realized gain varies between 10.3 to 12.5 dBi and wide beam scanning angles of ±55° and ±40° at 28 and 38 GHz frequency bands, respectively.