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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 Eight-Element MIMO Antenna System for 5G FR1 Mobile Terminals
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Zidour, Ali; Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Ayad, Mouloud; Kouhalvandi, Lida
    In this paper, a broadband antenna system for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) applications in 5G FR1 mobile terminals. The MIMO design consists of eight L-shaped coupled slot antenna elements based on stepped impedance resonators (SIRs) that can generate resonances to achieve wide operating bandwidth. The simulated results of the MIMO system show a -6 dB wide impedance bandwidth of 47% ranging from 3.25 to 5.2 GHz and inter-element isolation level of greater than 12 dB have been obtained for each antenna element with an envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) below 0.05 providing a reliable anti-interference for the MIMO antenna system. In addition, the simulated total efficiencies are higher than 50% across the 5G NR bands; n77 (3.3-4.2 GHz), n78 (3.3-3.8 GHz), and n79 (4.4-5 GHz).
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    Dual-Band Vertically Polarized Endfire Antenna Array for 5G NR FR2 Bands Applications
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Zidour, Ali; Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Ayad, Mouloud; Kouhalvandi, Lida
    In this paper, a dual-band endfire antenna is proposed for promising 5G NR mmWave frequency (FR2) bands applications. The antenna design introduces a novel radiating aperture array analogy based on open-end substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) feeding technology to achieve vertically polarized dual-band operation. The simulated -10 dB impedance bandwidth achieves 11.5 % (26.3-29.5 GHz) lower band and 9.6 % (36.8-40.5 GHz) higher band. The peak realized gain is 8.78 dBi and 11.5 dBi in the lower and higher bands, respectively. The mmWave array delivers a scanning angle of ± 40° and ± 32° for a realized endfire gain higher than 5.5 dBi and 8.2 dBi at 28 GHz and 39 GHz, respectively.
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    Dual-band Endfire Phased Array Antenna for mmWave 5G NR Bands Applications
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024) Zidour, Ali; Ayad, Mouloud; Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Guenad, Boumediene; Soruri, Mohamad; Kouhalvandi, Lida
    A dual-band endfire antenna phased array suitable for 5G NR mmWave bands applications is presented in this paper. The antenna introduces a novel radiating aperture array analogy based on open-end substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology to achieve wide dual-band operation and vertical polarization radiation. The simulated -10 dB impedance bandwidth achieves 17.4 % (25.2-30 GHz) lower band and 12.4 % (36.4-41.2 GHz) higher band covering mmWave 5G NR bands; n257, n260, and n261 with isolation levels higher than 15 dB over the operating bands. The peak realized gain is 8.8 dBi and 11.8 dBi in the lower and higher bands, respectively. The mmWave array delivers a scanning angle of ±50° and ±33° for a realized endfire gain higher than 6.5 dBi and 8.5 dBi at 28 GHz and 39 GHz, respectively.