Antenna Structure with Circular Polarization
Call for Papers
Sudden expansion of mobile, especially satellite radio communications over the last decades, has brought increasing interest in research and development of various antenna structures with circular polarization.
One of many fields in which application of circular polarization is inescapable is global positioning satellite reception systems such are Galileo, GPS, GLONASS, where the Faraday and multipath effects are particular problems. Then, there are different mobile satellite communication systems including handsets like Inmarsat Land, Inmarsat Maritime, Iridium, and Thuraya. In the domain of terrestrial radio communications, these are wireless local area networks WLAN, (3G and 4G) Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS), Direct Broadcasting System (DBS), and so forth.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is also a typical application of circular polarization as well as the majority of Industrial, Scientific, and Medical Systems (ISMs). Application of antennas with circular polarization is especially interesting in rectifying antennas (rectennas).
Over the last years, higher microwave bands are becoming more and more attractive because of a large number of radio communication systems, the need for increased flow of information, and the limited space available in the spectrum at lower microwave frequencies, which imposes intensified activities in research and development of antenna structures with circular polarization at millimeter band, especially around 60GHz and 80GHz.
Research of multipath effects in antennas for navigation systems and the effects in propagation of circularly polarized waves is also interesting. We invite researchers to contribute their articles in the field of antennas with circular polarization of the following topics, with highlight on low profile design. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Broadband antennas with circular polarization
- Antennas for global positioning satellite reception (GALILEO, GPS, GLONASS)
- Dual and triband circularly polarized antennas
- Circularly polarized antenna with omnidirectional radiation
- Cavity-backed antenas with circular polarization
- Broadband antenna with circular polarization
- Reconfigurable antenna with circular polarization
- Circularly polarized antenna with dielectric resonator
- Millimeter wave antennas with circular polarization
- Two-dimensional arrays with circular polarization
- Dual circularly polarized antennas RHCP/LHCP
- Effects of circularly polarized wave propagation
- Any other relevant topic in the field of circular polarization
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | Friday, 2 December 2011 |
| First Round of Reviews | Friday, 2 March 2012 |
| Publication Date | Friday, 1 June 2012 |
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