• DocumentCode
    2701063
  • Title

    Biomimetic electrically small antennas

  • Author

    Behdad, Nader ; Al-Joumayly, Mudar A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    Aug. 28 2010-Sept. 3 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A biomimetic electrically small antenna system is proposed in this paper, which may lead to advancements in designing electrically small antennas. It was demonstrated that using an antenna system modeled based on the hearing mechanism of a parasitoid fly may allow us to design electrically small antenna systems with directional characteristics that are commonly found in larger antenna array systems. Further investigations are necessary to evaluate the extent to which such biomimetic concepts can enhance the current state-of-the-art in electrically small antenna design.
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; biomimetics; directive antennas; antenna array system; antenna design; biomimetic electrically small antenna system; directional characteristics; hearing mechanism; parasitoid fly; Animals; Antenna measurements; Auditory system; Directive antennas; Ear; Integrated circuit modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7091-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICWITS.2010.5611901
  • Filename
    5611901