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    • Compact Stacked-Patch Antenna for Directional Modulation in Azimuth and Elevation Planes 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola (IEEE, 2022)
      This work proposes a compact stacked-patch antenna capable of beamsteering in the vertical and horizontal directions. These characteristics are studied to realize directional modulation (DM) schemes in the vertical and ...
    • Digital pattern synthesis with a compact MIMO antenna of half-wavelength diameter 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Narbudowicz, Adam (2021)
      The paper presents a compact multiport antenna, with beamforming capabilities and a realized gain of 4.31 dBi with the size of λ/2. The antenna allows digital beamforming with independent control over three parameters: ...
    • Directional Modulation from a Wrist-Wearable Compact Antenna 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola (IEEE, 2022)
      This work proposes compact multiport antennas for directional modulation (DM) on wrist-wearable devices to improve the secrecy and privacy of the transmitted data. The DM performance is investigated using the antenna in ...
    • Electrically Small Multimodal 3D Beamforming MIMO Antenna for PHY-Layer Security 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola
      This work proposes an electrically small 3D beam- forming antenna for PHYsical Layer (PHY-layer) security. The antenna comprises two layers of stacked patch structures, and is a five-mode five-port MIMO system operating ...
    • Energy-Efficient Physical Layer Security for Wearable IoT Devices 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola (2023)
      This work proposes an energy-efficient Directional Modulation (DM) scheme for on-body Internet of Things (IoT) devices. DM performance is tested using a 5-port stacked-patch MIMO antenna under two scenarios: free space ...
    • Flexible Multimode-Based Beamforming MIMO Antenna 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola (2023)
      This work proposes compact, flexible Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antennas. The design principle is based on the excitation of different orthogonal radiating modes within the same antenna volume. Via phase ...
    • On the Efficiency of Miniaturized 360° Beam-Scanning Antenna 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Narbudowicz, Adam (IEEE, 2019)
      The efficiency and beam-scanning performance of a compact, beam reconfigurable antenna are presented. The proposed design provides a 360° reconfigurable bidirectional radiation pattern in the horizontal plane by using phase ...
    • Spherical Modes Driven Directional Modulation with a Compact MIMO Antenna 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola (2023)
      In this letter, a compact beamsteering MIMO antenna is proposed for Directional Modulation (DM) applications. A generalization of the beamsteering principle is presented and by exploiting the antenna’s unidirectional ...
    • Stacked-Patch MIMO Antenna for Dual-Plane Beamsteering 

      Zandamela, Abel Abdul; Marchetti, Nicola (2022)
      This paper proposes a compact stacked-patch Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna with beamsteering in azimuth and elevation planes. The beamsteering is executed by controlling the phase shifts and amplitudes ...