FINAL PROGRAM
Wednesday 14th of February:
8:00 - 9:00 : Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 9:10 : Opening address (Dr Trevor S. Bird, Chief Scientist,
CSIRO ICT Centre)
9:10 - 10:30 : Session 1: Antennas & Propagation for Wireless
Communications
Session Chair: Professor Marek Bialkowski
9:10 - 9:30 : ASA07_paper_050: "ELECTROMAGNETIC SOLUTIONS
- OPPORTUNITIES IN BUILT-ENVIRONMENTS", M. J. Neve, A. G.
Williamson and K. W. Sowerby
9:30 - 9:50 : ASA07_paper_006: "ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE
PATCH ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR INDOOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS",
Anthony Stark and Junwei Lu
9:50 - 10.10 : ASA07_paper_020: "3GPP Eigenbeamforming
Using a Hexagonal Antenna Array in a Multipath DS-CDMA System",
Saied S. Mohammed, Nemai C. Karmakar
10:10 - 10: 30 : ASA07_paper_024: "Measurement of
XPR at 5GHz in a Wooden Two-storied House", Tsutomu Sakata,
Atsushi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Iwai and Koichi Ogawa
10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break & 10th Birthday Cake
11:00-12:40 : Session 2: Printed Antennas & RFID
Session Chair: Professor Allan Williamson
11:00 - 11:20 : ASA07_paper_023: "A WIDEBAND COMPACT
INVERTED-F ANTENNA WITH DUALBAND OPERATION", Januar Janapsatya,
Karu P. Esselle, Trevor S. Bird
11:20 - 11:40 : ASA07_paper_034: "VIVALDI ANTENNAS
- COMPARING THEORY AND REALITY", A. Sharp, R. Kyprianou
11:40 - 12.0 0 : ASA07_paper_039: "PRINTED SPIRAL
ANTENNA USING THIN FILM RESISTOR", W. Fu, W. Rowe and K.
Ghorbani
12:00 - 12:20 : ASA07_paper_045: "NOVEL DESIGN FOR
RFID PASSIVE TAG", MD. Shamim Shahriar Hossain, Nemai Karmakar
and Mohammad Ali
12:20 - 12:40 : ASA07_paper_051: "ACCOMMODATING BENDS
IN FLEXIBLE PATCH ANTENNAS", Amir Galehdar and David Thiel
12:40 - 2:00 : Lunch
2:00 - 3:20 : Session 3: Reflectors & Feed Systems
Session Chair: Dr John Kot
2:00 - 2:20 : ASA07_paper_010: "A Compact Feed Assembly
for Very Small Aperture Reflectors", ROLAND SCHWERDTFEGER,
JOHN WEBB
2:20 - 2:40 : ASA07_paper_053: "A Multi-Octave Open-Boundary
Quadridge Guide Horn Antenna For Use in the S to Ku BANDS",
Vicente Rodriguez-Pereyra
2:40 - 3:00 : ASA07_paper_004: "OPTIMIZATION OF A
RECTANGULAR SPLINE-PROFILE HORN FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY", T.S.
Bird, C. Granet
3:00 - 3:20 : ASA07_paper_059: "Modelling Investigations
of Wideband Focal-Plane Arrays for xNTD", Stuart Hay, John
O'Sullivan, John Kot, Christophe Granet
3:20 - 3:50 : Coffee Break
3:50 - 5:50 : Session 4: Electromagnetics Techniques
Session Chair: Associate-Professor Nick Shuley
3:50 - 4:10 : ASA07_paper_057: "HYBRID METHOD FOR
THE ANALYSIS OF A LENS ARRAY FEED SYSTEM", Nasiha Nikolic,
John S. Kot
4:10 - 4:30 : ASA07_paper_055: "A RIGOROUS APPROACH
TO DIFFRACTION FROM ARBITRARY SHAPED SHELLS OF REVOLUTION: STATIC
CASE", Paul D. Smith, Sergey B. Panin, Elena D. Vinogradova,
and Sergey S. Vinogradov
4:30 - 4:50 : ASA07_paper_027: "HF BROADBAND ANTENNA
WITH DISTRIBUTED DAMPING", O. Berndt and Th. Fickenscher
4:50 - 5:10 : ASA07_paper_029: "RIGOROUS SOLUTION
FOR THE SCATTERING BY AN INFINITE CYLINDER OF ARBITRARY CROSS-SECTION
TO THE ESTIMATION OF SCATTERING BY FINITE ELONGATED CYLINDER:
TM- CASE", S. Vinogradov , C. Wilson , E. Vinogradova , I.
Sharp
5:10 - 5:30 : ASA07_paper_036: "INVESTIGATION ON ALGORITHMS
FOR NEAR-FIELD SOURCE LOCALISATION", M J Abedin and Ananda
S Mohan
5:30 - 5:50 : ASA07_paper_047: "ADAPTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC
IMAGING" Greg Hislop and Stuart Hay
6:30 : Pre-dinner drinks
7:00 : Symposium Dinner & Professor Koichi Ito (Chiba
University, Japan):
Invited speaker on "Antenna Technology for Medical
Application"
Thursday 15th of February:
8:00 - 8:40 : Coffee
8:40 - 10:40 : Session 5: MIMO & UWB Techniques
Session Chair: Dr Jay Guo
8:40 - 9:00 : ASA07_paper_033: "MUTUAL COUPLING EFFECT
ON REALISTIC MIMO TRANSMISSION", Zhongwei Tang, Hajime Suzuki
and Iain B. Collings
9:00 - 9:20 : ASA07_paper_052: "A TESTBED FOR EVALUATING
PERFORMANCE OF AN INDOOR MIMO SYSTEM", Konstanty Bialkowski,
Adam Postula
9:20 - 9:40 : ASA07_paper_015: "CORRELATION ANALYSIS
ON MIMO-OFDM CHANNELS IN POPULATED TIME VARYING INDOOR ENVIRONMENT",
Jishu DasGupta, Karla Ziri Castro, and Hajime Suzuki
9:40 - 10.00 : ASA07_paper_007: "A MODIFIED DARK EYES
ANTENNA FOR NEAR FIELD MEDICAL APPLICATIONS", Amin M. Abbosh
and Marek E. Bialkowski
10:00 - 10: 20 : ASA07_paper_017: "Investigation on
CPW-fed Printed Antenna for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Wireless Body-Worn
Applications", X. N. Qiu and Ananda S. Mohan
10:20 - 10:40 : ASA07_paper_025: "TIME - FREQUENCY
ANALYSIS OF ULTRA WIDEBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENTS FROM RADAR
TARGETS", Hoi Shun Lui & Nicholas V. Shuley
10:40-12:30 : Session 6: Coffee Break & Poster Session
(33 posters)
Instructions for
Posters: The size of the poster-boards is 1.8m wide by
1.2m high. The posters will be attached to the poster-boards using
Velcro-stickers provided by the Symposium Organizers. It is the
responsability of the author(s) to choose the way the poster is
presented (single sheet or multi-sheet) as long as it fits within
the available space. If a table, chairs or power-points are required
for the display of hardware, please let the Organizing Committee
know as soon as possible.
ASA07_paper_001: "A beam steering control system for
dielectric embedded smart mobile terminal antennas", Ian
Scriven, Junwei Lu
ASA07_paper_003: "A DUAL-BAND S/X PRIME-FOCUS FEED
SYSTEM FOR THE PARKES RADIO TELESCOPE", C. Granet, I.M. Davis
ASA07_paper_008: "SMART MOBILE TERMINAL ANTENNAS (SMTAs)
FOR WIRELESS COMPUTING NETWORK", Junwei Lu
ASA07_paper_009: "A COMPACT AND DIRECTIVE UWB ANTENNA
FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS", Amin M. Abbosh and Marek E.
Bialkowski
ASA07_paper_011: "OPTIMIZATION OF SPLINE-PROFILE SMOOTH-WALLED
HORNS FOR THE 20/30/44 GHz BANDS", C. Granet, G.L. James
ASA07_paper_012: "MATRIX PENCIL METHOD FOR ESTIMATING
PARAMETERS USE IN RADAR TARGET IDENTIFICATION", W. C. Chen
and N. Shuley
ASA07_paper_013: "MEASUREMENT OF THE POINT SPREAD
FUNCTION OF A PASSIVE MM-WAVE IMAGER WITH TWO FAN-BEAM ANTENNAS",
Yue Li, Juan Tello, Grahame Rosolen, Greg Timms and Michael Brothers
ASA07_paper_014: "BEAM SCANNING BY MEANS OF ASYMMETRICAL
LENSES", G.L. James and C. Granet
ASA07_paper_016: "AN ULTRA WIDEBAND MICROWAVE IMAGING
SYSTEM FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION", Wee Chang Khor and Marek
E. Bialkowski
ASA07_paper_018: "Design of Band pass Filters for
UWB Wireless Systems", Sunao Toya, 2, Ananda S Mohan and
Toshiyuki Yakabe
ASA07_paper_019: "EIGENVALUE SHAPING FOR ROBUST ADAPTIVE
ARRAY BEAMFORMING WITH FINITE SAMPLE SUPPORT", Giuseppe A.
Fabrizio
ASA07_paper_021: "Capacity Improvement Using a Rectangular
Antenna Array in a DS-CDMA System", Saied S. Mohammed, Nemai
C. Karmakar
ASA07_paper_022: "AN UWB PLANAR 180° HYBRID EXPLOITING
PARALLEL STRIP-MICROSTRIP AND MICROSTRIP-SLOT TRANSITIONS",
Amin M. Abbosh and Marek E. Bialkowski
ASA07_paper_026: "DETECTION OF CONCEALED METALLIC
TARGETS USING THE E-PULSE TECHNIQUE", Hoi Shun Lui &
Nicholas V. Shuley
ASA07_paper_028: "AN EQUATORIAL ANTENNA MOUNT DRIVEN
BY LINEAR ACTUATORS", A. Ross Forsyth
ASA07_paper_030: "LOW PHASE NOISE HF LPMA ANTENNA
WITH TRANSFORMER COUPLED FEEDLINE", Peter Marrone, Graeme
Lunam
ASA07_paper_031: "EXCITATION OF DIELECTRIC ROD ANTENNAS
FOR A TERAHERTZ FOCAL PLANE ARRAY", Stephen Hanham and Trevor
S. Bird
ASA07_paper_032: "USE OF THE NMI FULLY ANECHOIC CHAMBER
FOR EMC ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS", Yu Ji
ASA07_paper_035: "HARMONIC CONTROL OF ACTIVE MICROSTRIP
ANTENNAS USING SPIRAL DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURES", Ozgur
Isik, Yuehe Ge, and Karu P. Esselle
ASA07_paper_037: "MAXIMIZING THE GAIN OF A COMPACT
UWB TAPERED SLOT ANTENNA", Amin M. Abbosh and Marek E. Bialkowski
ASA07_paper_042: "DESIGN OF A 2.4GHZ PASSIVE TRANSPONDER
WITH A RECTANGULAR PATCH ANTENNA USING ADS 2005A", Stevan
Preradovic, Nemai Chandra Karmakar
ASA07_paper_043: "THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST AGILE
RFID READER", Stevan Preradovic, Nemai Chandra Karmakar and
Mohammad Ali
ASA07_paper_046: "INVESTIGATION OF MULTIPLE WINDOW
SPECTROGRAM TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH FREQUENCY OVER THE HORIZON RADAR",
D. A. Holdsworth and G. A. Fabrizio
ASA07_paper_048: "UWB REFLECTOMETER FOR MICROWAVE
BREAST CANCER DETECTION", Norhudah Seman and Marek E. Bialkowski
ASA07_paper_049: "Active Frequency Selective Surface
Design for WLAN", Ghaffer I Kiani, Karru P Esselle, Andrew
Weily, Kenneth L Ford
ASA07_paper_056: "A RIGOROUS APPROACH TO DIFFRACTION
FROM ARBITRARY SHAPED SHELLS OF REVOLUTION: DYNAMIC CASE",
Paul D. Smith, Sergey B. Panin, Elena D. Vinogradova, and Sergey
S. Vinogradov
ASA07_paper_058: "ON THE USE OF GROUND PENETRATING
RADAR FOR UNDERGROUND COAL MINE ROADWAY EVALUATION", Jonathon
Ralston
ASA07_paper_060: "Experimental Verification of Array
Modelling", Douglas Hayman
ASA07_paper_062: "MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS ON GAAS AND
THE USE OF CAVITIES TO IMPROVE ANTENNA EFFICIENCY AND BANDWIDTH",
Stephanie Smith and Thomas Merkle
ASA07_paper_063: "REAL TIME SUBSURFACE RADAR INTERPRETATION
ENHANCEMENT VIA HAPTIC INTERFACING: A CASE STUDY", Andrew
Strange & Jonathon Ralston
ASA07_paper_065: "DEVELOPMENT OF A THZ FREQUENCY DETECTOR",
Andrew Hellicar, Nick Beeton, Nasiha Nikolic, Jia Du
ASA07_paper_066: "DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A THZ
IMAGING SYSTEM", Andrew Hellicar, Li Li, Kieran Greene
ASA07_paper_067: "UPGRADE TO CSIRO ANTENNA TEST RANGES",
Frank Ceccato, Ken Smart, Steve Barker
12:30 - 2:00 : Lunch
** Optional Tour of the Ryde Catering College (1:30-2:00):
People interested in visiting the facilities at the Ryde TAFE
Catering College will be able to register their interest on the
first day of the conference. It is an amazing place well worth
a guided visit :)
2:00 - 3:20 : Session 6: Metamaterials & Frequency Selective
Surfaces
Session Chair: Professor Ananda Mohan
2:00 - 2:20 : ASA07_paper_002: "Analysis of Multilayer
Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) Using a Cavity Model",
Yading Li, Karu P. Esselle
2:20 - 2:40 : ASA07_paper_061: "INVESTIGATION OF AN
L-BAND PBG BACKED ANTENNA", Shaun Hamilton and Craig Blizard
2:40 - 3:00 : ASA07_paper_044: "NOVEL NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE
INDEX METAMATERIAL PLANAR BANDPASS FILTER", Isaac Balbin,
Nemai Chandra Karmakar
3:00 - 3:20 : ASA07_paper_038: "Designing EBG Resonator
Antennas using a GA-FDTD Method", Yuehe Ge, Karu P. Esselle
and Trevor S. Bird
3:20 - 3:40 : Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:40 : Session 7: Measurements
Session Chair: Roland Schwerdtfeger
3:40 - 4:00 : ASA07_paper_005: "TESTING ANTENNAS
DESIGNED FOR WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY", Donald J. Gray
4:00 - 4:20 : ASA07_paper_064: "THE ISOFILTERTM* TECHNIQUE:
ISOLATING AN INDIVIDUAL RADIATOR FROM SPHERICAL NEAR-FIELD DATA
MEASURED IN A CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT", Doren W. Hess
4:20 - 4:40 : ASA07_paper_054: "COMPARISON BETWEEN
COMPACT ANTENNA TEST RANGE AND OUTDOOR RANGE MEASUREMENTS AT 186GHz",
Stephanie Smith, Ken Smart, Greg Timms, Steve Barker and Stuart
Hay
4:40 - 5:00 : Student Prize Presentation and Closing Address
