Representation of electromagnetic energy around antennas: current research and future directions

D Sarkar, S Mikki, YMM Antar - IEEE Antennas and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we reconsider the subject of spatiotemporal electromagnetic (EM) energy
around the antenna near field from a fundamental perspective and discuss the use of …

Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation in Nonlocal Metamaterials---Part I: Foundations

S Mikki - Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 2020 - jpier.org
Nonlocal radiating systems are new functional structures composed of externally applied
currents radiating in nonlocal material domains, for example hot plasma, optically active …

Poynting localized energy: Method and applications to gain enhancement in coupled antenna systems

D Sarkar, SM Mikki, YMM Antar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a general and comprehensive approach to evaluate spatio-temporal localized
energy around radiating structures of arbitrary shapes and excitation signals. The method …

Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation in Nonlocal Metamaterials---Part II: Applications

S Mikki - Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 2020 - jpier.org
We deploy the general momentum space theory developed in Part I in order to explore
nonlocal radiating systems utilizing isotropic spatially-dispersive metamaterials. The …

An electromagnetic framework for the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to control massive MIMO channel characteristics

D Sarkar, S Mikki, Y Antar - 2020 14th European Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we deploy a full-wave FDTD paradigm to investigate the effect of
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)–switchable frequency-selective surfaces (FSS)–on …

On the topological structure of nonlocal continuum field theories

S Mikki - Foundations, 2021 - mdpi.com
An alternative to conventional spacetime is proposed and rigorously formulated for nonlocal
continuum field theories through the deployment of a fiber bundle-based superspace …

A correlation theory of antenna directivity with applications to superdirective arrays

S Mikki, S Clauzier, Y Antar - IEEE Antennas and Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a general approach to antenna directivity by combining the infinitesimal dipole
model (IDM) and the cross-correlation Green's function (CGF) in a new formulation. The …

FDTD computation of space/time integrated electromagnetic Lagrangian: New insights into design of mutually coupled antennas

D Sarkar, YMM Antar - IEEE Journal on Multiscale and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a formalism based on electromagnetic Lagrangian which provides
new insights about the near-field reactive energy density around generic antennas for …

On localized antenna energy in electromagnetic radiation

S Mikki, D Sarkar, YMM Antar - Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, 2019 - jpier.org
We provide a general and rigorous formulation of antenna localized electromagnetic
radiation energy in generic antenna systems based on Poynting flow instead of the spectral …

Beyond antenna Q: On reactive energy and the need for a spatio-temporal dynamical paradigm

S Mikki, D Sarkar, Y Antar - 2019 13th European Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We question the common emphasis on antenna quality factor Q and input impedance within
fundamental research in antenna theory and applied electromagnetics. Alternatively, the …