shiwen yang

Recent Development on Tightly Coupled Antenna Arrays

The new generation of wireless electronic systems poses more severe challenges to wideband antenna array techniques. In this talk, a brief review of the radiation mechanisms and design methodologies of tightly coupled ultra-wideband (UWB) phased antenna arrays is presented. Building upon this foundation, the most representative achievements are systematically reviewed, focusing on achieving UWB operation, low profile, wide field-of-view, edge effect suppression, lightweight design, conformal capabilities, low scattering, and low-cost irregular array layout. The talk also highlights the recent development from the speaker’s research team in these areas.

Shiwen Yang is now a full professor with the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). From 1998 to 2001, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Research Scientist with Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He was a recipient of the Foundation for China Distinguished Young Investigator presented by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He was nominated as an IEEE Fellow in the year 2020. He has authored or co-authored over 400 technical articles. His research interests include 4D antenna arrays, tightly coupled antenna arrays, and lens antennas, etc. He was the Chair of the IEEE Chengdu AP/EMC Joint Chapter during 2016–2019, and he served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during 2019–2025.