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Les travaux de recherche s'inscrivent dans le cadre du projet intitulé « PAC-ID Grande Distribution » du Pôle de compétitivité « Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées ». Ce projet, d'une durée de trente mois, vise à promouvoir le déploiement en volume de la technologie RFID en bande UHF dans le secteur de la grande distribution. Il rassemble plusieurs entreprises ayant un rôle clé dans le domaine de la RFID. En effet, comme utilisateur potentiels finaux de la technologie RFID, on retrouve aussi bien un acteur important du monde de la grande distribution, en l'occurrence l'entreprise Carrefour, qu'un représentant des PME, Malongo. Les entreprises IBM et Orange se focalisent sur la gestion de données RFID et l'implémentation du système informatique. A côté de cela, une nouvelle génération de puces RFID est développée par la société ST Microelectronics. L'expertise des sociétés IER et TAGSYS dans le domaine de la fabrication aussi bien d'étiquettes que de lecteurs RFID permet de faire le lien entre l'ensemble de ces acteurs et d'apporter des réponses techniques aux différents besoins métiers exprimés. A l'intérieur de ce projet d'envergure, l'intervention du Laboratoire de Conception et d'Intégration des Systèmes (LCIS) sur un plan d'avantage exploratoire, a consisté à développer un procédé original de conception automatisé de tags RFID adaptés aux contraintes de la grande distribution. Ce travail nous a permis de monter les performances de la méthodologie de conception d'antennes pour les tags RFID en bande UHF introduite. Une application permettant d'automatiser la conception d'antennes basées sur l'utilisation d'un logiciel de simulation RF a été introduite. Cette application pourrait parfaitement être implémentée sur le logiciel lui-même afin de venir compléter les outils de CAO déjà présent. / The research is part of the project entitled "PAC-ID Grande Distribution" under the competitiveness cluster "Secured Communicating Solutions". This project, for a period of thirty months, aims to promote the UHF RFID mass volume deployment for retail application. It brings together several companies with an important work in the RFID field. Indeed, as a potential end user of the RFID technology, there is a major player in the world of retail, in this case the company Carrefour, a representative of Malongo. IBM and Orange companies focus on data management and RFID system implementation. Besides, a new RFID chip generation is developed by ST Microelectronics. The expertise of companies IER and TAGSYS in the field of manufacturing labels and readers can make the connection between all of these actors and technical answers to different business needs expressed. Within this major project, the contribution of the Laboratory LCIS is to develop a novel method of automated design of RFID tags suitable for constraints supermarkets. This work has allowed us to raise the performance of the introduced antenna design methodology for RFID tags at UHF band. An application to automate the antenna design based on the use of RF simulation software was introduced, tested and validated. This could well be implemented on the software itself to complete the CAD tools already present.

abstract: The Universe transitioned from a state of neutral hydrogen (HI) shortly after recombination to its present day ionized state, but this transition, the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), has been poorly constrained by observational data. Estimates place the EoR between redshifts 6 < z <13 (330-770 Myr). The interaction of the 21 cm hyperfine ground state emission/absorption-line of HI with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the radiation from the first luminous sources in the universe can be used to extract cosmological information about the EoR. Theorists have created global redshifted 21 cm EoR models of this interaction that predict the temperature perturbations to the CMB in the form of a sky-averaged difference temperature, Tb. The difficulty in measuring Tb is that it is predicted to be on the order of 20 to 100 mK, while the sky foreground is dominated by synchrotron radiation that is 105 times brighter. The challenge is to subtract the much brighter foreground radiation without subtracting the Tb signal and can only be done when the data has small error levels. The Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES) is an effort to measure Tb with a single wide field-of-view well-calibrated antenna. This dissertation focuses on reducing systematic errors by quantifying the impact of the chromatic nature of the antenna’s beam directivity and by measuring the variability of the spectral index of the radio sky foreground. The chromatic beam study quantified the superior qualities of the rectangular blade-shaped antenna and led to its adoption over the previously used fourpoint-shaped antenna and determined that a 5 term polynomial was optimum for removing the foreground. The spectral index, β, of the sky was measured, using 211 nights of data, to be −2.60 > β > −2.62 in lower LST regions, increasing to −2.50 near the Galactic plane. This matched simulated results using the Guzm´an et al. (2011) sky map (∆β < 0.05) and demonstrated the exceptional stability of the EDGES instrument. Lastly, an EoR model by Kaurov & Gnedin (2016) was shown to be inconsistent with measured EDGES data at a significance level of 1.9. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Astrophysics and Astronomy 2017

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The focus of this thesis is the design, manufacturing and testing of a deployable radio antenna for the ORCASat nanosatellite. First, the context, motivation, requirements, as well as constraints for this project are introduced. Next, a brief overview of theoretical concepts relevant to the contents of this thesis are presented. After the introduction of the relevant background and theory, a literature review is undertaken, and an experiment-based methodology is established. Prior to conceptualizing a new design, detailed consideration is also given to previous attempts at designing a dipole for ORCASat. The root cause of the problems with these attempts is determined experimentally as the presence of ground planes on the circuit board supporting the antenna. After this preliminary investigation, the blocks required for the ORCASat antenna are introduced as the transmission line feeder, the balun, the impedance matching block, and the antenna arm feed. For each of these components, competing design concepts are developed, and the advantages and disadvantages of each of these concepts are presented. After this, the winning design concept is selected and developed into a manufacturable design. This design is identified as a tunable tape spring half wave dipole antenna featuring a specialized feed with electrically and mechanically optimal characteristics, no impedance matching, and a lossy choke balun wound from the coaxial cable feeder, all mounted on a circuit board in a pre-existing Delrin antenna deployer. Next, the manufacturing and assembly of this design is undertaken, followed by the consideration of an informal commissioning procedure. As part of this, a test article consisting of an incomplete prototype of the dipole is tested, and it is shown to have desirable voltage standing wave ratio, input impedance, and return loss characteristics, as well as excellent tunability. Having established that this test article is a good candidate to meet project requirements, it is updated to include as many of the final components of the antenna as possible. Then, formal test procedures for the verification of the tunability, return loss, VSWR, input impedance, antenna pattern, and absolute gain are established, and executed. Based on the results of this formal verification test campaign, it is concluded that the test article meets the requirements presented at the beginning of this thesis, and it is suitable as a radio antenna for the ORCASat mission. After this, the work is concluded by a set of recommendations for future work to prepare the antenna developed in this thesis for flight. / Graduate

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This thesis presents a novel antenna structure that satisfies the challenging requirements of an air coupled high speed ground penetrating radar (GPR). The desired GPR system is to achieve high spatial resolution and accurate inspection results while scanning at relatively high speed for highway pavement and bridge deck inspection. This work utilizes the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) antenna design to achieve both physical and electrical requirements imposed. The design procedure starts with a short survey to discuss typical UWB antennas used for GPR applications, and various tradeoffs of each type specifically when used for Air Coupled GPR applications. Our structure anatomy is presented, followed by a theory introduction that mainly focuses on achieving good impedance matching throughout the proposed antenna structure. A proof-of-concept MATLAB model is created to evaluate the preliminary physical dimensions that can achieve minimum reflections at antenna's feed point. These dimensions are then used in SolidWorks to create a 3D model that is imported later in HFSS to obtain accurate electromagnetic characteristics. Furthermore, fine tunings are performed to the antenna structure to optimize both gain and impedance matching. The SolidWorks 3-D structural model is finally used for antenna fabrication. The measurements recorded from the field experiments using the prototypes manufactured are compared to the simulation results confirming our initial findings. Both measurements and simulation results demonstrated very small reflection loss across the 700 MHz ~ 6 GHz frequency band with a very high directed gain and radiation efficiency.

Le travail de thèse a été réalisée dans le cadre du projet ANR «Stick’It» visant à développer de nouvelles technologies peu coûteuses et innovantes dédiées à la conception de composants radiofréquences (RF) 2D, 2,5D et 3D, notamment des antennes imprimées sur des matériaux conformes. Les applications ciblées sont principalement des appareils de réseaux domestique, tels que les décodeurs, dont les formes et les dimensions sont très variées. Par conséquent, il est nécessaire de concevoir des antennes sur des substrats souples.Selon nos besoins pour un matériau de substrat flexible, peu coûteux, avec de bonnes propriétés RF, la capacité de recyclage et en particulier la capacité à fabriquer des structures 3D, après avoir étudié différents matériaux diélectriques pour l’électronique flexible, le papier s'est trouvé le plus adapté.Les travaux de cette thèse se sont déroulés en trois phases.Dans la première phase, c'était l'étude des méthodes de caractérisation des matériaux pour obtenir leurs propriétés électromagnétiques. Après l'analyse, la méthode de perturbation utilisant une cavité cylindrique a été choisie pour la caractérisation du papier. Les premiers résultats de ce processus ont été vérifiés en réalisant et en testant des antennes simples telles que des monopoles alimentés par CPW sur du papier et du PET. Ensuite, la mesure du papier E4D a été effectuée avec 50 échantillons découpés dans différentes feuilles de papier E4D de trois épaisseurs différentes, 104 m, 210 m et 387 m. Les résultats ont été analysés statistiquement et ont donné r = 3.184, tan = 0.092. Les dispersions des résultats mesurés à 2,5 GHz sont 0.25% pour r et 0.26% pour tan. Ces résultats ont été utilisés pour la phase suivante.Au cours de la deuxième phase, les antennes différentes ont été conçues sur le papier E4D d'épaisseur 0,104 mm et 0,21 mm, notamment des IFA, des antennes SIW et des antennes monopoles alimentées par une ligne microruban. Les prototypes ont été réalisés à l'aide d'une technique de sérigraphie et testés pour déterminer les propriétés de l'adaptation et les diagrammes de rayonnement.Dans la troisième phase, les antennes proposées ont été étudiées dans des conditions d'emballage réalistes, où un boîtier décodeur était en plastique ABS avec différentes dimensions. Le premier cas concernait deux antennes MIMO placées orthogonalement dans des boîtiers ABS différents, avec un espace suffisant pour que les deux puissent rester plats. Le second cas était une boîte à hauteur limitée, de sorte qu’au moins une des antennes doit être pliée.Ainsi, une étude de l'effet de flexion a été réalisée, tout d'abord avec un simple dipôle droit et un monopole droit sur le papier E4D, puis avec une antenne à large bande proposée dans la seconde phase. L’étude a montré que la flexion n’affecte pas beaucoup l’adaptation de l’antenne sur une large bande de fréquences. Cependant, ses diagrammes de rayonnement tournent dans le plan E avec un angle de rotation dépendant de la position de pliage et de l'angle de flexion.Ensuite, le système MIMO de deux antennes placé orthogonalement dans un boîtier ABS de hauteur limitée, de sorte qu’une antenne doit être pliée et une autre reste plate. Dans tous les cas de système d'antenne MIMO, nous avons obtenu une bonne isolation (> 20 dB) et un coefficient de corrélation (ECC) inférieur à 0,05. / The thesis was carried out within the ANR project « Stick’It » that aimed at developing new, low-cost and innovative technologies devoted to the design of 2D, 2,5D and 3D radiofrequency (RF) components including antennas printed on conformable materials. The targeted applications are primarily home-networking devices such as set-top boxes where their forms and dimensions are widely varied. Therefore, it is necessary to design antennas on flexible substrates.According to our needs for a substrate material that is flexible, low cost, with good RF properties, recycling ability, and especially ability to make 3D structures, after considering various dielectric materials for flexible electronics, paper substrate appeared to be the most suitable for our purpose.The work of this thesis conducted in three phases.In the first phase, it was the study of methods for characterization of materials to obtain their electromagnetic properties. After analysis, the method of perturbation using a cylindrical cavity was chosen for characterization of paper. The first results of this process were verified by realization and testing of simple antennas such as CPW-fed monopoles on paper and PET. Then, the measurement of E4D paper substrate was performed with 50 samples cut from various E4D paper sheets of three different thicknesses, 104 m, 210 m and 387 m. The results were analyzed statistically and gave r = 3.184, tan = 0.092.The dispersions of the results measured at 2.5 GHz are 0.25% for r and 0.26% for tan. These results were used for the next phase.In the second phase, different antennas were designed on 0.104-mm and 0.21-mm thick E4D paper including IFAs, SIW cavity-back antenna and microstrip-fed wideband monopole antennas. The prototypes were realized using screen printing technique and tested for matching property and radiation patterns.In the third phase the proposed antennas were studied in realistic package conditions, where a set-top box was made of ABS plastic with different dimensions. The first case was with two MIMO antennas orthogonally located in different ABS boxes with sufficient space, so that both of them can remain flat. The second case was a box with a restricted height, so that at least one of the antennas needs to be bent.Thus, a study of bending effect was carried out, first of all, with a simple straight dipole and a straight monopole on E4D paper, then with a wideband antenna proposed in the second phase. The study showed, that bending does not much affect the matching of the antenna over a wide frequency band. However, its radiation patterns rotate in the E-plane with a rotation angle depending on the bending location and bending angle.Then, the MIMO system of two antennas placed orthogonally in an ABS box with restricted height so that one antenna needed to be bent and another remained flat. In all cases of MIMO antenna system, we obtained good isolation (>20 dB) and Envelope Correlation Coefficient (ECC) less than 0.05.