Two compact planar crossed-dipole antennas loaded with near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) elements are reported. The NFRP and crossed-dipole elements are designed for the desired circularly polarized (CP) radiation. By placing the NFRP element over the driven element at angles of 0 degrees and 45 degrees, respectively, dual-band and broadband CP antennas are realized. All radiating elements of antennas are 35 mm x 35 mm x 0.508 mm (0.187 lambda(0) x 0.187 lambda(0) x 0.0027 lambda(0) at 1.6 GHz) in size. The dual-band CP antenna has a measured vertical bar S-11 vertical bar < -10-dB bandwidth of 226 MHz (1.473-1.699 GHz) and measured 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidths of 12 MHz (1.530-1.542 GHz) and 35 MHz (1.580-1.615 GHz) with minimum AR CP frequencies of 1.535 GHz (AR = 0.26 dB) and 1.595 GHz (AR = 2.08 dB), respectively. The broadband CP antenna has a measured vertical bar S-11 vertical bar< -10-dB bandwidth of 218 MHz (1.491-1.709 GHz) and a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 145 MHz (1.490-1.635 GHz). These compact antennas yield bidirectional electromagnetic fields with high radiation efficiency across their operational bandwidths.

Les nanostructures métalliques ont la capacité de supporter des résonances de plasmons de surface localisés se caractérisant par une oscillation collective des électrons libres du métal. Ce phénomène, connu pour générer localement un champ électrique intense, peut notamment être exploité afin d'exalter les processus d'optique non-linéaire à l'échelle nanométrique. Au cours de cette thèse, nous nous sommes intéressés au processus de génération de second harmonique (SHG) de nanostructures en aluminium et en or. Tout d'abord, nous avons étudié l'origine du processus non-linéaire et mis en évidence le rôle important joué, dans l'or, par la contribution non-locale, issue des gradients de champ dans le volume de la nanostructure. Ensuite, nous avons montré, en associant un phénomène de double résonance et un accord des modes plasmoniques à l'excitation et à l'émission, qu'il est possible d'exalter fortement la réponse harmonique d'une nanoantenne compacte en aluminium. Dans l'optique d'obtenir une intensité non-linéaire encore plus importante, une stratégie est de coupler ces nanostructures à un nanocristal non-linéaire afin de bénéficier à la fois de la forte exaltation du champ générée par le métal et de la non-linéarité du cristal. Afin d'optimiser l'intensité harmonique générée par ces structures hybrides, disposer de nanocristaux possédant une forte non-linéarité intrinsèque est nécessaire. C'est pourquoi, au cours de cette thèse, nous avons mesuré la réponse harmonique de nanocristaux d'iodates de lantane isolés, afin d'estimer leur potentiel pour intégrer ce type de structure. De plus, un microscope optique en champ proche a été mis en place sur le dispositif expérimental permettant la manipulation de nanocristaux à proximité de structures métalliques. Cette thèse, en apportant de nouveaux éléments pour comprendre et optimiser le processus de SHG dans les nanostructures plasmoniques, offre de nouvelles perspectives pour confectionner des composants optiques efficaces pour la conversion de fréquence à l'échelle nanométrique. / Plasmonic nanostructures have the ability to support localised surface plasmon resonances characterized by a collective oscillation of the free electrons in metal. This phenomenon, know to generate an intense local field, can be used to enhance nonlinear optical processes at the nanoscale level. In this thesis, we have investigated the second harmonic generation (SHG) process in aluminum and gold nanostructures. First, we have studied the origin of this nonlinear process and highlighted the major role played, in gold, by the bulk nonlocal contribution, originating from the field gradients inside the nanostructure volume. Then, we pointed out, by achieving a double resonance regime associated with a plasmonic mode matching at the excitation and emission, the possibility to enhance significantly the harmonic response of compact aluminum nanoantennas. In order to increase even more the nonlinear intensity, an idea is to couple these nanostructures to a nonlinear nanocrystal to benficiate both from the field enhancement provided by the metallic nanoantenna and from the nonlinearity of the nanocrystal. To optimise the harmonic intensity generated by these hybrid structures, have nanocrystals with a strong intrinsic nonlinearity is required. To this end, we have measured the harmonic response of single latanide iodate nanocrystals, in order to evaluate their ability to integrate this type of structure. Moreover, we have implemented a near-field optical microscope used to manipulate nancorystals in the vincinity of metallic nanostructures. This thesis, by bringing new elements to understand and optimise the SHG process in plasmonic nanostructures, provides new perspectives to elaborate efficient optical components to frequency conversion at the nanoscale.

Dans le domaine de la sécurisation des circuits intégrés, tel que les cartes à puce, les concepteurs de circuits sont contraints à innover, inlassablement, afin de trouver de nouvelles parades aux nouvelles attaques, notamment par canaux cachés. En effet, ces attaques, comme l'analyse des émissions électromagnétiques, permettent d'extraire des informations, contenues à l'intérieur des circuits, sensées être secrètes. Partant de ce constat, dans cette thèse, nous nous sommes focalisés sur l'étude et l'analyse électromagnétique et ce afin de quantifier les possibilités de ces attaques. Ce manuscrit est organisé de la manière qui suit. Dans un premier temps, une plateforme de mesures des émissions électromagnétiques temporelles, que nous avons développées, est présentée, ainsi que des résultats qui ont été obtenus, avec celle-ci, sur différents circuits. A partir de ces résultats, une synthèse des possibilités, relatives à la menace sécuritaire que constituent les analyses électromagnétiques est proposée ainsi que, des propositions de solutions, visant à réduire le rayonnement électromagnétique des circuits intégrés. Dans un second temps, nous nous sommes intéressés aux méthodes de simulation de ces émissions électromagnétiques. Un état de l'art, des outils de simulation existants aujourd'hui, nous a permis de mettre en évidence qu'aucun d'eux ne permet d'avoir une résolution suffisamment fine en termes d'émissions électromagnétiques. Afin de combler ce manque, un flot de simulation a été développé. Pour valider ce flot, une comparaison entre les résultats de mesure et les résultats de simulation a été effectuée. / In the area of secure integrated circuits, such as smart cards, circuit designers are always looking to innovate to find new countermeasures against attacks by the various side channels that exist today. Indeed, side channels attacks such as the analysis of electromagnetic emissions permit to extract secret information contained in circuits. Based on this observation, in this thesis, we focused on the study of electromagnetic analysis to observe the analysis possibilities. This manuscript is organized as follows. Initially, we presented a measurement system for electromagnetic emissions in time domain, and the results obtained on different circuits. From these results, a summary of opportunities, relating to the security threat, posed by electromagnetic analysis, is proposed as well as solutions proposals to reduce electromagnetic radiations of integrated circuits. In a second step, we are interested in the simulation of electromagnetic emissions. A state of the art of simulation tools which exist today, has allowed us to demonstrate that none of them allowed to have a fine enough resolution in terms of electromagnetic emissions. To fill this gap, a simulation tool has been developed and to validate this flow, a comparison between measurement results and simulation results was performed.

This thesis presents studies of novel terahertz photonic devices, including photoconductive optoelectronic devices and guided-wave components, aimed at the development of next-generation terahertz systems. In chapter 2, a scalable interdigitated THz transmitter is designed to increase the output power and compared with a conventional 50 μm coplanar transmitter. In chapter 3, we compare four different receivers with different antenna geometries in terms of bandwidth and sensitivity. Then we describe a photoconductive near-field detector with a subwavelength aperture and its system integration and characterization. In chapter 4, a parallel metal plate waveguide is designed with an integrated step inside the waveguide that can couple to higher order TM modes efficiently from the TEM mode. In this chapter, we also experimentally and numerically study a 2-dimensionally tapered parallel plate waveguide, by which a free-space THz beam can be focused into a deep subwavelength-scale volume. In chapter 5, a parallel thin dielectric film waveguide is used to explore the guiding mechanism of an antiresonant optical reflection waveguide. Cylindrical silica single capillaries and a microstructured capillary, which guide in a similar way, are characterized in terms of mode profiles and attenuation. In chapter 6, we study oblique transmission through freestanding thin nickel films, which are perforated with periodic conical hole arrays. Surface modes can be supported by both metallic surfaces with different nonlinear dispersion curves, which results in spectral interferences in a near-field region when the surface modes couple out of the waveguide into free space.

Increasingly, goods and services are purchased over the Internet without any form of physical currency. This practice, often called e-commerce, offers sellers and buyers a convenient way to trade globally as no physical currency must change hands and buyers from anywhere in the world can browse online store fronts from around the globe. Nevertheless, many transactions still require a physical presence. For these sorts of transactions, a new technology called Near Field Communication has emerged to provide buyers with some of the conveniences of e-commerce while still allowing them to purchase goods locally. Near Field Communication (NFC), an evolution of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), allows one electronic device to transmit short messages to another nearby device. A buyer can store his or her payment information on a tag and a cashier can retrieve that information with an appropriate reader. Advanced devices can store payment information for multiple credit and debit cards as well as gift cards and other credentials. By consolidating all of these payment forms into a single device, the buyer has fewer objects to carry with her. Further, proper implementation of such a device can offer increased security over plastic cards in the form of advanced encryption. Using a testing platform consisting of commercial, off-the-shelf components, this dissertation investigates the security of the NFC physical-layer protocols as well as the primary NFC security protocol, NFC-SEC. In addition, it analyzes a situation in which the NFC protocols appear to break, potentially compromising sensitive data. Finally, this dissertation provides a proof of security for the NFC-SEC-1 variation of NFC-SEC.

"Near-field diagnosis of antenna arrays is often done using microwave holography; however, the technique of near-field to near-field back-propagation quickly loses its accuracy with measurements taken farther than one wavelength from the aperture. The loss of accuracy is partially due to windowing, but may also be attributed to the decay of evanescent modes responsible for the fine distribution of the fields close to the array. In an effort to achieve better resolution, the difference between these two phase-synchronized near-field measurements is used and propagated back. The performance of such a method is established for different conditions; the extension of this technique to the calibration of small antenna arrays is also discussed. The method is based on the idea of differential backpropagation using the measured/simulated/analytical data in the near field. After completing the corresponding literature search authors have found that the same idea was first proposed by P. L. Ransom and R. Mittra in 1971, at that point with the Univ. of Illinois. This method is basically the same, but it includes a few distinct features: 1. The near field of a (faulty) array under test is measured at via a near field antenna range. 2. The template (non-faulty) near field of an array is simulated numerically (full-wave FDTD solver or FEM Ansoft/ANSYS HFSS solver) at the same distance - an alternative is to use measurements for a non-faulty array. 3. Both fields are assumed (or made) to be coherent (synchronized in phase). 4. A difference between two fields is formed and is then propagated back to array surface using the angular spectrum method (inverse Fourier propagator). The corresponding result is the surface (aperture) error field. This approach is more precise than the inverse Rayleigh formula used in Ransom and Mittra's paper since the evanescent spectrum may be included into consideration. 5. The error field magnitude peaks at faulty elements (both amplitude and phase excitation fault). 6. The method inherently includes all mutual coupling effects since both the template field and the measured field are full-wave results."

Les microscopes en champ proche micro-ondes sont des outils émergents pour la caractérisation des matériaux. Dans ce travail, une sonde de champ proche a été conçue, décrite et analysée en termes de performance et de résolution. Cette sonde a été associée à deux microscopes en champ proche micro-ondes. Le premier microscope est basé sur de la réflectométrie en intensité et a permis d'évaluer la qualité et la résolution latérale de la sonde. Cette résolution peut atteindre une dimension sub-longueur d'onde ouvrant la voie pour une caractérisation locale des matériaux. La seconde expérience présente la conception d'un banc de caractérisation des matériaux. Ce système met en œuvre un mélangeur I/Q afin d'extraire l'information en intensité et en phase de l'interaction en champ proche. Enfin, la dernière expérience concerne l'injection électromagnétique en champ proche d'un signal hors-bande sur un module de communication. L'ensemble des résultats montrent que l'expérience d'injection en champ proche a le potentiel pour devenir un outil de métrologie important pour l'étude de la susceptibilité. / Microwave near-field microscopes are emerging tools for material characterization. In this work, a near-field probe was designed, described and analyzed in terms of performance and resolution. This probe has been associated with two microscopes in the near microwave field. The first microscope is based on intensity reflectometry and evaluated the quality and lateral resolution of the probe. This resolution can reach a subwavelength dimension, opening the way to local characterization of materials. The second experiment presents the design of a materials characterization bench. This system uses an I/Q mixer to extract information in intensity and phase of near-field interaction. Finally, the last experiment concerns electromagnetic injection in the near field of an out-of-band signal on a communication module. The overall results show that the near-field injection experiment has the potential to become an important metrology tool for susceptibility studies.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Uma parcela significativa da pesquisa cientÃfica hodierna baseia-se na sÃntese, caracterizaÃÃo ou aplicaÃÃo de materiais nanoestruturados. No intuito de possibilitar um maior entendimento das intrigantes propriedades destes materiais, muitas tÃcnicas com resoluÃÃo nanomÃtrica e atà subnanomÃtrica foram criadas nos Ãltimos 50 anos e tÃm passado por um processo de contÃnuo aprimoramento. Apesar do grande desenvolvimento tÃcnico e cientÃfico da instrumentaÃÃo disponÃvel, a caracterizaÃÃo Ãtica com resoluÃÃo nanomÃtrica destes materiais tem se mostrado um desafio para pesquisadores do mundo inteiro. Nesse contexto, as tÃcnicas baseadas em radiaÃÃo de campo prÃximo tÃm despontado como uma boa alternativa para quebra do limite de difraÃÃo, que constitui um limite natural para os instrumentos Ãticos convencionais. AlÃm disso, a microscopia de campo prÃximo em modo de iluminaÃÃo e contato adquire simultaneamente informaÃÃes Ãticas e topogrÃficas do material, o que permite fazer uma distinÃÃo entre as propriedades Ãticas nanomÃtricas reais e as induzidas por topografia. O fenÃmeno de domÃnios cristalogrÃficos tem sido um assunto de interesse da cristalografia desde que ela comeÃou a se desenvolver como ciÃncia. As razÃes Ãbvias para isso sÃo a beleza de formas externas de algumas estruturas de domÃnios, assim como as evidentes e desafiantes relaÃÃes de simetria entre os seus constituintes. Os domÃnios ferroelÃsticos sÃo um dos importantes tipos de domÃnios apresentados por cristais. Tais domÃnios apresentam, algumas vezes, dimensÃes muito reduzidas sem manifestar uma considerÃvel alteraÃÃo na estrutura topogrÃfica da amostra. Por outro lado, o comportamento Ãtico de domÃnios distintos pode ser bem diferente quando sujeitos a uma mesma condiÃÃo de medida. Tais caracterÃsticas tornam esta classe de materiais ideais para um estudo baseado na microscopia de campo prÃximo em modo de iluminaÃÃo e contato. Imagens de domÃnios ferroelÃsticos, utilizando microscopia de campo prÃximo em modo de iluminaÃÃo e contato, foram obtidas com resoluÃÃo nanomÃtrica. Tais imagens, em geral, apresentaram pouquÃssima relaÃÃo com a estrutura topogrÃfica do material, revelando importantes caracterÃsticas Ãticas (ocorrÃncia do efeito de guias de onda nos domÃnios) e estruturais (dimensÃes dos domÃnios ferroelÃsticos, presenÃa de defeitos de deslocamento na rede cristalina). / A significant part of the nowadays scientific research is based on the synthesis, characterization and application of the nanostructured materials. In order to make possible a further understanding of the intriguing properties of these materials, many techniques with nanometric and even subnanometric resolution have been created during the last 50 years and are passing through a process of continuous improvement. In spite of the great scientific and technical development on the available instrumentation, the optical characterization with nanometric resolution of these materials remains a challenge for researchers from all over the world. In this context, techniques based on near field radiation have emerged as a great alternative for the diffraction limit break which is a nature imposed limit for conventional optical instruments. Besides this, contact near field microscopy in illumination mode acquires optical and topographical information of the material simultaneously. This capability permits the distinction between the real and topographic induced nanometric optical features. The domain phenomenon in crystals has been a subject of interest for crystallographers since crystallography started to develop as a scientific branch. The obvious reasons are the beauty of some domain patterns as well as evident and challenging symmetry relations between their constituents. The ferroelastic domains are one of the important kinds of domains presented by crystals. They have, sometimes, very small dimensions without inducing any topographic element on the sample. On the other side the optical behavior of different domains under almost the same measurement condition may be very dissimilar. Such characteristics make then an ideal class of materials for contact near field microscopy in illumination mode based studies. Ferroelastic domains images, using near-field optical microscopy in illumination and contact mode, were obtained with a nanometric resolution. Such images, in general, presented very little relation with the topographical structure of the material, revealing optical and structural features such as occurrence of the waveguide effect in the domains, domainÂs dimensions and presence of dislocations on the crystalline structure. &#8195;

Distributed MIMO (DMIMO) communications and specifically the idea of distributed transmit beamforming involves multiple transmitters coordinating among themselves to form a virtual antenna array and steer a beam to one or more receivers. Recent works have successfully demonstrated this concept of beamforming with narrowband, frequency-flat wireless channels. We consider the generalization of this concept to wideband, frequency selective channels and propose two Figures of Merit (FOMs), namely, communication capacity and received power to measure the performance of beamforming. We formulate the precoder design that maximizes the two FOMs as optimization problems and derive general properties of the optimal precoders. The two metrics are equivalent with frequency-flat channels, whereas, they result in vastly different optimal criteria with wideband channels. The capacity maximizing solution also differs from classical water-filling due to the per-transmitter power constraints of the distributed beamforming setting, whereas, the power maximizing solution involves the array nodes concentrating their power in a small, finite set of frequencies resulting in an overall received signal consisting of a small number of sinusoidal tones. We have not been able to derive closed-form solutions for the optimal precoders, but we provide fixed point algorithms that efficiently computes these precoders numerically. We show using simulations that solution to both these maximization problems can yield substantially better performance as compared to simple alternatives such as equal power allocation. The fixed point algorithms also suggest a distributed implementation where each node can compute these precoders on their own iteratively using feedback from a cooperating receiver. We also establish the relationship between various precoders. The idea of maximizing received power suggests a natural application of wireless power transfer(WPT). However, the large-scale propagation losses associated with radiative fields makes antennas unattractive for WPT systems. Motivated by this observation, we also consider the problem of optimizing the efficiency of WPT to a receiver coil from multiple transmitters using near-field coupling. This idea of WPT using near-field coupling is not new; however, the difficulty of constructing tractable and realistic circuit models has limited the ability to accurately predicting and optimizing the performance of these systems. We present a new simple theoretical model and take the more abstract approach of modeling the WPT system as a linear circuit whose input-output relationship is expressed in terms of a small number of unknown parameters. We present a simple derivation of the optimal voltage excitations to be applied at the transmitters to maximize efficiency, and also some general properties of the optimal solution. Obviously, the optimal solution is a function of unknown parameters, and we describe a procedure to estimate these parameters using a set of direct measurements. We also present a series of experimental results, first, with two transmitter coils and a receiver coil in a variety of configurations and then with four transmitter coils and two receiver coils to illustrate our approach and the efficiency increase achieved by using the calculated optimal solution from our model.

The contrast mechanism in Kerr imaging is the apparent angle through which the plane of polarization is rotated upon reflection from a magnetic surface. This can be calculated for a well characterized surface given the polarization state of the incident light. As in traditional optical microscopy, the spatial resolution is limited by diffraction to roughly half the wavelength of the illumination light. The diffraction limit can be circumvented through the use of near-field scanning optical microscopy, in which the illumination source is an evanescent field at the tip of a tapered optical fiber. A novel probe design for near-field optical imaging in reflection mode will be proposed, and experimental work on the development of a near-field Kerr microscope performed up to this point will be presented. The complication in merging these two techniques arises from the complex polarization profile of the evanescent field. This profile can be characterized for a given probe geometry with the use of electromagnetic field modeling software, allowing for subsequent modeling of the polarization profile of the optical response. An algorithm for predicting the optical response to a near-field probe tip from a generalized multilayer thin-film is presented.