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2011 XXXth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium

Istanbul, Turkey 13 – 20 August 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

STUDY OF KOCH MONOPOLE FRACTAL ANTENNA .......................................................................................................................... 1N. Sable, S. Gharat, J. Bhosale, S. Khobragade, V. Anitha

STATUS OF UTC/TAI ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5E. Arias, G. Panfilo, G. Petit

THE ROLE OF THE ITU-R IN TIME SCALE DEFINITION.................................................................................................................... 9R. Beard

OVERVIEW OF JAPAN STANDARD TIME GENERATION ................................................................................................................. 13Y. Hanado, F. Nakagawa, H. Ito, K. Imamura, M. Hosokawa

MERGING MASER AND CESUIM CLOCKS IN TIMESCALES........................................................................................................... 17D. Matsakis, G. Panfilo

CURRENT STATUS OF THE FRENCH ATOMIC TIME SCALES TA(F) AND UTC(OP)................................................................ 19P. Uhrich, M. Abgrall, D. Valat

ALGORITHM AND PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS OF NEW TIME SCALE OF NPLI ............................................................ 23P. Thorat, P. Banerjee

TIMING IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS ........................................................................................................................... 27J. Levine

THE NEW TIME AND FREQUENCY LABORATORY FOR THE SARDINIA RADIO TELESCOPE ........................................... 31R. Ambrosini, P. Bolli, F. Gaudiomonte, F. Messina, M. Roma

A DIGITAL TIME SCALE AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY ...................................... 35S. Romisch, S. Jefferts, T. Parker

SATELLITE CLOCKS CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS.................................................................................................................................................................................. 39

A. Cernigliaro, I. Sesia

AN OVERVIEW OF THE TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING THE DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43

O. Tershchenko, F. Buesink, F. Leferink

ELECTROSTATIC MEASUREMENTS OF LOW CAPACITANCE CHANGES IN A PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITOR .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47

C. Sohl, M. Gustafsson, G. Kristensson, D. Lovric, M. Nilsson, A. Sunesson

DIELECTRIC MATERIAL MEASUREMENTS SUPPORTED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SOLVERS ........................... 51E. Kilic, U. Siart, C. Schmidt, T. Eibert

MULTI-SCALE ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP STRUCTURES AND ANTENNA APPLICATIONS .................................... 55E. Ozdemir, C. Sabah

RADIO-FREQUENCY TRANSPORT OF SINGLE ELECTRONS IN SUPERCONDUCTOR-NORMAL-METAL TUNNEL JUNCTIONS AND THE QUANTUM METROLOGICAL TRIANGLE................................................................................ 59

A. Kemppinen, V. Maisi, O. Saira, S. Kafanov, S. Lotkhov, Y. Pashkin, T. Aref, M. Meschke, M. Mottonen, O. Hahtela, J. Hassel, J. Luomahaara, E. Mykkanen, H. Koivula, D. Averin, H. Seppa, J. Tsai, A. Zorin, A. Mannien, J. Pekola

TOWARD ACCURATE ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS USING MULTI-PROBE SYSTEMS.......................................................... 63T. Laitinen, J. Toivanen, P. Vainikainen

DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF A PLANAR NEAR FIELD ANTENNA MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ....................................... 67Y. Ozturk, F. Ustuner

A DIRECT MATRIX APPROACH TO 3-D ANTENNA RADIATION-PATTERN ESTIMATION FROM PARTIALLY-SCANNED SPHERICAL NEAR-FIELD DATA................................................................................................................. 71

T. Yang, W. Davis

THE ENGINEERING IMPLEMENT OF ANTENNA TIME-DOMAIN NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 75

B. Cui, Z. Xue, N. Wang, W. Ren, W. Li, X. Xu

DESIGN OF WIDEBAND DUAL-POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS ...................................................................................... 79J. Jeon

DUAL FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE MICROSTRIP ANTENNA USING VARACTOR DIODES ........................................ 83M. Nishamol, C. Aanandan, P. Mohanan, K. Vasudevan

U-SLOT STACKED PATCH ANTENNA USING HIGH AND LOW DIELECTRIC CONSTANT MATERIAL COMBINATIONS IN S-BAND ...................................................................................................................................................................... 87

K. Surmeli, B. Turetken

CAPACITIVE FEEDING FOR SLOTTED MICROSTRIP PATCH ....................................................................................................... 91P. Musale, S. Khobragade, V. Anitha

SIMULATION OF A RECTANGULAR SPIRAL SHAPED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA ...................................................... 95A. Aoad, E. Korkmaz

A NEW EFFECTIVE ANTENNA FOR MOBILE HEADSETS ................................................................................................................ 98M. Bank, M. Haridim, S. Tapuchi, J. Gavan

COMPACT COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE FED GROUND MEANDERED ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS APPLICATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................................102

R. Sujith, S. Mridula, C. Aanandan, K. Vasudevan, P. Mohanan

CORRUGATED DUAL BAND WAVEGUIDE AND EM SIGNAL GENERATORS - AN OVERVIEW FOR FUTURE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION POSSIBILITIES .............................................................................................................106

R. Todd, D. Linton, G. Stafford, M. O'Droma

ANALYSING OF THE FEED LINE AND THE SHROUD EFFECTS ON A REFLECTOR ANTENNA PERFORMANCE...........................................................................................................................................................................................110

M. Gurcan, E. Basaran, B. Turetken

A NEW REFLECTOR ANTENNA DESIGN PROVIDING TWO DIFFERENT PATTERNS ...........................................................114M. Kartal, I. Gungor, B. Doken

INVESTIGATIONS INTO HEM12δ MODE RADIATING FROM A CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA ............................................................................................................................................................................118

A. Banerjee, D. Guha

A COMPARISON OF A FINITE AND AN INFINITE ANTENNA ARRAY WITH CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ELEMENTS ...............................................................................................................................................122

A. Motevasselian, A. Ellgardt, B. Jonsson

SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF AN ANTENNA IN A HIGH GAIN CONFIGURATION .................................................................126S. Weiss

MEASUREMENT OF BALANCED ANTENNAS USING MIXED-MODE NETWORK PARAMETERS ......................................130N. Yang, C. Caloz, K. Wu

LOW PHASE NOISE MICROWAVE GENERATION WITH FIBER-BASED FEMTOSECOND LASERS AND APPLICATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................................134

W. Zhang, T. Li, A. Haboucha, A. Luiten, R. Holzwarth, G. Santarelli, Y. Coq

CRYOGENIC SAPPHIRE MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS FOR SPACE, METROLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................138

V. Giordano, S. Grop, P. Bourgeois, Y. Kersale, E. Rubiola, M. Mrad, C. Langham, M. Oxborrow, W. Schafer

CHARACTERIZATION OF TIMING JITTER IN ULTRAFAST FIBER AND TI:S LASERS ........................................................142J. Cox, A. Benedick, F. Kartner

OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS FOR LOW PHASE NOISE MICROWAVE GENERATION.....................................................146F. Quinlan, T. Fortier, M. Kirchner, J. Taylor, J. Bergquist, T. Rosenband, N. Lemke, A. Ludlow, Y. Jiang, C. Oates, S. Diddams

PRECISION NOISE MEASUREMENTS AND OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY STABILIZATION .................................................149E. Ivanov, M. Tobar

AN S/C-BAND SIGE HBT DIFFERENTIAL VCO USING A NOVEL HPF-TYPE RESONATOR COMPRISED OF THE CHIP INDUCTORS FOR A HIGHER OSCILLATION FREQUENCY................................................................................153

Y. Itoh, Y. Tashiro

THE REVIEWS AND PROSPECTS FOR RADIOMETER CALIBRATION RESEARCH OF BIRMM.........................................157C. Cheng, Y. Yang, H. Zhai, F. Nian, W. He, T. Chen

INTERMODULATION BEAM SPREADING IN DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ..............................................161A. Zaghloul, O. Kilic

AN IMPROVED SCHEME TOWARDS FAST HANDOVER IN A HIERARCHICAL MOBILE NETWORK ..............................165R. Chaki, N. Niyogi

3.3 - 3.7 GHZ 180° HYBRID COUPLER DESIGN ....................................................................................................................................169O. Kizilbey, O. Palamutcuogullari

A COMPACT SIZE RECONFIGURABLE PIFA ANTENNA FOR USE IN MOBILE HANDSET ..................................................173L. Elfergani, R. Abd-Alhameed, C. See, T. Sadeghpour, Y. Dama, S. Jones, P. Excell

OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCK WITH NEUTRAL MERCURY..............................................................................................................177S. Mejri, L. Yi, J. McFerran, S. Bize

OPTICAL FREQUENCY METROLOGY WITH YTTERBIUM AND STRONTIUM OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS .........................................................................................................................................................................................................179

F. Hong, M. Yasuda, T. Kohno, K. Hosaka, D. Akamatsu, H. Inaba, Y. Nakajima, K. Iwakuni, A. Onae

IMPROVED MEASUREMENT OF THE 40CA+ CLOCK TRANSITION FREQUENCY TOWARDS AN UNCERTAINTY OF 10-15 LEVEL...............................................................................................................................................................181

K. Matsubara, K. Hayasaka, Y. Li, S. Nagano, H. Ito, R. Kojima, M. Kajita, Y. Hanado, Y. Koyama, M. Hosokawa

SYNCHRONOUS FREQUENCY COMPARISON OF OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS TO APPROACH THE QUANTUM LIMIT........................................................................................................................................................................................185

H. Katori, T. Takano, M. Takamoto

DEVELOPMENTS OF OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARDS AT NICT AND ALL-OPTICAL COMPARISON AGAINST A REMOTE CLOCK IN UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO USING 60KM FIBER LINK ...........................186

Y. Koyama, M. Fujieda, H. Hachisu, T. Ido, R. Kojima, M. Kumagai, Y. Li, K. Matsubara, S. Nagano, N. Shiga, A. Yamaguchi

A FEMTOSECOND-PRECISION, FIBER-OPTIC TIMING TRANSFER SYSTEM WITH LONG-TERM STABLE, POLARIZATION MAINTAINING OUTPUT .........................................................................................................................190

J. Cox, F. Kartner

FREQUENCY COMB METROLOGY AT PHZ FREQUENCIES: PRECISION IN THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET.............................................................................................................................................................................................194

C. Gohle, D. Kandula, T. Pinkert, J. Morgenweg, I. Barmes, W. Ubachs, K. Eikema

DUAL COMB-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF RAPIDLY TUNED LASERS ............................................................................198F. Giorgetta, E. Baumann, I. Coddington, W. Swann, N. Newbury, Z. Barber, P. Roos

OPTICAL GENERATION OF MICROWAVE REFERENCE FREQUENCIES.................................................................................202L. Maleki, A. Matsko

UPDATE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CESIUM ATOMIC FOUNTAIN AT NPL, INDIA ..........................................................206P. Arora, A. Agarwal, K. Pant, S. Yadav, A. Gupta

TIMING OF OPTICAL PULSARS WITH TWO HIGH TIME RESOLUTION PHOTOMETERS AT ASIAGO AND NTT ........................................................................................................................................................................................................210

C. Barbieri, G. Naletto, A. Shearer, L. Zampieri, C. Germana, S. Gradari, G. Codogno

INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM (ISM) MONITORING OF NANOGRAV PULSARS .............................................................................214W. Majid, J. Lazio

ISSUES IN THE DETECTION OF NANO-HERTZ GRAVITATIONAL WAVES USING PULSARS: SPIN, JITTER AND SCINTILLATIONS ..............................................................................................................................................................218

J. Cordes, R. Shannon

HOW CAN MILLISECOND PULSARS TRANSFER THE ACCURACY OF ATOMIC TIME?......................................................219G. Petit, I. Cognard

TIME AND FREQUENCY ACTIVITIES OF THE US NAVAL OBSERVATORY.............................................................................223D. Matsakis

PRECISE FREQUENCY TRANSFER EXPERIMENTS USING VLBI AND OTHER TECHNIQUES ...........................................227R. Ichikawa, H. Takiguchi, M. Kimura, A. Ishii, T. Hobiger, Yh. Koyama, T. Kondo, Y. Takahashi, S. Tsuchiya, F. Nakagawa, M. Nakaumura, R. Tabuchi, S. Hama, T. Gotoh, M. Fujieda, M. Aida, T. Li, J. Amagai

PRECISION TIMING AND RF SIGNAL DISSEMINATION FOR XFEL BY DELIVERING OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB THROUGH LENGTH-STABILIZED FIBER ...................................................................................................231

M. Musha, T. Ryuo, K. Nakagawa, K. Ueda

A COMPACT PLANAR DUAL-BAND BANDPASS FILTER WITH ASYMMETRIC BANDWIDTHS .........................................235C. Huang, C. Diao, H. Huang, C. Yang, F. Wang, Y. Chen, T. Meen

DESIGNING A MINIATURIZED T-SHAPED NON-ORTHOGONAL FEED INPUT/OUTPUT DUAL-MODE BANDPASS FILTER .....................................................................................................................................................................................239

Y. Liao, C. Wu, C. Su, C. Yang, S. Chang, C. Huang, Y. Chen

HYBRID-FED MICROSTRIP LOOP RESONATOR WITH CAPACITIVE MEANDER LINES ....................................................243C. Chen, H. Chen, Y. Wang, C. Kuo, S. Wu, Y. Chen

AN INDIRECT IMPEDANCE CHARACTERIZATION METHOD FOR MONOLITHIC DOUBLE-SLOT ANTENNAS FOR THZ SENSORS..............................................................................................................................................................247

K. Topalli, G. Trichopoulos, K. Sertel

G-BAND FREQUENCY-STEERING ANTENNA ARRAY DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS .......................................................251E. Cullens, L. Ranzani, E. Grossman, Z. Popovic

A COMPACT MODIFIED GROUND CPW FED ANTENNA FOR UWB APPLICATIONS ...........................................................253V. Shameena, S. Jacob, S. Mridula, C. Aanandan, K. Vasudevan, P. Mohanan

SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE AIRY PULSED BEAM ......................................................................................................................257Y. Kaganovsky, E. Heyman

NEW TYPE OF GYROTROPY IN GRAPHENE - COMPARISON WITH GYROTROPY IN PLASMAS.....................................261D. Sounas, C. Caloz

THE CLASS OF DECOMPOSABLE MEDIA IN FOUR-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION....................................................265I. Lindell, L. Bergamin, A Favaro

THE CONTRIBUTION OF PROF. ROBERT KOUYOUMJIAN TO EDGE DIFFRACTION AND FIELD TRANSITION AT AND NEAR SHADOW BOUNDARIES USING UTD .............................................................................................269

C. Balanis

A UNIFORM GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD) FOR CURVED EDGES ILLUMINATED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS ..........................................................................................................................................................271

P. Prabhakar, K. Youngchel

A SURVEY ON THE EXTENSION OF THE UTD TO THE ANALYSIS OF INHOMOGENEOUS PLANE WAVE DIFFRACTION ................................................................................................................................................................................275

G. Manara, P. Nepa

CONVERGENCE OF A FULLY OVERLAPPING DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHOD ........................................................279T. Peng, K. Sertel, J. Volakis

RECENT ADVANCES IN THE INCREMENTAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION FOR COMPLEX SOURCE POINT ILLUMINATION .............................................................................................................................................................................282

A. Toccafondi, S. Canta, D. Erricolo

HYBRID METHODS BASED ON GENERALIZED SCATTERING MATRICES..............................................................................286E. Martini, C. Giovampaola, A. Toccafondi, S. Maci

NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF CORNER DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENTS FOR A PLANE ANGULAR SECTOR ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................290

A. Ozturk, R. Paknys

LAST PHD SUPERVISED BY PROFESSOR KOUYOUMJIAN: EXTENDED UTD BY DR. BUYUKDURA ...............................294A. Altintas

EXACT RADIATION BY A LINE SOURCE LOCATED INSIDE A CONFOCAL ELLIPTIC LAYER OF DNG METAMATERIAL ........................................................................................................................................................................................298

P. Uslenghi, O. Akgol, V. Daniele, D. Erricolo

A STOCHASTIC EXTENSION OF THE UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION ACCOUNTING FOR GEOMETRICAL UNCERTAINTY OR SURFACE AND EDGE ROUGHNESS ................................................................................300

F. Puggelli, G. Carluccio, G. Minatti, M. Albani

SEPARATION OF RADIATION FROM TWO SOURCES FROM THEIR KNOWN RADIATED SUM FIELD ..........................304T. Laitinen, S. Pivnenko

PLANE WAVE BASED NEAR-FIELD FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION WITH ADAPTIVE FIELD TRANSLATIONS...........................................................................................................................................................................................308

C. Schmidt, M. Qureshi, T. Eibert

AN IMPROVED IMAGE-BASED NEAR-FIELD-TO-FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION FOR CYLINDRICAL SCANNING SURFACES...............................................................................................................................................................................312

H. Kobayashi, A. Osipov, H. Suzuki

NEAR-FIELD ESTIMATION USING A REDUCED BASIS EXPANSION OF INDUCED MODES IN A HUMAN HEAD MODEL FROM EQUIVALENT SOURCES .................................................................................................................................316

O. Aiouaz, D. Lautru, M. Wong, A. Gati, J. Wiart, V. Hanna

REFLECTION/TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR PLANAR MATERIALS AND VERIFICATION BY THIN WIRE GRIDS ................................................................................................................................................320

S. Bayer, A. Celik, A. Ergin

METHOD OF MOMENTS ANALYSIS OF AN AXISYMMETRIC CHIRAL RADOME..................................................................324H. Mustacoglu, J. Mautz, E. Arvas

HIERARCHICAL AND CONFORMING NEDELEC ELEMENTS FOR SURFACE AND VOLUMETRIC CELLS .............................................................................................................................................................................................................328

R. Graglia, A. Peterson

MATERIAL REALIZATIONS OF EXTREME ELECTROMAGNETIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND METASURFACES .........................................................................................................................................................................................332

A. Sihvola, H. Wallen, P. Yla-Oijala, J. Markkanen, I. Lindell

MOM ANALYSIS OF APERTURES IN CHIRAL BODIES OF REVOLUTION ................................................................................336K. Qutubuddin, H. Mustacoglu, J. Mautz, E. Arvas

MODEL ORDER REDUCTION METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE PARAMETERIZED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS OBTAINED BY THE FINITE INTEGRATION THEORY .................................................................................................340

K. Stavarakakis, T. Wittig, W. Ackermann, T. Weiland

RIGOROUS SOLUTIONS OF LARGE-SCALE DIELECTRIC PROBLEMS WITH THE PARALLEL MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM ............................................................................................................................... 344

O. Ergul, L. Gurel

ANALYSIS OF METAMATERIALS USING ANALYTIC PROPERTIES..........................................................................................348T. Kim, L. Vietzorreck

ANTI-RESONANT RESPONSE OF RESONANT INCLUSIONS? ........................................................................................................352H. Wallen, H. Kettunen, J. Qi, A. Sihvola

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL MODES IN 3D-PERIODIC ARRAYS OF METALLIC NANOSPHERES ............................................................................................................................................................................................356

S. Campione, S. Steshenko, M. Albani, F. Capolino

HOMOGENIZATION OF A NONLOCAL ELECTROSTATIC EQUATION .....................................................................................360N. Wellander

TRANSFORMATION MEDIA FOR FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION OF MULTI-SCALE ELECTROMAGNETIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS .................................................................................................................364

M. Kuzuoglu, O. Ozgun

SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS IN A PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE - FIRST RESULTS................................................368C. Larsson, S. Bayer, M. Gustafsson, G. Kristensson, D. Sjoberg, C. Sohl, I. Vakili

ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELD DYADIC GREENS FUNCTIONS AND DEPOLARIZING DYAD FOR A MAGNETIC CURRENT IMMERSED IN A UNIAXIAL DIELECTRIC-FILLED PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE.................................................................................................................................................................................................372

M. Havrilla

ACHERS CONSTRAINT ON THE HIGH-FREQUENCY MAGNETIC PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITES ...........................376K. Rozanov

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF A VARACTOR-LOADED HALF-WIDTH LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA ...................................380L. Kempel, E. Rothwell, B. Shanker, P. Chahal

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR 60 GHZ HYBRID SMART ANTENNA SYSTEMS WITH CONSIDERATION OF INTER-ELEMENT ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS ..................................384

N. Celik, M. Iskander, Z. Zhang

GEODA-GRUA: ADAPTIVE MULTIBEAM CONFORMAL ANTENNA FOR SATELLITES COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................388

J. Trujillo, M. Natera, I. Montesinos, M. Campo, M. Perez, R. Martinez

USE OF A SINGLE SNAPSHOT BASED ADAPTIVE PROCESSING USING A DIRECT DATA DOAMIN APPROACH....................................................................................................................................................................................................392

T. Sarkar, M. Palma

ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM IN MULTI-ANTENNAS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ...............................................................................................................................................................395

M. Wong, A. Gati, J. Wiart

TOWARD SYSTEM MODELING DEDICATED TO FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS.....................................399Y. Duroc, R. Siragusa, S. Tedjini

A LOW-PROFILE OMNIDIRECTIONAL PLANAR ANTENNA WITH VERTICAL POLARIZATION EMPLOYING TWO IN-PHASE ELEMENTS ..........................................................................................................................................403

J. Oh, K. Sarabandi

MINIATURIZED TUNABLE MEANDERLINE LOADED ANTENNA WITH Q-FACTOR APPROACHING THE LOWER BOUND ..................................................................................................................................................................................407

K. Mohammadpour-Aghdam, R. Faraji-Dana, G. Vandenbosch

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF ULTRA-WIDEBAND TEM HORN ANTENNAS FOR GPR APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................411

A. Jamali, R. Marklein

GSM/UMTS DUAL POLARIZATION BASE STATION ANTENNA DESIGN ...................................................................................415T. Isenlik, M. Bilgic, K. Yegin, M. Ciydem

TRANSIENT PLANE-WAVE DECOMPOSITION OF REFLECTED TE GAUSSIAN-BEAM FROM MOVING DIELECTRIC-MAGNETIC PLANAR INTERFACE ..............................................................................................................................419

T. Melamed, I. Adar, B. Shetzer

ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE GAUSSIAN BEAM SUMMATION METHOD FOR ULTRA WIDE-BAND RADIATION IN INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM ....................................................................................................................................423

Y. Kaganovsky, E. Heyman

FIELD EXPANSIONS IN TERMS OF CONICAL AND LOCALIZED BEAMS .................................................................................427M. Casaletti, E. Martini, S. Maci

GAUSSIAN-BEAM TRANSMISSION FORMULA ..................................................................................................................................431T. Hansen

PRACTICAL REALIZATION OF A MICROWAVE BESSEL BEAM LAUNCHER.........................................................................435O. Manzhura, E. Niver, M. Salem

CIRCULAR ANTENNA ARRAY FOR MICROWAVE BESSEL BEAM GENERATION.................................................................437P. Lemaitre-Auger, S. Abielmona, C. Caloz

ENHANCING SUBSPACE-BASED INVERSIONS THROUGH AN EFFICIENT MULTI-SCALING SCHEME .........................441G. Oliveri, Y. Zhong, X. Chen, A. Massa

CSI-CFI FORMULATIONS OF THE MULTIRESOLUTION INEXACT NEWTON METHOD - A NUMERICAL COMPARISON ....................................................................................................................................................................445

G. Oliveri, A. Randazzo, M. Pastorino, A. Massa

ESTIMATION OF THE PARAMETERS OF 2D DEBYE DISPERSIVE MEDIA USING A TIME-DOMAIN INVERSE SCATTERING TECHNIQUE ...................................................................................................................................................449

T. Papadopoulos, I. Rekanos

BEYOND THE LSM AS QUALITATIVE MWI METHOD: A PHYSICAL INSIGHT INTO THE FAR-FIELD EQUATION AND NEW CHALLENGES ...................................................................................................................................................453

L. Donato, T. Isernia, I. Catapano, L. Crocco

LOCATION AND DENSITY DETERMINATION FOR A SOURCE WITH IMPULSE DERIVATIVE TIME VARIATION ...................................................................................................................................................................................................457

M. Idemen, A. Alkumru

RECONSTRUCTION OF A ROUGH SURFACE PROFILE WITH AN ITERATIVE METHOD BASED ON A RIGOROUS DIRECT WAVE SCATTERING MODEL ..........................................................................................................................461

G. Soriano, S. Arhab, K. Belkebir

POSITIONING OF OBJECTS BEHIND CORNERS USING X-BAND RADAR .................................................................................465M. Gustafsson

ACCURATE 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EXPANSION ALGORITHM USING RANGE DERIVATIVE OF DOUBLE SCATTERED SIGNALS FOR UWB RADARS .......................................................................................................................469

S. Kidera, T. Kirimoto

ADVANCES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL LASER IMAGERY MODELING..................................473G. Berginc

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING AND RADIATION OF WAVES BY A THIN TOROIDAL TUBE WITH SEMI-TRANSPARENT WALLS .................................................................................................................................................................477

M. Lyalinov

1/R2-KERNEL CANCELATION IN CLASSICAL MARCHING-ON-IN-TIME SCHEMES .............................................................481A. Geranmayeh, W. Ackermann, T. Weiland

EIGENCURRENT EXPANSION AND LINEAR EMBEDDING VIA GREENS OPERATORS APPLIED TO DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF DEVICES IN ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND-GAP STRUCTURES..............................................485

D. Duque, V. Lancellotti, B. Hon, A. Tijhuis

SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BY INHOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRIC GRATINGS LOADED WITH PARALLEL PERFECTLY CONDUCTING STRIPS ................................................................................................489

T. Yamasak, R. Ozaki, T. Hinata

THE CAPACITY CHANGE OF A BOUNDED OBJECT IN A PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITOR ...............................................493G. Kristensson

SEM-BASED ANALYSIS OF ANTENNA RADIATION PROPERTIES ..............................................................................................497D. Caratelli, A. Yarovoy

A GENERAL MACROSCOPIC ANISOTROPIC REPRESENTATION FOR SPATIALLY DISPERSIVE MEDIA.....................501A. Yaghijan, R. Shore, A. Alu

CONSTRAINTS ON THE TEMPORAL DISPERSION OF PASSIVE METAMATERIALS ............................................................505M. Gustafsson, D. Sjoberg

METADISPERSION IN ANISOTROPIC AND BIANISOTROPIC MEDIA ........................................................................................509F. Caminita, E. Martini, G. Sardi, S. Maci

AN EFFICIENT NUMERICAL APPROACH TO THE ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF PROPAGATION AND RADIATION PHENOMENA IN METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES ..................................................................................................513

G. Valerio, D. Jackson, D. Wilton, A. Galli

AN APPROACH TO FINDING THE CORRECT BRANCH FROM THE FOREST OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR EXTRACTED EFFECTIVE MATERIAL PARAMETERS ...........................................................................................................517

O. Luukkonen, S. Maslovski, S. Tretyakov

TRANSFORMATION ELECTROMAGNETICS IN ANTENNA ENGINEERING: THEORY AND IMPLEMENTATION ....................................................................................................................................................................................521

Y. Hao

TRANSMISSION LINE BASED METAMATERIALS FOR ACOUSTIC WAVES.............................................................................525F. Bongard, H. Lissek, J. Mosig

CHIRALITY AND BIANISOTROPY EFFECTS IN PLASMONIC METASURFACES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO REALIZE ULTRATHIN OPTICAL CIRCULAR POLARIZERS .....................................................................529

A. Alu, Y. Zhao, X. Liu

FIELD DISPLACEMENT IN A TRAVELING-WAVE RING RESONATOR META-STRUCTURE ..............................................533T. Kodera, D. Sounas, H. Nguyen, H. Razavipour, C. Caloz

FROM ELECTRONICS TO METATRONICS TO GRAPHENE METAMATERIALS .....................................................................537N. Engheta

MULTIPHYSICS MODELING OF PLASMONIC NANODEVICES ....................................................................................................539E. Li, P. Bai, I. Ahmed, H. Chu

A SPECTRAL INTEGRAL METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF NANO WIRES ............................................................................543E. Simsek, J. Liu, Q. Liu

ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC/COHERENT TRANSPORT PROBLEM IN GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................547

L. Pierantoni, D. Mencarelli, T. Rozzi, F. Coccetti

RADIATION EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT OF BUNDLED CARBON NANOTUBE ANTENNA AT TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE .......................................................................................................................................................551

S. Choi, K. Sarabandi

A MULTIPHYSICS COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE FOR THZ-FREQUENCY CHARACTERIZATION OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND METALS........................................................................................................................................................555

K. Willis, I. Knezevic, S. Hagness

VACUUM ELECTRON TUBES FOR THZ APPLICATIONS ...............................................................................................................559C. Paoloni, M. Mineo, A. Carlo

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTED ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS EXHIBITING STOCHASTIC VARIABILITY IN MATERIAL PARAMETERS .....................................................................................................................................563

A. Rong, A. Cangellaris

REDUCED-ORDER MODELING FOR CO-SIMULATION OF CIRCUIT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS ...........................................................................................................................................................................................567

C. Saunders, M. Steer

CIRCUIT MODELS IN QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS................................................................................................................571J. Russer, P. Russer

ANALYSIS OF PERIODIC STRUCTURES WITH DISPERSIVE MATERIAL USING THE FDTD TECHNIQUE..................................................................................................................................................................................................575

K. Mahgoub, A. Elsherbeni, F. Yang

ARECIBO FOCAL PHASED ARRAY: FEASIBILITY STUDY AND INSTRUMENT CONCEPT DESIGN .................................579G. Cortes-Medellin, D. Campbell

TOWARDS A HIGH SENSITIVITY, CRYOGENIC PHASED ARRAY FEED ANTENNA FOR THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE .....................................................................................................................................................................................583

K. Warnick, D. Carter, T. Webb, B. Jeffs, J. Landon, V. Asthana, M. Elmer, R. Norrod, D. Roshi, J. Fisher

PHOTONIC MILLIMETER-WAVE/MICROWAVE SIGNAL GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES FOR A HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIO INTERFEROMETER AND A VERY LARGE ANTENNA ARRAY ............................................................................................................................................................................................................587

H. Kiuchi, T. Kawanishi

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF THE APERTIF PHASED ARRAY FEED ......................................................................................591W. Cappellen, L. Bakker, T. Oosterloo

A MODIFIED MILLS CROSS WITH ELEMENTS SPACED ONE WAVELENGTH APART ........................................................595R. Macphic, L. Yuan

LOW-PROFILE WEARABLE UHF ANTENNA FOR PORTABLE RADIOS AND RADAR APPLICATIONS............................599Y. Ren

ELECTROMAGNETIC OSCILLATIONS IN A CYLINDRICAL CAVITY RESONATOR FILLED WITH A NONLINEAR NONDISPERSIVE MEDIUM.............................................................................................................................................603

A. Kudrin, E. Petrov

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODELS FOR COMPLEMENTARY OMEGA-LIKE STRUCTURES LOADED MICROSTRIP LINE...........................................................................................................607

N. Messiha, A. Ghuniem, H. El-Hennawy

ABNORMAL PHENOMENON ON SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS OF METALLIC ENCLOSURES WITH ONE APERTURE AT NORMAL AND OBLIQUE INCIDENCES ........................................................................................................611

C. Fang, Q. Liu, S. Zheng, Q. Zhang

THE CONCAVE PARABOLIC MIRROR .................................................................................................................................................615P. Uslenghi

APERTURE FIELD ESTIMATION IN WAVEGUIDE CIRCUITS FOR NON-SINUSOIDAL, PERIODIC EXCITATION ................................................................................................................................................................................................617

S. Das, R. Gayen

MODELING OF THE HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES BY ANALYTICAL REGULARIZATION: TE-MODES .................................621F. Dikmen, O. Suvorova, Y. Tuchkin

NONUNIFORM CURRENTS FLOWING ON A PERFECTLY CONDUCTING CYLINDER .........................................................625H. Baydemir

ANALYSIS OF METAMATERIAL ABSORBER BLUEPRINTS FOR OPTICAL `BLACK HOLES' ............................................629H. Odabasi, F. Teixeira, W. Chew

CALCULATION OF SCATTERED TMZ WAVES FROM A CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC SCATTERER BURIED INSIDE A LOSSY GROUND.......................................................................................................................................................633

S. Makal, A. Kizilay

ON THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF THE ANTENNA ELECTROMAGNETIC NEAR FIELD ....................................................637S. Mikki, Y. Antar

GENERALIZATION OF FOCK FUNCTION FOR DIFFRACTION BY ELONGATED BODIES ..................................................641I. Andronov

MEIXNER'S EDGE CONDITION REVISITED FOR NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY MATERIALS ..............................................645A. Askarpour, M. Saviz, R. Faraji-Dana

REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION AT ISOTROPIC-BIAXIAL INTERFACE ............................................................................649J. Graham, J. Lee

ROOF-MOUNTED VEHICLE SINGLE-ARM SPIRAL ANTENNA WITHOUT A BALUN CIRCUIT..........................................653H. Nakano, R. Satake, K. Takeuchi, J. Yamauchi

WIRE-CLOTH-MESH METAMATERIALS FOR GHZ AND THZ FREQUENCY REGIME .........................................................657C. Sabah, M. Thomson, F. Meng, H. Roskos

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM ARBITRARY FLAT PLATES: ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM BY USING METHOD OF MOMENTS WITH DIFFERENT SINC TYPE BASIS FUNCTIONS ................................661

B. Ozbakis, T. Oguzer, A. Kustepeli

METAMATERIAL SLAB EXCITED BY AN ARBITRARILY ORIENTED DIPOLE .......................................................................665A. Culhaoglu, A. Osipov, P. Russer

DETECTING ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOAKS USING BACKWARD-PROPAGATING WAVES ..............................................669M. Salem, H. Bagci

COMPUTATION OF THE DYADIC GREEN'S FUNCTION FOR ELECTRICALLY AND MAGNETICALLY ANISOTROPIC MEDIA ...............................................................................................................................................................................672

V. Yakhno, H. Yaslan, T. Yakhno

NEAR-FIELD OF ANTENNAS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ..........................................676A. De, T. Sarkar, M. Salazar-Palma

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SINGLE-FIELD FDTD FORMULATION FOR OBLIQUE INCIDENT ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS ..................................................................................................................................................680

G. Aydin, A. Elsherbeni, E. Arvas, J. Lee

TEMPERATURE EFFECT ON CAVITY ANTENNA PARAMETERS................................................................................................684N. Voytovich, A. Ershov, V. Bukharin, N. Repin

SCATTERING OF A GAUSSIAN BEAM FROM THE END-FACE OF A WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM ..............................................688A. Komiyama

A COMPARISON OF IMPLEMENTATIONS OF A COMBINED CHARGE AND CURRENT FORMULATION OF THE METHOD OF MOMENTS ...........................................................................................................................................................692

J. Bleser, E. Lil, A. Capelle

A MODIFICATION OF THE KUMMER'S METHOD FOR EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF THE 2-D GREEN'S FUNCTIONS FOR 1-D PERIODIC STRUCTURES..............................................................................................................696

S. Skobelev

SUPPRESSION OF SPURIOUS FREQUENCIES IN MICROWAVE DUAL-BAND BANDSTOP FILTERS ................................700S. Vegesna, M. Saed

A PREDICTOR-CORRECTOR SCHEME FOR SOLVING THE VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATION ....................................704A. Al-Jarro, H. Bagci

MICROWAVE HOLOGRAPHY IN DETECTION OF HIDDEN OBJECTS UNDER THE SURFACE AND BENEATH CLOTHES ..................................................................................................................................................................................705

A. Zhuravlev, A. Bugaev, S. Ivashov, V. Razevig, I. Vasiliev

DOUBLE WEIGHTED FOURIER TRANSFORM FOR THE WAVE FIELD IN INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM: SOME RESULTS AND PROSPECTS.........................................................................................................................................................709

Y. Kravtsov, M. Tinin, S. Knizhin, A. Kulizhsky

REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF FULL-VECTOR X-WAVES NORMALLY INCIDENT ON DIELECTRIC HALF SPACES ....................................................................................................................................................................713

M. Salem, H. Bagci

WAVE REFLECTION FROM AN INHOMOGENEOUS LAYER WITH RANDOM IRREGULARITIES....................................717M. Tinin

WAVELET ANALYSIS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ..............................................................................................................721M. Sidorenko

ACCURATE SHADOW REGION IMAGING ALGORITHM USING ELLIPSE EXTRAPOLATION BASED ON DISTORTED HYPERBOLA FITTING FOR UWB RADARS ................................................................................................................725

Y. Abe, S. Kidera, T. Kirimoto

SIMULATION OF ULTRASOUND HARMONIC IMAGING AS AFFECTED BY TISSUE PROPERTIES..................................729J. Yu, Y. Wang, J. Tan

FAST AND ACCURATE IMAGING ALGORITHM FOR TARGETS BURIED IN DIELECTRIC MEDIUM FOR UWB RADARS .....................................................................................................................................................................................733

K. Akune, S. Kidera, T. Kirimoto

MODELING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN A 3D MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEM .................................................................737A. Fhager, J. Koster, T. Rudaek, M. Persson

BACK-PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR ISAR IMAGING OF NEAR-FIELD CONCEALED OBJECTS.................................741S. Demirci, H. Cetinkaya, M. Tekbas, E. Yigit, C. Ozdemir, A. Vertiy

WAVE TOMOGRAPHY OF TIME-VARYING DISORDERED STRUCTURES ...............................................................................745G. Samelsohn

SHORT- AND LONG-RANGE PASSIVE IMAGING IN MILLIMETER-WAVE-BAND ..................................................................749A. Vertiy, S. Ozbek, A. Pavlyuchenko, M. Tekbas, A. Kizilhan, H. Cetinkaya, A. Unal, S. Panin

A TOMOGRAPHY APPROACH TO THROUGH WALL MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING .......................................................................................................................................................................................................753

H. Cetinkaya, A. Kaya, A. Unal, A. Vertiy

RIGOROUS APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF 2-D ELECTROSTATIC-FIELD PROBLEMS FOR MULTI- CONDUCTOR SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................................................................757

G. Safonova, E. Vynogradova

SPURIOUS RESULTS OF EFIE AND CFIE APPLIED TO DIELECTRIC/OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES ........................................761S. Arvas, J. Mautz

ON THE CLASS OF A1 NUMBERS: DEFINITION, NUMERICAL MODELING, DOMAIN OF EXISTENCE AND APPLICATION ....................................................................................................................................................................................765

M. Georgieva-Grosse, G. Georgiev

A NOVEL APPROACH FOR FAST EVALUATION OF 1-D AND 2-D INFINITE SUMMATIONS ...............................................769E. Karabulut, V. Erturk, S. Adanir, L. Alatan, M. Aksun

A LAGRANGE POLYNOMIAL CHEBYSHEV PSEUDO SPECTRAL TIME DOMAIN METHOD IN ONE DIMENSIONAL LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS................................................................................................................................770

A. Gunes, S. Aksoy

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESISTIVE LOSSES AND THE ELECTROSTATIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION IN AN INSULATING NANOCOMPOSITE ....................................................................................................................................................774

B. Jonsson, B. Venkatesulu, M. Norgren, H. Edin

RADIATION EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT OF A HORIZONTAL DIPOLE ON AN ELECTRICALLY THICK SUBSTRATE BY A PMC GROUND PLANE .............................................................................................................................778

A. Shahvarpour, A. Melcon, C. Caloz

REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS: AN INTUITIVE EXPLANATION OF REFLECTION PHASE BEHAVIOR ............................782H. Rajagopalan, Y. Rahmat-Samii

A RIGOROUS MODEL FOR AXIALLY-SYMMETRIC RADIATORS OF PULSED WAVES .......................................................786O. Shafalyuk, P. Smith

RELATIVISTIC INVARIANCE OF THE TIME-DOMAIN WAVEGUIDE MODES.........................................................................790O. Tretyakov, O. Akgun

TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF THE IRROTATIONAL AND SOLENOIDAL CAVITY MODES..................................................794F. Erden, O. Tretyakov

SCALAR DIFFRACTION PROBLEM FOR N ARBITRARILY SHAPED SURFACES OF REVOLUTION: RIGOROUS APPROACH.............................................................................................................................................................................798

A. Shafalyuk, E. Vinogradova, P. Smith

MATERIAL INVARIANT FORMULATION OF PLANE WAVE SCATTERING BY A MOVING DIELECTRIC HALF-SPACE.................................................................................................................................................................................................802

B. Polat

IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITION ON A PEC BACKED UNIAXIALLY ANISOTROPIC SHEET OF ARBITRARY SHAPE ...................................................................................................................................................................................806

B. Polat

RIGOROUS ANALYSIS OF THE PARALLEL-PLATE WAVEGUIDE BY THE HYBRID MODE FORMULATION: FROM THE TEM MODE TO THE SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON ........................................................810

C. Leal-Sevillano, J. Ruiz-Cruz, J. Montejo-Garai, J. Rebollar

EFFECT OF APEX ANGLE ON ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTIC OF PYRAMIDAL ABSORBERS .....................................814S. Kent, I. Catalkaya

DESIGN FOR THE STRUCTURAL SURFACE MATERIAL ENABLING SHIELDING FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION WITHIN THE BUILDINGS IN THE UNLICENSED 2.4GHZ ISM BAND................................................................818

M. Kartal, B. Doken, I. Gungor

3D ISOTROPIC MAGNETIC AND NEGATIVE INDEX NANOCLUSTER METAMATERIALS ..................................................822A. Vallecchi, M. Albani, F. Capolino

NEGATIVE EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX METAMATERIALS AT OPTICAL FREQUENCIES BASED ON SUPERLATTICES OF NOBLE METALS AND EXCITONIC SEMICONDUCTORS................................................................825

A. Vallecchi, M. Albani

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON TWO TYPES OF TRANSPARENT PATCH ANTENNAS ............................................................829T. Yasin, R. Baktur, C. Furse

ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT OF A FAST FRAUNHOFER METHOD FOR ANTENNA CHARACTERIZATION IN ITS RADIATING REGION ........................................................................................................................833

A. Carta, D. Trinchero

RESONANT PROPERTIES OF CONDUCTING POLYHEDRAL SPHERES WITH POLYGON MESH SURFACES .....................................................................................................................................................................................................837

P. Bernhardt

PROPERTIES OF INFLECTIVE NANO WIRES ....................................................................................................................................841T. Sengor

THEORY OF A TRAVELING WAVE FEED FOR A PLANAR SLOT ARRAY ANTENNA ............................................................845S. Rengarajan

BROADBAND INVESTIGATION OF THE SPATIAL CORRELATION OF ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE PHONES ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................849

I. Bonev, S. Savov

WIDEBAND LINEAR AND DUAL-POLARIZED ANTENNA BASED ON HUYGENS SOURCE PRINCIPLE ...........................853H. Seo, A. Kishk

TPMS RECEIVE ANTENNA DESIGN FOR LARGE VEHICLES........................................................................................................857A. Ozdemirili, M. Bilgic, K. Yegin

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR GPS APPLICATIONS USING ANFIS AND GA ................................................................................................................................................861

A. Heidari, A. Dadagarnia

APPLICATION OF THE POTENTIAL METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RADAR CROSS SECTION OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE OBJECTS .......................................................................................................................................................865

M. Herberthson

PYRAMIDAL HORN ANTENNA GAIN CALCULATIONS IN RECEIVING MODE USING FDTD TECHNIQUE..................................................................................................................................................................................................869

M. Ali, S. Park

ELECTROMAGNETIC DIFFRACTION BY AN IMPEDANCE CYLINDER BURIED HALFWAY BETWEEN TWO HALF-SPACES ...................................................................................................................................................................................873

M. Salem, A. Kamel

SIMPLE PRECONDITIONING TECHNIQUE: EMPIRICAL FORMULA FOR CONDITION NUMBER REDUCTION AT A JUNCTION OF SEVERAL WIRES ........................................................................................................................875

A. Lysko

NEW MOM CODE INCORPORATING MULTIPLE DOMAIN BASIS FUNCTIONS......................................................................879A. Lysko

ANALYSIS OF LINEARLY TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS ON A DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATE ...................................................883A. Keskin, A. Koksal

MODULAR PLANAR ANTENNA AT X-BAND FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS .............................................................887J. Inclan-Alonso, A. Garcia-Aguilar, L. Vigil-Herrero, J. Fernandez-Gonzalez, J. Sanmartin-Jara, M. Sierra-Perez

GPU-ACCELERATED POWER PATTERN SYNTHESIS OF APERIODIC LINEAR ARRAYS ....................................................891A. Capozzoli, A. Breglia, C. Curcio, A. Liseno

DESIGN OF A LOW-PROFILE KU BAND PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS ...................................895M. Bilgic, K. Yegin, T. Turkkan, M. Sengiz

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM CONDUCTORS: THE RECURSIVE ITERATIVE SURFACE EQUIVALENCE APPROACH ....................................................................................................................................................................899

S. Shakib, I. Eshrah

ROBUST SEMI-ANALYTICAL INTEGRATION OF SINGULAR IMPEDANCE MATRIX ELEMENTS IN SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATION SOLVERS ......................................................................................................................................903

A. Polimeridis, J. Tamayo, J. Mosig

NUMERICAL CALCULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF RCS ANALYSIS FOR RADOME-ENCLOSED SCATTERER BY USING PMCHWT-FORMULATION .................................................................................................907

Y. Inasawa, M. Saito, I. Naito, Y. Konishi

FINITE ELEMENT MICROSTRIP ANTENNA SIMULATOR (FEMAS) ...........................................................................................911S. Basaran, Y. Albayrak

ON THE CHANGE IN ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL ENERGY DUE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL CONDUCTOR.....................................................................................................................................................................915

C. Sohl

PASSIVE AND ACTIVE METAMATERIAL CONSTRUCTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON ELECTRICALLY SMALL RADIATING AND SCATTERING SYSTEMS ..........................................................................................................................919

R. Ziolkowksi

SERIES SWITCHED RESONATOR BASED DUAL-BAND OSCILLATOR.......................................................................................923V. Sharma, R. Yadav, N. Pathak

POLE-MOVEMENT IN OSCILLATORS AND ENERGY BALANCE PRINCIPLE..........................................................................927S. Pal, S. Chatterjee, B. Biswas

NEW OBSERVATIONS ON BIAS CURRENT VARIATION OF OP AMP OSCILLATORS ...........................................................931B. Biswas, S. Chatterjee, S. Pal

IQ OSCILLATORS: TRACKING AM AND FM DEMODULATORS ..................................................................................................935B. Biswas, S. Chatterjee, S. Pal

A CONCURRENT MULTI-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER WITH COMPACT MATCHING NETWORKS ..................................939A. Fukuda, H. Okazaki, S. Narahashi, T. Nojima

BURST MODE OPERATION AS AN EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE FOR RF POWER AMPLIFIERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................943

B. Francois, E. Kaymaksut, P. Reynaert

ASIC IMPLEMENTATION OF FREQUENCY DOMAIN EQUALIZER FOR SINGLE CARRIER TRANSMISSION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................947

K. Komatsu, S. Kameda, M. Iwata, S. Tanifuji, N. Suematsu, T. Takagi, K. Tsubouchi

A 3.5-GHZ BAND 140-W-CLASS WIDEBAND FEED-FORWARD POWER AMPLIFIER FOR MOBILE BASE STATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................951

Y. Suzuki, J. Ohkawara, S. Narahashi

HAMMERSTEIN PREDISTORTER FOR HIGH POWER RF AMPLIFIERS IN OFDM TRANSMITTERS ...............................955T. Sadeghpour, H. Karkhaneh, R. Abd-Alhameed, A. Ghorbani, I. Elfergani, Y. Dama

A KEY GENERATION TECHNIQUE USING ARRAY ANTENNA BEAM SELECTION ...............................................................959S. Aikawa, M. Maeda, T. Iwai

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF WIRELESS SECRET KEY AGREEMENT USING ARRAY ANTENNAS ......................963T. Shimizu, N. Otani, T. Kitano, H. Iwai, H. Sasaoka

IMPACT OF DIRECT-PATH WAVE ON IMAC IN SECRET KEY AGREEMENT SYSTEM USING ESPAR ANTENNAS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................967

T. Yoshida, T. Saito, K. Fujiki, K. Uematsu, H. Uehara, T. Ohira

RF POWER SOURCE AND ESTIMATION DIVERSITY IN DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH PASSIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS .............................................................................................................................................................971

A. Bicen, O. Akan

A COST FUNCTION EXPRESSION FOR SDR MULTI-STANDARD SYSTEMS DESIGN USING DIRECTED HYPERGRAPHS ...........................................................................................................................................................................................975

P. Kaiser, Y. Louet, A. Sahili, J. Palicot

DEVELOPMENT OF 24 GHZ RECTENNAS FOR FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS .............................................................................979N. Shinohara, K. Nishikawa, T. Seki, K. Hiraga

HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE SPECTRUM: THE OIL EXPERIENCE....................................................................................................983J. Palicot

NON UNIFORM SAMPLING FOR POWER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION IN SDR RECEIVER BASEBAND STAGE.............................................................................................................................................................................................................987

A. Maalej, M. Ben-Romdhane, C. Rebai, P. Desgreys, P. Loumeau, A. Ghazel

LTE AND LTE-ADVANCED: RADIO TECHNOLOGY ASPECTS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ..................................991N. Takaharu

WHITE SPACES COMMUNICATIONS IN EUROPE ............................................................................................................................995A. Morgado, N. Carvalho

RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHM FOR HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES IN DECODE-AND-FORWARD OFDM RELAY SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................................................999

Q. Wan, G. Ma

NONLINEAR ESTIMATION OF PHASE IN THE PRESENCE OF PHASE DISTORTIONS.......................................................1003V. Potapov

BROADBAND CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNAS FOR UHF SATCOM ............................................................................1006I. Tekin, O. Manzhura, E. Niver

JOINT SPECTRUM ACCESS SCHEME FOR PEAK POWER CONTROL IN COGNITIVE RADIOS.......................................1010S. Hussain, Y. Louet, J. Palicot

BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS OF WIRELESS OFDM SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION THROUGH NONLINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS ...............................................................................................................................................................................1014

M. O'Droma, Y. Lei

ON THE LINKS BETWEEN PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO FOR CONVENTIONAL RF POWER AMPLIFIERS AND PEAK TO AVERAGE DURATION RATIO FOR SWITCHING MODE POWER AMPLIFIERS ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1018

G. Baudoin, A. Diet, M. Villegas

JOINT STUDY OF PAPR REDUCTION AND DIGITAL PREDISTORTION ..................................................................................1022A. Gouba, Y. Louet

DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIERS IN SOFTWARE RADIO SYSTEMS .........................................................................................1026F. Ghannouchi, K. Rawat

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF A 10 GHZ HELIX TWT .................................................................................................................1030E. Korkmaz, I. Araz, A. Dursun, K. Yegin

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF SOFTWARE DEFINED TRANSMITTERS ........................................................................................................................................................................................1033

S. Boumaiza, F. Mkadem, M. Ayed

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON MULTICARRIER MIMO HF COMMUNICATIONS ...............................................................1037I. Perez-Alvarez, S. Zazo-Bello, M. Ghogho, J. Lopez-Perez

USING FREQUENCY-ORTHOGONAL PSEUDONOISE (FOPN) SOUNDING SEQUENCES TO IDENTIFY SIGNALS FROM MULTIPLE TRANSMIT ANTENNAS IN MOBILE DOUBLE-DIRECTIONAL AND RELAY CHANNEL SOUNDING SYSTEMS..........................................................................................................................................................1041

R. Bultitude, G. Dahman, R. Hafez

HF MIMO MEASUREMENTS USING SPATIAL AND COMPACT ANTENNA ARRAYS ...........................................................1045S. Feeney, S. Salous, E. Warrington, S. Gunashekar

PRELIMINARY ANTENNA SYSTEM DESIGN FOR FMCW AVALANCHE RADAR .................................................................1049F. Isa, M. Ash, P. Brennan

CYLINDRICAL MULTIUSER BEAM-FREE ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY AND COMPARISON WITH THE STANDARD MULTISECTOR ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION ..........................................................................1053

I. Sergeev

PERFORMANCE OF MULTIMODE ANTENNA ARRAYS IN DOUBLE DIRECTIONAL FINITE SCATTERING CHANNEL MODEL ........................................................................................................................................................1057

M. Ali, A. Burr, A. Marvin

RECONFIGURABLE FRACTAL TREE ANTENNA FOR MULTIBAND APPLICATIONS .........................................................1061H. Altun, E. Korkmaz, B. Turetken

AUTOMATIC MODULATION CLASSIFICATION FOR COGNITIVE RADIOS USING CUMULANTS BASED ON FRACTIONAL LOWER ORDER STATISTICS .............................................................................................................................1065

M. Narendar, A. Vinod, A. Madhukumar, A. Krishna

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS CLASSIFICATION OF MULTI-USER CHIRP MODULATION SIGNALS USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES ....................................................................................................................................................1069

H. Elsayed, S. El-Khamy, M. Rizk

ENHANCED HYBRID SPECTRUM SENSING ARCHITECTURE FOR COGNITIVE RADIO EQUIPMENT .........................1073Z. Khalaf, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot

DTV SPECTRUM SENSING WITH PILOT TONE FILTERING .......................................................................................................1077A. Eksim, S. Kulac, M. Sazli

A SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL DETECTION APPROACH FOR PRIMARY USER INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN COGNITIVE RADIOS................................................................................................................................................1081

E. Lee, A. Vinod

LOG-NORMAL APPROXIMATION OF CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR SINGAL PROCESSING ...............................1085E. Jouini, D. Guennec, C. Moy, J. Palicot

A COOPERATIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGY FOR MULTI-RATE TRANSMISSIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS...........................................................................................................................................................................1089

N. El-Ganainy, S. El-Khamy

ANALYSIS OF MISMATCHED DOWNLINK BEAMFORMING OVER NON-STATIONARY CHANNELS WITH INTERFERENCE ............................................................................................................................................................................1093

A. Ispas, C. Schneider, G. Dartmann, X. Gong, G. Ascheid, R. Thoma

COMPARISON OF TIME- AND ANGULAR DISPERSION BETWEEN CHANNEL SOUNDING MEASUREMENTS AND RAY TRACING IN COMP-MIMO CHANNELS ......................................................................................1097

C. Jandura, J. Voigt

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF MIMO OTA TEST CONCEPTS - LESSONS LEARNED FROM ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................1101

W. Schroeder, Y. Feng

NEW LABORATORY FOR OVER-THE-AIR TESTING AND WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS.........................................................1105W. Kotterman, M. Landmann, A. Heuberger, R. Thoma

OVER-THE-AIR TEST STRATEGY AND TESTBED FOR COGNITIVE RADIO NODES...........................................................1109A. Krah, M. Grimm, N. Murtaza, W. Kotterman, M. Landmann, A. Heuberger, R. Thoma, M. Hein

PREDICTION OF IEEE802.16 PERFORMANCE FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO INDOOR FROM RADIO CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS IN THE 4.9 GHZ BAND.......................................................................................................1113

S. Salous, R. Bultitude, K. Mehra, O. Oghre, Y. Jong, J. Pugh

MODELING OF THE INFLUENCE OF BODY-WORN ANTENNAS UPON THE PATH LOSS VARIABILITY IN UWB WBAN SCENARIOS ...................................................................................................................................................................1117

C. Roblin, A. Sibille

INDOOR TO OUTDOOR PROPAGATION MODEL IMPROVEMENT FOR GSM900/GSM1800/CDMA-2100........................1121S. Celik, Y. Yoruk, M. Bitirgan, O. Kurnaz, B. Basyigit, S. Helhel, S. Ozen

ANALYSIS OF UWB RFID TAG BACKSCATTERING IN THE PRESENCE OF SCATTERERS ..............................................1125F. Guidi, M. Sacko, A. Sibille, C. Roblin

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF 60 GHZ WLAN ANTENNAS UNDER REALISTIC PROPAGATION CONDITIONS WITH HUMAN SHADOWING ......................................................................................................................................1129

M. Jacob, A. Graauw, M. Spella, P. Herrero, S. Priebe, J. Schoebel, T. Kurner

DESIGN OF WIDE ANGLE REFLECTION REFLECTARRAY USING MULTI-LAYER MUSHROOM STRUCTURE TO IMPROVE PROPAGATION .....................................................................................................................................1133

T. Maruyama, T. Furuno, Y. Oda, J. Shen, N. Tran, H. Kayama

PRACTICAL MULTI-ANTENNA TERMINALS IN LTE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS ....................................1137F. Athley, L. Manholm, J. Friden, A. Stjernman

EFFECTS OF HANDS ON THE 4-BRANCH MRC DIVERSITY GAIN FOR TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL BROADCASTING PORTABLE TV..........................................................................................................................................................1141

K. Ogawa, K. Honda

ANGLE AND POLARIZATION DIVERSITY IN COMPACT DUAL-ANTENNA TERMINALS WITH CHASSIS EXCITATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1145

H. Li, B. Lau, S. He

MULTI-ANTENNA DECOUPLING TECHNIQUE EXPLOITING MISO CHANNEL ON NEIGHBORING ANTENNAS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................1149

N. Honma, K. Shishido, K. Nishimori, Y. Tsunekawa

DESIGN OF COMPACT SINGLE-SECTION DIRECTIONAL COUPLER FOR BUTLER MATRIX BEAM-FORMING MIMO .......................................................................................................................................................................................1153

D. Zaidel, S. Rahim, N. Seman

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS AT 5.9 GHZ..................................1157V. Shivaldova, G. Maier, D. Smely, N. Czink, A. Paier, C. Mecklenbrauker

ADAPTIVE MIMO ALGORITHMS FOR TRAIN-TO-WAYSIDE TRANSMISSIONS IN TUNNELS .........................................1161C. Nsiala-Nzeza, Y. Cocheril, B. Vrigneau, C. Langlais, M. Berbineau

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT OF POWER AMPLIFIERS WITHOUT DEGRADED LINEARITY USING A NEW TOPOLOGY AND CONTROL METHOD....................................................................................................................................1165

A. Ronaghzadeh, S. Demir

DESIGN OF HIGH POWER S-BAND GAN MMIC POWER AMPLIFIERS FOR WIMAX APPLICATIONS ...........................1169O. Cengiz, O. Kelekci, G. Arican, E. Ozbay, O. Palamutcuogullari

ON FURTHER DISCUSSION OF BARKHAUSEN CRITERION .......................................................................................................1173S. Chatterjee, B. Biswas, S. Pal

IMPROVEMENT OF A UBIQUITOUS POWER SOURCE .................................................................................................................1177K. Hashimoto, T. Ishikawa, T. Mitani, N. Shinohara

MICROWAVE ENERGY TRANSMISSION PROGRAM FOR SSPS .................................................................................................1181Y. Fuse, T. Saito, S. Mihara, K. Ijichi, K. Namura, Y. Honma, T. Sasaki, Y. Ozawa, E. Fujiwara, T. Fujiwara

MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING PORTABLE SPACE-BASED SOLAR POWER ..................................1185F. Little

ARRAY ANTENNA ARCHITECTURES FOR SOLAR POWER SATELLITES AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION .........................................................................................................................................................................................1189

G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, A. Massa

ON THE MINIMIZATION OF SIDE-LOBES IN LARGE ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION .........................................................................................................................................................................................1193

B. Shishkov, N. Shinohara, H. Matsumoto, K. Hashimoto, T. Mitani

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON ONE-DIMENSIONAL PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA INCLUDING LOSSY DIGITAL PHASE SHIFTERS FOR TRANSMITTING POWER MAXIMIZATION .......................................................................1197

T. Mitani, S. Tanaka, Y. Ebihara

NEW RESEARCH FACILITIES OF PHASED ARRAY AND ANECHOIC CHAMBER FOR SPS...............................................1201N. Shinohara

MW WPT FOR HAPS AND SPS: CONCEPTS, EMI AND BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS ISSUES ....................................................1205J. Gavan, S. Tapuchi

IMPACT TO THE RADIO ASTRONOMY BY THE INTERFERENCE CAUSED BY THE SOLAR POWER SATELLITE SYSTEMS..............................................................................................................................................................................1209

M. Ohishi

CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS FED BY A STAIR SLOT IN THE GROUND PLANE OF A MICROSTRIPLINE ...........................................................................................................................................................1213

H. Raggad, M. Latrach, T. Razban, A. Gharsallah

A FAST ICA BASED ITERATIVE BLIND DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM .............................................................................1217M. Fahmy, G. Raheem, U. Mohammed, O. Fahmy

A LOW COMPLEXITY ULTRA-WIDEBAND, ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM..................................................................................................................................................................1221

E. Novakov

SATELLITE TERRESTRIAL INTEGRATED MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AS A DISASTER COUNTERMEASURE ................................................................................................................................................................................1225

Y. Fujino, A. Miura, N. Hamamoto, H. Tsuji, R. Suziki

A COST-EFFECTIVE LOCATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY BASED ON MOVEMENT PATTERN OF ACTIVE USERS IN A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM..........................................................................................................................1229

D. De, A. Mukherjee

A NOBLE COST OPTIMIZED LOCATION MANAGEMENT SCHEME FOR FREQUENT VISITORS IN MOBILE NETWORK .................................................................................................................................................................................1233

D. De, M. Mondal

CREST FACTOR REDUCTION THROUGH SCALING AND RECOVERING BY FRAME IN OFDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...............................................................................................................................................................1237

W. Jang, N. Carvalho

METHODS TO SUSTAIN CELLULAR CHANNEL AVAILABILITY IN HIGH TRAFFIC LOCATION ...................................1241D. De, S. Chakraborty

DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF GAN HEMT BALANCED CLASS E POWER AMPLIFIER FOR WIMAX APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1245

O. Kizilbey, O. Palamutcuogullari

A FADING GENERATOR USING ROTATED SCATTERING SLOTS .............................................................................................1249R. Yamaguchi

THE CONVERGENCE OF BROADCASTING AND HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS OVER FIBER NETWORK - AN EXPERIMENT OF FIELD TRIAL - ..............................................................................................1253

T. Higashino, K. Tsukamoto, S. Komaki, Z. Kumamoto, K. Yasukawa, K. Ingaki

A DVB-H TESTBED FOR WIRELESS BILLBOARD CHANNEL SIMULATION ..........................................................................1257Z. Ji, I. Ganchev, M. O'Droma

A NOVEL LOW PHASE NOISE POSITIVE FEEDBACK TYPE PUSH-PUSH OSCILLATOR....................................................1261T. Tanaka, H. Hashiguchi, M. Aikawa

TWO LAYERS SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE POWER DIVIDER ..........................................................................1265P. Mohammadi, S. Demir

SIX-PORT WAVE CORRELATOR THEORY AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION TO RF NETWORK ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1269

T. Yakabe

COMPARISON OF EXTENDED AND UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER FOR LOCALIZATION OF PASSIVE UHF RFID LABELS ....................................................................................................................................................................................1273

T. Nick, J. Goetze, W. John, G. Stoenner

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR WIRELESS DIELECTRIC REFLECTOMETRY WITH MODULATED SCATTERERS .............................................................................................................................................................................................1277

J. Bolomey, S. Capdevila, L. Jofre, S. Tedjini

INDOOR LOCALISATION FOR COMPLEX BUILDING DESIGNS USING PASSIVE RFID TECHNOLOGY.......................1281F. Manzoor, K. Menzel

PAPER-BASED, INKJET-PRINTED, TEXT-MEANDERED UHF RESONANT ANTENNAS FOR RFID APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1285

M. Marroncelli, D. Trinchero, M. Tentzeris

METALLIC LETTER IDENTIFICATION BASED ON RADAR APPROACH ................................................................................1289A. Vena, T. Singh, S. Tedjini, E. Perret

A NOVEL XTEA BASED AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR RFID SYSTEMS ....................................................................1293G. Khan, X. Yu, F. Yuan

GENERATION OF FEW-OPTICAL-CYCLE PULSES TUNABLE FROM THE NEAR TO THE FAR IR BY OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS ...............................................................................................................................................1297

D. Brida, C. Manzoni, R. Huber, A. Leitenstorfer, G. Cerullo

NONLINEARITY ENGINEERING OF MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS: SIMILARITON AND SOLITON- SIMILARITON LASERS............................................................................................................................................................................1301

F. Ilday, B. Oktem, C. Ulgudur

FEMTOSECOND SOURCES FOR OPTICAL ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION........................................................1305E. Ippen, D. Chao, A. Benedick, M. Sander, J. Morse, G. Chang, G. Petrich, L. Kolodziejski, F. Kartner

ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL SAMPLING WITH GHZ REPETITION RATE FEMTOSECOND LASERS FOR HIGH PRECISION TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY ..........................................................................................................................1306

T. Dekorsy, G. Klatt, R. Gebs, C. Janke, A. Bartels

ULTRASHORT PULSE AMPLIFICATION IN FIBERS: CHALLENGES, STATUS AND POTENTIAL....................................1310J. Limpert

FEMTOSECOND NON-DIFFRACTING BESSEL BEAMS AND CONTROLLED NANOSCALE ABLATION ........................1311M. Bhuyan, F. Courvoisier, M. Jacquot, P. Lacourt, L. Froehly, R. Salut, L. Furfaro, J. Dudley

OPTICAL PHENOMENA AND DYNAMICS IN ORGANIC MICROCAVITY LASER .................................................................1314O. Shapira, S. Chau, B. Zhen, M. Soljacic

CARBON NANOTUBES BASED PHOTONICS: TOWARDS THE LASER ......................................................................................1315L. Vivien, N. Izard, E. Gaufres, X. Roux, A. Beck, D. Marris-Morini, E. Cassan

NANOPHOTONICS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ...........................................................................................................................1317J. Liu

SILICON NANOPHOTONICS AND SILICON-ORGANIC HYBRID (SOH) INTEGRATION ......................................................1321C. Koos, L. Alloatti, D. Korn, R. Palmer, T. Vallatisi, R. Bonk, D. Hillerkuss, J. Li, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, R. Baets, M. Scimeca, I. Biaggio, A. Barklund, R. Dinu, J. Wieland, M. Fournier, J. Fedeli, W. Freude, J. Leuthold

ELECTRONIC-PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IN SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORMS ..................................1325M. Dahlem, M. Popovic, C. Holzwarth, A. Khilo, T. Barwicz, H. Smith, F. Kartner, E. Ippen

ULTRA-DENSE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION OF OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL FUNCTIONS ON SILICON FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS ......................................................................................................................................1326

S. Assefa, W. Green, A. Rylyakov, C. Schow, F. Horst, Y. Vlasov

SILICON MICROSPHERES FOR OPTOELECTRONICS ..................................................................................................................1328H. Yilmaz, M. Murib, A. Serpenguzel, K. Taira, J. Nakata

THERMAL INFRARED PLASMONICS .................................................................................................................................................1332P. Davids, R. Kekatpure, D. Peters, E. Shaner

INTERFACE ENGINEERING FOR IMPROVED LIGHT TRANSMITTANCE THROUGH PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FLAT LENSES .........................................................................................................................................................................1336

G. Scherrer, M. Hofman, W. Smigaj, B. Gralak, X. Melique, O. Vanbesien, D. Lippens, C. Dumas, B. Cluzel, F. Fornel

OPTICAL INTERFERENCE FOR MULTIPLEXED, LABEL-FREE, AND DYNAMIC BIOSENSING: PROTEIN, DNA AND SINGLE VIRUS DETECTION ..........................................................................................................................1340

S. Unlu

MEMS FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER ..........................................................................................................................1342H. Seren, N. Ayerden, S. Holmstrom, H. Urey

HIGH-THROUGHPUT SIZE DETERMINATION OF NEARLY SPHERICAL GOLD NANOPARTICLES ..............................1346A. Yurt, G. Daaboul, B. Goldberg, M. Unlu

HIGHER-ORDER KERR EFFECT IN ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE PROPAGATION AND LASER FILAMENTATION .....................................................................................................................................................................................1350

P. Bejot, J. Kasparian, O. Faucher, E. Hertz, B. Lavorel, J. Wolf

OPTICAL ROGUE WAVES AND LOCALIZED STRUCTURES IN NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS...........................................1354G. Genty, M. Erkintalo, B. Kibler, J. Fatome, C. Finot, K. Hammani, G. Millot, F. Dias, N. Akhmediev, B. Wetzel, J. Dudle

ADVANCES IN QUASI PHASE-MATCHED OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERTERS...............................................................1358V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, K. Gallo, F. Laurell

MANIPULATING LIGHT BY LIGHT.....................................................................................................................................................1362A. Demircan, S. Amiranashvili

SIMILARITON GENERATION IN FIBRE OPTIC AMPLIFIERS AND LASERS ..........................................................................1366J. Harvey, C. Aguergaray, V. Kruglov

PERIODIC ARRAY OF CHIRAL METAMATERIAL-DIELECTRIC SLABS FOR THE APPLICATION AS TERAHERTZ POLARIZATION ROTATOR .........................................................................................................................................1369

C. Sabah, H. Roskos

TERAHERTZ WAVE APPLICATIONS USING PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES ...........................................................................1373H. Song, K. Ajito, N. Shimizu, N. Kukutsu, T. Nagatsuma

TERAHERTZ WAVE EMISSION FROM LAYERED SUPERCONDUCTORS: INTERFEROMETER MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................1377

L. Ozyuzer, F. Turkoglu, Y. Demirhan, H. Koseoglu, S. Preu, D. Ploss, S. Malzer, Y. Simsek, H. Wang, P. Muller

METAMATERIAL-BASED OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR THZ RADIATION ..........................................................................1381J. Neu, B. Krolla, O. Paul, B. Reinhard, P. Weis, V. Wollrab, J. Pomar, R. Beigang, M. Rahm

NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FOR THZ TOMOGRAPHY ...............................................................................................1385K. Kawase

TERAHERTZ LIGHT AMPLIFICATION OF STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION IN OPTICALLY PUMPED GRAPHENE ...............................................................................................................................................................................1389

T. Otsuji, S. Tombet, S. Chan, T. Watanabe, A. Satou, M. Ryzhii, V. Ryzhii

ADIABATIC COUPLING INTO TERAHERTZ PARALLEL-PLATE WAVEGUIDES ..................................................................1393M. Theuer, A. Shutler, S. Harsha, R. Beigang, D. Grischkowsky

OPTIMIZATION OF WIDE-BANDPASS FILTER WITHIN THE TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY REGIME ..............................1397S. Genovesi, T. Yen, A. Monorchio, E. Prati, Y. Chiang, F. Costa

NONDESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT OF CARRIER MOBILITY IN CONDUCTIVE POLYMER PEDOT:PSS USING TERAHERTZ AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY ........................................................................................1401

M. Yamashita, C. Otani, H. Okuzaki, M. Shimizu

IMAGING AT A STAND-OFF DISTANCE WITH TERAHERTZ FMCW RADAR ........................................................................1405G. Chattopadhyay, K. Cooper, R. Dengler, N. Llombart, P. Siegel

THE MILLIMETER-WAVE ISAR IMAGING OF CONCEALED OBJECTS ..................................................................................1406H. Cetinkaya, A. Kizilhan, M. Tekbas, S. Demirci, E. Yigit, C. Ozdemir, A. Vertiy

NON DESTRUCTIVE OBSERVATION OF DEFECTS IN DIELECTRIC MATERIALS AND PROSPECTS FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE .............................................................................1410

I. Hosako, K. Fukunaga

THZ WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: 2.5 GB/S ERROR-FREE TRANSMISSION AT 625 GHZ USING A NARROW-BANDWIDTH 1 MW THZ SOURCE ...................................................................................................................................1414

L. Moeller, J. Federici, K. Su

MILLIMETER-/TERAHERTZ-WAVE MEASUREMENTS FOR BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS USING PHOTONICALLY GENERATED CONTINUOUS WAVES ................................................................................................................1418

H. Ito, H. Yamamoto

VESELAGO-PENDRY SUPERLENS IMAGING MODELED WITH A SPECTRAL WAVEGUIDE APPROACH ...................1422R. Hegde, Y. Hor, Z. Szabo, E. Li, W. Hoefer

LIQUID RF ANTENNAS, ELECTRONICS AND SENSORS: A MODELING CHALLENGE .......................................................1426A. Traille, M. Tentzeris

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MODELING OF FEW-CYCLE TI:SAPPHIRE LASERS .................................................................1430M. Sander, L. Chen, F. Kartner

ACCURATE PHOTONIC ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION .................................................................................................1434A. Khilo, C. Sorace, J. Birge, F. Kartner

FAST AND ACCURATE DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS .....................1438B. Laemmle, K. Schmalz, C. Scheytt, D. Kissinger, R. Weigel

SELF-CONSISTENT SIMULATION OF LOCAL POTENTIAL IN EXTERNAL-GATE BIASED GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1442

D. Mencarelli, T. Rozzi, L. Pierantoni, F. Coccetti

AC CONDUCTIVITY OF METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS) EXPOSED TO A DC FIELD......................................1446M. Dagher, D. Sounas, R. Martel, C. Caloz

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS FOR MICROSTRIP STRUCTURES DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION ........................1450A. Gorbunova, Y. Kuznetsov

MICROMACHINED J-BAND RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE FILTER........................................................................................1454M. Vahidpour, K. Sarabandi

INFINITE INTEGRALS WITH THE WEIGHTED AVERAGES ALGORITHM .............................................................................1458J. Mosig, A. Polimeridis

NANOPLASMONICS: NEW DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR NANOSCALE OPTICAL CAVITIES ..................................................1462A. Fernandez-Dominguez, S. Maier

ACTIVE PLASMONICS.............................................................................................................................................................................1464A. Zayats

DIAMOND NANOPARTICLES AS SURFACE-PLASMON LAUNCHERS: TOWARDS A «DETERMINISTIC» QUANTUM PLASMONICS .......................................................................................................................................................................1465

S. Huant, A. Cuche, O. Mollet, A. Drezet

INTEGRATED PLASMONIC SYSTEMS FOR ULTRASENSITIVE SPECTROSCOPY AND BIODETECTION .....................1469H. Altug, A. Yanik, R. Adato, M. Huang, A. Artar, S. Aksu, A. Cetin

FROM NEAR-FIELD TO FAR-FIELD: RADIATIVE COUPLING OF PARTICLE PLASMON RESONANCES IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES .........................................................................................................................................1473

R. Taubert, H. Giessen

THE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF AN ISOTROPIC NEGATIVE-REFRACTIVE-INDEX METAMATERIAL LENS...........................................................................................................................................................................1476

S. Rudolph, A. Grbic

PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF SOME PERMEABILITY-NEAR-ZERO STRUCTURES ...........................................1480S. He, Y. Jin

METAMATERIAL WAVEGUIDE WITH LOSS COMPENSATION .................................................................................................1483C. Guclu, S. Pan, P. Nazari, B. Chun, L. Gilreath, P. Heydari, F. Capolino

POWERED AND ACTIVE RF METAMATERIALS .............................................................................................................................1487S. Cummer, B. Popa, A. Katko

METAMATERIAL APPLICATOR FOR MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA ..................................................................................1488M. Velazquez-Ahumada, M. Freire, R. Marques

RECENT PROGRESS IN APPLICATIONS OF CRLH STRUCTURE FOR ACTIVE MICROWAVE CIRCUITS....................1492P. Chi, B. Williams, T. Itoh

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF SPECTRAL NON-RECIPROCITY AND UNIDIRECTIONALITY IN VOLUMETRIC AND PRINTED MAGNETIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ....................................................................................1496

K. Sertel, L. Zhang, N. Apaydin, J. Volakis

RFID TAGS LOCALIZATION ALONG AN AXIS USING A TUNABLE NEAR-FIELD FOCUSED CIRCULAR-PHASE ARRAY ANTENNA ......................................................................................................................................................................1500

R. Siragusa, P. Lematire-Auger, A. Pouzin, S. Tedjini

COMPACT TWO-ELEMENT RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR THE 470-702 MHZ BAND ............................1504C. Lach, L. Rudant, C. Delaveaud, A. Azoulay

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A RECONFIGURABLE MULTIMODE PIXELED ANTENNA IN INDOOR CLUSTERED MIMO CHANNELS .........................................................................................................................................1508

A. Besoli, F. Flaviis

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF BI-SCALAR BEAMFORMERS IN PRACTICAL PHASED ARRAY FEED SYSTEMS..........................................................................................................................................................................................1511

S. Wijnholds, W. Cappellen, M. Ivashina

ON ANTENNAS FOR COGNITIVE RADIOS ........................................................................................................................................1515F. Ghanem, M. Rijal, P. Hall

OPEN FIELD TRIALS OF LIDARS & HS (HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS) ...................................................................................1519E. Schweicher

HYPERSPECTRAL ANOMALY DETECTION: A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF METHODS .......................................1523D. Borghys, V. Achard, S. Rotman, N. Gorelik, C. Perneel, E. Schweicher

SIZE-REDUCTION OF MAGNETIC RADIATORS FOR RFID-BASED TECHNOLOGY ...........................................................1527M. Marroncelli, R. Stefanelli, D. Trinchero

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT RESULTS OF AN ULTRA-LOW POWER WAKEUP RADIO IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERFERENCE..............................................................................................................................1531

N. Kiyani, Y. Zhang, P. Harpe, X. Huang, G. Dolmans

DC POWER PATTERN OF RECTIFIER-ANTENNAS ........................................................................................................................1535F. Erez, P. Zoya

ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF UHF NEAR-FIELD RFID TAG ANTENNA.....................................................................1539M. Dhaoudi, M. Mabrouk, A. Ghazel, S. Tedjini

HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROWAVE PHOTONIC NOTCH FILTER WITH LOW-NOISE AND LOW GROUP DELAY RIPPLE PERFORMANCE..........................................................................................................................................................1543

E. Chan, R. Minasian

DETECTION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS USING SURFACE PROXIMITY ANTENNAS................................................1547E. Topsakal, T. Karacolak, N. Younan

THEORY OF THE L4 NUMBERS: EXISTENCE THEOREM AND PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION .......................................1548G. Georgiev, M. Georgieva-Grosse

A NUMERICAL TEST OF KING'S GREEN FUNCTIONS IN THIN WIRE SCATTERING PROBLEMS .................................1552O. Zor, B. Polat

PHASE REDRESS FOR THE BEND ON DIFFERENTIAL MICROSTRIP LINES .........................................................................1556C. Huang, C. Wu, C. Shih

YIELD ANALYSIS OF A STRIPLINE WILKINSON POWER DIVIDER USING MONTE CARLO SAMPLES OF INTERPOLATED FULL WAVE SIMULATION DATA USING SONNET .................................................................................1560

B. Souid, S. Arvas

DESIGN OF QUADRUPLE-PASSBAND MICROWAVE FILTERS USING FREQUENCY TRANSFORMATION .................................................................................................................................................................................1564

W. Lin, W. Tsai, T. Huang, R. Wu

COMPACT CROSS-COUPLED COPLANAR-WAVEGUIDE BANDPASS FILTERS WITHOUT BONDWIRES .....................1568Y. Lin, T. Kao

A LOW-COST UWB GAUSSIAN, MONOCYCLE AND DOUBLET GENERATION BASED ON THE TRANSIENT RESPONSE OF BAND PASS FILTERS ..........................................................................................................................1572

R. Thai-Singama, M. Piette, F. Du-Burck

SQUARE SPLIT RING RESONATOR BACKED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE FOR FILTER APPLICATIONS.......................1576C. Saha, J. Siddiqui, Y. Antar

BUILT-IN-SELF-TEST (BIST) PROBING FOR WIRELESS NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS........................................................................................1580

S. Wane, M. Ranaivoniarivo, B. Elkassir, C. Kelma, O. Tesson, F. Goulet, P. Descamps, P. Gamand

NONLINEAR PHOTONICS OF BACKWARD WAVES.......................................................................................................................1584A. Popov, S. Myslivets

UNIFIED MODEL FOR ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRANSISTOR LASER WITH INGAAS QUANTUM WELL AND DOT IN GAAS BASE ........................................................................................................1588

R. Basu, B. Mukhopadhyay, P. Basu

SIMULTANEOUS SLOW AND FAST LIGHT .......................................................................................................................................1592B. Luo, H. Guo

INVESTIGATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF AN OPTICALLY GENERATED RF LOCAL OSCILLATOR SIGNAL IN KU BAND DVB-S SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................1596

M. Khan, D. Marpaung, M. Burla, C. Roeloffzen, E. Bernhardt, R. Ridder

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF LIGHT SCATTERING BY COUPLED PLASMONIC NANOSPHERES USING A HIGH-ACCURACY MULTIDOMAIN LEGENDRE PSEUDOSPECTRAL TIME-DOMAIN METHOD ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1600

S. Chung, C. Wang, C. Teng, C. Chen, H. Chang

COMPACT AND MULTI-RESONANT PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS BASED ON NANO-APERTURES........................1604M. Turkmen, S. Aksu, A. Cetin, A. Yanik, H. Altug

NEAR-FIELD CONTROL OF OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN A NANOCAVITY ..............................................................................1608D. Brissinger, B. Cluzel, A. Coillet, C. Dumas, P. Grelu, F. Fornel

ELECTRO-OPTICS AS A VERSATILE TECHNIQUE FOR NON-INVASIVE VECTORIAL SENSING OF ELECTRIC FIELDS....................................................................................................................................................................................1612

G. Gaborit, A. Warzecha, Y. Gaeremynck, P. Jarrige, L. Duvillaret

COUPLING EVANESCENTLY LOW LOSS SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) RIDGE WAVEGUIDES(WGS) INCLUDING HIGH Q NANOCAVITIES: FOR LIGHT CONTROL..................................................................................................1616

B. Cluzel, K. Foubert, L. Lalouat, E. Picard, D. Peyrade, E. Hadji, F. Fornel

ABOUT NUMERICAL ANALYSES OF SEA WATER WITH LASER SPECTROSCOPY METHOD .........................................1620N. Gomidze, K. Makharadze, M. Khajishvili, Z. Shashikadze

SOURCE MONITOR IN QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION ..............................................................................................................1624X. Peng, H. Guo

A DUAL-RESONANT METAMATERIALS COMPOSED OF ELECTROMAGNETIC-FIELD-COUPLED RESONATORS.............................................................................................................................................................................................1628

L. Chen, C. Zhu, J. Li, X. Yang, C. Liang

FREQUENCY AGILE METAMATERIAL-BASED DIRECTIVE CAVITY ANTENNAS...............................................................1632S. Burokur, J. Daniel, P. Ratajczak, A. Lustrac

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF AN ULTRA-DIRECTIVE EMISSION BASED ON TRANSFORMATION OPTICS CONCEPT ............................................................................................................................................1636

P. Tichit, S. Burokur, D. Germain, A. Lustrac

TAPER OF METAMATERIALS DESIGNED BY OPTICAL TRANSFORMATION ......................................................................1640R. Ghasemi, P. Tichit, A. Degiron, A. Lustrac, A. Lupu

ANALYSIS OF CYLINDRICALLY CONFORMAL PATCH ANTENNAS ON ISOIMPEDANCE ANISOTROPIC SUBSTRATES.................................................................................................................................................................1644

H. Odabasi, F. Teixeira

MINIATURIZATION OF U-SHAPED MULTI-BAND METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES ..........................................................1648O. Turkmen, E. Ekmekci, G. Turhan-Sayan

ABSORPTIVE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE RADOME ........................................................................................................................1652F. Costa, A. Monorchio

OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT GROUND PLANES WITH HIGH ORDER RESPONSE USING MINIATURIZED ELEMENT FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES ...........................................................................................1656

M. Kashanianfard, K. Sarabandi

FABRICATION OF DOUBLE MESA STRUCTURES BY E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY ON HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING BI2SR2CACU2O8+δ (BI2212) FOR POWERFUL TERAHERTZ EMISSION ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1660

Y. Demirhan, F. Turkoglu, H. Koseoglu, H. Saglam, M. Minematsu, H. Araki, N. Miyakawa, L. Ozyuzer

CHARACTERIZATION OF AUTOEMISSION REFLECTION FOR PRECISE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1664

A. Gaseiwski, D. Kraft, V. Leuski

RESULTS FROM DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF TROPICAL RAIN ATTENUATION ON MILLIMETER-WAVE BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS .......................................................................1668

G. Hendrantoro, Suwadi, Endroyono, A. Mauludiyanto

PRINTING A NOVEL COMPACT TRIPLE-BAND MONOPOLE ANTENNA ON CERAMIC SUBSTRATE ...........................1672C. Kuo, Y. Liao, C. Wu, C. Yang, T. Meen, C. Huang, M. Wu

INKJET-PRINTED PAPER/POLYMER-BASED RFID AND WIRELESS SENSOR NODES: THE FINAL STEP TO BRIDGE COGNITIVE INTELLIGENCE, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND RF? ...........................................................................1676

M. Tentzeris, A. Rida, A. Traille, H. Lee, V. Lakafosis, R. Vyas

DEALING WITH COMPLEXITY IN EMC MODELLING..................................................................................................................1680C. Christopoulos

MODELING COMPLEX SYSTEMS FOR EMC APPLICATIONS BY CONSIDERING UNCERTAINTIES .............................1684F. Paladian, P. Bonnet, S. Lallechere

ON THE USE OF THE MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATION...............................1688A. Kreth, O. Doring, E. Genender, H. Garbe

STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF ANTENNA GAIN FROM MEASUREMENTS CARRIED OUT IN A MODE-STIRRED REVERBERATION CHAMBER............................................................................................................................................1692

C. Lemoine, E. Amador, P. Besnier, J. Sol, J. Floc'H, A. Laisne

MEASUREMENT OF SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRICALLY SMALL ENCLOSURES....................................1696C. Dunlap, C. Holloway, J. Ladbury, J. Gordon, J. Coder, G. Koepke

NUMERICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING OF CHEMICAL PLANTS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF RADIO FREQUENCY IGNITION HAZARDS .......................................................................................................................................1700

G. Spadacini, S. Pignari

MODELING OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING TO ELECTRO-EXPLOSIVE DEVICES ........................................1704N. Mora, F. Rachidi, N. Pena, F. Roman

LIGHTNING RETURN STROKES TO TALL TOWERS: ABILITY OF ENGINEERING MODELS TO REPRODUCE NEARBY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS..................................................................................................................1708

A. Mosaddeghi, A. Shoory, F. Rachidi, M. Rubinstein, G. Diendorfer, H. Pichler, D. Pavanello

FDTD SIMULATION OF FIELD-REDUCTION EFFECT AT GROUND DUE TO CORONA AT LIGHTNING-TRIGGERING WIRE .................................................................................................................................................................................1712

Y. Baba, V. Rakov

INFLUENCE OF RETURN STROKE SPEED AND LEADER LINE CHARGE DENSITY ON LIGHTNING CORONA SHEATH DYNAMICS .............................................................................................................................................................1716

G. Maslowski, V. Rakov

LIGHTNING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND INDUCED VOLTAGES: INFLUENCE OF CHANNEL TORTUOSITY .............................................................................................................................................................................................1720

A. Andreotti, U. Martinis, C. Petrarca, V. Rakov, L. Verolino

RADIO-PHYSICAL METHODS OF ANALYSIS FOR THUNDERSTORM FIELD PERTURBATIONS ....................................1724E. Mareev, V. Klimenko, Y. Shlyugaev, M. Shatalina, D. Iudin

STEPPED LEADER CHARACTERISTICS IN DEVELOPING HORIZONTALLY WITHIN THUNDERCLOUDS AND IN DESCENDING OUT OF THUNDERCLOUDS..................................................................................1728

S. Yoshida, M. Akita, T. Morimoto, T. Ushio, Z. Kawasaki

DEVELOPMENT OF THE BROADBAND RADAR NETWORK WITH HIGH RESOLUTION ...................................................1732T. Ushio, E. Yoshikawa, N. Wakayama, S. Shimamura, S. Yoshida, T. Morimoto, Z. Kawasaki

A MACROMODEL-BASED ALGORITHM FOR THE CALCULATION OF LIGHTNING RADIATED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND INDUCED VOLTAGES IN TRANSMISSION LINES ......................................................1736

S. Mashayekhi, B. Kordi

EVALUATION OF THE COORAY-RUBINSTEIN FORMULA FOR DISTANCES FARTHER THAN A FEW KILOMETERS USING THE PARALLEL FDTD METHOD ...............................................................................................................1740

M. Farsani, R. Moini, S. Sadeghi

AN IMPROVED DISTANCE FINDING TECHNIQUE FOR SINGLE-SITE LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEM USING REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANISOTROPIC IONOSPHERE ..............................................................1744

M. Ozaki, S. Yagitani, K. Miyazaki, I. Nagano

REMEMBERING CARL E. BAUM - TRIBUTE TO A DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST..................................................................1748F. Sabath, W. Prather, D. Giri

ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTION IN NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS.................................................................1752I. Kohlberg, S. Laven, R. McMillan

ENERGY PATTERNS OF THE PROTOTYPE IMPULSE-RADIATING ANTENNA .....................................................................1756D. Giri, F. Tesche

DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF A COAXIAL EXPONENTIAL TRANSMISSION LINE FOR A HALF IMPULSE RADIATING ANTENNA ........................................................................................................................................................1757

F. Vega, N. Mora, F. Rachidi, N. Pena, F. Roman

GENERATION AND RADIATION OF HIGH-POWER MESOBAND WAVEFORMS USING QUARTER-WAVE SWITCHED OSCILLATORS ......................................................................................................................................................1761

M. Armanious, J. Tyo, M. Skipper, M. Abdalla

A SWITCHED OSCILLATOR AS AN ANTENNA FOR HIGH POWER THZ GENERATION ....................................................1765P. Kumar, C. Baum, C. Christodoulou, C. Abdallah, E. Schamiloglu, D. Brown, K. McDonald

USING THE HALF FOURIER TRANSFORM FOR SEM ANALYSIS OF BOTH EARLY AND LATE TIME RESPONSES IN THE PRESENCE OF NOISE .......................................................................................................................................1769

T. Sarkar, M. Palma

STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF SHIELDING PROBLEMS USING MULTIPOLE ANALYSIS .............................................1773K. Korber, L. Klinkenbusch

WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM DOCUMENTED INTENTIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE (IEMI) ATTACKS? ....................................................................................................................................................1777

F. Sabath

COMBINATION OF THE FAILURE PROBABILITY WITH A RANDOM ANGLE OF INCIDENCE OF THE RADIATED INTERFERENCE..................................................................................................................................................................1781

E. Genender, A. Kreth, D. Zamow, H. Garbe, S. Potthast

AUTOMATED AND ADAPTIVE RF EFFECTS TESTING .................................................................................................................1785E. Farr, L. Bowen, W. Bigelow, R. Gardner, P. Finlay

PHYSICAL, TECHNICAL, PRACTICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND REGULATORY ASPECTS OF SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1789

T. Tjelta, R. Struzak

SPECTRUM CONSIDERATIONS FOR GLOBAL BROADBAND ACCESS ....................................................................................1793C. Langtry

FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USAGE FOR THE FUTURE BROADBAND MOBILE AND FIXED CONVERGENCE ....................1797L. Sun, J. Jian, Y. Li

PERSPECTIVES AND PROBLEMS OF OPPORTUNISTIC AND DYNAMIC SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT .........................1801M. Fitch

OPPORTUNISTIC SECONDARY SPECTRUM ACCESS - OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS ........................................1805J. Zander, K. Sung

CONSERVATION OF SPECTRUM FOR SCIENTIFIC SERVICES,- THE RADIO ASTRONOMICAL PERSPECTIVE ............................................................................................................................................................................................1809

A. Jessner

MITIGATION OF EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE ON AN EGSM NETWORK ..............................................................................1813T. Haq, A. Iqbal

TOWARDS POWER LINE COMMUNICATION IN VEHICLE .........................................................................................................1817F. Nouvel, P. Tanguy

POWER LINE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN INVERTER AND A MOTOR: NOISE CHARACTERIZATION IN THE TIME DOMAIN AND IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN ..........................................................1821

V. Degardin, K. Kilani, P. Laly, M. Lienard, P. Degauque

STUDY OF THE COEXISTENCE OF VDSL2 AND PLC BY ANALYSING THE COUPLING BETWEEN POWER LINE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS CABLE IN THE HOME NETWORK ...............................................................1825

B. Praho, R. Razafferson, M. Tlich, A. Zeddam, F. Nouvel

VULNERABILITY OF ZIGBEE TO IMPULSIVE NOISE IN ELECTRICITY SUBSTATIONS...................................................1829S. Bhatti, Q. Shan, R. Atkinson, M. Vieira, I. Glover

MITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING MOBILE RADIO EMC PERFORMANCES .................................................1833J. Gavan, S. Tapuchi

A LOW-NOISE TIME-DOMAIN EMI MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENTS UP TO 26 GHZ .........................1837C. Hoffmann, A. Boge, P. Russer

SPECTRUM ANALYZER MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE FOR SAFETY EVALUATION ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...............................................................................................................................................................1841

M. Sahin, Y. Karan, N. As

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF CO-ZR SUBSTITUTED BA-SR FERRITE-PARAFFIN WAX COMPOSITE FOR EMC/EMI APPLICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................1845

C. Singh, S. Narang, I. Hudiara

EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF PROXIMITY EFFECT IN THE CALCULATION OF THE INTERNAL IMPEDANCE OF CYLINDRICAL CONDUCTORS .............................................................................................................................1849

A. Pagnetti, A. Xemard, F. Paladian, C. Nucci

SOUTH AFRICAN SKA DEMONSTRATOR SYSTEMS: EVOLVING RFI MITIGATION INVESTIGATIONS ......................1853H. Reader, P. Merwe, A. Otto, P. Wiid, P. Langat, J. Andriambeloson, C. Merwe

LOW FREQUENCY ASTRONOMY THE CHALLENGE IN A CROWDED RFI ENVIRONMENT...........................................1857M. Bentum, A. Boonstra

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCES FROM ELECTRIC/HYBRID VEHICLES ................................................................1861F. Silva, M. Aragon

INTERACTION OF A MW AM BROADCAST TRANSMITTER WITH A LARGE CRANE AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE WORKERS SAFETY.............................................................................................................................................1865

F. Ustuner

STUDY OF EQLS IN LIMA, DURING THE 2007 PISCO, PERU EARTHQUAKE AND POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................................1869

J. Heraud, J. Lira

KAROO ARRAY TELESCOPE: LIGHTNING PROTECTION ISSUES AND RFI .........................................................................1873P. Wiid, H. Reader, R. Geschke

EXAMINING LIGHTNING CHANNEL ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES WITH TIME DOMAIN FRACTAL LIGHTNING MODELING.........................................................................................................................................................................1877

B. Carlson, C. Liang, N. Lehtinen, M. Cohen, D. Lauben, U. Inan

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS IN LIGHTNING DISCHARGES AS A PROXY OF THUNDERSTORM CHARACTERISTICS .............................................................................................................................................1881

M. Cohen, F. Zoghzoghy, R. Said, U. Inan

THE ANALYSIS OF STOCHASTIC EMC PROBLEMS USING THE CONCEPT OF DIFFUSE FIELD RECIPROCITY............................................................................................................................................................................................1884

R. Langley

MULTI-FREQUENCY AMPLITUDE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE ANALYSIS.................................................................................1888

Y. Matsumoto

THE USE OF UNSCENTED TRANSFORMS IN MODELING THE STATISTICAL RESPONSE OF NONLINEAR SCATTERER IN A REVERBERATION CHAMBER..................................................................................................1892

D. Thomas, O. Oke, L. Menezes, C. Christopoulos

PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON COMPLEX CAVITIES IN UNDERMODED REGIME ......................................................1896G. Gradoni, L. Arnaut

A STATISTICS-BASED DEFINITION OF THE OVERMODED CONDITION FOR REVERBERATION CHAMBERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................1900

A. Cozza

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE WHEN ESTIMATING THE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION OF DIGITAL RADIO RECEIVERS.........................................................................................1904

K. Wiklundh

COMPARISON OF STOCHASTIC METHODS FOR THE VARIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF TECHNOLOGY PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................................................................................1908

P. Manfredi, M. Fontana, I. Stievano, F. Canavero

ON DISTRIBUTIONS OF FIELDS AND POWER IN UNDERMODED MODE-STIRRED REVERBERATION CHAMBERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................1912

L. Arnaut, G. Gradoni

INFLUENCE OF TWIST-PITCH RANDOM NON-UNIFORMITY ON THE RADIATED IMMUNITY OF TWISTED-WIRE PAIRS ............................................................................................................................................................................1916

S. Pignari, G. Spadacini

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF CROSSTALK IN PCB INTERCONNECTS INCLUDING PROCESS VARIATION ...................1920P. Manfredi, I. Steivano, F. Canavaro

INFLUENCE OF THE TRAPEZOIDAL CROSS-SECTION OF SINGLE AND COUPLED INVERTED EMBEDDED MICROSTRIP LINES ON SIGNAL INTEGRITY .........................................................................................................1924

D. Ginste, D. Zutter

AN EMC EXPERIMENTAL KIT FOR DEMONSTRATING THE EFFECT OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD LAYOUT ON THE RADIATED EMISSIONS.........................................................................................................................................1928

F. Ustuner, E. Baran

ON THE MODELING OF COMPLEX CIRCUITS USING BEHAVIORAL COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS EMBEDDED INTO THE FULL-WAVE TLM METHOD .....................................................................................................................1932

I. Scott, C. Christopoulos, D. Thomas, S. Greedy, P. Sewell

AN AFFECT OF THE APERTURE LENGTH TO APERTURE WIDTH RATIO ON BROADBAND SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS ...............................................................................................................................................................1936

I. Basyigit, P. Tosun, S. Ozen, S. Helhel

MULTI-SCALE MODELLING IN THE TIME-DOMAIN FOR EMC STUDIES..............................................................................1940C. Christopoulos

EFFICIENT STOCHASTIC EMC/EMI ANALYSIS USING HDMR-GENERATED SURROGATE MODELS ..........................1944A. Yucel, H. Bagci, E. Michielssen

EMI/EMC MODELING OF PACKAGED ELECTRONICS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES ......................................1948A. Cangellaris, J. Russer

HIGHER ORDER FULLY OVERLAPPING DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHOD FOR EMI/EMC MODELING..................................................................................................................................................................................................1952

T. Peng, K. Sertel, J. Volakis

A WIDEBAND FAST INTEGRAL EQUATION SOLVER COMBINING MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE AND MULTILEVEL GREENS FUNCTION INTERPOLATION METHOD WITH FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM ACCELERATION ............................................................................................................................................................1955

D. Schobert, T. Eibert

A LARGE DOMAIN COMPLETE BASIS FUNCTION SET FOR CURVED SURFACES..............................................................1959M. Casaletti, S. Maci, G. Vecchi

ON ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS FOR FAST ESTIMATION OF COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRICALLY SHORT THIN-WIRE ANTENNAS WITHIN CAVITIES......................................................................................................................1963

F. Gronwald

TOWARDS A FIRST TIME RIGHT DESIGN OF THE COMMON MODE CHOKE .....................................................................1967A. Roc'H, F. Leferink

A SHORT INVESTIGATION IN THE OLD WALL STIRRING METHOD FOR REVERBERATING CHAMBERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................1971

J. Nijenhuis

TIME-DOMAIN INVESTIGATION ON RIBBON CABLE-INDUCED TRANSIENT COUPLING INTO ENCLOSURE ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1975

Q. Liu, C. Fang, X. Zhao, S. Zheng, F. Deng, D. Hou

OVERVIEW OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES DUE TO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND OBSERVED BY DEMETER .............................................................................................................................................................................................1979

M. Parrot

DETERMINATION OF THE IONOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION LOSS OF THE LOW FREQUENCY EM WAVES BY SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS OF SATELLITE AND GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENTS .....................1980

Y. Hobara, M. Parrot

ELF Q-BURST CAUSED BY EXTRAGALACTIC GAMMA RAY BURST.......................................................................................1983A. Nickolaenko, A. Schekotov

A.C./D.C. ATMOSPHERIC GLOBAL ELECTRIC CIRCUIT PHENOMENA .................................................................................1987M. Rycroft, R. Harrison

A VHF BROADBAND INTERFEROMETER FOR LIGHTNING OBSERVATION ........................................................................1990T. Ushio, Z. Kawasaki, M. Akita, S. Yoshida, T. Morimoto, Y. Nakamura

SEISMOGENIC ULF MAGNETIC ACTIVITY - PECULIARITIES OF REGISTRATION ...........................................................1994V. Korepanov, F. Dudkin

APPROXIMATE SURFACE-CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS OF RECTANGULAR DIPOLE ANTENNAS ................................1998Q. Wu, D. Su, S. Xie

A TUNABLE EBG ABSORBER FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER IMAGING .........................................................................2002S. Yagitani, K. Katsuda, R. Tanaka, M. Nojima, Y. Yoshimura, H. Sugiura

PROPOSAL OF A GENERAL METHOD TO STUDY WAVE PROPAGATION .............................................................................2006O. Maurice, A. Reineix, F. Paladian

DEVELOPMENT OF WEAK RADIATION POWER MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE ................................................................2010H. Ujihara, K. Takefuji, M. Sekido, R. Ichikawa, Y. Koyama

ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYURETHANE ACRYLATE/E-GLASS COMPOSITES IN THE 3-13 GHZ FREQUENCY RANGE ........................................................................2014

A. Gungor, I. Usta, M. Ugur, Z. Yildiz, E. Sancak, C. Macit

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROFILING OF A DOUBLE DECKED BUS USING A SCALE MODEL ..............................................2017S. Jeyakumar, D. Linton, M. O'Droma

EXTREME ELECTROMAGNETIC ANOMALIES IN THE IONOSPHERE AND THEIR FUTURE IMPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2021

S. Lawrence

NATURAL ELF/VLF ATMOSPHERIC NOISE STATISTICS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN...................................2025Y. Reuveni, C. Price, E. Greenberg, A. Shuval

DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF SCHUMANN RESONANCE FREQUENCY SPECTRA DURING SOME STRONG Q-BURSTS ..................................................................................................................................................................................2028

S. Paul, S. De

CNN COMPUTING OF THE INTERACTION OF FLUXONS ............................................................................................................2032A. Slavova, R. Tetzlaff, M. Markova

DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFICIENT NUMERICAL SET-UP TO PREDICT THE PERFORMANCE OF GROUND-PENETRATING-RADAR SYSTEMS FOR ON-SITE EARTH AND PLANETARY APPLICATIONS......................2036

G. Valerio, E. Pettinelli, P. Barone, S. Lauro, E. Mattei, A. Galli

WAVEFORM DIVERSITY AND COMPATIBILITY............................................................................................................................2040G. Capraro, I. Bradaric, M. Wicks

EVALUATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN ELECTROMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE MEASUREMENT IN THE 1 - 18 GHZ RANGE ........................................................................................................................................................................................2044

T. Tosaka, Y. Yamanaka

CONSISTENT ANALYSIS AND RIGOROUS CHARACTERIZATION OF INFINITE GRAPHENE LAYERS VIA A SUBCELL FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT FDTD TECHNIQUE...............................................................................................2048

G. Bouzianas, N. Kantartzis, T. Tsiboukis

CHARACTERISTICS OF NIGHTTIME WEST-TO-EAST VLF WAVES PROPAGATION USING THE SOUTH AMERICA VLF NETWORK (SAVNET) .................................................................................................................................................2052

J. Raulin, J. Samanes

PRACTICAL USE THE SATELLITE LOW FREQUENCY WAVE EXPERIMENT RESULTS ..................................................2056V. Larkina

STUDY OF HUMAN BODY TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTIC AS NONUNIFORM MEDIUM ..........................................2060D. Shi, Y. Gao, X. Du

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE SENSITIVITY TO INTERFERENCES IN GEOGRAPHICAL UNLICENSED WIRELESS NETWORKS ...............................................................................................................................................2064

D. Brunazzi, R. Stefanelli, D. Trinchero

ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING TO CURVED THICK WIRES .................................................................................................2068J. Nitsch, S. Tkachenko

EMC MEASUREMENTS IN THE TIME-DOMAIN ..............................................................................................................................2072P. Russer

RADIOMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................2107R. Lang

RF ELECTROMAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS IN A RURAL ENVIRONMENT ...........................................................................2111H. Sizun, P. Maliet

JOINT ANALYSIS OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE FROM SMOS MEASUREMENTS AND FROM AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS ....................................................................................................................................................2115

M. Aksoy, J. Park, J. Johnson

CHARACTERIZATION OF RADAR TARGETS BASED ON ULTRA WIDEBAND POLARIMETRIC TRANSIENT SIGNATURES......................................................................................................................................................................2119

H. Lui, M. Persson

COMPACT SUB MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH HETERODYNE RADIOMETER FOR ARRAYS .........................................2123J. Treuttel, A. Maestrini, B. Alderman, H. Wang, H. Sanghera, D. Matheson, P. Demaagt

REFLECTION ON CURVED SURFACES IN A 2.5D RAY-TRACING METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES EXPOSURE PREDICTION IN URBAN AREAS ....................................................................................................................2127

N. Noe, F. Gaudaire

STATISTICS OF RAIN ATTENUATION REVISITED ........................................................................................................................2131J. Andersen, P. Eggers, I. Otung

PREDICTING THE PROPAGATION LOSS THROUGH A TREE CANOPY AT MILLIMETER FREQUENCIES FORWARD SCATTERING APPROXIMATION 3-D VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSPORT THEORY .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2135

S. Torrico, R. Lang

COMPUTATION OF RAIN ATTENUATION IN TROPICAL REGION WITH MULTIPLE SCATTERING AND MULTIPLE ABSORPTION EFFECTS USING EXPONENTIAL DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION .......................................2139

F. Amrullah, E. Setijadi, G. Hendrantoro

KU-BAND SIGNAL DEPOLARIZATION OVER EARTH-SPACE PATH IN RELATION TO SCATTERING OF RAINDROPS AT A TROPICAL LOCATION.........................................................................................................................................2143

A. Maitra, A. Adhikari

TWO YEAR RAIN ATTENUATION STATISTICS OVER A LINE OF SIGHT TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE LINK OPERATING AT 30 GHZ IN TROPICAL REGION AMRITSAR (INDIA) ...........................................................................2147

P. Sharma

SOME MELTING LAYER CHARACTERISTICS AT TWO TROPICAL LOCATIONS IN INDIAN REGION.........................2151S. Das, A. Maitra

ANALYSIS OF RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS IN MALAYSIA FOR RAIN ATTENUATION PREDICTION................................................................................................................................................................2155

H. Lam, J. Din, L. Luini, A. Panagopoulos, C. Capsoni

DIMENSIONAL STATISTICS OF RAINFALL SIGNATURE AND FADE DURATION FOR MICROWAVE PROPAGATION IN NIGERIA ..................................................................................................................................................................2159

J. Ojo, M. Ajewole

GENERATION OF AN EMPIRIC PROPAGATION MODEL FOR FOREST ENVIRONMENT AT GSM900/GSM1800/CDMA2100 .................................................................................................................................................................2163

M. Bitirgan, Y. Yoruk, S. Celik, O. Kurnaz, S. Helhel, S. Ozen

TO THE PROBLEM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES PROPAGATION IN TURBULENT MAGNETIZED PLASMA SLAB ............................................................................................................................................................................................2167

G. Jandieri, A. Ishimaru, K. Yasumoto, V. Jandieri, N. Zhukova

COMPARISON OF RADAR REFLECTIVITY CALCULATIONS TO SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS ACROSS THE MELTING LAYER OF PRECIPITATION...................................................................................................................2171

K. Pipis, M. Ioannidou, D. Chrissoulidis

FADE DURATION AND FADE SLOPE STATISTICS DERIVED FROM LONG-TERM ANIK-F2 SATELLITE BEACON MEASUREMENTS IN OTTAWA-CANADA ........................................................................................................................2175

C. Amaya, T. Nguyen

STUDIES ON RAIN STRUCTURE BASED ON GROUND BASED DROPSIZE DISTRIBUTION AND RAIN ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS OVER AN EARTH SPACE PATH .........................................................................................2179

A. Bhattacharya, A. Maitra

A SIMPLE SCATTERING MODEL FOR TREE TRUNKS..................................................................................................................2183N. Leonor, D. Ferreira, R. Caldeirinha, T. Fernandes

POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING AND RADAR ECHOES FROM INHOMOGENEOUS SCATTER MEDIA WITH ROUGH INTERFACES..................................................................................................................................................................2187

Y. Jin

ON THE USEFULNESS OF SELECTED RADIO WAVES PROPAGATION MODELS FOR DESIGNING MOBILE WIRELESS SYSTEMS IN CONTAINER TERMINAL ENVIRONMENT .......................................................................2191

S. Ambroziak, R. Katulski

PREDICTION OF DIFFRACTION EFFECTS DUE TO IRREGULAR TERRAIN ON RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION IN THE VHF AND UHF BANDS................................................................................................................................2195

E. Costa, M. Silva, M. Liniger

RADIO WAVE DIFFRACTION BY TERRAIN IRREGULARITIES .................................................................................................2199M. Assis

COMPUTING THE INFLUENCE OF WIND TURBINES ON RF SYSTEMS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT TERRAIN. .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2200

E. Lil, J. Bleser, A. Capelle

THE JOINT INVERSE FILTERING AND PARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION FOR COMPLEX RADAR IMAGE ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................2204

M. Konovalyuk, Y. Kuznetsov, A. Baev

COMPARISON OF HYDROMETEOR ATTENUATION ON PARALLEL TERRESTRIAL PATHS AT 58 GHZ AND 93 GHZ.................................................................................................................................................................................................2208

V. Kvicera, M. Grabner, O. Fiser

REMOTE SENSING OF SALINITY: THE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT OF SEA WATER ...........................................................2212D. Vine, R. Lang, C. Utku, Y. Tarkocin

EM DISCRETE APPROACH FOR RAINFALL ATTENUATION OF PROPAGATION................................................................2215S. Seker, A. Citkaya

POTENTIALS OF X-BAND ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS IN MONITORING VEGETATION BIOMASS .........................................................................................................................................................................2219

S. Paloscia, P. Pampaloni, S. Pettinato, E. Santi, M. Brogioni, G. Fontanelli, G. Macelloni

BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS OVER VEGETATION BY GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE RADARS .......................2222M. Kurum, P. O'Neill

CALCULATION OF THE DOUBLE SCATTERING FROM LOSSY DIELECTRIC CYLINDERS .............................................2226Q. Zhao, R. Lang

COHERENCE EFFECTS IN L-BAND ACTIVE AND PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING OF QUASI-PERIODIC CORN CANOPIES.......................................................................................................................................................................................2230

C. Utku, R. Lang

SUBSURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MAPPING IN DESERTS USING TWO FREQUENCY SAR INTERFEROMETRY .................................................................................................................................................................................2234

A. Elsherbini, K. Sarabandi

MILLIMETER-WAVE GROUND BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR MEASUREMENTS...........................................2238E. Yigit, A. Unal, A. Kaya, S. Demirci, H. Cetinkaya, C. Ozdemir, A. Vertiy

ESTIMATING AMBIGUITY NUMBER OF RADIAL VELOCITY FOR GROUND MOVING TARGETS FROM A SINGLE SAR SENSOR ...........................................................................................................................................................................2242

S. Zhu, G. Liao

INFERENCE OF SPATIAL CORRELATION CHARACTERISTICS OF RAINFALL INTENSITY FROM THE DATA OF SATELLITE-BORNE PRECIPITATION RADAR AND GROUND-BASED RAIN GAUGES.....................................2246

T. Manabe, R. Jozaki

SOUNDING SIGNALS LIBRARY FOR RECONFIGURABLE POLARIMETRIC FM-CW RADAR - PARSAX ......................2250G. Babur, O. Krasnov, A. Yarovoy

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE BACKSCATTERING AND EMISSION TO SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT: SYNERGY OF DUAL SENSOR OBSERVATIONS ..................................................................................................2254

M. Brogioni, G. Macelloni, S. Paloscia, P. Pampaloni, S. Pettinato, E. Santi, C. X'Iong, A. Crepaz

A UNIFIED MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL WITH JACOBIAN FOR GENERAL PLANAR STRATIFIED MEDIA .................................................................................................................................................................................2257

M. Tian, A. Gasiewski

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM TWO-SCATTERERS USING THE EXTENDED PROPAGATION-INSIDE-LAYER EXPANSION METHOD ...............................................................................................................2261

M. Kouali, G. Kubicke, C. Bourlier

THERMAL IR EMISSIVITY OF OIL FILMS ON SEA SURFACES UNDER MODERATE WINDS ...........................................2265N. Pinel, C. Bourlier, I. Sergievskaya

VHF RADAR STUDIES OF THE MIGRATING AND NONMIGRATING DIURNAL AND SEMIDIURNAL TIDES OVER A TROPICAL AND AN EQUATORIAL STATION .....................................................................................................2268

K. Uma, K. Kumar, S. Das

ANALYTICAL PREDICTION OF THE POLARIZED DOPPLER SPECTRUM FROM NONLINEAR OCEAN SURFACE AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCY ........................................................................................................................................2272

G. Soriano, F. Nouguier, C. Guerin

COMPARISON OF NO2 VERTICAL PROFILES FROM SATELLITE AND GROUND BASED MEASUREMENTS OVER ANTARCTICA.............................................................................................................................................2276

Pj. Kulkarni, D. Bortoli, M. Costa, A. Silva, F. Ravegnani, G. Giovanelli

INVESTIGATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AT L-BAND USING DATA FROM AIRBORNE HUT-2D RADIOMETER AND SPACEBORNE SMOS RADIOMETER .....................................................................2280

M. Hallikainen, J. Kainulainen, J. Seppanen, A. Hakkarainen, K. Rautiainen

CLASSIFICATION METHOD FOR REFLECTION AND DUCT PROPAGATION OF FM RADIO WAVES OBSERVED AT HIROSHIMA AND ASO IN JAPAN ...........................................................................................................................2284

K. Shin, M. Nishi, T. Yoshida

MULTIPLE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE IMAGING OF REINFORCEMENT BARS AND EMPTY DUCTS IN CIRCULAR CONCRETE COLUMNS ......................................................2288

K. Agarwal, X. Chen, L. Pan, S. Yeo

TRADE-OFF BETWEEN VERTICAL RESOLUTION AND ACCURACY IN WATER VAPOR RETRIEVALS FROM GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS ...............................................2292

S. Sahoo, S. Reising, J. Vivekanandan

DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNALLY-CALIBRATED, MMIC-BASED MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETERS TO ENABLE CORRECTION OF WET-TROPOSPHERIC DELAY FOR COASTAL ZONE ALTIMETRY..............................2296

S. Reising, A. Lee, D. Albers, P. Kangaslahti, S. Brown, D. Dawson, T. Gaier, O. Montes, D. Hoppe, S. Khayatian

THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MST RADAR AT WUHAN, CHINA .......................................................................2300Z. Zhao, G. Chen, C. Li, Q. Yao, G. Yang, C. Zhou, Y. Hu, Y. Zhang

DISTRIBUTION OF UPPER TROPICAL CIRRUS IN RELATION TO TROPICAL EASTERLY JET ......................................2304S. Das, J. Nee, C. Chiang

CASE STUDIES OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ATMOSPHERIC PLANETARY WAVES DURING STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS IN WINTER 2008.............................................................................................................................2308

M. Tolstikov, A. Medvedev, K. Ratovsky

A MARKOV CHAIN APPROACH IN THE PREDICTION OF SEVERE PRE-MONSOON THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK WITH DAILY TOTAL OZONE AS PREDICTOR.........................................2312

G. Chattopadhyay, S. De

PARABOLIC TORUS REFLECTOR ANTENNA WITH ASYMMETRIC MULTIPLE BEAMS ..................................................2316J. Bava, A. Maltz, M. Garavaglia

ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF RADIOMETER CALIBRATION TARGETS USING FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD.............................................................................................................................................2320

S. Sandeep, A. Gasiewski, D. Walker

INCREASING OF THE EFFICIENCY OF INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN MM-BAND DOPPLER RADARS........................................................................................................................................................................................................2324

Y. Goncahrenko, V. Gorobets, V. Gutnik

KEY SCIENTIFIC ISSUES OF PRESENT DAY DISASTER MANAGEMENT SCENARIO .........................................................2328O. Altan

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT OF THE SEISMO-ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS .......................................................2332Y. Hobara, M. Hayakawa

EARLY WARNING FOR VOLCANIC ACTIVITY INVESTIGATED FROM THE 2008 CHAITEN ERUPTION BASED ON LONG-TERM OBSERVATION BY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER...........................................................................2333

T. Maeda, T. Takano

INVESTIGATION OF A TIME-VARIANT DRET MODEL IN VEGETATION ..............................................................................2337S. Morgadinho, J. Richter, R. Caldeirinha, T. Fernandes

FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF A LOW-COMPLEXITY FADING FILTER FOR MULTIPATH RAYLEIGH FADING SIMULATOR...............................................................................................................................................................................2341

K. Toker, S. Ozen, A. Arsal

OPTIMIZATION OF 3D RAY TRACING FOR MIMO INDOOR CHANNEL .................................................................................2345E. Haddad, N. Malhouroux, P. Pajusco, M. Ney

DEVELOPMENT OF 4X4 FULL-MIMO CHANNEL SOUNDER OPERATING AT 11 GHZ WITH 400 MHZ BANDWIDTH UTILIZING SOFTWARE RADIO ARCHITECTURE ...............................................................................................2349

J. Takada, Y. Konishi, B. Gao, M. Kim, M. Ghoraishi, S. Suyama, H. Suzuki

EXPERIMENTAL THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS FOR 802.11N SYSTEM AND MIMO INDOOR PROPAGATION PREDICTION ...............................................................................................................................................................2353

Y. Dama, R. Abd-Alhameed, S. Jone, D. Zhou, M. Child

EMPIRICAL MODEL OF A 802.11 AB/G CHANNEL CAPACITY IN HOME ENVIRONMENT ................................................2357H. Sizun, V. Guillet, S. Durieux

IONOSPHERIC AND TROPOSPHERIC MODELLING AND MONITORING FOR GNSS AT THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY .................................................................................................................................................................2361

B. Arbesser-Rastburg

ANALYSIS OF THE PLL PHASE ERROR IN PRESENCE OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION ...........................................2365B. Forte

WBMOD ASSISTED PLL GPS SOFTWARE RECEIVER FOR MITIGATING SCINTILLATION AFFECT IN HIGH LATITUDE REGION ......................................................................................................................................................................2369

R. Tiwari, S. Skone, S. Tiwari, H. Stangeways

IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES AND POTENTIALITIES OF MULTIFREQUENCY CORRECTION IN GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS................................................................................................................................2373

M. Tinin, E. Konteskaya

DIURNAL, SEASONAL AND GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION EFFECTS ON TEC VARIATION OVER MALAYSIA ..................................................................................................................................................................................................2377

S. Bahari, M. Abdullah, A. Hasbi, B. Yatim

FORECASTING OF IONOSPHERIC DELAY USING THE HOLT-WINTERS METHOD ...........................................................2378M. Abdullah, S. Bahari, A. Zaharim, A. Zain, S. Habib, C. Yi

SPACE-TIME INTERPOLATION AND AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF TEC USING TNPGN-ACTIVE .....................................2379F. Arikan, O. Arikan, U. Sezen, C. Toker, B. Aktug, O. Lenk, M. Kurt, E. Parmaksiz

STUDIES ON THE EFFECTS OF AILA-2009 ON VLF INTEGRATED FIELD INTENSITY OF ATMOSPHERICS........................................................................................................................................................................................2383

S. De, B. Bandyopadhyay, S. Paul, D. Haldar, M. Sanfui, T. Das, S. Barui, G. Chattopadhyay, B. De, P. Pal

L-BAND H POLARIZED MICROWAVE EMISSION DURING THE CORN GROWTH CYCLE ...............................................2387A. Joseph, R. Velde, P. O'Neill, B. Choudhury, E. Kim, R. Lang, T. Gish

SCHUMANN RESONANCE: A LATEST WONDER FOR CLIMATE FORECAST ! .....................................................................2391D. Haldar, S. De

COMPARISON BETWEEN REMOTE ANTENNA UNITS WITH DETACHABLE ANTENNAS AND PHOTONIC ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNAS FOR INDOOR APPLICATIONS....................................................................2395

P. Assimakopoulos, V. Sittakul, A. Nkansah, N. Gomes, M. Cryan, D. Wake

SINGLE AND JOINT STATISTICS OF DUCTING LAYER PARAMETERS DETERMINED FROM VERTICAL PROFILES OF ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY........................................................................................................2399

M. Grabner, V. Kvicera, P. Pechac, O. Jicha

MICROWAVE ATTENUATION SPECTRA OF FOREST CROWNS................................................................................................2403A. Chukhlantsev, A. Shutko

ASSESSMENT OF EVAPORATION DUCT PROPAGATION SIMULATION ................................................................................2406I. Levadnyi, V. Ivanov, V. Shalyapin

THE MISSIONS TERRASAR-X AND TANDEM-X: STATUS, CHALLENGES, FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ............................2410S. Buckreuss, M. Zink

HOW IS THE IONOSPHERE DRIVEN BY THE MAGNETOSPHERE? ..........................................................................................2411P. Song, V. Vasyliunas

MULTI-INSTRUMENT OBSERVATIONS OF AN MSTID OVER ARECIBO OBSERVATORY ................................................2415J. Klenzing, I. Seker, P. Pfaff, D. Rowland, S. Fung, J. Mathews

LONG-DISTANCE PROPAGATION EFFECTS IN THE HF SIGNALS FROM DIFFERENT HEATING FACILITIES OBSERVED WITH USING PASSIVE DOPPLER SOUNDING EQUIPMENT AT IRKUTSK ..............................2419

O. Berngardt, V. Abramo, N. Blagoveschenskaya, V. Frolov, V. Kurkin, S. Ponomarchuk

VARIATIONAL METHODS IN IONOSPHERIC RAY TRACING ....................................................................................................2423C. Coleman

USE OF A DRM MODULATION TO STUDY THE IONOSPHERE...................................................................................................2424P. Maliet, H. Sizun

THE EFFECT OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION ON PHASE GRADIENT AUTOFOCUS PROCESSING OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR ...................................................................................................................................................2428

D. Knepp, K. Groves

OPTIMIZATION OF F2 LAYER PARAMETERS USING IRI-PLAS AND IONOLAB-TEC.........................................................2432O. Sahin, U. Sezen, F. Arikan, O. Arikan

A NEW VARY-CHAP MODEL OF TOPSIDE ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES BASED ON ISIS-2 DATA ..........................2436B. Reinisch, P. Nsumei, X. Huang, D. Bilitza

INVESTIGATION OF THE BOTTOMSIDE / TOPSIDE CONTRIBUTION TO THE TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT AT EUROPEAN MID-LATITUDES ....................................................................................................................................2438

I. Zakharnkova, I. Shagimuratov, I. Cherniak, A. Krankowski, A. Krypiak-Gregorczyk

MEASUREMENTS AND IRI MODEL PREDICTIONS DURING THE RECENT SOLAR MINIMUM.......................................2439D. Bilitza, S. Brown, M. Wang, P. Roddy

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF IONOSPHERIC ACTIVITY IN THE PERIOD OF LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY USING DPS-4 IONOSONDE DATA ........................................................................................................................................................2440

M. Tolstikov, A. Medvedev, K. Ratovsky

INTEGRATION OF MULTI INSTRUMENT IONOSPHERIC PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS USED FOR NEAR EARTH ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING..........................................................................................................................................2444

H. Rothkaehl, A. Krankowski, R. Sieradzki, D. Przepirorka, E. Slominska, A. Krypiak-Gregorczyk

3-D INVERSION OF IONOSONDE DATA FOR IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITY: NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND BENEFITS FOR ASSIMILATIVE MODELING .......................................................................................2445

N. Zabotin

MONITORING D-REGION VARIABILITY FROM LIGHTNING MEASUREMENTS.................................................................2446F. Simoes, J. Berthelier, R. Pfaff, D. Bilitza, J. Klenzing

MODELING IONOSPHERIC PROPAGATION OF LOW FREQUENCY SIGNALS FOR REMOTE SENSING PURPOSES USING CHARGE DENSITY PROFILES..........................................................................................................................2450

E. Schmitter

GLOBAL SCALE IONOSPHERIC MONITORING - FUTURE DEVELOPMENT .........................................................................2454A. Eyken, E. Sanchez, E. Turunen, I. McCrea

DETERMINATION OF PRECIPITATING ELECTRON FLUXES FROM INVERSION OF COORDINATED ALIS/EISCAT OBSERVATIONS..............................................................................................................................................................2458

H. Lamy, C. Simon, B. Gustavsson, T. Serjienko, I. Sandahl, U. Brandstrom

MULTISCALE SOFTWARE RADAR NETWORKS AND THE GEOSPACE ARRAY...................................................................2460F. Lind

THE EISCAT_3D ARBITRARY WAVEFORM EXCITER AND POLYPHASE CONSTANT AMPLITUDE CODES FOR EISCAT VHF AND ESR D/E LAYER EXPERIMENTS ...............................................................................................2461

G. Wannberg, I. Wolf, W. Puccio, I. Haggstrom, A. Westman

THE EFFECTS OF COULOMB COLLISIONS ON H+ AND HE+ PLASMAS FOR TOPSIDE INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR APPLICATIONS AT JICAMARCA......................................................................................................................2465

M. Milla, E. Kudeki, J. Chau

EISCAT APERTURE SYNTHESIS IMAGING (EASI_3D) FOR THE EISCAT_3D PROJECT ....................................................2466C. Hoz, V. Belyey

THE D-REGION IONOSPHERE DURING THE SOLAR MINIMUM AS SEEN BY THE EISCAT SVALBARD CONTINUOUS 1-YEAR IPY RADAR EXPERIMENT .........................................................................................................................2470

A. Kero, C. Enell, L. Roininen, T. Ulich, E. Turunen, I. Haggastrom, P. Verronen, S. Salmi

PRINCIPLES OF DYNASONDE NAVIGATOR.....................................................................................................................................2474M. Rietveld, N. Zabotin

GLOBAL IONOSPHERIC RADIO OBSERVATORY (GIRO): STATUS AND PROSPECTIVE...................................................2478I. Galkin, B. Reinisch

THE SOUTH AFRICAN IONOSONDE NETWORK: PAST AND PRESENT...................................................................................2482L. McKinnell, N. Ssessanga, H. Coetzee, D. Okoh

ON THE USE OF IONOSONDE PROFILES IN THE ELECTRON DENSITY ASSIMILATIVE MODEL (EDAM) .........................................................................................................................................................................................................2484

N. Jackson-Booth, M. Angling

THE PROJECT OF MONITORING THE IONOSPHERE OVER RUSSIAN FEDERATION BY MEANS OF DIGITAL FMCW IONOSONDES NETWORK ......................................................................................................................................2488

A. Kim, K. Ratovsky, V. Khakhinov, V. Kurkin

THE TANDEM INSTRUMENTED CUBESATS EXPERIMENT (TICE) IN LOW EARTH ORBIT FOR CONTINUOUS OCCULTATION OBSERVATIONS OF THE IONOSPHERE ................................................................................2489

P. Bernhardt, C. Siefring, J. Huba, J. Abrams, S. Miller, N. Voronka

EQUATORIAL SCINTILLATION PREDICTIONS FROM C/NOFS PLANAR LANGMUIR PROBE ELECTRON DENSITY FLUCTUATION DATA ...................................................................................................................................2491

E. Costa, E. Paula, L. Rezende, K. Groves, P. Roddy

C/NOFS IN SITU AND BEACON MEASUREMENTS DURING THE MAIN PHASE OF THE FIRST MAGNETIC STORMS WITHIN SOLAR CYCLE 24............................................................................................................................2495

S. Basu, E. Costa, E. Mackenzie

GNU RADIO BEACON RECEIVER (GRBR) OBSERVATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE WAVE STRUCTURE (LSWS) AND EQUATORIAL SPREAD F (ESF) ....................................................................................................................................2496

S. Thampi, M. Yamamoto, R. Tsunoda, L. Jose, T. Pant

GLOBAL S4 INDEX OBSERVED BY FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC DURING 2006-2011.....................................................................2500T. Liu, S. Chen, C. Chen, G. Chang, C. Lin, G. Uma

SCINTILLATIONS ON LEO POLAR ORBITING BEACON SIGNALS IN PRESENCE OF SPORADIC E LAYERS RECORDED BY EISCAT .........................................................................................................................................................2504

B. Forte, E. Turunen, I. Haggstrom

COORDINATED ARRAYS OF DISTRIBUTED INSTRUMENTS: A NEW WINDOW ON GEOSPACE SCIENCE AND SPACE WEATHER EFFECTS .....................................................................................................................................2508

J. Foster

IDENTIFICATION OF TIDS AND PLASMA DEPLETIONS USING THE LISN OBSERVATORY ............................................2509C. Valladares, P. Doherty

CO-LOCATED SPACE WEATHER RADAR STUDIES OVER SOUTHERN AFRICA..................................................................2511L. McKinnell, R. Athieno, J. Habarulema, N. Ssessanga, C. Ngwira

HIGH-LATITUDE GPS TEC CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH SUDDEN MAGNETOSPHERIC COMPRESSION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2512

P. Jayachandran, C. Watson, I. Rae, K. Meziane, J. Macdougall, D. Danskin, R. Chadwick, T. Kelley, P. Prikryl

CONCURRENT OBSERVATIONS OF UPPER THERMOSPHERIC NEUTRAL WIND AND PLASMA CONVECTION AT HIGH LATITUDES OF BOTH HEMISPHERES................................................................................................2513

M. Forster, S. Haaland, E. Doornbos

INTERCEPTED SIGNALS FOR IONOSPHERIC SCIENCE ..............................................................................................................2514F. Lind, A. Coster, P. Erickson, J. Foster, J. Sahr

THE SOUTH AMERICA VLF NETWORK (SAVNET): PROVIDING NEW GROUND-BASED DIAGNOSTICS OF SPACE WEATHER CONDITIONS ...................................................................................................................................................2515

J. Raulin

EQUATORIAL SCINTILLATION CHARACTERISTICS DURING SOLAR MINIMUM: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SCINDA NETWORK ...........................................................................................................................................................2519

K. Groves, R. Caton, J. Retterer, C. Carrano, C. Bridgwood, S. Basu

LOW LATITUDE SCINTILLATIONS: A COMPARISON OF MODELING AND OBSERVATIONS WITHIN THE CIGALA PROJECT ...........................................................................................................................................................................2521

L. Alfonsi, A. Wernik, M. Materassi, L. Spogli, B. Bougard, J. Monico

STUDY OF EQUATORIAL LOW-LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES DURING A RECENT GEOMAGNETIC STORM OF 03 AUGUST 2010 USING GPS RECEIVER .....................................................................................2525

S. Priyadarshi, A. Singh

PLASMA BUBBLE MONITORING BY HF TRANS-EQUATORIAL ARRIVAL ANGLE AND PROPAGATION DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................................................................................2529

S. Saito, M. Yamamoto, T. Maruyama

IONOSPHERIC SCITILLATION ACTIVITY MEASURED IN THE AFRICAN SECTOR ...........................................................2533A. Susnik, B. Forte

CHARACTERIZATION OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION AT HIGH LATITUDE IN THE EUROPEAN REGION ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2536

S. Tiwari, R. Tiwari, H. Strangeways

TWO POSSIBLE APPROACHES FOR IONOSPHERIC FORECASTING TO BE EMPLOYED ALONG WITH THE IRI MODEL.........................................................................................................................................................................................2537

E. Senalp, I. Unal, A. Yesil, Y. Tulunay, E. Tulunay

MAGNETIC ETA INDEX AND IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES IN THE E LAYER DURING SOLAR MINIMUM. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................2541

B. Dziak-Jankowska, I. Stanislawska, T. Ernst, L. Tomasik

IONOSPHERIC F2 LAYER BEHAVIOR DURING PROLONGED SOLAR MINIMUM ...............................................................2542D. Buresova, L. McKinnell, J. Lastovicka, J. Boska

MAPPING OF IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITY AND SCINTILLATION SPECTRAL INDICES FOR NORTHERN EUROPE ...............................................................................................................................................................................2543

H. Strangeways, R. Tiwari

UNDERDENSE, OVERDENSE, AND BRAGG SCATTERING IN RADAR METEORS .................................................................2545J. Mathews

ON THE POSSIBLE EFFECT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING IN THE METEOR-HEAD RADAR REFLECTIONS FROM JICAMARCA ..................................................................................................................................................................................2549

F. Galindo, J. Urbina, J. Chau, L. Dyrud

BRAMS: THE BELGIAN RADIO METEOR STATIONS ....................................................................................................................2553H. Lamy, S. Ranvier, J. Keyser, E. Gamby, S. Calders

FIRST VLF DETECTIONS OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES DUE TO SOFT GAMMA RAY REPEATER SGR J1550-5418............................................................................................................................................................................................2554

S. Chakrabarti, S. Mondal

EQUATORIAL TRAVELLING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (TIDS) COMPARED WITH MIDLATITUDE TIDS.................................................................................................................................................................................2558

J. Macdougall, M. Abdu, R. Buriti, P. Jayachandran, G. Borba

OBSERVATIONS OF TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES ASSOCIATED WITH GEOMAGNETIC STORMS.......................................................................................................................................................................2559

Z. Katamzi, L. McKinnell

COUPLING BETWEEN THE STRATOSPHERE/MESOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE DURING THE JANUARY 2010 STRATOSPHERIC WARMING EVENT ...................................................................................................................2560

G. Gordienko, M. Shepherd, A. Andreev

LONGITUDINAL SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL ELECTRON TOTAL CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS .............................................................................................................................................................2561

A. Coster, L. Goncharenko, C. Valladares

EQUATORIAL AND LOW LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS DURING SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING EVENTS ..................................................................................................................................................................................2565

J. Chau, L. Goncharenko, B. Fejer, H. Li

SIMILAR WAVE-LIKE VELOCITY MODULATIONS WITHIN THE IRREGULAR BOTTOM-TYPE F LAYER AND IRREGULAR E LAYER PRIOR TO THE F REGION PLUME .................................................................................2566

E. Paula, E. Kherani, M. Abdu

DC ELECTRIC FIELDS, ASSOCIATED PLASMA DRIFTS, AND IRREGULARITIES OBSERVED ON THE C/NOFS SATELLITE..................................................................................................................................................................................2567

R. Pfaff, H. Freudenreich, J. Klenzing

DETAILED OBSERVATIONS OF LIGHTNING FLASHES AND PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RAY FLASHES.............................................................................................................................................2568

S. Cummer, G. Lu, J. Li, R. Blakeslee, D. Smith, J. Dwyer, M. Briggs, V. Connaughton, G. Fishman

TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASH INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION ...........................................................................................2569A. Collier, T. Gjesteland, N. Ostgaard

CONFINING THE ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION OF TGF EMISSION. .............................................................................................2572T. Gjesteland, N. Ostgaard, A. Collier, B. Carlson, M. Cohen, N. Lehtinen

THE FREQUENCY OF TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASH ELECTRON BEAM OBSERVATIONS.................................2576B. Carlson, T. Gjesteland, N. Ostergaard

TARANIS - SCIENTIFIC PAYLOAD AND MISSION STRATEGY ...................................................................................................2580J. Pincon, E. Blanc, P. Blelly, M. Parrot, J. Rauch, J. Savand, E. Seran

ISUAL MULTI-BAND OBSERVATIONS OF ELVES...........................................................................................................................2584C. Kuo, T. Huang, S. Chang, L. Lee, J. Chou, A. Chen, H. Su, R. Hsu, H. Frey, S. Mende, Y. Takahashi, L. Lee

SPRITE HALO STRUCTURES AND STREAMER ONSET ................................................................................................................2587H. Stenbaek-Nielsen, M. McHarg, R. Haaland, T. Kanmae

MULTIPLE ION SPECIES FLUID MODELING OF SPRITE HALOS..............................................................................................2591N. Liu

OBSERVATIONS OF LIGHTNING FLASH DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH GIGANTIC JETS .................................2592S. Cummer, G. Lu, J. Li, W. Lyons, W. Beasley, D. Macgorman, P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, M. Cohen, O. Velde, T. Lang, S. Rutledge

MODELLING CHANGES OF THE IONOSPHERIC POTENTIAL DUE TO LIGHTNING AND SPRITES ..............................2593M. Rycroft, A. Odzimek

TLE PRODUCING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANACES: OBSERVATION AND NUMERICAL MODELING .........................2596Y. Hobara, M. Iwamoto, K. Ohta, T. Otsuyama, M. Hayakawa

IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS OBSERVED BY DEMETER IN RELATION WITH THE SEISMIC ACTIVITY ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2600

M. Parrot

A STATISTICAL STUDY ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN LOWER IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS AS SEEN BY SUBIONOSPHERIC VLF/LF PROPAGATION AND EARTHQUAKES...................................................................2601

M. Hayakawa, Y. Kasahara, T. Nakamura, F. Muto, T. Horie, S. Maekawa, Y. Hobara, A. Rozhnoi, M. Solovieva, O. Molchanov

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ULF MAGNETIC FIELD DATA DURING EARTHQUAKE SWARM.............................2605Y. Hobara, T. Kamoi, M. Hayakawa

ULF ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA INDUCED BY UNDERGROUND ACTIVITIES IN IZU AND BOSO PENINSULA, JAPAN DURING 2000 - 2010...............................................................................................................................2608

K. Hattori, P. Han, H. Ishikawa, T. Hirano, Y. Ishiguro, F. Febriani, C. Yoshino

SEISMO-IONOSPHERIC PRECURSORS AND DISTURBANCES OF TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT INDUCED BY THE 12 MAY 2008 M8.0 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE ...........................................................................................2610

Y. Chen, J. Liu, Y. Sun

RADIOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES OF SHORT-TERM EARTHQUAKE PRECURSORS AND THEIR CONGRUENCE. THE CASE OF L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKE OF 06 APRIL 2009.........................................................................2614

S. Pulinets, A. Rozhnoi, M. Solovieva, L. Ciraolo

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY EQUIVALENT DYNAMIC MODEL OF SEISMIC AND ATMOSPHERIC AND IONOSPHERIC CONJOINED NETWORK OF TURKEY: THE STATE SPACE APPROACH....................................................2616

T. Sengor

SATELLITE NAVIGATION: PRESENT AND FUTURE .....................................................................................................................2620P. Enge

SOLAR FLUX INFLUENCE ON PROPAGATION OF DISTURBANCE DYNAMO TO EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE .............................................................................................................................................................................................2624

B. Kakad, D. Tiwari, T. Pant

AN INVESTIGATION OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES OVER SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE MAGNETIC STORM ON 15 MAY 2005 ..................................................................................................................................................2628

C. Ngwira, L. McKinnell, P. Cilliers, E. Yizengaw, B. Opperman

STUDY OF THE EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET STARTING FROM THE ELECTRODYNAMICS PARAMETERS OF THE EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE ...................................................................................................................2630

F. Grodji, V. Doumbia, K. Boka

EMPIRICAL MODEL OF VERTICAL PLASMA DRIFTS ABOVE JICAMARCA TO STUDY THEIR DEPENDENCE ON SOLAR ACTIVITY. ................................................................................................................................................2634

J. Huaman, J. Chau, M. Milla

CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW LATITUDE NOCTURNAL IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES OVER INDIA-ARAB LONGITUDES DURING SOLAR MAXIMUM.............................................................................................................2635

F. Chu, W. Chen, C. Lee, W. Hsu, H. Lin, C. Liao

A STATISTICAL STUDY OF MEDIUM-SCALE IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES GENERATED BY SOLAR TERMINATOR REGISTERED OVER JAPAN IN 2008 .......................................................................................................................2639

S. Voeykov, I. Edemskiy, Y. Yasyukevich

THE OBSERVATIONS OF IONOSPHERIC FLUCTUATIONS AT MIDLATITUDES DURING NOVEMBER 2004 MAGNETIC STORM .........................................................................................................................................................................2643

I. Shagimuratov, I. Cherniak, I. Zakharenkova, I. Efishov

MESO-SCALE OBSERVATIONS OF JOULE HEATING NEAR AN AURORAL ARC AND ION-NEUTRAL COLLISON FREQUENCY IN THE POLAR CAP E-REGION............................................................................................................2644

M. Kosch, I. Yiu, C. Anderson, T. Tsuda, Y. Ogawa, S. Nozawa, A. Aruliah, V. Howells, L. Baddeley, I. McCrea J. Wild

SPREAD F OBSERVATIONS DURING LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY OVER CYPRUS .....................................................................2648P. Vryonides, H. Haralambous, M. Fragoudi

COMPARISON OF COSMIC RADIO OCCULTATION EELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENTS OVER EUROPE WITH IONOSONDE AND INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR DATA ...........................................................................2652

I. Cherniak, I. Zakharenkova, I. Shagimuratov, A. Krankowski

STUDY OF THE IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION AND TEC CHARACTERISTICS AT SOLAR MINIMUM IN A WEST AFRICAN EQUATORIAL REGION USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) DATA............................2656

J. Ackah, O. Obrou, K. Groves

POSSIBILITIES AND SOME RESULTS OF THE IONOSPHERE REGIONAL MONITORING BY GPS RADIO-INTERFEROMETRY...................................................................................................................................................................2660

V. Zakharov, V. Kunitsyn, M. Titova

THE USE OF GLONASS DATA IN IONOSPHERIC IMAGING OVER THE ANTARCTIC.........................................................2664P. Yin, C. Mitchell, J. Kinrade

COMPARISON OF GPS-DERIVED VTEC OVER CYPRUS WITH IRI-2007..................................................................................2668H. Haralambous, S. Anaksagora, L. Economou, P. Vryonides

THE OCCURRENCES OF SPREAD F AND GPS PHASE FLUCTUATIONS AS WELL AS MEDIUM-SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES OVER WUHAN ....................................................................................................2672

W. Chen, C. Lee, F. Chu

THE METHOD OF TID CHARACTERISTICS RECONSTRUCTION FROM SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS BY OBLIQUE INCIDENCE AND VERTICAL INCIDENCE IONOSONDES ...............................................2676

A. Kim, K. Ratovsky, G. Kotovich

TID SELECTION AND RESEARCH OF ITS CHARACTERISTICS ON IONOGRAMS ...............................................................2677A. Akchurin, V. Bochkarev, V. Ildiryakov, K. Usupov

VIRTUAL IONOSONDE NETWORK IN CONJUGATE HEMISPHERE .........................................................................................2681T. Gulyaeva, F. Arikan, I. Stanislawska

FIRST RESULTS OF THE GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF THE IME-HF ANALYSER ............................................2684I. Kolmasova, O. Santolik, J. Chum, L. Uhlir, F. Hruska, J. Base, J. Rauch

SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF D-, E- AND F-REGIONS OF THE IONOSPHERE DURING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 22 JULY 2009 OVER SOUTH KOREA : FIRST RESULTS..........................................................................2686

D. Phanikumar, Y. Kwak, S. Ram, J. Lee, S. Park, I. Cho, S. Hong

MODELLING OF RELATIVE MODE POWER RECEIVED ON RRI EXPERIMENT ON EPOP SATELLITE MISSION .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2690

G. Hussey, R. Gillies, G. Sofko, H. James

REGIONAL IONOSPHERIC TEC MODELLING; WORKING TOWARDS MAPPING AFRICA'S IONOSPHERE .............................................................................................................................................................................................2694

J. Habarulema, L. McKinnell, B. Opperman

A NEW PERSPECTIVE TO THE DAYTIME H'F VARIATIONS AND ITS ROLE IN MODULATING THE MESOPAUSE ENERGETICS OVER EQUATORIAL LATITUDES ..................................................................................................2698

S. Sumod, T. Pant, C. Vineeth, M. Hossain

EXPERIMENT ON SPATIAL EFFECT OF HF MULTIPLE SCATTERING IN THE IONOSPHERE ........................................2702N. Zabotin, T. Bullett

RADAR MEASUREMENT OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION IN THE POLAR REGION ...................................................2706D. Knepp

ADAPTIVE MODELING OF EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY CREST PARAMETERS BY USING MULTISTATION IONOSONDE DATA OVER THE INDIAN REGION ...........................................................................................2710

S. Yadav, R. Dabas, R. Das, A. Upadhayaya, A. Gwal

ON IONOSPHERIC PRE-STORM PHENOMENA................................................................................................................................2714V. Chukwuma

PLANETARY WAVE OSCILLATIONS IN THE OCCURRENCE TIME OF EQUATORIAL SPREAD-F .................................2718C. Vineeth, L. Jose, T. Pant

OBSERVATION OF MEDIUM SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (MSTIDS) IN THE LOW LATITUDES BRAZILIAN SECTOR USING IONOSONDE DATA IN COMPARISON WITH OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................2722

D. Amorim, A. Pimenta

THE INSTANTANEOUS IONOSPHERE PEAK HEIGHT SHIFT VERSUS RELATIVE CHANGES OF THE CRITICAL FREQUENCY..........................................................................................................................................................................2726

T. Gulyaeva, L. Poustovalova

EQUATORIAL SPREAD F ECHO AND IRREGULARITY GROWTH PROCESSES FROM CONJUGATE POINT DIGITAL IONOGRAMS ..............................................................................................................................................................2730

M. Abdu, I. Batista, B. Reinisch, J. Macdougall, E. Kherani, J. Sobral

PLASMA BLOB OBSERVED BY GROUND-BASED RADIO AND OPTICAL TECHNIQUES IN THE F-REGION A CASE STUDY ON 27-28 AUGUST 1987 ............................................................................................................................2734

A. Pimenta, D. Amorim, A. Almeida, C. Machado

DETERMINING RECEIVER BIASES IN GPS-DERIVED TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT IN THE AURORAL OVAL AND POLAR CAP REGION USING IONOSONDE MEASUREMENTS.........................................................2738

D. Themens, P. Jayachandran, R. Langley, J. Macdougall, M. Nicolls

A NEW 3D DISPLAY FORMAT RELATING AZIMUTH-SCANNING RADAR DATA AND ALL-SKY IMAGES ...................2739I. Seker, W. Swartz, J. Mathews, N. Aponte

A COMPRESSED SENSING APPROACH TO OBSERVING DISTRIBUTED RADAR TARGETS .............................................2743R. Volz, S. Close

DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERIZED IONOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE AND ITS APPLICATION TO STUDY THE EQUATORIAL IONIZATION ANOMALY OVER THE INDIAN REGION ........................2747

S. Yadav, R. Das, R. Dabas, T. Pant, A. Gwal

A REGIONAL IONOSPHERIC MODEL FOR FORECASTING THE CRITICAL FREQUENCY OF THE F2 LAYER DURING DISTURBED GEOMAGNETIC AND IONOSPHERIC CONDITIONS .............................................................2751

M. Pietrella

REGIONAL AND LOCAL IONOSPHERIC MODELS AS INPUT DATA SOURCE FOR A REAL-TIME 3-D IRI MODELING..................................................................................................................................................................................................2755

M. Pezzopane, M. Pietrella, A. Pignatelli, B. Zolesi, L. Cander

GLOBAL TEC MAPS AND THE BEST VERSION OF THE EMPIRICAL N (H)-MODEL ...........................................................2756O. Maltseva, T. Nikitenko, G. Zhbankov

THERMOSPHERE MONITORING BASED ON ROUTINE IONOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS: METHOD AND VALIDATION PLAN ........................................................................................................................................................................2760

A. Mikhailov, A. Belehaki, B. Zolesi, L. Perrone, I. Tsagouri

REAL TIME 3D IONOSPHERIC MODELLING WITH RAY TRACING APPLICATION OVER MEDITERRANEAN AREA .......................................................................................................................................................................2761

C. Scotto, A. Settimi, C. Bianchi

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEURAL NETWORK BASED IONOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY .........................2762S. Hirooka, K. Hattori, T. Takeda

THE FREQUENCY PROPERTIES OF THE QUASIPERIODIC VARIATIONS OF MIDLATITUDE ES LAYER TRACES AMPLITUDE ..............................................................................................................................................................................2766

A. Akchurin, K. Usupov

THE HEIGHT PROPERTIES OF THE QUASIPERIODIC VARIATIONS OF MIDLATITUDE ES LAYER TRACES AMPLITUDE ..............................................................................................................................................................................2770

A. Akchurin, K. Usupov

WEDDELL SEA ANOMALY: INVESTIGATION USING THE GLOBAL NUMERICAL MODEL .............................................2773M. Knyazeva, Y. Zubova, A. Namgaladze

THE STORM TIME IONOSPHERE DYNAMICS AT LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY PERIOD...........................................................2777I. Cherniak, I. Zakharenkoa, I. Shagimuratov, A. Krankowski, N. Korenkova, V. Leschenko

COMPARISON OF ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES EXTRACTED FROM DIAS MAPS AND IONOSONDE MEASUREMENTS AT NICOSIA DURING LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY ............................................................................................2779

H. Haralambous

IONOSPHERIC TEC MODEL DERIVED FROM GPS DATA............................................................................................................2783C. Akpaca, O. Unver, Z. Can, K. Bozkurt, K. Kutlu

COMPARISON OF VARIOUS METHODS TO CONTROL CONDITIONS OF RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION IN THE IONOSPHERE ..............................................................................................................................................................................2784

O. Maltseva, N. Moshaeva, G. Zhbankov

CALCULATION OF MIDLATITUDE SPORADIC E GROUP DELAY AS FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY..............................2788A. Akchurin, V. Bochkarev

FEATURES OF REFLECTION AT LIMITING RANGE OF ONE-HOP RADIO-WAVES PROPAGATION FROM ES LAYER .......................................................................................................................................................................................2792

O. Sherstyukov, R. Latipov, R. Sherstyukov

ANALYSIS OCCURENCE OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION OVER EQUATORIAL AND LOW LATITUDE GEOMAGNETIC OVER INDONESIA .............................................................................................................................2794

S. Ekawati

IMPACT OF THE AURORAL IONOSPHERE ON HF RADIO PROPAGATION ...........................................................................2798D. Blagoveschchensky, M. Sergeeva

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES OF REFLECTION COEFFICIENT FROM ES LAYER AT OBLIQUE INCIDENCE .................................................................................................................................................................................................2802

O. Sherstyukov, A. Akchurin, R. Sherstyukov

VHF VOICE AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS VIA EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET SCATTERING: CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF A FREQUENCY DIVERSITY TECHNIQUE USING SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO TECHNOLOGY ...................................................................................................................2804

N. Yoza, M. Milla, J. Chau, R. Alonso

MODELING VLF PROPAGATION IN THE EARTH-IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE USING THE DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD ............................................................................................................................................2808

F. Foust, T. Bell, U. Inan

PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF VLF SIGNAL AND LIGHTNING SFERICS WITHIN EQUATORIAL EARTH-IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE DURING TWO SOLAR ECLIPSES.......................................................2812

A. Guha, B. De, R. Roy, A. Choudhury

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VLF SIGNALS FROM SEVERAL TRANSMITTERS AROUND THE WORLD AS OBSERVED FROM MAITRI STATION, ANTARCTICA..............................................................................................................2816

S. Sasmal, S. Chakrabarti, S. Pal, T. Basak

DURATION OF WAVE DISTURBANCES GENERATED BY SOLAR TERMINATOR IN MAGNETO-CONJUGATE AREAS ................................................................................................................................................................................2820

I. Edemskiy, Y. Yasyukevich

VLF STUDY OF IONOSPHERIC PROPERTIES DURING SOLAR FLARES OF VARIED INTENSITY FOR A FIXED PROPAGATION PATH ................................................................................................................................................................2824

T. Basak, S. Pal, S. Chakrabarti

VLF OBSERVATIONAL RESULTS OF TOTAL ECLIPSE OF 22ND JULY, 2009 BY ICSP TEAM ...........................................2828S. Chakrabarti, S. Pal, S. Sasmal, S. Mondal, S. Ray, T. Basak, S. Maji

VLF OBSERVATION OF A SOLAR FLARE BY LUNAR OCCULTATION DURING ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE OF JANUARY 15TH, 2010 .......................................................................................................................................................2832

S. Maji, S. Chakrabarti, S. Mondal

RESULTS OF VLF CAMPAIGNS IN SUMMER AND WINTER IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENT .................................................2836S. Chakrabarti, S. Pal, S. Sasmal, S. Mondal, S. Ray, T. Basak

MODELING VLF SIGNAL AMPLITUDES OVER INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT DURING THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2840

S. Pal, T. Basak, S. Chakrabarti

COMPUTATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SOLAR PHENOMENA ON GLOBAL IONOSPHERIC WEATHER USING WAVE GUIDE MODE THEORY OF VLF PROPAGATION.................................................................................................2844

T. Basak, S. Chakrabarti, S. Pal

VERY LOW FREQUENCY DETECTION OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES DUE TO GRB 090424 ..................................2848S. Mondal, S. Chakrabarti

IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH M ≥ 6 EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN DURING 1998-2011: CASE STUDIES AND STATISTICAL STUDY ...................................................................................................................2852

K. Hattori, S. Kon, M. Nishihashi

PC3 PULSATIONS DURING PERIODS OF LOW SOLAR WIND DENSITY ..................................................................................2856S. Lotz, L. McKinnell, P. Sutcliffe

COMPUTATION OF AMPLITUDE AND PHASE OF VLF RADIO WAVES: RESULTS FROM COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN WAVE-HOP AND WAVEGUIDE MODE THEORY .........................................................2860

S. Pal, S. Chakrabarti

QUASI PERIODIC ECHOES INDUCED BY A PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE..................................................................................2864S. Thampi, M. Yamamoto, H. Liu, S. Saito, Y. Otsuka, A. Patra

INVESTIGATION OF LARGE-SCALE WAVE-LIKE IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES OVER SIBERIAN REGION OF RUSSIA USING OBLIQUE-INCIDENCE SOUNDING DATA ....................................................................................2868

V. Ivanova, V. Kurkin, N. Polekh, L. Chistyakova, D. Ivanov, I. Bryn'Ko, Z. Dumbrava, I. Poddel'Sky

STUDY OF LARGE-SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES USING THE DATA OF SUPERDARN HOKKAIDO RADAR AND RUSSIAN CHIRP SOUNDING NETWORK ................................................................2872

A. Oinats, V. Kurkin, K. Kutelev, N. Nishitani, M. Tolstikov

THE IONOSPHERE RESPONSE TO SOLAR ECLIPSE ON JANUARY 4, 2011 BY MULTIINSTRUMENTAL RADIOPHISICAL OBSERVATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................2876

I. Cherniak, I. Shagimuratov, A. Krankowski, I. Zakharenkova, G. Yakimova

RADIO TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING BASED ON NAVIGATION SYSTEMS ..................................................................................2880V. Kunitsyn, V. Tereshchenko, E. Andreeva, L. Nesterov, M. Nazarenko

PIV MEASUREMENTS OF THE VECTOR VELOCITY OF ESF OVER JICAMARCA ...............................................................2884M. Urco, J. Chau

THE NEW METEOR RADAR AT PENN STATE ..................................................................................................................................2888J. Urbina, R. Seal, L. Dyrud

TRANSMITTER POWER STUDIES ON METEOR RADAR HEAD ECHO RETURNS ................................................................2891J. Urbina, S. Briczinski

THE ANALYSIS OF HF PROPAGATION BY MEANS OF KIRCHHOFF INTEGRAL TECHNIQUES.....................................2894C. Coleman

MORE ACCURATE DEFINITION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IONOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION ACCORDING TO THE OS "MIR" DATA...............................................................................................................2898

O. Maltseva, D. Davidenko, N. Mozhaeva

A METHOD TO TEST HF RAY TRACING ALGORITHM IN THE IONOSPHERE BY MEANS OF THE VIRTUAL TIME DELAY ..........................................................................................................................................................................2902

A. Azzarone, A. Settimi, C. Scotto, A. Lozito, C. Bianchi

EXTENSION OF EGNOS IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION ................................................................................................................2903Z. Zbyszynski, A. Swiatek, I. Stanislawska

DYNAMIC OF NIGHT-TIME EQUATORIAL F LAYER: EQUINOX TRANSITION AT THE MAGNETIC EQUATOR IN AFRICA ..............................................................................................................................................................................2904

S. Tanoh, B. Adohi

A STATISTICAL METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF MISSED OBSERVATIONS AND FOF2 SHORT-TIME PREDICTION ...................................................................................................................................................................................2908

V. Vodyannikov, G. Gordienko

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RIOMETER ABSORPTION AND GPS TEC DURING ABSORPTION EVENTS IN THE HIGH LATITUDE IONOSPHERE ............................................................................................................................................2912

C. Watson, P. Jayachandran, D. Danskin, J. Macdougall

MODEL ESTIMATES OF OPTICAL EMISSIONS DUE TO LIGHTNING-INDUCED ELECTRON PRECIPITATION ........................................................................................................................................................................................2913

R. Marshall, N. Lavassar, S. Inan

ATMOSPHERIC INTERPRETATION OF ANOMALOUS TERRESTRIAL EMISSION SERENDIPITOUSLY DISCOVERED IN RADIOASTRONOMY DATA AT 1 GIGAHERTZ...............................................................................................2917

S. Burke-Spolaor, R. Ekers, J. Macquart

PHASE AND AMPLITUDE PERTURBATIONS OBSERVED ON SUBIONOSPHERIC VLF SIGNAL RECORDED AT VARANASI (L = 1.07) USING SOFTPAL RECEIVER...........................................................................................2921

A. Singh

DEVELOPMENT OF POYNTING VECTOR DIRECTION METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES IN THE EARTH ...........................................................................................................................................................................................2925

M. Tsutsui, M. Kamitani, T. Nakatani

STUDY OF ULTRA LOW FREQUENCY SIGNALS (0.01-10 HZ) ASSOCIATED WITH MODERATE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED IN KOYNA REGION USING INDUCTION TYPE MAGNETIC SENSOR .................................2929

A. Sharma, R. Haridas, A. Patil, R. Bhonsle

ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF USING OF SATELLITE WAVE MONITORING FOR THE FORECAST OF CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKES .......................................................................................................................................................2933

V. Larkina

DETECTION OF IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EARTHQUAKE USING DATA OF IAP AND ISL INSTRUMENTS OF DEMETER SATELLITE ......................................................................................................2935

A. Sharma, A. Patil, R. Haridas, M. Parrot

IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES DURING 26 DECEMBER 2004 SUMATRA TSUNAMI: OBSERVATIONS FROM CHAMP AND SIMULATION.......................................................................................................................................................2939

E. Kherani, P. Lognonne, E. Paula

IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS FROM DIFFERENT SEISMOGENIC ELECTRIC FIELD SOURCES .............................................2940A. Namgaladze, O. Zolotov

NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOMOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO DETECTING THE IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES PRIOR TO THE 2007 SOUTHERN SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE.............................................................................2944

S. Hirooka, K. Hattori, M. Nishihashi, T. Takeda

IONOSPHERIC VARIATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH NOVEMBER 28, 2004 JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE .............................2948I. Zakharenkova, I. Shagimuratov, I. Cherniak, A. Krankowski, N. Tepenitsyna

STUDIES OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN IONOSPHERIC ANOMALIES AND SEISMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT .........................................................................................................................................................2952

S. Sasmal, S. Chakrabarti, S. Chakrabarti

PRECURSOR OF EARTHQUAKE USING NIGHT TIME VLF AMPLITUDE................................................................................2956S. Ray, S. Chakrabarti

ULF GEOMAGNETIC CHANGES POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2008 IWATE-MIYAGI NAIRIKU EARTHQUAKE ...........................................................................................................................................................................................2960

T. Hirano, K. Hattori, P. Hang, Y. Ishiguro

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIORS OF THE VLF SIGNALS BEFORE EARTHQUAKES FOR VTX-MALDA PROPAGATION PATH ..............................................................................................................................................................................2963

S. Ray, S. Chakrabarti, A. Choudhury

THE TEC SIGNATURES AS STRONG SEISMIC EVENT PRECURSORS......................................................................................2967A. Namgaladze, O. Zolotov, B. Prockhorov

SPRITES AND ENERGETIC RADIATION ABOVE THUNDERSTORMS ......................................................................................2971M. Fullekrug

SOLITON MODEL FOR BROADBAND ELECTROSTATIC NOISE................................................................................................2972S. Singh, G. Lakhina, A. Kakad, J. Pickett

VLF AND HF PLASMA WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH SPREAD-F PLASMA DEPLETIONS OBSERVED ON THE C/NOFS SATELLITE ........................................................................................................................................................................2976

R. Pfaff, H. Freudenreich, P. Schuck, J. Klenzing

3D SIMULATIONS OF FARLEY-BUNEMAN TURBULENCE DEMONSTRATES ANOMALOUS ELECTRON HEATING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2977

M. Oppenheim, Y. Dimant

NONLINEAR, INTERMITTENT E-REGION IRREGULARITIES: WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW? ....................................2978A. Hamza

DYNAMICS OF QUASI-PERPENDICULAR SHOCKS: RECENT RESULTS ISSUED FROM 2D PIC SIMULATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2979

T. Umeda, Y. Kidani, S. Matukiyo

MICROTURBULENCE AT THE FRONT OF SUPERCRITICAL QUASIPERPENDICULAR SHOCKS ...................................2981L. Muschietti, B. Lembege

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TERRESTRIAL AND PLANETARY BOW SHOCKS ...........................................................2985H. Kucharek

NONLINEAR MIRROR MODE STRUCTURES IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODELS ..............................................................2986M. Shoji, Y. Omura, L. Lee

THEMIS-DOUBLE STAR-CLUSTER OBSERVATIONS OF RECONNECTION AND DYNAMICS ACROSS THE DAYSIDE MAGNETOPAUSE .........................................................................................................................................................2987

M. Dunlop

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF THE MAGNETOPAUSES OF SATURN, JUPITER AND THE EARTH.................................................................................................................................................................................................2991

R. Walker, K. Fukazawa, T. Ogino

PLASMA TRANSPORT PROCESSES AT THE HIGH LATITUDE MAGNETOSPHERE OBSERVED BY CLUSTER .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2995

Q. Shi, Q. Zong, Z. Pu, S. Fu, M. Dunlop, Y. Wei, Y. Wang, W. Sun, T. Xiao

THE ACCELERATION OF ELECTRONS IN THE MAGNETOTAIL AND THEIR AURORAL SIGNATURES......................2998M. Ashour-Abdalla, M. Zhou, M. El-Alaoui, D Schriver, R. Richard, R. Walker

STOCHASTIC FERMI ACCELERATION IN THE EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL CURRENT SHEET: NUMERICAL STUDIES.............................................................................................................................................................................2999

S. Perri, A. Greco, G. Zimbardo

CLUSTER OBSERVATIONS OF ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATION STRUCTURES ABOVE THE POLAR CAP AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THEIR ORIGIN IN THE MAGNETOPAUSE BOUNDARY LAYER .....................................3003

D. Fontaine, A. Teste

MODELING PITCH ANGLE SCATTERING OF RADIATION BELT PARTICLES BY THE INJECTION OF LOW FREQUENCY WAVES WITH F-REGION HF-DRIVEN IONOSPHERIC CURRENTS......................................................3007

K. Papadopoulos, B. Eliasson, X. Shao, A. Sharma

ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON WAVES AND GEOMAGNETIC STORMS: GOES AND CRRES OBSERVATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................................3008

B. Fraser, A. Halford

ION HEATING BY FAST MAGNETOSONIC WAVES AND RING CURRENT-ELECTRON RADIATION BELT COUPLING .......................................................................................................................................................................................3009

R. Horne, R. Thorne, L. Chen, X. Tao, V. Jordanova, D. Pokhotelov, P. Robert

THE THEORY AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF NON LINEAR WAVE PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN OBLIQUE WHISTLERS ............................................................................................................................................................................3010

D. Nunn, Y. Omura

TRIGGERING PROCESS OF WHISTLER-MODE CHORUS EMISSIONS IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE ...............................3011Y. Omura, D. Nunn

THEORY AND SIMULATIONS OF DISCRETE VLF EMISSIONS IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE .............................................3012A. Demekhov

PARTICLE-WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS INVOLVING WHISTLER-MODE WAVES IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE ...................................................................................................................................................................................3016

D. Shklyar

CHORUS VARIATION DURING THE COMPRESSION OF MAGNETOSPHERE .......................................................................3020H. Fu, J. Cao, F. Mozer, B. Yang

UNUSUAL OBSERVATION OF CHORUS AT L=2.6 ...........................................................................................................................3024B. Delport, A. Collier, C. Rodger, M. Clilverd, M. Parrot, R. Friedel, J. Bortnik

DIFFUSION-ADVECTION MODELING OF WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN THE RADIATION BELTS ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................3028

J. Albert

RELATIVISTIC MICROBURST STORM CHARACTERISTICS: COMBINED SATELLITE AND GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................3029

S. Dietrich, C. Rodger, M. Clilverd, J. Bortnik, T. Raita

CONJUGATE STUDIES OF WHISTLER-MODE WAVES IN THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS ...................................3030O. Santolik, J. Pickett, M. Parrot, D. Gurnett, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin

DETECTION OF MAGNETOSPHERICALLY DUCTED VLF SIGNALS GEOMAGNETICALLY CONJUGATE TO A RUSSIAN ALPHA TRANSMITTER AT L=1.9..................................................................................................3031

M. Cohen, M. Golkowski, U. Inan, M. Parrot

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES OBSERVED BY DEMETER DURING SUSTAINED MAGNETIC ACTIVITY ....................3032M. Parrot

VERY LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS IN ECR PRODUCED PLASMAS OF THE MAPLE DEVICE ............................3033S. Biswas, R. Pal, A. Iyengar

EMERGING ASPECTS IN A PLASMA-METAMATERIAL COMPOSITE .....................................................................................3037O. Sakai

THE ROLE OF SHEATH AND ACCEPTANCE ANGLE IN FRONT OF A RETARDING FIELD ENERGY ANALYZER FOR PLASMA FLOW ANALYSIS. ..................................................................................................................................3041

A. Fredriksen, W. Miloch, N. Gulbrandsen, L. Mishra

DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRODELESS ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS USING HIGH-DENSITY HELICON PLASMAS: THE HEAT PROJECT ......................................................................................................................................3043

T. Motomura, S. Shinohara, T. Tanikawa, T. Hada, I. Funaki, H. Nishida, K. Shamrai, T. Matsuoka, F. Otsuka, T. Rudenko, E. Ohno, K. Yokoi, T. Nakamura

EXCITATION OF WHISTLER WAVES IN A MAGNETOPLASMA CONTAINING A NONUNIFORM DENSITY DEPLETION DUCT .................................................................................................................................................................3047

A. Kudrin, P. Bakharev, V. Es'Kin, T. Zaboronkova

LABORATORY STUDY OF VELOCITY SHEAR-DRIVEN ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON WAVES..........................................................................................................................................................................................................3051

E. Tejero, W. Amatucci, E. Thomas Jr.

EFFECTS OF E×B VELOCITY SHEAR ON HIGH AND LOW FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS EXCITED BY ELECTRON TEMPERATURE GRADIENT...........................................................................................................................................3055

T. Kaneko, C. Moon, R. Hatakeyama

LARGE AMPLITUDE COHERENT STRUCTURES IN PLASMA NEAR MARS ...........................................................................3059E. Dubinin, M. Fraenz, J. Woch, R. Lundin, S. Barabash

THE ASYMMETRIC GEOMAGNETIC PULSATIONS EXCITED BY THE INTERPLANETARY SHOCK .............................3063J. Cao, Z. Wang

WAVE EXCITATION IN THE LUNAR WAKE ASSOCIATED WITH SOLAR-WIND PROTON ENTRY................................3064M. Nishino, Y. Saito, Y. Kasahara, Y. Omura, K. Hashimoto, T. Ono, H. Tsunakawa, F. Takahashi, M. Fujimoto

ELECTROSTATIC SOLITARY WAVES (ESWS) OBSERVED BY KAGUYA NEAR THE MOON ............................................3065K. Hashimoto, M. Hashitani, Y. Omura, Y. Kasahara, H. Kojima, T. Ono, H. Tsunakawa

STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE NTC PLASMASPHERIC PATCHES: A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN WAVE OBSERVATION IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE AND MAGNETIC ACTIVITY ................................................................3066

S. Grimald, F. Mazouz, C. Foullon, P. Decreau

VERTICAL PLASMA EXTENT ABOVE THE LUNAR SURFACE DERIVED FROM INTERFERENCE PATTERN OF AURORAL KILOMETRIC RADIATION ....................................................................................................................3067

Y. Goto, Y. Kasahara, T. Fujimoto, A. Kumamoto, T. Ono

ROLE OF THE SURFACE CHARGING IN THE SOLAR WIND INTERACTION WITH A SMALL, NON-MAGNETIZED, ELECTRICALLY NON-CONDUCTING BODY STUDIED IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FULL PARTICLE SIMULATION .................................................................................................................3068

T. Nakagawa

PLASMA WAVES RELATED TO MINI-MAGNETOSPHERES OVER LUNAR MAGNETIC ANOMALIES OBSERVED BY LRS/WFC ONBOARD KAGUYA................................................................................................................................3072

Y. Kasahara, S. Kitaguchi, Y. Goto, K. Hashimoto, Y. Omura, H. Kojima, T. Ono, M. Nishino, Y. Saito, H. Tsunakawa

WAVES AT THE PROTON CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY AT MARS ..............................................................................................3074C. Mazelle

ACTIVE ELIMINATION OF SMALL-SCALE ORBITAL DEBRIS *................................................................................................3076G. Ganguli

MODEL OF PLASMA DYNAMICS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERVELOCITY PARTICLE IMPACTS ON SATELLITES ..........................................................................................................3077

A. Fletcher, S. Close

PLASMA PARTICLE SIMULATIONS ON ELECTRIC ANTENNA AND SPACECRAFT ENVIRONMENT ...........................3081Y. Miyake, H. Usui, H. Kojima

REMOTE SENSING SPACE WEATHER EVENTS THROUGH IONOSPHERIC RADIO: THE AARDDVARK NETWORK ...................................................................................................................................................................................................3082

C. Rodger, M. Clilverd

AUTOMATIC RETRIEVAL OF PLASMASPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITIES: FIRST RESULTS FORM AUTOMATIC WHISTLER DETECTOR AND ANALYZER NETWORK ........................................................................................3084

J. Lichtenberger, C. Ferencz, D. Hamar, P. Steinbach, C. Rodger, M. Clilverd, A. Collier

APPLICATIONS OF GENERALIZED MHD RAY TRACING EQUATIONS .................................................................................3088A. Walker

FORTHCOMING MEASUREMENTS OF PLASMA WAVES BY THE EMFISIS INVESTIGATION ON THE RBSP SPACECRAFT ..................................................................................................................................................................................3089

C. Kletzing

RADIO SOUNDING FROM IMAGE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FIELD ALIGNED DENSITY IRREGULARITIES, Z AND WHISTLER MODE DIAGNOSTICS, AND PROTON CYCLOTRON HARMONIC ECHOES........................................................................................................................................................................................................3091

D. Carpenter, T. Bell, V. Sonwalkar

WHISTLER MODE RADIO SOUNDING FROM THE RPI INSTRUMENT ON THE IMAGE SATELLITE.............................3092V. Sonwalkar, A. Reddy, D. Carpenter, R. Proddaturi, S. Hazra, K. Mayank, B. Reinisch

SPECTRAL INTERPRETATION OF RADIO-SOUNDER-STIMULATED MAGNETOSPHERIC PLASMA RESONANCES IN TERMS OF KAPPA DISTRIBUTIONS .................................................................................................................3093

R. Benson, A. Vinas, J. Fainberg, V. Osherovich, C. Purser, I. Galkin, B. Reinisch

DAYTIME VLF MODELING OVER LAND AND SEA, COMPARISON WITH DATA FROM DEMETER SATELLITE..................................................................................................................................................................................................3094

S. Meyer, A. Collier, C. Rodger

REFRACTIVE INDEX OF SPHERICAL WAVES IN MAGNETOPLASMA ....................................................................................3098X. Huang, B. Reinisch

A NEW TYPE MULTI-FUNCTION IONOSPHERIC SOUNDING SYSTEM ...................................................................................3102G. Yang, Z. Zhao, C. Zhou, Y. Zhang, G. Chen, Y. Hu

VARIATION OF THE ELECTRON DENSITY IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE DURING LARGE MAGNETIC STORMS ................................................................................................................................................................3106

V. Truhlik, R. Benson, J. Fainberg, V. Osherovich, Y. Wang, D. Bilitza, S. Fung

GETTING NEW SCIENCE FROM OLD TOPSIDE SOUNDER DATA WITH NEW ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE.......................3108D. Bilitza, R. Benson, B. Reinish, X. Huang, V. Truhlik

SPACE PLASMA ENVIRONMENT AT HIGH AND POLAR LATITUDES BY THE COSMOS 1809 SATELLITE TOPSIDE SOUNDER DATA..............................................................................................................................................3109

S. Pulinets, N. Danilkin, K. Tsybulya, E. Pan'Shin

SPACE-BORNE RADIO-SOUNDING INVESTIGATIONS FACILITATED BY THE VIRTUAL WAVE OBSERVATORY (VWO) ...........................................................................................................................................................................3112

R. Benson, S. Fung, D. Bilitza, L. Garcia, X. Shao, I. Galkin

HIGH FREQUENCY DIAGNOSTICS ON THE CORONAS-I SATELLITE .....................................................................................3113A. Kiraga

EMISSION AND RECEPTION OF BERNSTEIN WAVES IN THE OEDIPUS-C EXPERIMENT ................................................3117H. James

OVERVIEW OF THE PLASMA ENVIRONMENT OF MARS AS SEEN BY THE RADAR SOUNDER ON MARS EXPRESS SPACECRAFT .............................................................................................................................................................3119

F. Duru, D. Gurnett, D. Morgan

LESSONS LEARNED FROM WHISPER RELAXATION SOUNDER IN TEN YEARS OF CLUSTER MISSION ....................3123P. Decreau, J. Trotignon, P. Canu, S. Kougblenou, G. Lointier, J. Rauch, X. Vallieres

SHALL WE CARRY SOUNDERS ONBOARD FUTURE MAGNETOSPHERIC MISSIONS? LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE CLUSTER..........................................................................................................................................................3127

A. Masson, M. Taylor, H. Laakso, P. Escoubet

HF-DRIVEN CURRENTS IN THE POLAR IONOSPHERE ................................................................................................................3128K. Papadopoulos, N. Gumerov, X. Shao, I. Doxas, C. Chang

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND ELF AMPLITUDE IN MODULATED HEATING EXPERIMENTS AT HAARP: MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ........................................................3129

G. Jin, M. Spasojevic, M. Cohen, U. Inan, N. Lehtinen

APPLICATIONS OF BROADBAND RADIO SIGNALS FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILE DYNAMICS AND SPATIAL PLASMA MOTION IN THE HF-PUMPED IONOSPHERE ..........................................3130

A. Shindin, E. Sergeev, S. Grach

THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARTIFICIAL D-REGION DISTURBANCES TO THE IONOSPHERIC VLF WAVE ENVIRONMENT .........................................................................................................................................................................................3132

N. Lehtinen, T. Bell, U. Inan

HF STIMULATED ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSIONS AND RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF IONOSPHERIC HEATING FROM HAARP.........................................................................................................................................................................3136

S. Briczinski, P. Bernhardt, C. Selcher, B. Watkins

OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY OF ION GYRO-HARMONIC STRUCTURES IN THE STIMULATED RADIATION SPECTRUM DURING SECOND ELECTRON GYRO-HARMONIC HEATING ....................................................3140

W. Scales, M. Bordikar, A. Samimi, P. Bernhardt, S. Briczinski, C. Selcher, M. McCarrick

1ST OBSERVATIONS OF SPEAR (SPACE PLASMA EXPLORATION BY ACTIVE RADAR) INDUCED PLASMA LINE SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENTS IN A NATURALLY OCCURRING SPORADIC E-REGION. .......................3144

L. Baddeley, I. Haggstrom, M. Rietveld

ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC ANTENNA AS REAL TRANSMISSION LINES IN PLASMA AND THE MIRACLE OF SELF-FOCUSING OF WHISTLER MODE PROPAGATION ..................................................................................3145

K. Bibl

25 YEARS OF IONOSPHERIC MODIFICATION WITH SPACE SHUTTLE OMS BURNS .........................................................3149P. Bernhardt

EXCITATION, PROPAGATION AND RECEPTION OF WAVE PULSES IN THE VICINITY OF THE LOWER OBLIQUE RESONANCE IN THE OEDIPUS-C EXPERIMENT ........................................................................................................3151

Y. Chugunov, V. Fiala, M. Hayosh, H. James

HF PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF ARTIFICIAL IONOSPHERIC LAYERS ............................................................3153T. Pedersen, B. Reinisch, V. Paznukhov, R. Hamel

DOWNWARD PROPAGATING IONIZATION STRUCTURES OBSERVED BY UHF RADAR SCATTERING OF HF-ENHANCED ION-LINES AT THE HAARP IONOSPHERIC-MODIFICATION FACILITY...........................................3157

B. Watkins, C. Fallen

AN ANALYSIS OF PUMP-INDUCED ARTIFICIAL IONOSPHERIC ION UPWELLING AT EISCAT .....................................3160M. Kosch, Y. Ogawa, M. Rietveld, S. Nozawa, R. Fujii

GPS-TEC VARIATIONS, GENERATED IN MIDLATITUDE AND HIGHLATITUDE IONOSPHERE BY POWERFUL HF-HEATING ......................................................................................................................................................................3164

V. Kunitsyn, A. Padokhin, E. Andreeva, V. Frolov, G. Komrakov, N. Blagoveshchenskaya, M. Rietveld

PLASMON: DATA ASSIMILATION OF THE EARTH'S PLASMASPHERE ..................................................................................3168A. Collier, J. Lichtenberger, M. Clilverd, B. Heilig, M. Vellante, J. Manninen, C. Rodger, A. Jorgensen, J. Reda, R. Holzworth, R. Friedel

VERTICAL IONOSPHERE SOUNDING USING CONTINUOUS SIGNALS WITH LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATION............................................................................................................................................................................................3169

A. Podlesny, V. Kurkin, A. Medvedev, K. Ratovsky

FREQUENCY AND AMPLITUDE ANALYSIS OF CHORUS EMISSIONS OBSERVED BY GEOTAIL ....................................3173S. Mori, K. Ishizaka, S. Yagitani, M. Hikishima, H. Kojima

A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TIME EVOLUTION OF PLASMA WAKE STRUCTURE AROUND A SIMPLIFIED 2D CUBE SATELLITE MODEL ......................................................................................................................................3174

R. Mitharwal, R. Baktur, C. Swenson

ESTIMATION OF SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF LOWER IONOSPHERE WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL FDTD SIMULATIONS............................................................................................................................................................................................3178

T. Miyake, T. Kurokawa, T. Okada, K. Ishisaka

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT OF EWO-WFC/OFA ABOARD BEPICOLOMBO MMO SPACECRAFT ................................3182T. Imachi, Y. Kasahara, Y. Goto, Y. Kasaba, H. Kojima

INTERPRETATION OF ION VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS MEASURED WITH A RETARDING FIELD ENERGY ANALYZER (RFEA) IN A INDUCTIVELY COUPLED HELICON PLASMA..............................................................3184

N. Gulbrandsen, W. Miloch, A. Fredriksen

MODE CONVERSION IN A RANDOMLY-STRATIFIED UNMAGNETIZED PLASMA ..............................................................3187K. Kim, D. Yu, D. Lee

ON WHISTLER-MODE WAVE SCATTERING ON SMALL SCALE DENSITY IRREGULARITIES........................................3191I. Kuzichev

WHISTLER TURBULENCE IN HIGH BETA PLASMA: PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION .................................................3195S. Saito, S. Gary

TURBULENCE IN THE SOLAR WIND: 3D MEASUREMENTS OF WAVENUMBER SPECTRA USING THE K-FILTERING TECHNIQUE....................................................................................................................................................................3199

B. Grison, F. Sahraoui, R. Grappin, L. Sorriso-Valvo

REVISITING ION ACOUSTIC SOLITARY WAVES IN MAGNETIZED AND UNMAGNETIZED PLASMAS........................3201S. Ghosh

SOLITARY POTENTIAL STRUCTURES IN PRESENCE OF NON-THERMAL ELECTRONS .................................................3205S. Singh, G. Lakhina, R. Bharuthram, S. Pillay

EVIDENCE OF ION FORESHOCK IN 2-D PIC SIMULATIONS OF A CURVED COLLISIONLESS SHOCK: STATISTICAL AND INDIVIDUAL TRAJECTORY APPROACH .....................................................................................................3209

J. Stienlet, P. Savoini, B. Lembege

DIFFERENT BOUNDARY LAYERS AT THE HIGH LATITUDE MAGNETOSPHERE BEHIND THE CUSP ........................3210Q. Shi, Z. Pu, S. Fu, Q. Zong

QUASI-PERPENDICULAR SHOCKS NON STATIONARITY AND MICRO-TURBULENCE.....................................................3213C. Mazelle, B. Lembege

THE MAGNETOTAIL CURRENT SHEET MOVEMENT DETECTED BY CLUSTER.................................................................3214W. Sun, Q. Shi, T. Xiao

CLUSTER OBSERVATIONS OF MAGNETIC HOLES NEAR THE INTERPLANETARY CURRENT SHEETS AT 1 AU .........................................................................................................................................................................................................3218

T. Xiao, Q. Shi, W. Sun

WAVE ACTIVITY IN THE FOOT REGION OF A QUASI-PERPENDICULAR SHOCK: 3-D PIC SIMULATION RESULTS...........................................................................................................................................................................3221

I. Shinohara, M. Fujimoto

FULL PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION STUDY ON THE SOLAR WIND INTERACTION WITH SMALL-SCALE DIPOLE MAGNETIC FIELD .....................................................................................................................................................3222

H. Usui, T. Moritaka

ONE-DIMENSIONAL PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATION OF ELECTRON BEAM PLASMA INTERACTION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................3223

E. Koen, A. Collier, S. Maharaj

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WHISTLER MODE DUCTS AND CHORUS EMISSIONS OBSERVED ON THE CLUSTER SPACECRAFT................................................................................................................................................................3227

N. Haque, U. Inan, T. Bell

THE THEORY AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF FALLING FREQUENCY VLF EMISSIONS IN THE MAGNETOSPHERE ...................................................................................................................................................................................3231

D. Nunn, Y. Omura

TESTING OF THE BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATOR MODEL BY SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VLF CHORUS ELEMENTS.......................................................................................................................................................................3232

E. Titova, B. Kozelov, A. Demekhov, O. Santolik, E. Macusova, J. Rauch, J. Trotignon, D. Gurnett, J. Pickett

SATELLITE AND GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS OF A LARGE-SCALE ELECTRON PRECIPITATION EVENT. .........................................................................................................................................................................................................3236

R. Gamble, C. Rodger, M. Clilverd, N. Thomson, T. Ulich, M. Parrot, J. Sauvand, J. Berthelier

ON STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF CHARACTERISTICS OF CHORUS ELEMENT GENERATION..............................3238B. Kozelov, E. Titova, A. Demekhov, O. Santolik

CHORUS PROBABILITY AND WAVE POWER DISTRIBUTIONS AS OBSERVED BY THE POLAR PLASMA WAVE INSTRUMENT .............................................................................................................................................................3242

N. Bunch, M. Spasojevic, Y. Shprits

PARTICLE SIMULATION OF RISING TONE EMISSIONS TRIGGERED BY WAVES WITH DIFFERENT AMPLITUDES .............................................................................................................................................................................................3246

M. Hikishima, Y. Omura

PITCH ANGLE SCATTERING BY ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON TRIGGERED EMISSIONS IN THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE: HYBRID SIMULATIONS ...........................................................................................................3248

M. Shoji, Y. Omura

SIMULATION OF 18-VANE MAGNETRON IN CST-PIC...................................................................................................................3252I. Araz, A. Dursun, E. Demirci, E. Korkma, K. Yegin

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND CORRELATION OF ANTENNA IMPEDANCE OF ELECTRIC FILED ANTENNAS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3256

R. Higashi, T. Imachi, Y. Kasahara, S. Yagitani, I. Nagano

OBSERVATION OF WHISTLER WAVE RESONANCES IN LABORATORY PLASMA .............................................................3257W. Amatucci, D. Blackwell, E. Tejero, C. Cothran, L. Rudakov, G. Ganguli, D. Walker

THE CREATION OF A STATISTICAL LIGHTNING MODEL .........................................................................................................3259M. Zyl, A. Collier

FULL-SCALE TIME DOMAIN MODELING OF THE INTERACTION OF HF WAVES WITH THE TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE .............................................................................................................................................................................................3263

X. Shao, B. Eliasson, S. Fung, R. Benson, L. Garcia

WHISTLER WAVE EXCITATION BY A PULSED LOOP ANTENNA LOCATED IN A CYLINDRICAL DUCT WITH ENHANCED PLASMA DENSITY ................................................................................................................................................3267

N. Shmeleva, A. Kudrin, V. Es'Kin

STUDIES ON THE SHORT-RANGE PRESSURE PULSE GENERATION WITHIN THE AURORAL IONOSPHERE .............................................................................................................................................................................................3271

S. De, S. Paul, B. De, B. Bandyopadhyay, M. Sanfui, M. Bose, D. Sinha

FAST DOPPLER TECHNIQUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF ASPECT SENSITIVE SIGNALS BACKSCATTERED FROM THE IONOSPHERE HEATED BY POWERFUL HF RADIO WAVES ...........................................3275

V. Puchkov, A. Branitsky, V. Kim, V. Panchenko, V. Polimatidi

LUMINOSITY NEAR THE ACTIVE DIPOLES IN THE OEDIPUS-C IONOSPHERIC EXPERIMENT ...................................3276H. James, K. Balmain, A. Luettgen

EXTENDED HEATING OF THE NIGHTTIME D REGION BY VERY LOW FREQUENCY TRANSMITTERS .....................3278K. Graf, U. Inan, M. Spasojevic, N. Lehtinen

OBSERVATIONS OF ULF WAVE RELATED EQUATORIAL ELECTROJET AND DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................................3279

E. Yizengaw, E. Zesta, M. Moldwin, B. Damtie, A. Mebrahtu, F. Anad, R. Pfaff, C. Biouele, M. Hartinger

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF HF-DRIVEN IONOSPHERIC CURRENTS ...................................................................................3280K. Papadopoulos, C. Chang, J. Labenski, I. Doxas, T. Wallace

RESULTS OF COMPLEX RADIOSOUNDING OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES GENERATED BY THE TRANSPORT SPACECRAFT "PROGRESS" ONBOARD THRUSTERS .........................................................................................3281

V. Khakhinov, A. Potekhin, B. Shpynev, S. Alsatkin, K. Ratovsky, V. Lebedev, D. Kushnarev

VARIATIONS OF THE TRANSPORT SPACECRAFT "PROGRESS" RADAR CHARACTERISTICS CONNECTED WITH THE ORBITAL MANEUVERING SUBSYSTEM RUN .................................................................................3285

V. Lebedev, V. Khakhinov, A. Potekhin, D. Kushnarev, V. Zarudnev

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE OF MULTIPOSITIONAL FMCW SOUNDING OF ARTIFICIAL IRREGULARITIES .....................................................................................................................................................................................3289

V. Polimatidi, G. Vertogradov, V. Kim, I. Krasheninnikov, V. Uryadov

INVESTIGATION OF ANOMALOUS PERTURBATIONS IN VLF SIGNALS AND CORRELATION WITH SEISMIC ACTIVITY ..................................................................................................................................................................................3290

S. Brijraj, A. Collier

EVOLUTION OF LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE .......................................................................................................................................................................3294

I. Sergeev

TESTING THE COSMIC RAY-LIGHTNING CONNECTION HYPOTHESIS ................................................................................3298O. Okike, A. Collier

CHARACTERISTICS OF TWEEKS RADIO ATMOSPHERICS OBSERVED IN INDIAN LOW LATITUDE REGION USING AWESOME VLF RECEIVER ....................................................................................................................................3302

A. Maurya, R. Selvakumaran, R. Singh, B. Veenadhari

AN INVESTIGATION OF WHISTLER INTENSITIES ABOVE THUNDERSTORMS ..................................................................3306J. Fiser, J. Chum, G. Diendorfer, M. Parrot, O. Santolik

ASYMMETRIC V SHAPED STREAKS RECORDED ON BOARD DEMETER ..............................................................................3307F. Mazouz, H. Feraudy, J. Pincon, M. Parrot

A COMPARISON STUDY ON GRAVITOMAGNETISM AND ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ..................................................3310K. Tang, Y. Chi

RESULTS OF IONOSPHERIC RADIO SOUNDING FROM HEIGHTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE F2-LAYER MAXIMUM...................................................................................................................................................................................................3312

N. Danilkin, N. Kotonaeva

MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ELECTRIC ANTENNAS IN SPACE PLASMAS ......................3313H. James

LONG WAVELENGTH RADIO SCIENCE: INSPIRATIONS FROM ASTRONOMY....................................................................3315R. Subrahmanyan

CALIBRATION CHALLENGES FOR LOW FREQUENCY RADIO ASTRONOMY .....................................................................3316W. Cotton

SITE REQUIREMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR LOW FREQUENCY RADIO OBSERVATIONS........................................3317R. Millenaar

WIDEBAND LOW FREQUENCY ANTENNAS FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY ARRAYS ...............................................................3318A. Rogers, E. Kratzenberg, B. Corey, C. Lonsdale, C. Williams, J. Bowman

LOFAR: A POWERFUL AND FLEXIBLE OBSERVATORY FOR PULSARS AND FAST TRANSIENTS ................................3322J. Hessels, B. Stappers

THE LOFAR MAGNETISM KEY SCIENCE PROJECT ON COSMIC MAGNETISM ..................................................................3326A. Scaife, R. Beck, J. Anderson, G. Heald, W. Reich, A. Bruyn

DETECTING THE EOR WITH LOFAR: STEPS ALONG THE ROAD ............................................................................................3330A. Bruyn, M. Brentjens, L. Koopmans, S. Zaroubi, P. Lampropoulos, S. Yatawatta

THE LONG WAVELENGTH ARRAY: RESULTS FROM THE FIRST STATION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS.....................3334G. Taylor

LOFAR: LESSONS FROM ITS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.....................................................................................................3335M. Haarlem, R. Vermeulen, A. Gunst

THE EXPANDED VERY LARGE ARRAY LOW BAND UPGRADE.................................................................................................3336T. Clarke, R. Perley, N. Kassim, B. Hicks, F. Owen, S. Durand, C. Kutz, M. Pospieszalski, K. Weiler, T. Wilson

LOW FREQUENCY APERTURE ARRAY DEVELOPMENTS FOR PHASE 1 SKA ......................................................................3340J. Vaate, E. Acedo, G. Virone, A. Jiwani, N. Razavi, F. Perini, K. Zarb-Adami, J. Monari, S. Padhi, G. Addamo, O. Peverini, S. Montebugnoli, A. Gunst, P. Hall, A. Faulkner, A. Ardenne

DEEP LARGE AREA SKY SURVEYS AT METRE WAVELENGTHS USING GMRT - SOME CHALLENGES .....................3344S. Sirothia

A NEW HELIOGRAPH OF THE UTR-2 RADIO TELESCOPE: DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE.............................................3345A. Koval, A. Konovalenko, A. Stanislavsky

POWER CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY (SKA) RADIO TELESCOPE.................................3349P. Hall

THE SKA RFI AND TROPOSPHERIC SITE TESTING PROGRAM ................................................................................................3353R. Millenaar

SIGNAL TRANSPORT AND NETWORKS FOR THE SKA ................................................................................................................3354R. McCool, S. Garrington, R. Spencer

REFLECTOR ANTENNAS (DISHES) FOR THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY (SKA)...........................................................3358P. Dewdney, N. Roddis

GENERIC CONFIGURATIONS FOR THE SKA...................................................................................................................................3362R. Bolton, R. Millenaar

PHASED ARRAY FEEDS FOR THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY ...........................................................................................3366W. Cappellen, J. Vaate, K. Warnick, B. Veidt, R. Gough, C. Jackson, N. Roddis

DENSE APERTURE ARRAYS FOR THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY ...................................................................................3370A. Faulkner

WIDEBAND FEEDS AND LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS FOR LARGE ARRAYS ............................................................................3374S. Weinreb, A. Akgiray, D. Russell

PATHFINDERS AND PRECURSORS FOR THE SKA .........................................................................................................................3377J. Cordes

SPACE-BASED ULTRA-LONG WAVELENGTH RADIO ASTRONOMY AN OVERVIEW OF TODAYS INITIATIVES ...............................................................................................................................................................................................3378

M. Bentum, A. Boonstra, W. Baan

STATUS AND MAIN PARAMETERS OF THE SPACE VLBI MISSION RADIOASTRON ..........................................................3382M. Popov

PRECISION RADIO SCIENCE FOR PLANETARY GRAVITY, ATMOSPHERIC AND SURFACE INVESTIGATIONS .....................................................................................................................................................................................3386

S. Asmar

INTRODUCTION OF PROMOTING VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY FOR DEEP SPACE TRACKING IN CHINA ..............................................................................................................................................................................3387

J. Ping, Z. Qian, J. Li, L. Fung, G. Wang, S. Ye, Q. Meng, C. Chen, Y. Aili, W. Wang, F. Shu, S. Ye, W. Zheng, Q. Fan, X. Huang, X. Zhang, B. Li, N. Jian, X. Shi, M. Wang, S. Zhang, Z. Wang, J. Sun, M. Chen, M. Ma

VLBI TRACKING OF THE SOLAR SAIL MISSION IKAROS ..........................................................................................................3391H. Takeuchi, S. Horiuchi, C. Phillips, P. Edwards, J. McCallum, S. Ellingsen, J. Dickey, R. Ichikawa, K. Takefuji, T. Yamaguchi, S. Kurihara, B. Ichikawa, M. Yoshikawa, A. Tomiki, H. Sawada, P. Jinsong

THE UNUSUAL SOLAR CYCLE 23: THE VANISHING SOLAR WIND, ITS CAUSE AND IMPACT .......................................3395P. Janardhan, S. Ananthakrishnan

SOLAR PHYSICS AT NANCAY RADIO OBSERVATORY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ..........................................................3399K. Klein, A. Kerdraon

THE RADIOSICENCE EXPERIMENT ON NEW HORIZONS ..........................................................................................................3403I. Linscott, M. Bird, D. Hinson, M. Patzold, G. Tyler

SOLAR SYSTEM STUDIES WITH THE ARECIBO PLANETARY RADAR SYSTEM .................................................................3407D. Campbell, J. Harmon, M. Nolan

PROGRESS ON CHINESE SPECTRAL RADIOHELIOGRAPH - CSRH CONSTRUCTION .......................................................3411Y. Yan, J. Zhang, Z. Chen, W. Wang, F. Liu, L. Geng

INTEGRATING HPC INTO RADIO-ASTRONOMICAL DATA REDUCTION ..............................................................................3415A. Wicenec, D. Gerstmann, C. Harris, K. Vinsen

IMAGING AND CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR GMRT ...........................................................................................................3416S. Sirothia

MEQTREES AND DIRECTION-DEPENDENT EFFECTS ..................................................................................................................3417O. Smirnov, A. Bruyn

MULTI-FREQUENCY-SYNTHESIS AND WIDE-FIELD IMAGING WITH THE EVLA..............................................................3421U. Rau, S. Bhatnagar, K. Golap

SHAPELETS AND RELATED TECHNIQUES IN RADIO-ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING ...........................................................3423S. Yatawatta

THE APPLICATION OF COMPRESSED SENSING TECHNIQUES IN RADIO ASTRONOMY.................................................3427A. Scaife, Y. Wiaux

INTRINSIC ADVANTAGES OF THE W COMPONENT AND SPHERICAL IMAGING FOR WIDE-FIELD RADIO INTERFEROMETRY ...................................................................................................................................................................3431

J. McEwen, Y. Wiaux

INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR RADIO ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES ..........................................................................3435R. Levanda, A. Leshem

APPLICATION OF REDUNDANCY CALIBRATION TO PHASED ARRAYS AND SOME LIMITATIONS ............................3439P. Noorishad, S. Wijnholds, A. Ardenne, J. Hulst

PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF ONSALA SPACE OBSERVATORY, SWEDEN.....................................3443M. Lindqvist, H. Olofsson

PROGRESS WITH EVLBI IN THE EVN AND CORRELATORS AT JIVE .....................................................................................3444H. Langevelde

ASTRON OBSERVATORY REPORT......................................................................................................................................................3446M. Garrett

HARTEBEESTHOEK RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY REPORT.....................................................................................3447M. Gaylard

OBSERVATORY REPORT FOR THE UK .............................................................................................................................................3448R. Davis

ASTROMERY ACTIVITIES WITH THE MIZUSAWA VLBI OBSERVATORY, JAPAN .............................................................3449N. Kawaguchi

THE NANCAY RADIO OBSERVATORY...............................................................................................................................................3453G. Theureau

THE INTERNATIONAL LOFAR TELESCOPE (ILT) .........................................................................................................................3456R. Vermeulen, M. Haarlem

OBSERVATORY REPORT: MIT HAYSTACK OBSERVATORY .....................................................................................................3457C. Lonsdale

RADIO ASTRONOMY AND VLBI IN NEW ZEALAND......................................................................................................................3458S. Gulyaev, T. Natusch, S. Weston

SHANGHAI 65M RADIO TELESCOPE ..................................................................................................................................................3462Z. Shen

ARECIBO OBSERVATORY REPORT....................................................................................................................................................3463D. Campbell

NANTEN2 SUB-MM OBSERVATORY ...................................................................................................................................................3464T. Okuda, T. Hayakawa, Y. Fukui

NEW TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS AT THE ARIZONA RADIO OBSERVATORY .............................3468R. Freund, L. Ziurys, G. Reiland, E. Lauria

OBSERVATORY REPORT FROM JAPAN ............................................................................................................................................3472R. Kawabe

RADIO ASTRONOMY DATA TRANSFER USING KAREN NETWORK ........................................................................................3476S. Weston, T. Natusch, S. Gulyaev

OBSERVATORY REPORT FOR THE GMRT.......................................................................................................................................3480Y. Gupta

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES AT THE RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE..................................................................3481A. Raghunathan, U. Shankar

IUCAF ACTIVITY IN 2008 - 2011 ............................................................................................................................................................3482M. Ohishi

RADIO ASTRONOMY AT THE WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2012 ....................................................3486T. Gergely

RFI MITIGATION IN RADIO ASTRONOMY.......................................................................................................................................3490W. Baan

INTERFERENCE DETECTION RESULTS WITH LOFAR ................................................................................................................3492A. Offringa, A. Bruyn

RADIO QUIET ZONES AND THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY ...............................................................................................3496W. Driel

CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS, PLANET FORMATION, AND ALMA ..................................................................................................3498S. Andrews

THE ALMA 64-ANTENNA CORRELATOR: MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURES AND SCIENCE MODES ................................3499A. Baudry, J. Webber

THE ALMA PHOTONIC LOCAL OSCILLATOR SYSTEM...............................................................................................................3503W. Shillue, W. Grammer, C. Jacques, R. Brito, J. Meadows, J. Castro, J. Banda, Y. Masui

1 MM DUAL-POLARIZATION SCIENCE WITH CARMA ................................................................................................................3507C. Hull, R. Plambeck, G. Engargiola

ALMA ANTENNA .......................................................................................................................................................................................3511M. Saito

DESIGN FOR CCAT, A 25 M DIA TELESCOPE OPERATING FROM 200 GHZ TO 1.5 THZ ....................................................3513D. Woody, S. Padin, D. Redding, J. Lou, A. Kissil

ATMOSPHERIC PHASE CORRECTION FOR ALMA WITH 183 GHZ WATER VAPOUR RADIOMETERS ........................3517B. Nikolic, J. Richer, R. Bolton, R. Hills

(SUB)MILLIMETER VLBI SCIENCE WITH ALMA ...........................................................................................................................3521V. Fish

PROGRESS WITH COMMISSIONING AND SCIENCE VERIFICATION OF ALMA ..................................................................3525S. Corder

INTERSTELLAR SCATTERING AS A COSMOLOGICAL PROBE.................................................................................................3529J. Koay, J. Macquart, B. Rickett, H. Bignall, J. Lovell, C. Reynolds, D. Jauncey, T. Pursimo, L. Kedziora-Chudczer, R. Ojha

MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY: TRACING SOLAR DISTURBANCES FROM THE SUN TO THE EARTH ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................3533

D. Oberoi, C. Lonsdale, L. Benkevitch, I. Carins, A. Coster, P. Erickson, J. Kasper, L. Matthews

MODELING RADAR SCATTERING FROM ICY LUNAR REGOLITHS ........................................................................................3536T. Thompson, E. Ustinov, E. Heggy

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RADIO SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE .................................................3538A. Siemion, D. Werthimer, D. Anderson, H. Chen, J. Cobb, J. Cordes, T. Filiba, G. Foster, S. Gowda, E. Korpela, M. Lebofsky, A. Little, W. Mallard, L. Spitler, M. Wagner

GATED INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING OF PULSARS TO DETECT OFF-PULSE EMISSION .............................................3542R. Athreya, R. Basu, D. Mitra

AN ACCURATE FLUX DENSITY SCALE FROM 1 TO 50 GHZ .......................................................................................................3546R. Perley, B. Butler

RRI-GBT MULTI-BAND RECEIVER AND PULSAR-EMISSION-CONE TOMOGRAPHY ........................................................3547A. Deshpande

ON THE ESTIMATE AND ASSESSMENT OF THE IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS AFFECTING LOW FREQUENCY RADIO ASTRONOMY MEASUREMENTS .................................................................................................................3551

B. Forte, M. Aquino

THE EFFECTS OF VARIABLE IONOSPHERIC AND PLASMASPHERIC FARADAY ROTATION ON LOW FREQUENCY RADIO ARRAYS...............................................................................................................................................................3555

C. Lonsdale, D. Oberoi, A. Coster, P. Erickson

FREQUENCY MANGEMENT IN LOW FREQUENCY RADIO TELESCOPES .............................................................................3557C. Coleman, Z. Katamzi, C. Mitchell

PROCESSING LOFAR TELESCOPE DATA IN REAL TIME ON A BLUE GENE/P SUPERCOMPUTER ...............................3558J. Romein, J. Mol, R. Nieuwpoort, P. Broekema

ADVANCED MULTI-BEAM SPECTROMETER FOR THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE ..........................................................3562D. Roshi, M. Bloss, P. Brandt, S. Bussa, H. Chen, P. Demorest, G. Desvignes, T. Filiba, R. Fisher, J. Ford, D. Frayer, R. Garwood, S. Gowda, G. Jones, B. Mallard, J. Masters, R. McCullough, G. Molera, K. O'Neil, J. Ray, S. Scott, A. Shelton, A. Siemion, M. Wagner, G. Watts, D. Werthimer, M. Whitehead

THE UNIBOARD: A MULTI-PURPOSE SCALBLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR RADIO-ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................3566

A. Szomoru

THE CASPER COLLABORATION FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL RADIO ASTRONOMY INSTRUMENTATION ....................................................................................................................................................3570

D. Werthimer

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF HETEROGENEOUS SPECTROMETERS FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY.............................3574T. Filiba, D. Werthimer

LOW-POWER ARCHITECTURES FOR LARGE RADIO ASTRONOMY CORRELATORS ......................................................3578L. D'Addario

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR FAST TRANSIENTS DETECTION ...................................................3582G. Soudlenkov, V. Kitaev

OCTAVE-FAMILIES: VLBI OBSERVATION SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT VDIF SPECIFICATIONS WITH 10 GBE FOR VERA, JVN AND JAPANESE E-VLBI (OCTAVE) ............................................................................................................3586

T. Oyama, S. Mizuno, Y. Kono, N. Kawaguchi

EQUIPPING THE SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY FOR VLBI ................................................................................................................3588R. Primiani, J. Weintroub, J. Moran, S. Doeleman

AN ALMA BEAMFORMER FOR VLBI AND PHASED ARRAY SCIENCE ....................................................................................3592S. Doeleman, J. Webber, R. Lacasse, R Escoffier, M. Inoue, W. Alef, M. Honma, N. Nagar, A. Baudry, J. Kern, J. Greenberg, A. Saez, G. Crew, R. Cappallo

PERFORMANCE OF POLARIMETRIC BEAMFORMERS FOR PHASED ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPES...........................3595M. Ivashina, S. Wijnholds, R. Maaskant, K. Warnick

ELEMENT GAIN DRIFTS AS AN IMAGING DYNAMIC RANGE LIMITATION IN PAF-BASED INTERFEROMETERS ...............................................................................................................................................................................3599

O. Smirnov, M. Ivashina

OVERVIEW OF SKA CALIBRATION CHALLENGES AND IMPACT OF DESIGN DECISIONS .............................................3603S. Wijnholds, R. Nijboer, K. Grainge, J. Bregman

ANTENNA DESIGN AND DISTRIBUTION FOR A LOFAR SUPER STATION IN NANCAY .....................................................3607J. Girard, P. Zarka, M. Tagger, L. Denis, D. Charrier, A. Konovalenko

ZERO-SPACING INTERFEROMETER FOR MEASUREMENT OF CONTINUUM SPECTRUM OF THE LOW RADIO FREQUENCY BACKGROUND .......................................................................................................................................3611

A. Raghunathan, N. Patra, N. Shankar, R. Ekers, R. Subrahmanyan

LOFAR: A DIGITAL APERTURE ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPE ....................................................................................................3612A. Gunst, M. Haarlem, R. Vermeulen

A COMPARISON OF THE FLUX DENSITY SCALES BETWEEN THE EVLA AND ATCA INTERFEROMETERS AND THE PLANCK MISSION .......................................................................................................................3613

R. Perley, B. Butler, B. Partridge, P. Edwards, J. Stevens, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, M. Lopez-Caniego, M. Massardi

A SURVEY OF NULLING PULSARS USING GIANT METERWAVE RADIO TELESCOPE ......................................................3614V. Gajjar, B. Joshi, M. Kramer

ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION IN COSMIC H2CS MOLECULE........................................................................................................3618P. Musrif, S. Chandra

THE DISCOVERY OF TERRESTRIAL, SWEPT-FREQUENCY EMISSION THAT MIMICS AN INTERSTELLAR DISPERSIVE DELAY ................................................................................................................................................3622

S. Burke-Spolaor, R. Ekers

THE CENTRAL POINT SOURCE IN G76.9+1.0 ...................................................................................................................................3626V. Marthi, J. Chengalur, Y. Gupta, G. Dewangan, D. Bhattacharya

THZ SOLAR TELESCOPE FOR DETECTION FLARE SYNCHROTRON RADIATION .............................................................3630P. Kaufmann, J. Klopf

PROPAGATION "OVER THE HORIZON" OF SATURNS RADIO LIGHTNING STUDIED BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL RAY TRACING .............................................................................................................................................................3634

A. Gautier, B. Cecconi, P. Zarka, G. Fischer

DATA PROCESSING FOR 5-ELEMENT EXPERIMENTS OF CHINESE SPECTRAL RADIOHELIOGRAPH ......................3635W. Wang, Y. Yan, D. Liu, Z. Chen, F. Liu

PHOTOMETRY OF THZ RADIATION USING GOLAY CELL DETECTOR.................................................................................3639L. Fernandes, P. Kaufmann, R. Marcon, A. Kudaka, A. Marun, R. Godoy, E. Bortolucci, M. Zakis, J. Diniz

NEW CONTROL AND MONITOR SYSTEM FOR GMRT..................................................................................................................3643R. Balasubramaniam, C. Kanade, R. Uprade, N. Sisodiya, J. Kodilkar

SKA MONITORING & CONTROL: CHALLENGES & APPROACHES ..........................................................................................3647A. Ahuja, R. Balasubramanian, S. Chaudhuri, J. Chengalur, S. Engineer, Y. Gupta, C. Ishwara-Chandra, J. Kodilkar, V. Mohile, S. Natarajan, H. Vin, Y. Wadadekar

THE ALMA SOFTWARE SYSTEM.........................................................................................................................................................3651B. Glendenning

REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ELEVEN FEED FOR FUTURE DECADE BANDWIDTH RADIO TELESCOPES ...............................................................................................................................................................................3653

J. Yang, M. Pantaleev, P. Kildal, B. Klein, L. Helldner, H. Raza

A COMPACT FULL WAVEGUIDE BAND TURNSTILE JUNCTION ORTHOMODE TRANSDUCER ....................................3657S. Srikanth, M. Solatka

DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMODE HONRS AND WIDEBAND FEED FOR RADIO TELESCOPES .......................................3661H. Ujihara, K. Kimura, K. Matsumoto, H. Ogawa, T. Ohno, M. Tsuboi, T. Kasuga, M. Homma, N. Kawaguchi

PROTECTION AND SELF-PROTECTION OF THE MURCHISON RADIO-ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY FROM RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE ..................................................................................................................................3665

C. Wilson, M. Storey, T. Tzioumis

A PROJECT OF THE MILLIMETER WAVE OBSERVATORY AT THE SUFFA PLATEAU IN UZBEKISTAN ....................3668Y. Artemenko, N. Kardashev, G. Shanin, I. Zinchenko

NEW OBSERVING SYSTEM OF THE 45-M TELESCOPE AT NOBEYAMA RADIO OBSERVATORY ..................................3670N. Kuno, S. Takano, D. Iono, T. Nakajima, H. Iwashita, K. Handa, B. Hatsukade, A. Higuchi, A. Hirota, S. Ishikawa, H. Kaneko, N. Kawaguchi, R. Kawabe, K. Kimura, K. Kohno, J. Maekawa, H. Mikoshiba, C. Miyazawa, K. Miyazawa, K. Muraoka, H. Ogawa, S. Onodera, Y. Saito, S. Takahahsi, T. Yonezu

EXPLORING THE EPOCH OF REIONIZATION WITH LOW-FREQUENCY RADIO TELESCOPES ....................................3674A. Parsons

MODELING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS IN A BIOCHEMICAL REACTION: UNDERSTANDING REACTIVITY INHIBITION DUE TO THE MAGNETIC FIELD ..................................................................3676

A. Amadei, L. Zanetti, F. Apollonio, G. D'Inzeo

THE ROLE OF WATER NEAR CHARGED INTERFACES: MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES IN PRESENCE OF HIGH INTENSE ELECTRIC FIELDS ............................................3679

P. Marracino, F. Appollonio, V. Mattia, M. Liberti, A. Amadei, G. D'Inzeo

STRUCTURE AND ELECTROPORATION OF LIPID BILAYERS: A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY............................3682R. Reigada, M. Fernandez

NANOSECOND (GIGAHERTZ) AND MICROSECOND (MEGAHERTZ) PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD INTERACTIONS WITH CELL MEMBRANES .....................................................................................................................................3686

P. Vernier

EXPOSITION OF CELLS IN SUSPENSION USING NANOSECOND DURATION ELECTRIC PULSES - DETECTION OF PERMEABILISATION BY CLONING EFFICIENCY TESTS: RESULTS AND ARTIFACTS. ....................3687

A. Silve, L. Mir

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TEMPERATURE CHANGES DURING ELECTROPORATION.......................3691P. Garcia, R. Neal II, M. Sano, J. Robertson, R. Davalos

ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY .................................................................................................................................................................3695L. Mir

ASSESSMENT OF THE REAL LIFE EXPOSURE TO 2G AND 3G BASE STATIONS OVER A DAY FROM INSTANTANEOUS MEASUREMENT ....................................................................................................................................................3696

Z. Mahfouz, A. Gati, D. Lautru, J. Wiart, V. Hanna

DISTRIBUTION OF ELF MAGNETIC FIELDS IN SWEDISH DWELLINGS ................................................................................3700Y. Hamnerius, S. Atefi, A. Eslami, M. Hopeson, A. Khan, G. Silva, J. Estenberg

A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP PROCEDURES AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR WORKER'S ELECTROMAGNETIC SAFETY (WEMS).............................................................................................................................................3704

M. Douglas, J. Nadakuduti, M. Wild, S. Kuhn, M. Capstick, N. Kuster

A NEW WEB BASED SYSTEM TO EVALUATE WORKERS EXPOSURE ACCORDING TO REQUIREMENTS OF THE DIRECTIVE 2004/40/EC ..........................................................................................................................3707

H. Molla-Djafari, D. Leopold, B. Petric, G. Neubauer

ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE MODELING USING PHASE RETRIEVAL METHODS .........................................................3711M. Johansson, H. Lui, A. Fhager, M. Persson

EXPOSURE CHAMBERS FOR VERIFICATION OF MICROWAVE INFLUENCE ON BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................................................................................................3713

J. Vrba, L. Visek

RESEARCHING OF FERROMAGNETIC INCLUSIONS INFLUENCE ON PROTECTING PROPERTIES OF SHIELDING COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC STRUCTURE ELEMENTS ....................3717

H. Pukhir, N. Nasonova

WIRELESS SENSING AND MONITORING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS AND VOLUME CHANGES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................3720

J. Lin

DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF ULTRA WIDE-BAND IMPLANT ANTENNA FOR BIOTELEMETRY SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................................................................................................3721

F. Zengin, E. Akkaya, B. Turetken, S. San

MICROWAVE IMAGING FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS....................................................................................................................3725G. Cheng, Y. Zhu, J. Grzesik

BIORADAR FOR MONITORING OF HUMAN ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES.................................................................................3729L. Anishchenko, A. Bugaev, S. Ivashov, A. Zhuravlev

THROUGHPUT OF OPTIMAL AND SUBOPTIMAL LOW-POWER IR-UWB COHERENT RECEIVERS FOR WIRELESS BODY-AREA-NETWORKS (WBANS) ..............................................................................................................................3733

H. Shaban, M. El-Nasr, R. Buehrer

GLUCOSE-DEPENDENT DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BLOOD PLASMA.............................................................................3737E. Topsakal, T. Karacolak, E. Moreland

EXPERIMENTAL PHANTOMS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF MEDICAL IMPLANT LEADS INDUCED SAR UNDER A LINEAR-PHASE INCIDENT FIELD CONDITION ...........................................................................................................3741

E. Zastrow, E. Cabot, A. Christ, N. Kuster

MRI SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF A GENERIC DEEP BRAIN STIMULATOR...............................................................................3745E. Cabot, T. Lloyd, A. Christ, W. Kainz, M. Douglas, G. Stenzel, S. Wedan, N. Kuster

MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) SAFETY TESTING OF IMPLANTS USING NUMERICAL SIMULATION FOR WORST-CASE DETERMINATION ...............................................................................................................................................3749

G. Schaefers, W. Goertz, Y. Noureddine, C. Koch, M. Pawlenka

CALCULATION OF HEATING OF PASSIVE IMPLANTS BY THE RF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD IN MRI ................................................................................................................................................................................................................3753

J. Nyenhuis, C. Miller

IMPROVING RF SAFETY IN MRI BY MODIFYING THE ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION ..............................................3757Y. Eryaman, E. Atalar

NUMERICAL ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY FOR RFID/ACTIVE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE-EMI BASED UPON FDTD ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................3761

T. Hikage, Y. Kawamura, T. Nojima

SAFETY OF ACTIVE ELECTRONIC IMPLANTS OPERATED NEARBY TETRA-TRANSMITTERS.....................................3765S. Cecil, G. Neubauer, F. Rauscha, G. Stix, W. Muller, C. Breithuber, M. Glanzer

EMF INTERFERENCE DETECTION UTILIZING THE RECORDING FEATURE OF CARDIAC PACEMAKERS............................................................................................................................................................................................3769

T. Alanko, M. Tiikkaja, H. Lindholm, M. Hietanen

DEVELOPMENT OF UHF IMPLANTED RFID ANTENNA FOR MEDICAL/HEALTH-CARE APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3773

Y. Lin, M. Takahashi, K. Saito, K. Ito

IN-BODY PATH LOSS MODEL FOR HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS HUMAN TISSUES .................................3777L. Martens, D. Kurup, W. Joseph, G. Vermeeren

EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS ON GENE EXPRESSION OF ESTROGEN-REGULATED GENE IN MCF-7 CELLS ........................................................................................3781

Y. Ogasawara, M. Ikehata, R. Sakaguchi, S. Awakura, S. Yoshie, C. Ohkubo, K. Ishii

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS -DEVELOPMENT OF EXPOSURE SYSTEM AND EVALUATE GENOTOXICITY IN VITRO- .........................................................................................3784

M. Ikehata, S. Yoshie, K. Wada, Y. Suzuki, T. Sakai, K. Wake, S. Nakasono, M. Taki, C. Ohkubo

MICROARRAY ANALYSIS OF HUMAN-DERIVED CELLS EXPOSED TO INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED BY AN INDUCTION HEATING (IH) COOKTOP ...............................................................3787

T. Sakurai, T. Kiyokawa, E. Narita, J. Miyakoshi

ESTIMATION OF MUTAGENIC EFFECTS OF INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELD USING MAMMALIAN CELLS...............................................................................................................................................................................3791

S. Yoshie, Y. Suzuki, K. Wada, K. Wake, T. Sakai, S. Nakasomo, M. Taki, C. Ohkubo, M. Ikehata

CHROMOSOMAL STUDIES OF HUMAN AMNIOTIC CELLS EXPOSED TO GSM-900: KARYOTYPING AND FISH. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................3795

C. Yardin, Bourthoumieu, P. Leveque, A. Collin

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADAR TYPE 3 GHZ MICROWAVE EXPOSURE ON WISTAR RATS ....................................3797C. Cretallaz, C. Amourette, I. Lamproglou, A. Collin, P. Leveque, W. Fauquett, M. Diserbo, A. Perrin

EPIGENETIC CHANGES ARE INDUCED FOLLOWING EXPOSURE OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD CELLS TO CW 800MHZ RADIATION ........................................................................................................................................................................3801

R. Korenstein, R. Mazor, A. Barbul, A. Korenstein-Ilan

BIOMARKERS INDUCING CHANGES DUE TO MICROWAVE EXPOSURE EFFECT ON RAT BRAIN...............................3803K. Kesari, S. Kumar, J. Behari

INVESTIGATION OF ACUTE OCULAR INJURY THRESHOLD BY 76 GHZ BAND EXPOSURE IN RABBITS ...................3807M. Kojima, H. Sasaki, K. Sasaki, T. Sakai, K. Wake, S. Watanabe, Y. Kamimura, A. Hirata, Y. Suzuki, M. Taki

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE HEAT TRANSPORT MECHANISM UNDER THE MILLIMETER-WAVE EXPOSURE CONSIDERING THE CONVECTION IN THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER OF RABBIT'S EYE ..............................3811

A. Koike, Y. Suzuki, M. Kojima, T. Sakai, K. Wake, S. Watanabe, M. Taki, H. Sasaki, K. Sasaki

RECENT ADVANCES IN TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION: FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES TO MEDICAL APPLICATIONS .....................................................................................................................................................................3815

S. Ueno

IMAGING CONDUCTIVITY USING ELECTRIC PROPERTIES TOMOGRAPHY INITIAL CLINICAL RESULTS IN GLIOMA PATIENTS .........................................................................................................................................................3819

T. Voigt

SIMULTANEOUS EEG/EMG/FMRI: A POWERFUL HYBRID-IMAGING WINDOW ON BRAIN ACTIVATION PATTERNS DURING AND FOLLOWING TIME-VARYING MAGNETIC STIMULI .......................................3823

A. Legros, J. Cates, J. Robertson, J. Modeolo, N. Juen, J. Miller, F. Prato, A. Thomas

ULTRA-LOW-FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING COMBINED WITH MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................................................3827

R. Ilmoniemi, S. Alanko, J. Dabek, F. Lin, J. Nieminen, M. Pollari, P. Vesanen, K. Zevenhoven

HYBRID BRAIN IMAGING WITH MRI/PET .......................................................................................................................................3831F. Prato, R. Thompson, R. Stodilka, H. Marshall, T. Devito, J. Robertson, A. Thomas, J. Theberge

LOW-FREQUENCY PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN ORTHOPEDIC PRACTICE: BONE AND CARTILAGE REPAIR ...............................................................................................................................................................................3835

R. Cadossi, S. Setti

PRECISE QUANTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF SURFACE IMMOBILIZED DNA ORIENTATION..................................3839P. Spuhler, L. Sola, X. Zhang, M. Monroe, J. Greenspun, M. Chiari, M. Unlu

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CANCER TREATMENT USING APPROVED MRI CONTRAST AGENT AND INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE ............................................................................................................................................................3843

H. Nagae, I. Nagano, S. Yagitani, S. Yamada, K.

APERTURE RESONANCES OF MICROWAVE APPLICATORS FOR THERMOHERAPY .......................................................3847J. Vrba

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF TIME-REVERSAL MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA SYSTEM ..............................3850H. Trefna, J. Berrazueta, M. Persson

RESEARCH OF TISSUE/ORGAN SPECIFIED SAR WITH CHINESE FEMALE ANATOMICAL MODEL ON 12 FREQUENCIES ......................................................................................................................................................................................3853

T. Wu, B. Lu, Q. Shao, J. Wiart

WHOLE-BODY AVERAGE SARS IN KOREAN MALE MODELS ...................................................................................................3857A. Lee, H. Choi

JAPANESE VOXEL-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC DOSIMETRY ....................................................................................................................................................3861

T. Nagaoka, S. Watanabe

FEM BASED MORPHING OF WHOLE BODY HUMAN MODELS..................................................................................................3865D. Szczerba, E. Neufeld, M. Zefferer, B. Buhlmann, N. Kuster

VARIABILITY OF TEMPERATURE ELEVATION IN ANATOMICALLY-BASED HUMAN BODY MODELS .....................3868A. Hirata, O. Fujwiara

COMPARISON OF INDUCED ANKLE CURRENTS OF THE HUMAN-BODY EQUIVALENT ANTENNAS AND ANATOMICALLY HUMAN MODELS EXPOSED TO NEARBY MONOPOLE ANTENNAS ............................................3870

A. Simba, A. Itou, L. Hamada, S. Watanabe, T. Arima, T. Uno

PEOPLE AND PLANES: DEVELOPMENT OF BROADBAND EMC MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS IN AIRCRAFT ....................................................................................................................................................................3873

M. Robinson, I. Flintoft, G. Melia

EVALUATION OF THE ERROR INDUCED BY AN INCORRECT POSITIONING OF THE HANDSET AGAINST THE SAM PHANTOM FOR SAR CALCULATIONS ........................................................................................................3877

V. Monebhurrun, M. Wong, A. Gati, J. Wiart

ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE INDUCED BY FIVE PLANE WAVES WITH A FAST AND NEW METHOD IN VISIBLE HUMAN ..............................................................................................3881

T. Kientega, E. Conil, A. Gati, A. Hadjem, E. Richalot, M. Wong, O. Picon, J. Wiart

SCATTERED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS DUE TO BUILDING FACADE PROPERTIES..........................3885S. Mostarshedi, E. Richalot, M. Wong, J. Wiart, O. Picon

ANALYSIS OF SAR PROBE PERFORMANCE IN PRESENCE OF WIDEBAND SIGNALS .......................................................3889A. Carta, A. Faraone, R. Stefanelli, S. Trinchero, D. Trinchero

STATISTICAL DOSIMETRY ANALYSIS IN WHOLE-BODY EXPOSURE SETUP BASED ON RATS ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR .............................................................................................................................................................................3893

J. Wang, K. Wake, S. Watanabe, O. Fujiwara

ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE POSITION OF THE MOBILE ON SAR INDUCED USING POLYNOMIAL CHAOS DECOMPOSITION ........................................................................................................................................3897

A. Ghanni, Y. Pinto, A. Hadjem, E. Conil, A. Gati, O. Picon, J. Wiart

TOWARDS A PLANAR MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM FOR EARLY STAGE BREAST CANCER DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................3901

A. Diaz-Bolado, T. Henriksson, P. Barriere, H. Memarzadeh-Tehran, N. Joachimowicz, C. Conessa, A. Joisel, B. Duchene, J. Laurin, J. Bolomey

DESIGN OF A MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING ARRAY COMPOSED OF DUAL-BAND MINIATURIZED ANTENNAS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3905

S. Aguilar, M. Al-Joumayly, J. Shea, N. Behdad, S. Hagness

MICROWAVE IMAGING FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION: COMPARISON OF TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING ALGORITHMS USING SINGLE-FREQUENCY AND TIME-DOMAIN DATA ..........................................................3909

T. Rubaek, A. Fhager, P. Jensen, J. Mohr, M. Persson

ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING SYSTEM COMPONENTS ............................................3913M. Haynes, L. Nieuwstadt, S. Clarkson, J. Stang, C. Ward, M. Moghaddam

EFFECTS OF NOISE ON TOMOGRAPHIC BREAST IMAGING .....................................................................................................3917X. Zeng, A. Fhager, M. Persson

SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING TECHNIQUES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES ....................................................................................................................................3921

V. Santis, J. Bourqui, E. Fear

FEASIBILITY STUDY OF TUMOR SIZE CLASSIFICATION VIA CONTRAST-ENHANCED UWB BREAST IMAGING A COMPLEX-DOMAIN ANALYSIS...................................................................................................................................3925

S. Ahmad, Y. Chen, P. Kosmas, W. Woo, S. Dlay

IMPROVED CONFOCAL MICROWAVE IMAGING OF THE BREAST USING PATH-DEPENDENT SIGNAL WEIGHTING................................................................................................................................................................................................3929

M. O'Halloran, M. Glavin, E. Jones

AN EXPERIMENTAL MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEM FOR BREAST TUMOR DETECTION ON LAYERED PHANTOM MODEL ..............................................................................................................................................................3933

I. Unal, B. Turetken, K. Surmeli, C. Canbay

NEW IN VIVO OPTICAL MOLECULAR IMAGING MODALITIES ...............................................................................................3937P. Wu, J. Tian, D. Dong, D. Liu, D. Han, J. Zhong

LIGHT-ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF MUTAGEN-DNA COMPLEX IN PRESENCE OF COMPETING BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS ............................................................................................................................................3941

I. Iermak, A. Woziwodzka, A. Gwizdek-Wisniewska, J. Piosik

INFLUENCE OF A HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD AT 2.45 GHZ ON HUMAN INTERLEUKIN 1 BETA AND INTERLEUKIN 6 PRODUCTIONS IN MACROPHAGE-LIKE U937 CELLS ...........................3945

E. Narita, T. Sakurai, Y. Suzuki, M. Taki, J. Miyakoshi

THIN MICROWAVE ANTENNA FOR INTRACAVITARY HEATING OF BILE DUCT CARCINOMA - EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS ON PERFORMANCES OF ANTENNA USING A SWINE - ................................................3949

K. Saito, K. Tsubouchi, M. Takahashi, K. Ito

DETECTION OF THE BLOOD LEUKEMIA BY USING THE ULTRA WIDE BAND PULSES ...................................................3953M. Eldosoky, H. Moustafa

INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS DID NOT HAVE GENOTOXIC AND PROMOTION POTENTIALS IN IN VITRO TESTS........................................................................................................................................................3957

S. Naksono, M. Ikehata, M. Takahashi, S. Yoshie, T. Negishi

SHORT-TERM WHOLE BODY EXPOSURE OF INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS TO RATS DOES NOT AFFECT BLOOD PROPERTIES AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS ............................................................................3961

A. Ushiyama, A. Unno, S. Ohtani, Y. Suzuki, K. Wada, N. Kunugita, C. Ohkubo

A SINGLE-CHANNEL THZ IMAGING SYSTEM FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS ...........................................................3964T. Rubaek, R. Dahlback, A. Fhager, M. Persson, J. Stake

ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA APPLICATIONS .....................3968O. Isik, E. Korkmaz, B. Turetken

NEW MEASUREMENT METHOD OF WHOLE BODY SAR BY USING WHEELER CAP METHOD ......................................3971T. Arima, T. Imamura, T. Uno

IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATORS EXPOSED TO LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................3975

J. Katrib, P. Schmitt, I. Magne, D. Kourtiche, M. Souques, M. Nadi

FAST INTERPOLATION BASED MORPHING OF WHOLE BODY HUMAN MODELS .............................................................3979E. Neufeld, D. Szczerba, B. Buhlmann, M. Zefferer, N. Kuster

A 430 MHZ BAND RECEIVING ANTENNA FOR MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION TO CAPSULAR ENDOSCOPE ...............................................................................................................................................................................................3982

T. Kumagai, K. Saito, M. Takahashi, K. Ito

A COMPARISON OF INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS IN CHILD AND ADULT HEAD MODELS BY TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION ..................................................................................................................................3986

M. Lu, S. Ueno

EFFECT OF MAGNETIC IMPURITIES IN BASED ON SHUNGITE ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORBERS ON ITS SHIELDING PROPERTIES ...............................................................................................................................................................3990

H. Pukhir, M. Mahmoud

STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE HAND ON THE SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE EVALUATION OF MOBILE PHONES ......................................................................................................................................................................................3994

V. Monebhurrun, M. Wong, A. Gati, J. Wiart

SAR DISTRIBUTIONS IN A CHILD HEAD PHANTOM IN THE VICINITY OF RECENT MOBILE PHONES ......................3998K. Wake, T. Arima, S. Watanabe, M. Taki

DEPENDENCE OF TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ON THE BODY POSTURE AND SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT...............................................................................................4002

S. Igou, M. Taki, A. Furuya, N. Shibata, M. Shinagawa, M. Hattori

INDUCED VOLTAGE TO AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC PACEMAKER IN A VOXCEL HUMAN MODEL BY A NEAR-FIELD INTRA-BODY COMMUNICATION DEVICE...................................................................................................4006

Y. Yoshino, M. Taki, A. Furuya, N. Shibata, M. Shinagawa, M. Hattori

LOW-POWER LONG-TERM IMPLANTABLE WIRELESS TELEMETRY FOR MONITORING OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS ...................................................................................................................................................................4010

E. Topsakal, T. Karacolak, J. Gaxiola-Sosa, K. Entesari, R. Cooper, J. Butler, S. Fisher

EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND CANCER: THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ..........................4012J. Schuz

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