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D-Index
73
Citations
19946
World Ranking
765
National Ranking
124

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to surface electromagnetics for antennas

Overview

Fan Yang is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a substantial research output in engineering, with a focus on advanced antenna technologies and metasurfaces. Their main field of study is Engineering, supported by extensive publications particularly in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Ocean Engineering.

Key areas of research include:

  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
  • Antenna Design and Optimization

Fan Yang has published frequently in several venues. The most common publication venues are:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Access
  • Electronics

Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Active RIS vs. Passive RIS: Which Will Prevail in 6G?" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Wireless Communications: Antenna Design, Prototyping, and Experimental Results" (2020), IEEE Access
  • "Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Fully-Connected or Sub-Connected?" (2021), IEEE Communications Letters
  • "Coding Programmable Metasurfaces Based on Deep Learning Techniques" (2020), IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
  • "A Novel 1 Bit Wide-Angle Beam Scanning Reconfigurable Transmitarray Antenna Using an Equivalent Magnetic Dipole Element" (2020), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Shenheng Xu
  • Maokun Li
  • Rui Guo
  • Aria Abubakar
  • Zhichao Lin

Fan Yang's work has been recognized by the IEEE community, receiving the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2019 for contributions to surface electromagnetics for antennas.

Best Publications

  • Microstrip antennas integrated with electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures: a low mutual coupling design for array applications

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Wide-band E-shaped patch antennas for wireless communications

    F. Yang;Xue-Xia Zhang;Xiaoning Ye;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Reflection phase characterizations of the EBG ground plane for low profile wire antenna applications

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • Active RIS vs. Passive RIS: Which Will Prevail in 6G?

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  • Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering

    Fan Yang;Yahya Rahmat-Samii

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Wireless Communications: Antenna Design, Prototyping, and Experimental Results

    Linglong Dai;Bichai Wang;Min Wang;Xue Yang

  • A programmable metasurface with dynamic polarization, scattering and focusing control

    Huanhuan Yang;Xiangyu Cao;Fan Yang;Jun Gao

  • Reflectarray Antennas

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  • A reconfigurable patch antenna using switchable slots for circular polarization diversity

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • A 1-Bit $10 imes 10$ Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antenna: Design, Optimization, and Experiment

    Huanhuan Yang;Fan Yang;Shenheng Xu;Yilin Mao

  • Transmission Phase Limit of Multilayer Frequency-Selective Surfaces for Transmitarray Designs

    Ahmed H. Abdelrahman;Atef Z. Elsherbeni;Fan Yang

  • Circular Polarization Reconfigurable Wideband E-Shaped Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications

    A. Khidre;Kai-Fong Lee;Fan Yang;A. Z. Elsherbeni

  • 3D Printed Dielectric Reflectarrays: Low-Cost High-Gain Antennas at Sub-Millimeter Waves

    Payam Nayeri;Min Liang;Rafael Austreberto Sabory-Garcia;Mingguang Tuo

  • A 1600-Element Dual-Frequency Electronically Reconfigurable Reflectarray at X/Ku-Band

    Huanhuan Yang;Fan Yang;Xiangyu Cao;Shenheng Xu

  • Linear Antenna Array Synthesis Using Taguchi's Method: A Novel Optimization Technique in Electromagnetics

    Wei-Chung Weng;Fan Yang;A.Z. Elsherbeni

  • Aperture efficiency analysis of reflectarray antennas

    Ang Yu;Fan Yang;Atef Z. Elsherbeni;John Huang

  • Patch antennas with switchable slots (PASS) in wireless communications: concepts, designs, and applications

    Fan Yang;Y. Rahmat-Samii

  • A Broadband Center-Fed Circular Patch-Ring Antenna With a Monopole Like Radiation Pattern

    A. Al-Zoubi;Fan Yang;A. Kishk

  • Reflectarray Antennas: Theory, Designs, and Applications

    Payam Nayeri;Atef Z Elsherbeni;Fan Yang

  • A Study of Phase Quantization Effects for Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antennas

    Huanhuan Yang;Fan Yang;Shenheng Xu;Maokun Li

  • Beam-Scanning Reflectarray Antennas: A technical overview and state of the art.

    Payam Nayeri;Fan Yang;Atef Z. Elsherbeni

  • A Broadband High-Efficiency Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antenna Using Mechanically Rotational Elements

    Xue Yang;Shenheng Xu;Fan Yang;Maokun Li

  • Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering: Surface wave antennas

    Fan Yang;Yahya Rahmat-Samii

  • Analysis and Design of Transmitarray Antennas

    Ahmed H. Abdelrahman;Fan Yang;Atef Z. Elsherbeni

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Wireless Communication: Antenna Design, Prototyping and Experimental Results

    Linglong Dai;Bichai Wang;Min Wang;Xue Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shenheng Xu
Shenheng Xu Tsinghua University
Atef Z. Elsherbeni
Atef Z. Elsherbeni Colorado School of Mines
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Yahya Rahmat-Samii University of California, Los Angeles
Leena Ukkonen
Leena Ukkonen Tampere University
Lauri Sydanheimo
Lauri Sydanheimo Tampere University
Ahmed A. Kishk
Ahmed A. Kishk Concordia University
Xiangyu Cao
Xiangyu Cao Air Force Engineering University
Markku Kivikoski
Markku Kivikoski Tampere University
Toni Bjorninen
Toni Bjorninen Tampere University

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