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Overview

Nader Behdad is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of Behdad's work include Antenna Design and Analysis, Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies, Microwave Engineering and Waveguides, Antenna Design and Optimization, Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research, Particle accelerators and beam dynamics, and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications.

Behdad has published extensively in several reputable venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
  • Journal of artificial intelligence and metaheuristics.
  • Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
  • Physics of Plasmas

Recent papers by Behdad include the following:

  • "A Decoupling and Matching Network Design for Single- and Dual-Band Two-Element Antenna Arrays" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
  • "Wideband, Beam-Steerable Reflectarray Antennas Exploiting Electronically Reconfigurable Polarization-Rotating Phase Shifters" (2022) published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • "A Concurrently Dual-Polarized, Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) Antenna" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • "Mechanically Reconfigurable, Beam-Scanning Reflectarray and Transmitarray Antennas: A Review" (2021) published in Applied Sciences
  • "Toward Flexible Microwave Ablation Antennas With a Balun-Free Helical Dipole Design" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Frequent collaborators in Behdad's research include John H. Booske, Hung Luyen, Mirhamed Mirmozafari, Zongtang Zhang, and Mohammad Mahdi Honari.

Best Publications

  • A Frequency Selective Surface With Miniaturized Elements

    K. Sarabandi;N. Behdad

  • Beamspace MIMO for Millimeter-Wave Communications: System Architecture, Modeling, Analysis, and Measurements

    John Brady;Nader Behdad;Akbar M. Sayeed

  • Dual-band reconfigurable antenna with a very wide tunability range

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • A New Technique for Design of Low-Profile, Second-Order, Bandpass Frequency Selective Surfaces

    M. Al-Joumayly;N. Behdad

  • A varactor-tuned dual-band slot antenna

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • A Generalized Method for Synthesizing Low-Profile, Band-Pass Frequency Selective Surfaces With Non-Resonant Constituting Elements

    M A Al-Joumayly;N Behdad

  • Wideband Planar Microwave Lenses Using Sub-Wavelength Spatial Phase Shifters

    M. A. Al-Joumayly;N. Behdad

  • Wideband Linear-to-Circular Polarization Converters Based on Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces

    Seyed Mohamad Amin Momeni Hasan Abadi;Nader Behdad

  • Broadband True-Time-Delay Microwave Lenses Based on Miniaturized Element Frequency Selective Surfaces

    Meng Li;M. A. Al-Joumayly;N. Behdad

  • MRI-Derived 3-D-Printed Breast Phantom for Microwave Breast Imaging Validation

    M. J. Burfeindt;T. J. Colgan;R. O. Mays;J. D. Shea

  • A Low-Profile Third-Order Bandpass Frequency Selective Surface

    N. Behdad;M. Al-Joumayly;M. Salehi

  • A wide-band slot antenna design employing a fictitious short circuit concept

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • Bandwidth enhancement and further size reduction of a class of miniaturized slot antennas

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • A compact antenna for ultrawide-band applications

    N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

  • A Second-Order Dual X-/Ka-Band Frequency Selective Surface

    M. Salehi;N. Behdad

  • Continuous aperture phased MIMO: Basic theory and applications

    Akbar Sayeed;Nader Behdad

  • Fluidically Tunable Frequency Selective/Phase Shifting Surfaces for High-Power Microwave Applications

    Meng Li;N. Behdad

  • Low-Profile, Highly-Selective, Dual-Band Frequency Selective Surfaces With Closely Spaced Bands of Operation

    Mudar A Al-Joumayly;Nader Behdad

  • Wideband True-Time-Delay Microwave Lenses Based on Metallo-Dielectric and All-Dielectric Lowpass Frequency Selective Surfaces

    Meng Li;Nader Behdad

  • Ultra-Wideband, True-Time-Delay Reflectarray Antennas Using Ground-Plane-Backed, Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces

    Seyed Mohamad Amin Momeni Hasan Abadi;Kasra Ghaemi;Nader Behdad

  • Size reduction of cavity-backed slot antennas

    Wonbin Hong;N. Behdad;K. Sarabandi

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Booske
John H. Booske University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kamal Sarabandi
Kamal Sarabandi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susan C. Hagness
Susan C. Hagness University of Wisconsin–Madison
Akbar M. Sayeed
Akbar M. Sayeed Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Zhenqiang Ma
Zhenqiang Ma University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shanhui Fan
Shanhui Fan Stanford University
B.D. Van Veen
B.D. Van Veen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark L. Brongersma
Mark L. Brongersma Stanford University
Shaoqin Gong
Shaoqin Gong University of Wisconsin–Madison

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