Publications
Publications
Meador, Mary Ann B.; Wright, Sarah; Sandberg, Anna; Nguyen, Baochau N.; Van Keuls, Frederick W.; Mueller, Carl H.; Rodriguez-Solis, Rafael; Miranda, Felix A., “Low Dielectric Polyimide Aerogels as Substrates for Lightweight Patch Antennas,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2012, 4 (11), pp 6346–6353; DOI: 10.1021/am301985s.
Toro-Vazquez, Jonathan; Rodriguez-Solis, Rafael; Padilla, Ingrid; “Estimation of Electromagnetic Properties in Soil Testbeds Using Frequency and Time Domain Modeling,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 5, no. 3., June 2012, pp.984-999. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2193610
M. F. Serrano-Guzmán, I. Padilla, and R. Rodriguez, “Bimodal detection of underground contamination in two dimensional systems,” in Proceedings of SPIE, 2007, vol. 6540, p. 65401O. DOI: 10.1117/12.719285
J. G. Colom, R. Medina, and R. Rodríguez, “Design of Tunable Balanced Amplifier using Ferroelectric Materials,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 56, 2003, pp. 1097-1106. DOI: 10.1080/10584580390259650
J. G. Colom, R. A. Rodríguez-Solís, J. Almodóvar, and M. Castañeda, “Design and Simulation of a Tunable Multilayer Lange Coupler,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 42, 2002, pp. 313-321. DOI: 10.1080/10584580210837
J.K. Breakall and R.A. Rodríguez Solís, “A new design method for low sidelobe level log-periodic dipole antennas,” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Nov. 1996, pp. 9-15.
C. A. M. Hernandez and R. A. R. Solís, "Design of vertical T-junction using H-slot aperture coupling for applications in 60 GHz arrays," 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Fajardo, 2016, pp. 1591-1592. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2016.7696502.
C. A. M. Hernandez and R. A. R. Solís, "Design of V-band substrate integrated waveguide fed aperture coupled microstrip patch array with beam-switching capabilities," 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Fajardo, 2016, pp. 1595-1596. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2016.7696504
C. A. M. Hernandez and R. A. R. Solís, "Design of V-band SIW fed cavity backed aperture coupled microstrip patch array element for applications in body area networks," 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Fajardo, 2016, pp. 1235-1236. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2016.7696325
R. Delgado, C. A. M. Hernández and R. R. Solís, "Applying design of experiments to the design of 60 GHz antennas for off-body communications," 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), Fajardo, 2016, pp. 1641-1642. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2016.7696527
Jayson Maldonado Vargas, Rafael Rodriguez Solis, Mohamed Elmansouri, Dejan Filipovic, ”A UWB Cavity-Backed Compound Power-Archimedean Slot Spiral for Body Centric Wireless Communications Applications," 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 2015, pp. 1978-1979. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2015.7305378
Emmanuel Valentín, Rafael Rodríguez Solís, ”Capacitively-Fed Modified Folded Slot Antenna for Body Area Network Applications," 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 2015, pp. 584-585. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2015.7304678
Emmanuel Valentín, Rafael Rodríguez Solís, ”Design of a Small Rectangular Patch for Body Area Network Applications," 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vancouver, BC, 2015, pp. 2351-2352. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2015.7305564
Rodríguez-Solís, R.A.; Colom-Ustáriz, J.G.; Cruz-Pol, S.; León-Colón, L., "Microwave research at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez," Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International , vol., no., pp.1,3, 1-6 June 2014. DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848677
Valentín, Emmanuel; Rodriguez-Solis Rafael A. "Characterization of a Cavity-Backed Capacitively-Fed Folded Slot Antenna using DOE Techniques," Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1499,1500, 6-11 July 2014. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2014.6905075
Maldonado, Jayson; Rodriguez-Solis Rafael A. "Analysis of a Cavity Backed Annular Slot Ring Antenna using Design of Experiment Techniques," Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1501,1502, 6-11 July 2014. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2014.6905076
Rodriguez-Solis, Rafael A.; Saade, Youssef M., "Cavity backed annular slot ring antenna with reconfigurable slots using VO2," Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE , vol., no., pp.578,579, 7-13 July 2013. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2013.6710949
Rodriguez-Solis, Rafael A.; Pacheco, Hector L.; Miranda, Felix A.; Meador, Mary Ann B., "Slotted polyimide-aerogel-filled-waveguide arrays," Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE , vol., no., pp.238,239, 7-13 July 2013. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2013.6710780
Galvez, M.B.; Colom, J.G.; Chandrasekar, V.; Junyent, F.; Cruz-Pol, S.; Rodriguez Solis, R.A.; Leon, L.; Rosario-Colon, J.J.; De Jesus, B.; Ortiz, J.A.; Mora Navarro, K.M., "First observations of the initial radar node in the Puerto Rico TropiNet X-band polarimetric Doppler weather testbed," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International , vol., no., pp.2337,2340, 21-26 July 2013. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723287
Sharma, Pallavi; Rodriguez-Solis Rafael A. "Linear Array of 2x2 Dual-Polarized X-Band Microstrip Patch Sub Arrays for off-the-Grid Radar Array Antenna," 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA, July 8-13, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2012.6348683
Rodríguez-Solís, Rafael A.; Sepúlveda, Nelson, Pacheco, Héctor L., "Reconfigurable Slotted Microstrip Patch Using VO2," 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA, July 8-13, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2012.6348540
Trabal, J.M.; Colom-Ustariz, J.; Pablos-Vega, G.; Ortiz, J.; Castellanos, W.; Cruz-Pol, S.; Leon, L.; Rodriguez-Solis, R.; , "Low cost and minimal infrastructure Off-the-Grid XBand radar network development for the west coast of Puerto Rico," Radar Conference (RADAR), 2011 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1026-1031, 23-27 May 2011. doi: 10.1109/RADAR.2011.5960691
Sharma, P.; Rodriguez-Solis, R.A.; , "Dual-polarized X-band microstrip patch sub-array for Off-the-Grid radar array antenna," Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.577-579, 3-8 July 2011. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2011.5996774
Toro-Vazquez, Jonathan; Rodriguez-Solis, Rafael; Padilla, Ingrid; , "Frequency and time domain measurements using Cross Well Radar to develop testbeds for electromagnetic properties estimation," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International , vol., no., pp.850-853, 24-29 July 2011. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049264
Córdoba-Erazo, M.F.; Rodríguez-Solis, R.A.; , "Cavity-backed folded-slot antenna," Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-4, 11-17 July 2010. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2010.5562099
Galvez, M.B.; Colom, J.; Chandrasekar, V.; Junyent, F.; Cruz-Pol, S.; Rodriguez, R.; , "Salient features of the radar nodes in the Puerto Rico tropical weather testbed," Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009 IEEE International, IGARSS 2009 , vol.3, no., pp.III-841-III-844, 12-17 July 2009. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417900
A. Rivera Albino and R.A. Rodríguez Solís, “Design of Tapered Slot Antenna Array for Space Distributed Class-E Power Amplifier”, 2009 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, June 2009, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2009.5171479
V. J. Marrero Fontánez, R. A. Rodríguez Solís, “Dual-Polarized Antenna Array for X-Band Radar Application,” 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, June 2007, pp. 2144-2147. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2007.4395951
V. J. Marrero Fontánez, R. A. Rodríguez Solís, “Dual-Polarized Aperture-Coupled Patch Antenna for X-Band Series-Fed Array,” 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, June 2007, pp. 2148-2151. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2007.4395952
V. J. Marrero Fontánez, R. A. Rodríguez-Solís, “Low Cross-Polarization Antenna Array for CASA Student Test bed Radar,” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 23-28 July 2007, pp. 2746 - 2749. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423411
Maria F. Serrano-Guzmán, Ingrid Padilla and Rafael Rodriguez, "Two-dimensional detection of underground contamination and buried objects using cross-well radar", Proc. SPIE 6210, 62100R (2006); DOI:10.1117/12.665826
Amador-Perez, A.; Rodríguez-Solís, R.A., “Analysis of a CPW Fed Annular Slot Ring Antenna using DOE,” 2006 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, July 2006, pp. 4301 - 4304. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2006.1711582
Jimenez, L.O.; O'Neill-Carrillo, E.; Frey, W.; Rodriguez-Solis, R.; Irizarry-Rivera, A.; Hunt, S, “Social and Ethical Implications of Engineering Design: A Learning Module Developed for ECE Capstone Design Courses,” 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct. 2006, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322539
D. A. Del Río, R. A. Rodríguez-Solís, D. S. Filipovic, “Ways to Improve the Radiation Pattern of a LPFSA,” 2005 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, July 2005, vol. 1B, pp. 410 - 413. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2005.1551579
J. A. Torres-Rosario, S. Rondineu, R. A. Rodríguez-Solís, S. Hunt, Z. Popovic, “Adaptive Discrete Lens Antenna Array for Direction of Arrival Detection,” 2005 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, July 2005, vol. 4A, pp. 122 - 125. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2005.1552599
C. Jaramillo-Henao, R. A. Rodríguez-Solís, D. Rosario-Román, D. González-Barreto, “Analysis of Concentric Slot-Ring Antenna Arrays using DOE and FDA,” 2004 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2004, vol. 1, pp. 1074 - 1077. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2004.1329860
Ileana Carrasquillo-Rivera, R.A.R. Solís, José G. Colom-Ustáriz, “Tunable and Dual-Band Rectangular Slot-Ring Antenna,” 2004 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2004, vol. 4, pp. 4308 - 4311. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2004.1330304
J.L. Salazar-Cerreño and R.A. Rodríguez-Solís, “Broadband Log-Periodic Normal Mode Helical Antenna,” 2003 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2003, vol. 1, pp. 249-252. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2003.1217445
N.D. López-Rivera and R.A. Rodríguez-Solís, “Input Impedance and Resonant Frequency Characterization of Folded Slot Antennas through DOE Techniques,” 2003 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2003 vol. 2, pp. 545-548. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2003.1219295
S. Rodríguez-Acosta, R.A. Rodríguez-Solís, and J.G. Colom Ustáriz, “Design and Characterization of a Tunable Aperture Coupled Microstrip Patch Antenna with Ferroelectric Films,” 2003 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2003 vol. 4, pp. 536-539. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2003.1220328
A.M. Castro-Vilaró and R.A.R. Solís, “Tunable Folded Slot Antenna with Ferroelectric Material,” 2003 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2003 vol. 2, pp 549-552. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2003.1219296.
I. Carrasquillo-Rivera, Z. Popovic, and R.A.R. Solís, “Tunable Slot Antenna Using Varactors and Photodiodes,” 2003 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2003 vol. 4, pp. 532-535. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2003.1220327
J. Colom-Ustáriz, R. Rodríguez-Solís, S. Vélez, and S. Rodríguez-Acosta, “Frequency Agile Microwave Components using Ferroelectric Materials,” Proceedings of the SPIE 9th International Conference on Remote Sensing, vol. 4881, April 2003, pp. 280-286. DOI:10.1117/12.463043
J. G. Colom and R. Rodríguez-Solís, “Introduction To Electrical Engineering: A New Freshman Course At UPR-Mayagúez,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, June 2003, Nashville, TN.
N.D. López-Rivera and R.A. Rodríguez-Solís, “Impedance Matching Technique for Microwave Folded-Slot Antennas,” 2002 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, June 2002, vol. III, pp. 450-453. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2002.1018249
S. McKnight, G. Tadmor, M. Ruane, R. Rodríguez-Solís and G. Saulnier, “Creating “High-Tech Tools & Toys Lab” Learning Environments at Four Universities,” 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov. 2002, p. S3E-7. DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2002.1158701
J.G. Colom Ustáriz, R.A. Rodríguez Solís, and R.J. Luebbers, “Undergraduate Research using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Electromagnetics,” 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, June 2001, Albuquerque, NM.
J.G. Colom Ustáriz, R.R. Barton, L.A. Carpenter, and R.A. Rodríguez Solís, “A Novel Graphical Technique for Selection of a Robust Design Point,” 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, June 2001, Albuquerque, NM.
R.A. Rodríguez Solís, Ana M. Medina, and Néstor López, “Microstrip Patch Antenna Encircled by a Trench,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, July 2000, pp. 1620-1623. DOI: 10.1109/APS.2000.874544