Mousa I Hussein

• Ph D Electrical Engineering
• Professor at United Arab Emirates University

Photovoltaic (PV) systems contribute significantly to renewable energy generation, but their efficiency and reliability are often hindered by environmental conditions, thermal inefficiencies, and a lack of predictive operational insights. Existing solutions, such as advanced material design, cooling systems, artificial intelligence-based modeling,...

This study addresses the fundamental challenge of accurately forecasting power generation from photovoltaic (PV) systems, which is crucial for effective grid integration and energy management. The intermittency and variability of solar power due to environmental factors pose significant difficulties in achieving reliable predictions. An adaptive ne...

The radiation of a structure comprising a spherical radome enclosing an antenna and made of an orthorhombic dielectric-magnetic medium is treated semi analytically in this paper. Inside the radome, the radiation field phasors due to the antenna and reflected field phasors due to the radome are expanded into vector spherical wave functions of the ra...

An accurate estimation of photovoltaic (PV) power production is crucial for organizing and regulating solar PV power plants. The suitable prediction is often affected by the variable nature of solar resources, system location and some internal/external disturbances, such as system effectiveness, climatic factors, etc. This paper develops a novel st...

Solar energy forecasting is essential to maintain PV system’s performance in uncertain environmental conditions. Factors such as module temperature, ambient temperature, solar irradiance, and wind speed contribute to the DC current generated by PV systems. In this study, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is developed on MATLAB to stu...

The increment of PV operating temperature has a significant impact on the overall efficiency, longevity, and degradation of PV systems. In this notion, researchers have sought to investigate different cooling methodologies to minimize the impact of abrupt operating temperatures. However, most investigations discuss the impact of the working base fl...

Photovoltaic (PV) systems have been at the forefront of renewable energy technologies. However, they are highly dependent on environmental parameters that affect their performance and longevity. Dust accumulation presents a critical factor in the performance of PV systems, leading to minimum system efficiency under largely dusty conditions. Several...

Photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) systems have been introduced recently for waste heat extraction, to improve electricity generation from photovoltaic (PV) systems and simultaneously utilize it for potential hot water for domestic or industrial use. This study investigated a 2.88 kW grid-connected PV/T system in the terrestrial weather conditions of Shar...

This research explores a comprehensive examination of gate underlap incorporated strained channel Cylindrical Gate All Around Nanowire FET having enriched performances above the requirement of the 2 nm technology node of IRDS 2025. The device installs a combination of strain engineering based quantum well barrier system in the channel region with h...

This article presents a new design of a compact fractal antenna that operates across various wireless communication applications with wideband functionality. With a peak gain of 6.8 dB and a radiation efficiency ranging from 91% to 94%, the designed antenna operates in the frequency range of 3.2–7.5 GHz. The antenna consists of a rectangular radiat...

This study introduces a coplanar waveguide MIMO antenna design that offers both frequency and pattern reconfigurability. The antenna is intended for applications in WiMAX, WLAN, and X-Band. It is constructed using an FR4 substrate with dimensions of 1.6mm thickness and 0.025 loss tangent. Based on the proposed design, MIMO antennas can operate at 3...

In this paper, we propose an efficient and robust convolutional autoencoder (CAE) model for continuous realtime blood pressure (BP) monitoring. The proposed model was implemented on a resource-constrained edge device. The model was built to capture the hidden patterns among successive segments and alleviate the effects of momentary glitches and out...

This research uses Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV) imagery and manual samplings methods simultaneously to recognize parasitic weed at Alfalfa stand. The objective is to identify the best techniques to monitor parasitic weed infestation. Imagery was digitized using GIS software to measure weed spatial distribution across four strips. Advantage and limi...

The demand for vehicular antennas increases in tandem with the need for multiple features in automobiles. The development of optically transparent antenna (OTA) has made it possible to deploy antennas on delicate surfaces such as glass. Earlier studies on OTA demonstrated its viability using materials such as transparent conducting oxides (TCO) and...

The incubation of strained nano-system in the form of tri-layered structure as nanowire channel in the cylindrical-gate-all-around (CGAA) FET at 10 nm gate length is developed for the first time to keep abreast with the proposed 3 nm technology node of IRDS 2022. The system installs Type-II hetero-strain alignment in the channel attesting itself as...

Multi-gate field effect transistors (FETs) such as FinFETs are severely affected by short-channel effects (SCEs) below 14 nm technology nodes, with even taller fins incurring fringing capacitances. This leads to performance degradation of the devices, which inhibits further scaling of nanoFETs, deterring the progress of semiconductor industries. Th...

In this paper, a compact dual-wideband fractal antenna is created for Bluetooth, WiMAX, WLAN, C, and X band applications. The proposed antenna consists of a circularly shaped resonator that contains square slots and a ground plane where a gap line is incorporated to increase the gain and bandwidth with a small volume of 40 × 34 × 1.6 mm³. The patch...

The present study proposes a new, highly efficient fractal antenna with ultra-wideband (UWB) characteristics. The proposed patch offers a wide simulated operating band that reaches 8.3 GHz, a simulated gain that varies between 2.47 and 7.73 dB throughout the operating range, and a high simulated efficiency that comes to 98% due to the modifications...

Biomedical telemetry relies heavily on implantable antennas. Due to this, we have designed and tested a compact, a circularly polarized, a low-profile biomedical implantable antenna that operate in the 2.45 GHz ISM band. In order to keep the antenna compact, modified co-planar waveguide (CPW) technology is used. Slotted rectangular patch with one 4...

This paper presents an effective way to design an RFID tag antenna to operate at three different frequencies by incorporating a switching technique. PIN diode has been used to switch the RF frequency because of its good efficiency and simplicity. The conventional dipole-based RFID tag has been improvised with added co-planar ground and PIN diode. T...

Real-time detection of sugar molecules is critical for preventing and monitoring diabetes and for food quality evaluation. In this article, a field effect transistor (FET) based on two-dimensional nitrogenated holey graphene (C2N) was designed, developed, and tested to identify the sugar molecules including xylose, fructose, and glucose. Both densi...

This paper presents the design an study of a DSRC/sub-6 GHz Koch fractal antenna single, two and four elements integrated with metamaterial structures, are proposed for the C-V2X and IEEE 802.11p/V2X. The design of automotive antenna is a challenging task due to the degradation of the MIMO antenna performance because of mutual coupling and cause sp...

The length of the communication cables is a significant indicator of signal integrity. The associated scattering parameters characteristics of a communication cable effectively enable its length estimation. This paper proposes a novel machine learning-based algorithm that utilizes Support Vector Machines (SVM) to predict and classify cable lengths....

In this paper, a novel microstrip line-fed meander-line-based four-elements quad band Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna is proposed with a gain enhancement technique. The proposed structure resonates at four bands simultaneously, that is, 1.23, 2.45, 3.5 and 4.9 GHz, which resemble GPS L2, Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX and WLAN wireless application...

In this study, various breast phantom (BP) models for microwave breast imaging (MBI) are investigated and the creation and assessment of designed models are presented. Symmetrical and asymmetrical BP models have been constructed. based on 3D printed structures stuffed with various mixed material combinations that roles various breast tissue layers...

This article presents a compact size circularly polarized substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) based wideband antenna array that serves industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band applications. A coplanar waveguide (CPW) technique is used to ensure the antenna size compactness. The proposed antenna is fabricated on a low-profile Rogers RT6002 su...

A ten-elements MIMO antenna with improved isolation and reduction of X-polar radiation (XPR) in millimeter (mm) wave region of n258 (24.25-27.5 GHz) is presented. The individual antenna element consists of stub loaded coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure with elliptical shaped radiator. Elliptical shaped Defected ground structure (DGS) has been incor...

Implantable antennas have a vital role in biomedical telemetry applications. Therefore, a compact low-profile circularly polarized biomedical implantable antenna operational in industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at 2.45 GHz is reported. The presented antenna is fed by a modified co-planar waveguide (CPW) technique to keep the size of th...

n this research work, we studied the microwave properties of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) surface functionalized with metallic oxides composites. Three different concentrations (5%, 10%, and 20%) of metallic oxides were used, namely cobalt, iron, and cobalt ferrite. The surface-decorated CNTS were impregnated into polyurethane (PU) matrix. Th...

Rapid advancements and wide spread of microwave- and RF-communication systems over the years have led to an abundant increase in electromagnetic energy radiation in our living environment. Such an increase in microwave sources is due to the development and advancement in communication techniques (mobile phones, laptops, and antennas for aeronautics...

This paper presents two new designs of MIMO dual band coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed-slot antennas operating in the 5G frequency band (28 and 38 GHz). The first antenna is an XX MIMO antenna and the second antenna is an XY MIMO antenna. Simulated results for the S-parameters are presented for the two antennas using HFSS. Measured results are also pre...

Since antennas are strong radar targets, their radar cross section (RCS) reduction and radiation enhancement is of utmost necessity, particularly for stealth platforms. This work proposes the design of a Fabry–Perot Cavity (FPC) antenna which has wideband low monostatic RCS. While in the transmission mode, not only is gain enhancement achieved, but...

Communication with low radar signature platforms requires antennas with low backscatter, to uphold the low observability attribute of the platforms. In this work, we present the design for a Fabry–Perot (F-P) cavity antenna with low monostatic radar cross section (RCS) and enhanced gain. In addition, peak radiation is tilted inthe elevation plane....

Platforms with low radar signatures require compatible antennas (low scattering) for communication purposes. Under this context, the article presents two Fabry-Perot (FP) Cavity antennas (Ant-1 and Ant-2). Ant-1’s aperture is an integrated design of artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surface and a phase gradient metasurface (PGM), incorporating th...

This study presents a comprehensive review of the characterization techniques of a reverberation chamber (RC). After describing the limitations of the theoretical models for the determination of the lowest usable frequency (LUF) of a chamber, the normative procedure of IEC 61000-4-21 standard is summarized for the estimation of LUF of an RC. Then a...

In this work, a novel approach is presented to design a metamaterial-based sensitive sensor for biomedical applications. The metamaterial-based sensor objective is to differentiate between different types of cancer cell lines (biological cells) based on their electrical properties. The sensor is designed by incorporating a single circular split rin...

A multiband planar antenna designed and proposed with resonator slots is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a planar hexagonal patch composed of two pairs of resonator slots. The antenna is designed using Isola FR408 substrate (εr = 3.68 and tanδ = 0.0092) with a compact dimension of 21 × 28 × 1.6 mm3. The designed antenna has good impedan...

In this study, we report on the electrical properties of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) composites functionalized with metal or metal alloy oxides and embedded in a polyurethane matrix to develop a lightweight material for microwave absorption and shielding. The CNT nanoparticles are functionalized with metallic oxides such as Cobalt oxide, Ir...

This study is addressing the slotted ring resonator effect on the performance of the ultra-wide band (UWB) microstrip antenna. Two types of metamaterial with double slotted ring resonators (SRR), circular (C-SRR) and square (S-SRR), are studied and implemented on back of the antenna. The design examines the effect of the number of the SRR and its p...

This paper provides an insight of a new, microstrip leaky wave antenna. It holds the ability to continue steer its beam at a swapping frequency. This is done with acceptable impedance matching while scanning and very little gain variation. Investigation is carried out on LWAs’ control radiation pattern in steps at a band frequency via vertical and...

Positioning and location estimation of targets either for mobile or stationary nodes is very important, especially after the astonishing developments of the wired and/or wireless communications, as well as the popularity of handheld devices. To assist in accessing services or managing resources, numerous users, application developers, and service p...

A compact single layer frequency reconfigurable Yagi‐like multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) antenna system is presented based on a half‐ring closed loop slot excitation. The traditional omnidirectional pattern of a slot antenna is made directional by using a single slot‐based complementary wideband reflector (CWBR) element. The proposed CWBR is...

Building the fingerprint map for indoor localization problems is a labour-intensive and time-consuming process. However, due to its direct influence on the location estimation accuracy, finding a proper mechanism to construct the fingerprint map is essential to enhance the position estimation accuracy. Therefore, in this work, we present a fingerpr...

This work introduces a novel 3D design framework for MIMO systems utilizing supershape antennas. The proposed design achieves enhanced performance metrics such as reduced mutual coupling and optimized spatial coverage of the signal.

This paper aims to survey the efforts of researchers in response to the novel and effective technology of control radiation pattern at a fixed frequency for leaky wave antenna (LWA), map the research landscape from the literature onto coherent taxonomy and determine the basic properties of this potential field. In addition, this paper investigates...

An optimization model using fuzzy sets and game theory for three players is put forward in this wok. The decision model is influenced by customer demands in a green supply chain. The proposed model includes an empirical solution to enhance the confidence level of players to choose plausible green strategy. Initially, the strategies are formulated u...

Plant diseases have a direct impact on agricultural food production. The time required to detect the pathogen plays a crucial role to minimize the fungal-induced disease damage in crops. Current microbial detection techniques take several days to identify the disease. Microwave detection techniques have proven to be a good candidate in identifying...

Here we investigated the feasibility of using microwave spectroscopy for characterization of normal and breast cancer cell lines cultured in vitro. Healthy non-tumorigenic, MCF-10A and breast cancer, MDA-MB-231, Hs578T, T47D and MCF-7 cell lines were electrically characterized using the open-ended coaxial probe technique from 200 MHz to 13.6 GHz. T...

This paper presents two new designs of UWB coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed-patch antennas operating in the FCC frequency band (3.1-10.6 GHz). The first design uses the superformula to produce a circular patch with sawtooth-like circumference. As compared to a regular circular patch antenna whose diameter is 25 mm, the proposed circular patch has a sma...

The city of Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is located on the coast of the Arabian Gulf. Forty years ago the area of Abu Dhabi was composed of nothing but a desert except a small number of buildings. When the Emirates united in the year of 1971, and the late His Highness Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, had his vision of...

Since the first day drones have been revealed to public, the use of drones had grown significantly due to its numerous advantages. The use of drones had spread widely, from commercial use, research, military, surveillance, and in entertainment. This paper discusses a drone-based gas sensing system from different perspectives. Firstly, it studies dr...

This paper presents a motion sensing platform based autonomous mobile object tracking using Unmanned aerial Vehicle (UAV). The position of the moving object was estimated using VICON motion capture camera system, and the information was processed using locally developed Matlab Simulink code. The UAV was assigned to navigate autonomously along the p...

In this paper, a hexagonal patch antenna with modified L-shaped slots, used for multiband applications is proposed. FR4 is the substrate used with dielectric constant of 3.85. Modified L-shaped slots are arranged on patch to give resonator effects and are been used to generate multiple bands in the antenna. The proposed antenna offers multiband res...

This paper is an approach towards the microwave characterization of breast cancer cells. In vitro models of breast cancer were prepared in the laboratory using immortalized cell lines and a standard culture medium. Dielectric properties of these cultured breast cancer cell lines were measured at frequencies from 200 MHz to 13.6 GHz using open-ended...

Metamaterial are artificially made electromagnetic materials consisting of periodically arranged metallic elements which are less than wavelength of incident wave in size. They can exhibit a strong localization and enhancement of fields, which may provide a tool to significantly enhance the sensitivity and resolution of sensors. Slotted Ring Resona...

This paper presents a novel microstrip antenna that consists of conducting circular patch with elliptical etched rings and partial conducting ground plane. The fabrication was done using Rogers 5880 LZ substrate, and the dimensions are selected to be 45mm × 31mm × 1.27 mm. Split Ring Resonators (SRRs) will be used to enhance gain performance for wi...

Metamaterial are artificially made electromagnetic materials consisting of periodically arranged metallic elements which are less than wavelength of incident wave in size. They can exhibit a strong localization and enhancement of fields, which may provide a tool to significantly enhance the sensitivity and resolution of sensors. Slotted Ring Resona...

We report on the fabrication and characterization of hybrid-organic memory devices based on gold (Au) nanoparticles that utilize metal–insulator–semi-conductor structure. Au nanoparticles were produced by sputtering and inert-gas condensation inside an ultrahigh-vacuum compatible system. The nanoparticles were self-assembled on a silicon dioxide (S...

The relentless expansion of information technology in educational institutions is widely acknowledged. There is substantial evidence that technology enhances student learning and educational outcomes. Many colleges and universities have adapted technology in their education system. The college of Engineering at the United Arab Emirates University l...

Trapping light inside the solar cells can significantly boost their efficiency by minimizing the reflection losses at the front interface as well as the absorption losses in the solar cell by increasing the path length of incoming light. This study focuses on light trapping using antireflection coating (ARC). One of the simplest and most efficient...