Mohamed Sanad ( ar, محمد سند) is an Egyptian antenna

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in the Faculty of

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, Cairo University. He made contributions to antennas, and holds sixteen

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in the area. The most recent of which is "Design of single and multi-band PIFA" (

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). He has also published thirty peer-reviewed papers or conference proceedings; the most recent are three papers at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010, IEEE, He also worked with

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on mobile phones.

IPA Prize Winning Project

A low-cost, lightweight, low wind-load, foldable/deployable, multi-broadband base station

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has been developed using dual parabolic cylindrical reflectors with novel small size broadband resonant feeds invented by the applicant. The new base station antenna has the following 8 important advantages over the existing ones in wireless applications: #One base station can cover all wireless applications at different frequency bands including WiMax, digital TV, CDMA, GSM, etc. #The station is foldable/deployable and can thus be shipped and stored in a very compact form #It is very easy to assemble and disassemble #It has a low wind load #It is light #It can stand on the ground without mounting towers #It is low-cost and #It can generate beams of arbitrary angles in the horizontal and vertical planes. Sanad received the Innovation Prize for Africa in 2012.

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