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Prof. Runa Kumari

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Antenna (Dielectric Resonator, Log periodic, Reconfigurable, Microstrip), Antenna Array
Room No H / 208
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

List of Publications:

Peer-Review Journals:

  1. Neha Parmar, Aviraj Jadhav, Runa Kumari, D. Ratan Sanjay, Harish V. Dixit, and Lalit Kumar, “A TM01to TE11 Mode Converter Based on Step Waveguide Discontinuities for High Power Microwave Sources”, IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, July 2024.
    (SCI indexed) IF=2.9   DOI: 1109/TED.2024.3421931
  2. P Priyalatha, L. Ramayee, Runa Kumari, and K. Supradeepan, “Multi-objective optimization of a compact wideband antenna using grey relational analysis”, AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier), Feb 2024, (SCI indexedIF=3.169
  3. P Priyalatha, Runa Kumari, and Sourav Nandi, “A Three-way Fan-shaped Power Divider as a Feed-network of Aperture-coupled Antenna Arrays”, Microwave Opt Technol Lett. (MOTL, Wiley), June 2023, (SCI indexedIF=1.392
  4. Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Runa Kumari, and Basudev Majumder, “Metasurface Assisted Broadband Compact Dual Polarized Dipole Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting”, IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letter, April 2023.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10106408 (SCI indexed) IF=3.834
  5. P Priyalatha, Runa Kumari, and Sourav Nandi, “Compact modified hourglass shaped aperture coupled antenna for radar applications”, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (Cambridge University Press), February 2023. (SCI indexed) IF=1.06
  6. R Venkata Sravya, Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, and Runa Kumari, “Patch Antenna with Multi-cell EBG for RF Energy Harvesting Applications”, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (Cambridge University Press), August 2022. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S1759078722000885. . (SCI indexed) IF=1.06
  7. Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Runa Kumari, Basudev Majumder, and Qammer H. Abbasi, “Numerical Demonstration of a Dispersion Engineered Metallic Metasurface Assisted mm-wave Wireless Sensor”, Optics Continuum, Vol.1, No. 8, Aug 2022, pp 1795-1810.
  8. Rajasekhar Nalanagula, Naresh K. Darimireddy, Runa Kumari, and Chan-Wang Park, “Dual Circularly Polarized Semi-Cylindrical Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna for X and Ku-Band Applications”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), June https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.23279. (SCI indexedIF=1.694
  9. Rajasekhar Nalanagula, Naresh K. Darimireddy, Runa Kumari, Chan-Wang Park, and R. Ramana Reddy, “Circularly Polarized Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antennas:A Brief Review and Perspective Analysis”, MDPI Sensors, June 2021, 21, 4100. 
  10. Sarath Sankar Vinnakota, Runa Kumari, Himanshu Meena, and Basudev Majumder,  “ Rectifier Integrated Multibeam Luneburg Lens Employing Artificial Dielectric as a Wireless Power Transfer Medium at mm wave band ”, IEEE Photonics Journal, June 2021, Vol. 13, Issue 3.  (SCI indexed)
  11. R Venkata Sravya, and Runa Kumari, “Gain and Isolation Enhancement of Patch Antenna using L-slotted Mushroom EBG”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), Aug 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmce.22369 (SCI indexedIF=1.694
  12. Sandeep Kumar, and Runa Kumari, “Composite right/left-handed ultra-wideband metamaterial antenna with improved gain”, Microwave Opt Technol Lett. (MOTL, Wiley), July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.32552. (SCI indexedIF=1.78
  13. Sandeep Kumar, and Runa Kumari, “Bandwidth and Gain-Enhanced Composite Right/Left-Handed Antenna for Ultra-Wideband Applications”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), December 2019. DOI: 10.1002/mmce.22095 (SCI indexedIF=1.694
  14. Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Runa Kumari, and Basudev Majumder, “Dual Polarized High Gain Resonant Cavity Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), October 2019. DOI:1002/mmce.22003(SCI indexedIF=1.694
  15. Sandeep Kumar, and Runa Kumari, “Bandwidth Enhanced CPW-Fed CRLH Antenna Loaded with Resonating Rings”, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, June 2019, 13, Issue 12. (SCI indexedIF=2.016
  16. Sandeep Kumar, and Runa Kumari, “Composite Right/Left-Handed Wideband Metamaterial Antenna Loaded with SRRs and CSRRs to Improve Gain and Efficiency”, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, March 2019, 13, Issue 9. DOI:  10.1049/iet-map.2018.6106. (SCI indexed)  IF=2.016
  17. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Capacitive coupled Frequency Independent Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array for X-band Applications”, IETE Journal of Research(TIJR), Taylor & Francis, March 2019. DOI:   https://doi.org/10.1080/03772063.2019.1600438 . (SCI indexedIF=0.829
  18. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Investigation on Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array for Ku band Applications”, Electromagnetics, Taylor & Francis, 34, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 19-33. (SCI indexedIF=0.789
  19. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Wideband Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Array with Overlaid Microstrip Feed Line”, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, 7, Issue 7, 2013, pp 582-587. IF=2.016
  20. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Mushroom Shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WiMAX Applications”, Microwave Opt Technol Lett. (MOTL, Wiley), 55, Issue. 6, Jun 2013, pp 1360-1365. IF=1.78
  21. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Nine Element Frequency independent Dielectric Resonator Array for X- band Applications”, Microwave Opt Technol Lett. (MOTL, Wiley), 55, No. 2, Feb 2013, pp 400-403. IF=1.78
  22. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Miniaturized Dual band Dielectric Resonator Antenna for IEEE 802.16d Fixed WiMAX Applications”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), 22, Issue 6, Nov 2012, pp 682-689. IF=1.694
  23. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “A Compact Multi Band Triangular shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array with Slotted Ground Plane”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Engineering and Architecture (Mind reader IJACEA), 2, No. 2, Jun 2012, pp 171-178.
  24. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Broadband Applications”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), ISBN 978-93-80864-71-10, No-7, 2011, pp 16-20.
  25. Runa Kumari and Santanu Kumar Behera, “Design of Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Array for NATO-K band Applications”, International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, 7, No. 4, 2014, pp 265-272.

 

Peer-Review Conferences:

 

  1. Neha Parmar, Narain Shriraam M S, D Ratan Sanjay, Runa Kumari, Harish V. Dixit, “A Mode Converting Antenna Based on Step Waveguide Discontinuities for High Power Microwave Applications”, IEEE Space Aerospace and defenCE, (SPACE) 2024, Bangalore, India, 22 -23 July, 2024.
  2. Anamay Marathe, Rohith Shreebhashyam, and Runa Kumari, “Latency Analysis of CRC Codes and Linear Block  Codes”, IEEE Sixth International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (IEEE ICECCT 2024), Durg, Chhattisgarh, India, 26- 28 June, 2024.
  3. Nalanagula Rajasekhar, Runa Kumari, and Naresh K. Darimireddy, “A Circularly Polarized Metasurface based Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wireless Communication”, IEEE Wireless, Antenna and Microwave Symposium, WAMS-2024, Visakhapatnam, India, 29 Feb- 01 March. 2024.
  1. Tanay Reddy Gangavarama , Sudhanshu Patil, Runa Kumari, and D Purnima, “Biomass Based Substrate for Microstrip Antenna Application”, Polymer Processing Society Asia-Australasia Regional Conference (PPS-2023), Kovalam, Kerala, India, 29th Nov-2nd Dec 2023.
  2. Runa Kumari, D Purnima, and Asit Kumar Panda, “Biomass Substrate Based Conformal Microstrip Antenna for UAV Applications”, National Seminar on Electronic Devices Circuits and Systems, NSEDCS-2023, Berhampur , Odisha, 23-24, Sept 2023.
  3. M S Narain Shriraam, Jeevan Reji, and Runa Kumari, “Conformal Patch Antenna for Spacecraft Applications”, IEEE 4th International Conference on Communication, Circuits and Systems  (iC3S-2023), Bhubaneswar, India, 26-28 May. 2023.
  4. Priyalatha, Pratyush Choudhary, and Runa Kumari, “Ultra-Wideband Edge Trimmed Bowtie Antenna for X-Band Radar Communication”, 2023 IEEE 13th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC 2023), The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV Science & Engineering Building), 8-11 March. 2023.
  5. Nalanagula Rajasekhar, Naresh K. Darimireddy, Runa Kumari, and Abdellah Chehri, “A Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Dual Sense Circular Polarization for Wireless LAN Applications”, International scientific symposium for research in the fields of Human Centre Intelligent Systems, KES-HCIS-2022, Rhodes, Greece, 20-22, June 2022 (Web of Science & Scopus Indexed).
  6. Varun Sai Bonam, Satya Surya Vinay Kota, Runa Kumari, and Sandeep Kumar, “Designing Hexagon, Triangle, Circle shaped microstrip Patch Antennas using Coconut Coir Substrate”, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, CONIT 2022, L. E. Institute of Technology, Hubballi, Karnataka, India, 24th-26th, June 2022­­­­­­.
  7. Satya Surya Vinay Kota, Varun Sai Bonam, Sandeep Kumar, and Runa Kumari, “Microstrip Patch Antenna Using Coconut Coir Substrate and its Comparison with FR4 Based Antenna”, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, CONIT 2022, K. L. E. Institute of Technology, Hubballi, Karnataka, India, 24th-26th, June 2022­­­­­­.
  1. Priyalatha, and Runa Kumari, “Low insertion loss compact quadrature coupler for conformal space applications”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communications and Sustainable Technologies (ICAECT 2021), Bhilai, India, 19-20 Feb. 2021.
  2. R Venkata Sravya, and Runa Kumari, “Gain Enhancement of Dual-Band Triangular Patch with Hexagonal Mushroom EBG”, URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (URSI-RCRS 2020), IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, 12-14 Feb. 2020.
  3. RajaSekhar, R. Ramana Reddy, Runa Kumari, and R. Sowjanya, “Performance Analysis of Conical Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Various Feeding Techniques”, IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas & Propagation (InCAP-2019), Ahmedabad, India, 19-22 Dec. 2019.

 

  1. R Venkata Sravya, Runa Kumari, and Balamati Choudhury, “Gain Enhancement of Annular Ring Patch using Cascaded EBG”, IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes, IMWS-AMP 2019, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 16-18 Jul. 2019.
  2. Deepesh Chandwani, M. Chaitanya Sai and Runa Kumari, “Microstrip Patch Antenna Array for RFID Applications”, 3rdInternational Conference on Electronics and Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA 2019), Coimbatore, India, 12-14 Jun 2019.
  3. V R Dinesh Kumar and Runa Kumari, “Meandering Slot Patch Antenna for UAV Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Integrated Circuits, Photonics and Wireless Networks (IMICPW-2019), NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, 22-24 May 2019.
  4. Hariharasudhan K and Runa Kumari, “Metasurface Loaded Patch Antenna for Wi-Fi Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Integrated Circuits, Photonics and Wireless Networks (IMICPW-2019), NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, 22-24 May 2019.
  5. Pradeep Singh and Runa Kumari, “Monopole Patch Antenna for C band Application”, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Integrated Circuits, Photonics and Wireless Networks (IMICPW-2019), NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, 22-24 May 2019.
  6. Pradeep Singh, Kota SivaRamaKrishna Chaitanya, and Runa Kumari, “Microstrip Patch Antenna for application in Intelligent Transport Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Integrated Circuits, Photonics and Wireless Networks (IMICPW-2019), NIT Tiruchirappalli, India, 22-24 May 2019.
  7. Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Basudev Majumder, and Runa Kumari, “Suspended Metasurface Loaded Dual Band Dual Polarized Dipole Antenna Array with Polarization Flexibility for RF Energy Harvesting”, URSI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC 2019), New Delhi, India, 9-15 Mar. 2019.
  8. Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Runa Kumari, and Balamati Choudhury, “Metamaterial inspired Rectenna loaded with a DR for RF Energy Harvesting”, IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas & Propagation (InCAP-2018), Hyderabad, India, 16-19 Dec. 2018.
  9. Vinnakota Sarath Sankar, Basudev Majumder, and Runa Kumari, “Dual Polarized High Gain Aperture coupled Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting”, IEEE INAE workshop on Electromagnetics, (IIWE-2018), Trivandrum, India, 6-8 2018.
  10. Runa Kumari, and Balamati Choudhury, “Metamaterial loaded Printed Antenna for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, Signal Processing & Communication (AESPC-2018), Bhubaneswar, India, 22-24 Oct. 2018.
  11. R Venkata Sravya, and Runa Kumari, “Gain Enhancement of Patch Antenna Using L-slotted Mushroom EBG”, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing And Communication Engineering Systems (SPACES-2018), Guntur, A. P., India, 4-6 Jan. 2018.
  12. Dusi Aditya, and Runa Kumari, “Frequency Reconfigurable Dielectric ResonatorAntenna for Wireless Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Antenna Innovations and Modern Technologies (iAIM-2017), Bangalore, India, 24-26 Nov. 2017.
  13. Sandeep Kumar, and Runa Kumari, “Bandwidth enhanced high efficiency compact CPW fed Metamaterial antenna based on ENG -TL structure”, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES 2017), Madeira, Portugal, 26-30 Jun. 2017.
  14. Shashank Solomon, and Runa Kumari, “Aperture Coupled Cylindrical Element Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna array for X Band”, IEEE India International Conference INDICON- 2015, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi, India, 17-20 Dec. 2015.
  15. Shashank Solomon, and Runa Kumari, “Aperture Coupled Rectangular Element Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna array for X Band”, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference, AEMC- 2015, IIT Guwahati, India, 18-21 Dec. 2015.
  16. Shashank Solomon, and Runa Kumari, “Slotted Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Broadband Applications”, IEEE Global Conference on Communication Technologies, GCCT- 2015, Kanyakumari, India, Apr 2015.
  17. Runa Kumari, S K Behera, and Satish K. Sharma, “Aperture Coupled Wideband Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array with Polarization Reconfiguration”, IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference, AEMC- 2013, Bhubaneswar, India, Dec 2013.
  18. Imran Khan, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “A Notched Chamfered Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array for Wireless Applications”, IEEE International Multi Conference on Automation, Computing, Control, Communication and Compressed Sensing ( iMac4s-2013), ISBN 978-1-4673-5088-4 Feb 2013, Kerala, India, Mar 2013.
  19. Imran Khan, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “A Four Element Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array For Wireless Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing, Communication and Nano-Technology (ICECCN-2013), ISBN 971-1-4673-5036-5 Feb 2013, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India, Mar 2013.
  20. Runa Kumari, and S. K. Behera, “Mutual Coupling Reduction in C-shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna array for MIMO Applications”, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON) 2012, ISBN 978-1-4673-2272-0, Cochin, India, Dec 2012.
  21. Runa Kumari, and S K Behera, “A Compact Dual Resonance Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array with partial ground plane”, IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology, RAIT- 2012, Dhanbad, India, Mar 2012.
  22. Sreenu Mudavath, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “A Compact CPW fed Stacked Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012, ISBN 978-1-4673-0210-4, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu, India, Mar 2012.
  23. Runa Kumari, Kapil Parmar and S. K. Behera, “A Dual band Triangular shaped DRA Array for WLAN/WiMAX Applications”, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), 2011, ISBN 978-1-4577-1110-7, Hyderabad, India, Dec 2011.
  24. Sreenu Mudavath, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “A Compact CPW fed Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), 2011, ISBN 978-1-4577-1110-7, Hyderabad, India, Dec 2011.
  25. Kapil Parmar, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “Half Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Dual band Applications”, International Symposium on Devices MEMS Intelligent Systems and Communication (ISDMISC-2011), ISBN 978-93-80747-80-2, Sikkim, India, April 2011.
  26. Kapil Parmar, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “M-Shaped Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Devices & Communications (ICDeCOM-2011), ISBN 978-1-4244-9190-2/11, Ranchi, India, Feb 2011.
  27. Runa Kumari, S. K. Behera and R. K. Mishra, “Log Periodic Dielectric Resonator Antenna for K and Ka-band Applications”, International Conference on Electronic Systems, ICES 2011, ISBN 978-93-80697-50-5, Rourkela, India, pp 264-267, Jan
  28. Mahender P, Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “Compact Dual Band Hemispherical Dielectric Resonator Antenna”, International Conference on Electronic Systems, ICES 2011, ISBN 978-93-80697-50-5, Rourkela, India, pp 252-254, Jan 2011.
  29. Runa Kumari, Kapil Parmar and S. K. Behera, “Conformal Patch Fed Stacked Triangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna for WLAN Applications”, IEEE International conference on Emerging Trends in Robotics and Communication Technologies, INTERACT-2010, ISBN 978-1-4244-9006-6/10, Chennei, India, pp 104-107, Dec 2010.
  30. Runa Kumari and S. K. Behera, “Ring Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Broadband Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Systems, CICN-2010, ISBN 978-0-7695-4254-6/10, Bhopal, India, pp 7-10, Nov 2010.

Peer-Review Book (as an editor):

 1. Runa Kumari and Balamati Choudhury, “Multiscale Modelling of Advanced Materials (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)”, Springer; 1st ed. 2020.(as an editor).

Peer-Review Book Chapters:

  1. Nalanagula Rajasekhar, Runa Kumari, Naresh K. Darimireddy, and Abdellah Chehri, “A Hybrid Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Dual Sense Circular Polarization for Wireless LAN Applications”, Human Centred Intelligent Systems (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, SIST, Volume 10), Springer nature, Chapter 13, pp 171-178, June
  2. Runa Kumari, Hariharasudhan K, and Sandeep Kumar, “Metasurface Antennas: book chapter in Handbook of Nano-Metamaterials , Springer nature Metamaterials handbook series,  Metamaterials Science and Technology book series (METSCTE, volume 1), 2021. (accepted, in Press). (https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-13-0261-9_39-1)
  3. R Venkata Sravya and Runa Kumari, “Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures: Multiscale Modelling of Advanced Materials (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)”, Springer; 1st ed. 2020.
  4. Sandeep Kumar and Runa Kumari, “Metamaterial Resonator Antennas: Multiscale Modelling of Advanced Materials (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)”, Springer; 1st ed. 2020.