Journal Papers

1. J. Diao, "Sidelobe Statistics of Extremely Large-Scale Random Spherical Arrays for IoT Radio Telescopes," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, accepted.

2. Y. Luo, L. Pu, J. Diao, C.-H. Liu, and A. Song, “Underwater Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: from Principle to Practice”, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, accepted.

3. J. Diao, “Leveraging Global IoT Networks for a Distributed Radio Telescope: Calibration Methods and Performance Analysis”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 21918-21937, May 2026.

4. M. M. Begum, B. Debnath, B. E. Molen, and J. Diao, “Low Sidelobe Design for Small-Scale Sparse Array Antennas Using Mechanical Rotation.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 3687-3692, April 2026.

5. B. Debnath, J. Diao, “Design and Optimization of UAV Swarm-Based Phased Arrays for Near-Isotropic Full Scan Range”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 74, issue 1, pp. 414-422, Jan. 2026.

6. J. Diao, "Poynting Streamline for Energy Flow and Aperture Efficiency of Reflector Antennas: Application and Analysis," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 67, issue 6, pp. 21-28, Dec. 2025. (Ranked 6th in the most popular papers in Jan. 2026)

7. J. Diao and Y. Luo, “Electromagnetic Interference Protection for Linear Antennas Using Poynting Streamline Analysis Without System Modification or Detectors.” IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 67, issue 3, pp. 821-830, Jun. 2025.

8. J. Diao, B. Debnath, M. M. Begum, B. E. Molen, and R. Subedi, “Experimental Demonstration of Flying UAV Swarm-Based Reconfigurable Yagi-Uda Antennas.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, issue 5, pp. 2971-2978, May 2025. (Ranked 6th in the most popular papers in May 2025)

9. J. Diao, “Trajectory, Propagation Time, and Velocity of Field Energy Flow Near Receiving Dipole Antennas” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 23, issue 2, pp. 623-627, Feb. 2024.

10. J. Diao, L. Liu, and K. F. Warnick, "Receiving Dipole Antenna Analysis Using the Poynting Streamline Method: Providing new insights.," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 10-21, Feb. 2024. (Cover Page)

11. J. Diao, “A Visualization of Receiving Characteristics for Typical Antennas Using the Poynting Streamline Method [Education Corner].” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 101-110, Oct. 2023.

12. J. Diao and L. Liu, "Equivalent Circuit to Overcome Thévenin Limit for Receiving Lossy Dipole Antennas Motivated by the Poynting Streamline Analysis," IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 4, pp. 1056-1064, 2023.

13. J. Diao, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Swarm-Based Distributed Phased Arrays for Grating Lobe Mitigation and Collision Avoidance," IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, vol. 3, pp. 1264-1272, 2022.

14. Lu Liu, J. Diao, and K. F. Warnick. “Analysis and Optimization of Phased Array Feeds Using Poynting Streamlines and the Absorption Aperture Concept.” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 19, issue 1, 2020.

15. J. Diao, Lu Liu and K. F. Warnick. “An Intuitive Way to Understand Mutual Coupling Effects in Antenna Arrays Using the Poynting Streamline Method.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 884-891, Feb. 2019.

16. D. Anish Roshi, W. Shillue, B. Simon, K. F. Warnick, B. Jeffs, D. J. Pisano, R. Prestage, S. White, J. R. Fisher, M. Morgan, R. Black, M. Burnett, J. Diao, M. Ruzindana, V. van Tonder, L. Hawkins, P. Marganian, T. Chamberlin, J. Ray, N. M. Pingel, K. Rajwade, D.R. Lorimer, M. A., McLaughlin, A. Rane, J. Castro, W. Groves, L. Jensen, J. D. Nelson, T. Boyd, and A. J. Beasley, “Performance of a highly sensitive, 19-element, dual-polarization, cryogenic phased array feed”. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 155, no. 5, pp. 202, Apr. 2018.

17. J. Diao, and K. F. Warnick. “Practical superdirectivity with resonant screened apertures motivated by a Poynting streamline analysis.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 432-437, Jan. 2018.

18. J. Diao, J. W. Kunzler, and K. F. Warnick. “Sidelobe level estimation and efficiency optimization for wide scanned tiled aperiodic array antennas.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 7083-7090, Dec. 2017.

19. J. Diao, and K. F. Warnick. “Antenna loss and receiving efficiency for mutually coupled arrays.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 5871-5877, Nov. 2017.

20. J. Diao, and K. F. Warnick. “Poynting streamlines, effective area shape and the design of superdirective antenna.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 861-866, Feb. 2017.

21. J. Diao, and K. F. Warnick. “On the bandwidth gap between the array feed and cluster feed regimes for broadband multifeed system.” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 2207-2216, Jun. 2016.

22. J. Diao, F. Yang, Z. P. Nie, J. Ouyang, and P. Yang. "Separated fractal antennas for improved emission performance of terahertz radiations." Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 26, no. 8-9, pp. 1158-1167, Jun. 2012.

23. C. Wu, F. Yang, J. Diao, J. Yang, and H. Zhou. "An improved transient quasi-analysis method for offset reflector in impulse radiating antenna applications." Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, vol. 22, pp. 233-243, 2012.

24. J. Diao, F. Yang, L. Du, J. Yang, and P. Yang. "Enhancing terahertz radiation from dipole photoconductive antenna by blending tips." Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters, vol. 25, pp. 127-134, 2011.

25. J. Diao, L. Du, J. Ouyang, P. Yang, and Z. P. Nie. "Enhanced center frequency of terahertz pulse emission from photoconductive antenna". Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 25, no. 16, pp. 2236-2243, 2011.

Conference Papers

1. J. Diao, B. Debnath, M. M. Begum, P. Neupant and B. E. Molen, "Enabling Practical UAV-Swarm Based Phased Arrays Through Magnetic RF Connectors," 2026 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), Boulder, CO, USA, 2026, pp. 284-284.

2. J. Diao, B. Debnath, M. M. Begum, B. E. Molen and R. Subedi, "Design and Experimental Verification of a Reconfigurable Yagi-Uda Antenna Enabled by Multiple Magnetically-Connected Flying Uavs," 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/CNC-USNC-URSI), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp. 1701-1704.

3. L. Pu, Y. Luo, S. Han, and J. Diao, "Your Cable, My Antenna: Eavesdropping Serial Communication via Backscatter Signals," 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 3710-3726). IEEE Computer Society. (Acceptance rate: 14.8%, 257/1740)

4. J. Diao, “A New Language for Antennas: Poynting Streamline Analysis and Applications”, 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT).

5. J. Diao and L. Liu, "Equivalent Circuit for Receiving Lossy Dipole Antennas Using the Poynting Streamline Analysis," 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and INC/USNC‐URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/INC-USNC-URSI), Firenze, Italy, 2024, pp. 1065-1066.

6. W. D. Dykeman, R. B. Green and J. Diao, "Comparison of Antenna parameters acquired in the reactive nearfield, radiating nearfield (Fresnel), and far-field (Fraunhofer) regions," 2024 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), Boulder, CO, USA, 2024, pp. 311-311.

7. J. Diao, "Understanding Aperture Efficiency for Reflector Antennas Using the Poynting Streamline Method," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), Portland, OR, USA, 2023, pp. 1315-1316.

8. M. Kurum, M. M. Farhad, J. Diao and A. C. Gurbuz, "A Ubiquitous GNSS-R Approach Using Spinning Smartphone Onboard a Small UAS," IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022, pp. 5208-5211.

9. J. Diao and L. Liu, "Receiving Antenna Realized Gain Understood by the Poynting Streamline Method," 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), Denver, CO, USA, 2022, pp. 1240-1241.

10. Hedayati, Maziar, J. Diao, and Yuanxun Ethan Wang. "Adaptive Communications with Swarm Aperture." 2019 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS). IEEE, 2019.

11. J. Diao, M Hedayati, and YE Wang, “Experimental Demonstration of Distributed Beamforming on Two Flying Mini-Drones,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 9-12, 2019.

12. J. Diao, M Hedayati, RU Tok, and YE Wang, “Mechanical Rotating Arrays for Sidelobe Suppression,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 9-12, 2019.

13. J. Diao, L. Liu and K. F. Warnick, “Understanding the Element-Gain Paradox for Receiving Arrays Using Poynting Streamlines,” 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, Boston, July 8-13, 2018.

14. J. Diao and Y. E. Wang, “Phased Array Antenna Design Based on Swarm Aperture,” 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, Boston, July 8-13, 2018.

15. J. Diao, and Y. E. Wang, “Analysis of 3-D phased arrays based on swarm aperture,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-7, 2018.

16. J. Diao, M. Hedayati, Y, Huang and Y. E. Wang, “Adaptive wireless beamforming for swarm array,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-7, 2018.

17. J. Diao and K. F. Warnick, “Analysis of antenna loss and receiving efficiency for high-sensitivity scanned phased arrays,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-7, 2018.

18. J. Diao and K. F. Warnick, “Analysis of the degree of practically achievable superdirectivity using Poynting streamline method,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, San Diego, July 9-14, 2017.

19. J. Diao and K. F. Warnick, “Beam scan angle dependence of array antenna loss and receiving efficiency,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, San Diego, July 9-14, 2017.

20. J. Diao, Jakob Kunzler and K. F. Warnick, “Optimization of rotated tiled aperiodic array antennas,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, San Diego, July 9-14, 2017.

21. J. Diao and K. F. Warnick, “Experimental demonstration of a superdirective horn antenna designed by Poynting streamline method,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-7, 2017.

22. J. Diao, J. W. Kunzler, and K. F. Warnick, “Compromise between peak sidelobe level and element number and density for electrically scanned rotational aperiodic subarrays,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 4-7, 2017.

23. J. Diao, R. Black, K. F. Warnick, B. D. Jeffs, N. Erickson, and G. Narayanan, “Experimental tests of a mm-wave array feed for the Green Bank Telescope,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, Puerto Rico, June 26-July 1, 2016.

24. J. Diao and K. F. Warnick, “Definition of effective area shape and guide for superdirective antenna design using Poynting streamlines analysis,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, Puerto Rico, June 26-July 1, 2016.

25. J. Diao, R. A. Black, K. F. Warnick, B. D. Jeffs, and N. Erickson, “Performance analysis of a mm-wave phased array feed for the Green Bank Telescope,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 6-9, 2016.

26. R. A. Black, J. M. Brady, B. D. Jeffs, J. Diao, and K. F. Warnick, “Phased-array 64-element 20-MHz receiver for data capture and real-time beamforming,” URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, Jan. 6-9, 2016.

27. J. Diao, R. A Black, J. Brady, J. Sypherd, K. F. Warnick, and Brian D. Jeffs. "Modeling and system development for the FLAG L-band phased array feed for large-dish astronomical observations." 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, Vancouver, 2015.

28. N. R. Erickson, G. Narayanan, J. C. Bardin, K. F. Warnick, B. D. Jeffs, and J. Diao. "A 64 element, 70–95 GHz focal plane phased array." 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC-URSI Meeting, Vancouver, 2015.

29. K. F. Warnick, B. D. Jeffs, J. Diao, R. Black, J. Brady, A. Roshi, B. Shillue, S. White, B. Simon, and R. Fisher. "Experimental tests and signal processing for a cryogenic L-band phased array feed on the Green Bank Telescope." In 2014 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA). 2014.

30. W. Zeng, Z. Nie, and J. Diao. "A design of wide-band power amplifier for wireless communications." In Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2011.