Applied Electromagnetics and RF Circuits

Scarborough was recognized by the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for developing a superior method to model and simulate traveling-wave modulation along two dimensions in metamaterials.

Roberts works to improve remote sensing of soil moisture, which is important for environmental conservation, natural resource management, and agriculture.

More than 250 students had a hand in a satellite launching on January 10th, the first in space for a project to keep nanosats in orbit by harnessing Earth’s magnetic field.

PhD student Cody Scarborough was recognized for his work advancing the understanding and study of electromagnetic waves.

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi and ECE PhD student Navid Barani won a best paper award for their research on how biological cells may use electromagnetic signal transmission to communicate.

Wu is working on advanced metasurfaces, which could help next-generation wireless communication, commercial and military radar systems, imaging, and antenna systems.

A professor of electrical engineering and computer science is awarded one of engineering’s top honors.

U-M researchers have created a new means of enabling reliable wireless underwater communication, which could aid military, environmental, and conservation purposes.

The intensive workshop brings together outstanding women who are graduate students or postdocs interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering and computer science.

Predicting future disasters is an important goal of those participating in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Second Prize overall went to doctoral student Xiuzhang Cai for his radar target classification research applicable to autonomous vehicles.

Mostafa Zaky has built an award-winning model that helps estimate the amount of water stored in snowpacks, which could improve climate change and flood forecasting, as well as overall water resource management.

Huang won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics for her work developing better electromagnetic models that calculate microwave interactions with tree and vegetation cover.

EECS-ECE PhD student Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi is working to make smartphones faster and smaller through his research in the field of RF devices.

EECS-ECE PhD student Navid Barani received the IEEE APS Doctoral Research Award for his work modeling how bacteria use electromagnetic waves to communicate, which could lead to medical breakthroughs.

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

This device, the size of a match head, can bend light inside a crystal to generate synchrotron radiation in a lab.

Prof. Mortazawi recognized as a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science.

Prof. Grbic is a world leader in the development of metamaterials and metasurfaces.

From blowing up microwaves to inspiring a new generation of microwave engineers, Professor Franklin shares her research, insights, and thoughts on the future of women in engineering.

Eric Michielssen has discovered a new way to rapidly analyze electromagnetic phenomena, and it’s catching on.

Compared to conventional methods of wireless power, which require a specific distance and alignment, Prof. Mortazawi’s version operates over a range of distances and orientations without a drop in power.

The paper outlines a better way to quantify forest structure, which has been successful in two tree species.

Dr. Valdis Liepa retires after nearly 50 years as a faculty member in the Radiation Laboratory.

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

Franklin believes the best research results are achieved from a diversity of backgrounds, something she learned as a graduate student at Michigan and fosters in her own research group at Minnesota.

The AAAS seeks to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.

Behdad has tackled some of the toughest problems in antenna research. But for his applications, they need to be very small – small enough to be used to treat cancer.

Armin’s research is focused on the development of a sub-millimeter-wave radar system for the next generation of navigation and imaging sensors.

Choi has developed a new technique for testing these antennas based on very-near-field measurements and a newly-developed, high-precision formula to compute the antenna’s radiation fields.

Mohammad has developed a new way to remotely measure the thickness of ice and snow with a technology he calls wideband autocorrelation radiometry (WiBAR).

Amr is investigating both the unique advantages and the performance limitations of radar systems operating at 240 GHz in typical outdoor environments.

Eric is an international leader in the field of computational electromagnetics and specializes in the development of fast-solution methods and optimization algorithms.

Directed by Kamal Sarabandi the new program aims to create theoretical models for remote sensing of ice and snow.

KACST will provide manpower and will collaborate with Michigan faculty and students on their projects.

Mr. Bell is investigating the potential of electrodynamic tether propulsion technology to enhance the capabilities of an emerging class of smartphone-sized satellites.

The tether could be used to deorbit out-of-use spacecraft, push spacecraft from low Earth orbit into higher orbits, or even push spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit altogether.

The SMAP mission is NASA’s most ambitious sensing project yet for measuring global soil moisture levels.

Iverson developed an experimental facility to simulate key characteristics of the space environment.

Gok’s developed antenna system promises a large bandwidth of operation and a wide angle of coverage.

The researchers believe that metasurfaces could one day be used to completely control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light.

The Mikio Takagi Student Prize is given to the top three Student Prize Paper Awards granted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

This award is in recognition of being an outstanding educator, mentor and role model for the next generation of faculty members.

The paper reports on the design, fabrication, and results of a directly heated phase change RF switch using germanium telluride.

The goal of Gomez’s research is to alleviate the communications blackout that sometimes occurs when vehicles are traveling through the earth’s atmosphere.

Jason’s current research focuses on developing systems to wirelessly charge or power electronic devices.

His final goal is to build novel RF circuits including frequency-selective switched oscillators based on his models.

The course, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, has a tradition of offering prizes for the top final projects designed by the students.

Their technique utilizes backscatter analysis to construct “perfectly transmitting” wavefronts.

The headpiece design is a big departure from today’s figure 8-shaped devices made of just two coils.

Berry’s paper addresses important limitations such as low output power and poor power efficiency.

The technology could potentially identify a hidden weapon from a distance in less than a second.

The award will support Berry’s doctoral research in the area of plasmonic photoconductive antennas for high power terahertz generation.

The method can be useful in the design of low-profile antennas integrated into body panels of vehicles.

Yang’s research is focused on designing plasmonic nano-structures to enhance efficiency of conventional photoconductive terahertz emitters.

The proposed emitter incorporates plasmonic photoconductors to more efficiently convert power from incident laser light into terahertz radiation.

The primary advance shown in this research as compared to earlier work is the successful use of a 3-D potential force field.

The bulk of Chen’s current research centers on the detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference with microwave radiometers.

The researchers have optimized an optical resonator to take an infrared signal from relatively cheap telecommunication-compatible lasers and boost it to an ultraviolet beam.

The applications Dagefu’s research include wireless channel characterization, radar through-wall imaging, and distributed sensor networks.

Duan’s research has important applications in global climate change studies and weather forecasting.

The antenna is typically the largest wireless component in mobile devices, and shrinking it could leave more room for other gadgets and features.

Sung Ho plans to design photoconductive antenna arrays with optimal radiation efficiency and broadband operation.

Morteza introduces a new voltage-controlled-oscillator design technique that offers significant advantages in terms of size, DC power consumption and frequency tunability.

Bell is investigating how to use an electrodynamic, propellantless propulsion concept to push against the Earth’s magnetic field in order to maneuver satellites and counteract drag.

The goal of the research is to develop an alternative method to x-ray imaging that is safer and uses nothing stronger than radio frequency waves.

Berry is designing an emitter to operate as a light-weight, local oscillator for a terahertz spectroscopy system suitable for use in space.

Oh’s research focuses on designing highly miniaturized planar antennas with vertical polarization and high radiation efficiency.

Moghaddam will oversee the design and fabrication of the AirMOSS instrument, a high-powered, low-frequency radar that NASA/JPL collaborators will build for the project.

SMAP is a satellite mission for mapping surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states for the purpose of scientific advances and societal benefits.

The Fellowship will support Patel’s research on the theory and development of textured electromagnetic surfaces.

The award acknowledges Prof. Jarrahi’s efforts to develop a new generation of compact high power terahertz sources.

The research that will be conducted at the center could lead to more efficient solar cells, finer-featured microchips and new medical tools.

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Thiel’s detection method allows the analysis of human backscattering within a realistic building environment.

For his research, Benson plans to utilize SAR in order to estimate variable vegetated parameters and monitor the planet’s crustal movement.