Dr Atiqur Rahman

Contact Details

Title: Research Assistant
Tel: Internal: [13] 5542
National: 020 7882 5542
International: +44 20 7882 5542
Fax: National: 020 7882 7997
International: +44 20 7882 7997
Email: atiqur.rahman@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Room: Eng 356

Research Group: Antenna & Electromagnetics Research Group

Project title: Nano-particles for Biosensing and Imaging

Biography

Received BSc degree in electrical and electronic engineering from BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh and later on joined Queen Mary where he completed his MSc and PhD degrees in 2006 and 2010 respectively. He has been working as a postdoctoral research assistant under EPSRC platform grant since July 2010. His research interest includes metamaterial based leaky-wave antenna (LWA), metamaterial inspired antenna, small planar UWB antenna, Wire medium and its application in imaging, application of metallic nanorod for biosensing and imaging, artificial birefringent material etc. Mr. Rahman was a recipient of EPSRC project scholarship and ORSAS award during his PhD studies.

Publications

Substantial Journal Papers

1. A. Rahman, Y. Hao, Y. Lee and C. G. Parini, ’Effect of unit-cell size on the performance of composite right/left-handed transmission line based leaky-wave antenna’, Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 13, 19th June 2008.
2. A. Rahman, Y. Hao and C. G. Parini, ’Cross-polar component suppression of interdigital-capacitor and stub-inductor based leaky-wave antenna’. Electronics Letters, Vol 45, No. 1, 1st January 2009.
3. A. Rahman, P. A. Belov, M. Silveirinha, C. Simovski, Y. Hao, C. G. Parini, ‘Role of Fabry-Perot resonance and shielding in subwavelength imaging performance of multiwire endoscopes’. Applied Physics Letters 94, 031104, 2009.
4. A. Alomainy, A. Sani, A. Rahman, J. G. Santas, Y. Hao, ‘Transient Characteristics of Wearable Antennas and Radio Propagation Channels for Ultra Wideband Body-Centric Wireless Communications’, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. April 2009.
5. A. Rahman, P.A. Belov, Y. Hao, C. G. Parini, ‘Periscope-like endoscope for transmission of a near-field in infra-red region’ Opt. Lett. Vol. 35, Iss. 2, pp. 142-144 (2010). Also selected by Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics.
6. A. Rahman, P. A. Belov and Y. Hao , ‘Tailoring array of Ag nanorods for subwavelength imaging of arbitrary coherent sources’, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 82, pp. 113408 (1-4), 2010.
7. A. Rahman, Y. Hao and C. Parini,’ Subwavelength image splitter with a metallic wire array’,  Phys. Rev. B, vol. 82, pp. 153102 (1-4), 2010.
8. P.A. Belov, A.Rahman, and S.Yu. Kosulnikov, “Optimal parameters of metallic nanorods arrays for subwavelength imaging”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7754, pp. 77541E(1-6), 2010.
9. P. A. belov, G. K. Palikaras, Y. Zhao, A. Rahman, C. R. Simovski, Y. Hao, C. Parini,’Experimental demonstration of multi-wire endoscopes capable of manipulation near-field with subwavelength resolution’, (accepted App. Phys. Lett.)
10. Xiao Dong Yang, A. Rahman, Qammer H. Abbasi, Y. Hao,’ Electrically coupled Tapered Slot Antenna with Tunable Notch’, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2011 (accepted).
11. A. Rahman, et al, ‘Subwavelength optical imaging with an array of silver nanorod’, Accepted by the Journal of Nanophotonics, 2011. (Invited)

Refereed Conference Contributions

1. A. Rahman, Y. Hao, C. G. Parini, ‘Reduction of undesired lobes in composite right/left handed transmission line (CRLH-TL) based leaky-wave antenna’, Metamaterial congress, Pamplona, Spain, 21-23 October, 2008.
2. A. Rahman, Y. Lee, Y. Hao and C. G. Parini, ‘Limitations in bandwidth and unit cell size of composite right-left handed transmission line based leaky wave antenna’, The 2nd European conference on antenna and propagation, EuCAP 2007, 11-16 November, 2007, Edinburgh, U.K.
3. A. Rahman, Y. Hao and C. G. Parini, ‘On the synthesis of composite right-left hand transmission line based leaky-wave antenna’, Metamaterial congress, 21-23 October, 2007, Rome Italy.
4. A. Rahman, Y. Hao and C. G. Parini, ‘A fast efficient design technique for CRLH-TL based leaky-wave antennas’, Metamaterial seminar, 20-24 August, 2007, Belfast, U.K.
5. A. Rahman,  A. Alomainy and Y. Hao, ‘Compact body-worn coplanar waveguide fed antenna for UWB body-centric wireless communications’, The 2nd European conference on antenna and propagation, EuCAP 2007, 11-16 November, 2007, Edinburgh, U.K
6. A. Rahman and Y. Hao, ‘A novel tapered slot CPW-fed antenna for ultra-wideband applications and its on/off body performance’, International Workshop on Antenna Technology, iWAT 2007, 21–23 March, 2007, Cambridge, UK.
7. P.A. Belov, G. Palikaras, Y. Zhao, A. Rahman, R. Dubrovka, C.R. Simovski,Y. Hao, C. Parini 'Magnification and demagnification with subwavelength resolution by hyperlenses from arrays of metallic wires', The 3rd international congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics. 30th Aug - 4th Sept 2009, London, UK.
8. A. Rahman, P. Belov, Y. Hao and C. G. Parini, ‘Transmission of a nearfield in the infrared range by means of a periscope like endoscope’, Metacongress 2010 (accepted).
9. C. Argyropoulos, E. Kallos, A. Rahman and Y. Hao, ‘Parallel FDTD study of plasmonic nanolens’, Plasmonics UK meeting, London, 10 May 2010.
10. C. Argyropoulos, A. Rahman and Y. Hao, ‘Accurate and efficient modeling of plasmonic structure’, Metallic metamaterial and plasmonics meeting, 2-3 June 2010, U.K.
11.  P. A. belov, S.Yu. Kosulnikov, A. Rahman, “Optimal parameters of metallic nanorods arrays for sub-wavelength imaging”, Proc. of Days on Diffraction’2010, p. 97, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 8-11, 2010.