Facilities

Antenna Measurement Laboratory

The Group’s philosophy in antenna design has always been high quality electromagnetic modelling supported by high quality measurements and over its 40 year history it has built an extensive Antenna Measurement Laboratory (AML) which now covers the frequency band from 500MHz to 345GHz. Supported by three full-time technical staff: Dr Dubrovka (CAD/CAM Antenna Engineering Manager), Mr Dupuy (Lab manager) and Mr Tony Stone (Workshop Manager), the facility is arguably one of the most comprehensive in a European university and includes:

• Microwave Compact Antenna Test Range (CATR)
• Millimetrewave CATR
• Modular Quasi-Optical Test Bench
• Mobile Antenna EMC Screened Anechoic Chamber
• General Purpose Anechoic Chamber
• NSI Planar Near-Field Antenna Measurement Scanner
• EMC Test Chamber
• Body-Centric Wireless Sensor Lab
• Clean-Room and Circuit Printing Facilities (QM Physics Department)

Mechanical Workshop

An extensive mechanical workshop is associated with the AML providing most of the Group’s prototype manufacturing needs including a developing CAD/CAM capability supported by:

• NC milling machine
• NC lathe machine
• NC PCB plotter

Software

The Group has a range of in-house developed antenna design software as well as commercial CAD/CEM and CAD/CAM software including:

• Agilent ADS
• Ansoft HFSS
• FEKO
• CST – Microwave Studio
• Wireless InSite
• GRASP 8.0
• Autodesk Inventor 11
• Mastercam X2
• CircuitCAM Board Master

For enquiries about these facilities, contact John Dupuy (Antenna Laboratory Manager) or Dr. Rostyslav Dubrovka (CAD/CAM Antenna Engineering Manager)