Current and Recent Research Projects

EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) Sponsored

• PATRICIAN: New Paradigms for Body Centric Wireless Communications at MM Wavelengths, 2011-2014 (EPSRC, £390,988)
• Smart Antenna Systems for Cooperative Low-Power Wireless Personal and Body Area Networks. 2010-2011 (EPSRC, £120,000)
• EPSRC Platform Grant (£1.2m) for work in “ANTENNAS FOR HEALTHCARE AND IMAGING” 2008 to 2013.
• iRFSim for BSNs (EPSRC: £289,692) Oct 2007 to Sep 2010 (with Imperial College)
• Wearable Antennas (EPSRC: £343,814) April 2007 to March 2009 (with University of Birmingham)
• Electronic BandGap (EPSRC: £48,112) Dec 2006 to Nov 2007
• Spatial Spectrum Analyser (EPSRC: £126,455) March 2006 to Feb 2009
• Gigabit Powerline Communications (EPSRC: £285,928) Nov 2005 to Oct 2008
• Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (EPSRC: £296,112) June 2005 to May 2008
• Photonic Antennas with Integrated Optical Transducers (EPSRC: £174,594) May 2004 to April 2007
• Characterisation of On-Body Communication Channels (EPSRC: £147,658) Aug 2003 to Dec 2006 (with University of Birmingham)
• RF Interactions with Humans; Mechanisms, Exposure & Medical Applications-Travel (EPSRC: £5,617) Feb 2003 to March 2003
• Measuring Wide-angle Antenna Radiation Performance using Multiple Scans from a Small Planar Scanner (EPSRC JERI: £119,000) Jan 2001 to Nov 2002
• Design & Performance Verification of Compact Quasi-optical mm-Wave Systems using Diffracted Gaussian Beam Analysis (EPSRC: £218,000) Jan 2001 to Dec 2004
• Compact Corrugated Horns (EPSRC: £143,817) Nov 2000 to Oct 2002
• Advanced EM Simulation of Multilayer MMICs (EPSRC: £49,000) Sept 1998 to Apr 2002
• Monolithic MM-Submm Wave Active Conical Horn Antenna Arrays (EPSRC: £66,000) Jan 2001 to Dec 2004
• Patch Antenna modelling using FDTD
• The Spherical tri-reflector CATR (EPSRC)
• Advanced Electromagnetic Modelling of Multilayer Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (EPSRC)

Industry Sponsored and Other Projects

• Efficient Integrated Antennas for Wireless Smart Metering Solutions (Onzo, Ltd. - Ongoing Consultancy/Contracted Research )
• Radio Assisted Walking: Wireless BAN for Functional Electrical Stimulators (FES) (ImpactQM & Odstock Medical Ltd., £15,000 - March 2010)
• Innovation China UK (ICUK) Partnership Grant (£15,000) 2009.
• Westfield Trust Award (£5,000) 2008.
• NEAT Project (Department of Health: £31,803) Feb 2008 to Feb 2009
  
• Sensium Digital Plaster Antenna (Toumaz Technologies Limited: £47,635) Sep 2007 to Feb 2008
  
• Dielectric/Dielectric Loaded Antennas (DSTL: £3,000) Aug 2007 to Sept 2007
• Electroporation Using Ultrashort Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (MRC/EPSRC: £8,000) July 2007 to Jan 2008
• Development of handset EMC test box (Sony Ericsson: £18,000) May 2007 to Sep 2007
• Modelling Radio Frequency (DSTL: £75,216) April 2007 to March 2008
• Antenna Modelling-2nd phase (DSTL: £58,000) April 2007 to March 2008
• Researcher Exchange Programme (British Council: £3,891) March 2007 to Jan 2008
• Bluetooth on Body Communication (Sony Ericsson: £17,500) Jan 2007 to July 2007
• Metamaterials Research Project (Roke Manor Research Ltd: £10,000) Dec 2006 to Jan 2007
• Body Propogation Modelling (GE Global Research: £12,772) May 2006 to Dec 2006
• Antenna Modelling (DSTL: £58,000) April 2006 to March 2007
• Dual Polarised Array Antennas (Selex sensors & airborne systems: £15,821) April 2006 to March 2007
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP Programme Office: £70,372) March 2006 to March 2009
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership/E2 (E2V: £90,750) March 2006 to March 2009
• Dielectric Loaded Antennas (DSTL: £30,000) March 2006 to Nov 2006
• Radio Propogation for Wireless Sensor Networks (Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.:£6,753) Feb 2006 to Oct 2006
• New Microwave Metamaterials (Leverhulme Trust: £103,405) Feb 2006 to Jan 2009
• Diffracted Gaussian Beam Analysis (beijing University: £52,318) Jan 2006 to Jan 2009
• Plasma-Field Crossed Field Diode (US Air Force: £54,666) Jan 2006 to Nov 2007
• In-Body Radio Channel Modelling (Philips Research East - Asia: £4,000) Sep 2005 to Nov 2005
• Galileo Advanced Concepts (GAC) (Commission of the European Community: £128,344) June 2005 to June 2007
• Development of Smart Antenna Technology (Ofcom/Brian Collins Assoc/Lucent Technologies: £130,000) March 2005 to Feb 2006
• Provision of an Antenna Sub-System (Mass Consultants Ltd: £60,000) Feb 2005 to Feb 2006
• Modelling of RF Fields (DSTL: £22,000) Sep 2004 to March 2005
• Novel Phase-Locking Technique (PPARC: £171,299) May 2003 to Nov 2006
• Modelling RF Fields in Transmission Line & Brain Slices (DSTL: £22,000) April 2003 to March 2004
• Generation of High Power Chaos (US Air Force: £84,210) March 2003 to April 2006
• Senor Signature Reduction (ERA Technology: £74,609) March 2003 to Aug 2004
• Wave Propagation in NR1-PBGS (The Royal Society: £9,500) Feb 2003 to Feb 2004
• Investigation into Antenna Array Technology (Antenova Ltd: £58,000) Jan 2003 to Dec 2004
• Undergraduate Research Bursary (The Nuffield Foundation: £1,359) June 2002 to Sep 2002
• Conformal grid patch antennas (The ERA Foundation Ltd: £20,000) June 2002 to Nov2002
• Studentship E2V (E2V Technologies: £40,000) Jan 2002 to Dec 2005
• Performance of Earth-Station Antennas in the Presence of Near Field Clutter (BT Exact: £18,500) Feb 2002 to Aug 2002
• Manufacture of Millimetre wave on-chip active array antennas at 90GHz and 500GHz (ESTEC: £25,000)
• The Use of Discrete Green's Function in the FTFD Analysis of Wideband Antennas (BAe Systems: £18,000) Sept 2001 to Sept 2004
• Magnetron Computer Modelling (Marconi Applied Technologies: £20,000) Oct 2001 to Sept 2002
• Active Patch Antenna modelling using FDTD (ESTEC)
• Modelling geodesic radome performance
• Broadband Low Cross-Polarisation Horns
• Radiation characteristics of Small Feeds
• FDTD Antenna Modelling (GEC-Marconi Defence Systems)
• Corner Reflector Antenna
• Earth station antennas and near-field Clutter
• Performance Modelling of Panelled mmCATRs
• Design & Performance Modelling of CATRs
• mm-Wave Antenna Measurements of AMSU-B
• Design of Corrugated Horns
• Tri-Reflector CATR
• RF Chaotic Oscillators and their Applications (QM/KCL)
• Computer Modelling of Virtual Cathode Oscillators (US AFOSR)
• Computer Modelling of Microwave Magnetron (Marconi Applied Technologies Ltd/ Mission Research Corporation, USA)
• Design Principle of Low-SAR Antenna for Mobile Communications Devices
• EM Evanescent Modes
• Controlling Chaos in Plasma-filled Diodes (US AFOSR)
• FD-TD Modelling of RF Cell (Microwave Consultant Ltd / DERA)