The Antennas & Electromagnetics Research was established in 1968 with a mission of:
High Quality Research backed up by High Quality Measurements.
In the past 50 years, the centre has been at the heart of technology and innovation in antennas and electromagnetics, collaborating with academic and industrial partners working nationally and globally.
Its research output has made a significant impact to the UK through developing new technologies, supply chains and job creation through spinout activities.
The group consists of 12 academic staff, 8 postdocs and over 50 PhD students. The group, established in 1968, has an international reputation for microwave and THz research including feed and reflector systems for satellite communications, passive and active radar antenna arrays, body centric wireless antennas and propagation, metamaterials, bio-electromagnetics, and recently THz devices and antenna & EM metrology. Antenna Metrology has been a constant research thread throughout the groups history having built an extensive Antenna Measurement Laboratory (AML) including several major antenna test ranges and electromagnetic characterisation facilities, covering the whole RF to THz frequency bands, from 400MHz to 3THz. Supported by 3 full-time professional staff, the facility is arguably one of the most comprehensive among European universities, supporting both industry and academia. QMUL has provided strong infrastructure support through:
Plus, in 2018 an EPSRC Strategic Equipment grant for a millimetrewave (40-500GHz) NSI/MI spherical near-field test system and Nanoscribe 200nm resolution 3D printer (TERRA, EP/S010009/1, £1.2m).
Interdisciplinary research interfacing with materials, physics and chemistry, life sciences and medicine has led to new transformative research ideas and clearly shapes its grant portfolio. The group has strong links with industry and its work has raised the international status of UK antenna research attracting many citations and a number of patents (several with BAE Systems). The group has doubled its size over the last 6 years by attracting talented ECR’s, who, in turn, extend our portfolio of research to: THz spectroscopy for space exploration (Ioppolo); power electronics and battery control technology for Green Energy (Mehran); digital manufacturing of antennas via 3D printing (Castles); and 5G wireless communications (Kelly and Qin). The group has hosted research fellows from the Royal Society and EPSRC. The group has a current active grant portfolio of over £7M.
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