Midlands mm-Wave Lab: A versatile electromagnetic characterisation suite for future RF to millimetre-wave communication and sensing systems

Midlands 毫米波实验室：用于未来射频到毫米波通信和传感系统的多功能电磁表征套件

• 批准号: EP/X014118/1
• 负责人: Constantinos Constantinou
• 金额: $ 189.3万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX014118%2F1
• 关键词: Midlands; mm; Wave; Lab; versatile

In the not-too-distant past, antennas were devices which were mounted on a mast or pole and therefore their design and characterisation was independent of their environment e.g. TV broadcast antennas and radar antennas. This paradigm has been superseded in recent decades as antennas are embedded into objects in their immediate environment be those a mobile telephone handset, laptop, or the fuselage of an aircraft or chassis of a car. Future developments dictate that state-of-the-art radio technologies will go beyond the embedding of antennas in their immediate environment by adopting active wave control technologies. Such wave control technologies include the design of new materials, both natural and artificial, having reconfigurable scattering parameters. Experimental work needed to develop, characterise and validate the next generation of antennas in a controlled environment requires a new type of measurement facility which can allow for the simultaneous radiation, near-field and far-field interactions of antennas and objects in their vicinity to be explored. This project will establish such a unique measurement facility which will cover a wide range of frequencies from 900 MHz to 330 GHz. Such a facility will support an exceptionally diverse range of research, including 5G and 6G antennas, internet of things (IoT), conventional and quantum radar, frequency selective surfaces and low-RCS stealth materials, metasurfaces and metamaterials, and electromagnetic sensing across diverse domains ranging from materials science to healthcare research. Such a flexible, integrated and automated measurement facility will extend the current UK capability beyond existing chambers.

在不太遥远的过去，天线是安装在桅杆或杆子上的设备，因此它们的设计和特性与它们的环境无关，例如电视广播天线和雷达天线。近几十年来，这种模式已经被取代，因为天线被嵌入到移动电话、笔记本电脑、飞机机身或汽车底盘等直接环境中的物体中。未来的发展表明，最先进的无线电技术将超越在其直接环境中嵌入天线，采用有源波控制技术。这种波控技术包括设计具有可重构散射参数的自然和人工新材料。在受控环境中开发、表征和验证下一代天线所需的实验工作需要一种新型的测量设施，这种设施可以同时探索天线及其附近物体的辐射、近场和远场相互作用。该项目将建立这样一个独特的测量设施，该设施将覆盖900兆赫至330千兆赫的广泛频率范围。该设施将支持极其多样化的研究，包括5G和6G天线、物联网（IoT）、传统和量子雷达、频率选择表面和低rcs隐身材料、超表面和超材料，以及从材料科学到医疗保健研究等各个领域的电磁传感。这种灵活、集成和自动化的测量设备将使英国的能力超越现有的实验室。

项目成果

Diffuse-Scattering-Informed Geometric Channel Modeling for THz Wireless Communications Systems

• DOI: 10.1109/tap.2023.3307868
• 发表时间: 2023-10
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: L. Azpilicueta;A. Schultze;M. Celaya-Echarri;F. A. Rodríguez-Corbo;C. Constantinou;R. Shubair;F. Fal