Tunable topological metasurfaces and applications on microwave/millimetre-wave antennas and circuits for future mobile and satellite communications.

该项目将为毫米波和次太赫兹系统开发可调谐拓扑超材料的新设计和实际实现，并探索其在未来通信系统（6G及以上）、自动驾驶汽车和航空航天平台（如飞机和无人机）等领域的应用。将研究新的调谐技术，并根据伯明翰大学的现有设施以及世界领先的制造设施和由工业合作伙伴提供的专业知识开发实用原型，该合作伙伴还将支持博士生的实习。重点将放在易于制造的实用超材料设计的发展，考虑到现实材料的影响和易于制造的几何形状。

The project will develop novel designs and practical implementations of tunable topological metamaterials for millimetre-wave and sub-Terahertz systems and explore their applications in areas such as future communication systems (6G and beyond), autonomous vehicles and aerospace platforms such as aircrafts and UAVs. Novel tuning technologies will be studied and practical prototypes will be developed based on existing facilities at the University of Birmingham as well as world leading fabrication facilities and expertise provided by an industrial collaborator who will also support an internship for the PhD student. Emphasis will be given to the development of easy to fabricate practical metamaterial designs that take into account the effect of realistic materials and easy to fabricate geometries.