The Antenna Laboratory in the ECE Department is a small-scale laboratory

with emphasis on numerical optimization and prototyping of

selected antenna types

The laboratory invites interested domestic and international students to apply for a graduate study

in the areas of antenna modeling and design.   

Ongoing and Past Graduate/UG Projects:

MATLAB Antenna Toolbox (2002-2005 NSF)

Toolbox link (2005)

Precision Personnel Locator (2006- PPL)

UHF CP dipoles with a balun (2006)

UHF wideband linear dipole with a balun (2006)

Foam-based PIFA at 440 and 600 MHz (2006)

Foam-based PIFA at 440 MHz (2005)

Corner reflector at 440 MHz (2005)

GPS Wideband Base Station Antennas  (2006- PSI, Inc.)

Bowtie droopy turnswtile for L5, L2 with a balun (2007)

Bowtie droopy turnswtile for L5, L2 with a balun (2006)

Bowtie turnstiles over a conical ground plane (2006)

Ring Resonator for Dielectric Constant Measurements (2005-2007 MCT, Inc. )

Ring resonator for eps measurement - FR4 (2005)

Foams - suspended ring resonator on FR4 (2005)

Active Antenna (2004-2005)

Active antenna project (2004)

Selected Senior Undergraduate Projects:

1.Kaswarra, Quddus  (interim report - B term 2006)

2. Thomas, Kondel  (900 MHz wireless link) 2005

3. Mathew, Sethi , Abramson, Kashef, Gendron (PANSAT patch antennas)  2003-2004 (together with Profs. Looft, Michalson, Labonte)

4. Berezin, Kulbacka, Cantara (900 MHz Scanning Array) 2002-2003 (Supported by  MIT Haystack Observatory, IEEE UG Antennas and Propagation Society Scholarship)

Some Recent Publications:

[1].  S. Makarov and R. Ludwig, “Impedance bandwidth of a wire dipole with the split-coaxial balun,”

       IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, under review, 2006.

[2]. I. Waldron, S. N. Makarov, S. Biederman, and R. Ludwig, "Suspended Ring Resonator for

       Dielectric Constant Measurement of Foams,"

       IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 16, Issue 9, Sept. 2006, pp. 496 - 498.

[3]. S. N. Makarov, S. D. Kulkarni, A. G. Marut, and L. C. Kempel, "Method of moments solution for

      a printed patch/slot antenna on a thin finite dielectric substrate using the volume integral equation,"

      IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-54, no. 4, pp. 11174-1184, April 2006.

[4]. S. Kulkarni, S. Uy, R. Lemdiasov, R. Ludwig, and S. Makarov, “MoM VIE solution for an isolated metal-dielectric resonator with the zeroth-order edge-based basis functions,”

     IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-53, no. 4, pp. 1566-1571, April 2005.

[5]. S. Kulkarni, R. Lemdiasov, R. Ludwig, and S. Makarov, “Comparison of two sets of low-order basis functions

      for tetrahedral VIE modeling,”

     IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-52, no. 10, pp. 2789-2795, Oct. 2004.

[6]. S. Makarov, Antenna and EM Modeling with Matlab, Wiley, New York, 2002, 287 p., ISBN: 0471218766

Antenna and EM Modeling with MATLAB (book)

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