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THINGS STUDENTS DO AT THE OSU ESL ERIC K. WALTON 2011 AMTA DENVER

The Ohio State University ElectroScience Lab Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Columbus, Ohio 43212-1191 http://www.ece.osu.edu/~volakis. THINGS STUDENTS DO AT THE OSU ESL ERIC K. WALTON 2011 AMTA DENVER. ElectroScience is within the ECE Dept. at OSU (Prof. Yuan Zheng, Dept. Chair).

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THINGS STUDENTS DO AT THE OSU ESL ERIC K. WALTON 2011 AMTA DENVER

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  1. The Ohio State University ElectroScience Lab Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Columbus, Ohio 43212-1191 http://www.ece.osu.edu/~volakis THINGS STUDENTS DO AT THE OSU ESL ERIC K. WALTON 2011 AMTA DENVER

  2. ElectroScience is within theECE Dept. at OSU(Prof. Yuan Zheng, Dept. Chair) • 51 Faculty members (No. 14 in size) • 900 Undergraduate students (OSU has 50,000 students) • 340 Graduate students (no. 15/16 in M.Sc./Ph.D graduation) • $6.7 M instructional budget • $~17.5 M Research Expenditure in 2002-2003 (among top 4) • Areas: RF and Electromagnetics, Solid State & Electronic Mat., Controls Intelligent Transportation, Mixed Signals, VLSI, Comm. Systems & Wireless, Computer Vision, Networking,

  3. UNDERGRAD TEAM(RADAR SENSOR TO DETECT IED’S)

  4. EXAMPLES OF RECENT PROJECTS WE ARE DEVELOPING A SATELLITE ANTENNA FOR A ROBOT SUBMARINE

  5. EXAMPLES OF RECENT PROJECTS WE MADE AN ANTENNA OUT OF PLASMA GAS (IT GLOWS IN THE DARK!)

  6. EXAMPLES OF RECENT PROJECTS WE MADE THERMAL PICTURES OF THE HEAT PATTERNS ON THE BACK WINDOW OF AN AUTOMOBILE EATER GRID TURNED ON)

  7. STATE OF THE ART  COMPACT RANGE

  8. GLAUCOMA RESEARCH INTERESTING INTERFEROMETER TARGETS

  9. VEHICLE ANTENNA TESTING

  10. EXAMPLES OF RECENT PROJECTS MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF AUTOMOBILE ANTENNAS

  11. STUDENT PROJECTGENERATE PLANE WAVE IN “BOX” UNDERGRAD

  12. Department of Electrical Engineering ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • The ElectroScience Laboratory is a major Center of Excellence in the College of Engineering. • Graduated over 325 Ph.Ds. and Over 500 M.Sc. Degrees • Graduate 17 Ph.Ds/M.Sc. degrees per year ________________________________________________

  13. NEW BUILDING (MOVED IN; SEP. 2011 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  14. STATE OF THE ARTCOMPACT RANGE

  15. INTERESTING RADAR TEST TARGETS LARGE SMALL

  16. STILLS FROM THROUGH WALL MOVIE

  17. OPTICS AND MICROELECTRONICS

  18. OSU-ESLAccurate analysis and measurement tools Concealed source

  19. RF Components Integrated RF, MEMS switches Printed Antennas and FSS OSU-ESL Research Activity Radar Scattering from airborne and ground vehicles On Board System Evaluation Miniature sensor arrays Reconfigurable and Multifunctional RF antenna apertures, Antennas on Ships and Structures RF on ceramics

  20. OSU-ESL Research Activity Biological RF Interference down to device and digital systems logic Wireless indoor Comm. MRI Imaging, Wireless receivers Multiphysics modeling and design for RF MEMS switches

  21. New Radar Technologies New radar technology to expand operational frequency to 100GHz and improve accuracy of future compact ranges.

  22. Major effort inlarge scale simulations CEM is an enabling capability in all RF systems design pursuits

  23. (k) 3D crystal 0 k k0 k1 Non-reciprocal media Forward incidence(the frozen mode regime) Large wave amplitude enhancement and wave slow down New Materials for Antennasand RF Devices • Multisciplinary Univ. • Research Initiative (MURI) • Program, started • 1 July 2004 • Air Force and ONR support 3D crystal that ‘grow’ fields Magnetic Photonic Crystals MPC

  24. Radiometric Systems • Interference monitoring and suppression sensors • flown onboard NASA's P-3 aircraft in the Japanese "Wakasa Bay" mission; Pluto Probe Antenna

  25. Imaging Radars Subsurface Radars Indoor Wireless Propagation Models for 3G Data Networks RFICs Urban Wireless Propagation

  26. Array multifuncationality/beam steering using RF MEMS Switch-Based Phase Shifter L-Band (1-2 GHz) Communication X-Band (8-12.5 GHz) Communication signal • Patch Antenna Array output Switch Package Ground-Moving Target l/16 l/8 l/4 RF MEMS Switch Reconfigurable Wireless Systems/Sensors l/8 l/4 l/2 • DC Contact RF MEMS Switches to be integrated with miniature antenna array to achieve a reconfigurable wireless system with wide frequency band capability (1 – 40 GHz) • RF MEMS switches can achieve • low power consumption (10-100 nJ per cycle) • very low insertion loss (~0.1dB) • high isolation (20~60dB)

  27. Wireless Sensors Combining Microfluidics, and RF Microsystems (with Prof. Hansford, Ohio State Univ, Materials Science Dept.)

  28. QUESTIONS? Study EM and see the world! DR. ERIC K. WALTON THE OHIO STATE UNIV. ELECTROSCIENCE LAB. 1320 KINNEAR ROAD COLUMBUS, OH Walton.1@osu.edu (GO AHEAD; EMAIL ME QUESTIONS)

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