Exploring electromagnetic modes, metasurfaces and circular-polarization mechanisms to develop compact, broadband and high-performance antenna systems.
My research focuses on understanding the electromagnetic mechanisms responsible for antenna radiation and using this physical insight to guide the development of metasurface, circularly polarized and advanced antenna systems.
Characteristic Mode Analysis provides a physics-based framework to interpret modal currents, eigenvalue behaviour, resonance and radiation. This modal understanding is then combined with full-wave simulation, optimization, fabrication and experimental validation.
Novel antenna architectures for controlling electromagnetic modes, bandwidth, polarization and radiation characteristics.
Investigation of modal radiation to reveal the underlying physical behaviour of antenna structures.
Engineering orthogonal modes and their relative amplitude and phase conditions to obtain broadband and high-quality circular polarization.
Compact, reconfigurable and high-performance antennas for emerging wireless, satellite and space communication platforms.
A research workflow that connects electromagnetic interpretation with practical antenna development.
Electromagnetic structure definition
Eigencurrents and eigenvalues
Radiation mechanism identification
Mode control
Feed integration and optimization
Fabrication and measurement
Reactive loading can reshape the modal behaviour of a metasurface aperture, providing additional control over modal resonance, relative phase and broadband circular-polarization conditions.
Characteristic Mode Analysis separates a complex antenna structure into its natural current modes. Tracking these modes across frequency helps identify resonance, radiation potential and modal interactions before the feeding structure is introduced.
One characteristic mode provides the first linearly polarized field component.
A second mode provides the orthogonal electric field component required for CP generation.
Balanced modal amplitudes with approximately quadrature phase produce a rotating field vector.
Current work is directed toward deeper modal interpretation and controllable electromagnetic surfaces for next-generation antenna systems.
Conditioning characteristic-mode behaviour over an extended frequency range.
Exploring distributed reactance control through engineered elements.
Understanding the modal conditions required for stringent axial-ratio performance.
Combining bandwidth, polarization and radiation control within low-profile structures.
CST Studio Suite and Altair FEKO for antenna, characteristic-mode and radiation analysis.
MATLAB and Python for modal tracking, trajectory analysis and electromagnetic data processing.
Practical fabrication of planar antenna and metasurface structures for experimental validation.
Impedance, axial-ratio and radiation measurements for comparison with numerical predictions.
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