Antennas, scattering and coupling
Antennas and electromagnetic scattering is two quite wide and very
interesting subjects. One remarkable result is the recently derived
fundamental limitations on antennas which are based in a scattering
perspective. These sum-rule results are a new and interesting research area.
In addition to these more fundamental behavior, we have recently studied
several configurations of antenna and antenna scattering including
curvilinear radomes, element position perturbations for the
design of satellite antennas. As well as problems around communication
antennas. In 2013 we discovered the array figure of merit that connects bandwidth, reflection coefficient, scan-range and structural parameters. It is a size-independent way to compare and to predict e.g. bandwidth behavior for array antennas over a ground plane. This research is tightly coupled with mathematical knowledge, and hence with the 2014-2019 SSF project on applied mathematics. The work on the array antennas has resulted in a best student paper for my PhD student Christos Kolitsidas. Over the last few years we have also studied stored energies for antennas, with the goal to bound the quality factor of small antennas, see Stored energies. Q-based bounds on periodic arrays has been derived and published 2019-2021.
Another set of works under this headline also includes direction of arrival with H. Frid, MIMO-cubes and energy harvesting with C. Kolitsidas and B. Mouris. A fun and useful tool in the context of arrays is the recently developed visualization of mutual coupling, 2018, 2021, 2022.