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ElectroScience Lab OverviewElectroScience Laboratory

2015 Graduate Student Visit

ElectroScience is one of the oldest, largest and most historic EM/RF

Laboratory in the Country. It is credited for numerous innovations.

• ESL is a world-class research center housed in 2 buildings (60,000+ sqf) in Columbus, OH• One of the oldest & largest RF/Thz/Optics lab. • Comprised of 16 faculty, 14 researchers, 17 post-docs and visitors and 103 students, 12 administrative and support staff.Research Focus:• Antennas, propagation, and wireless comm.• Electromagnetic scattering • Remote sensing and cognitive radio• Radar signal processing and GNSS• Sensor fusion, RFID, RFIC• Terahertz sensing and imaging• Millimeter Waves, Optics and Photonics

The Ohio State University ElectroScience Lab

Covering entire EM spectrum:From RF-to-mmW-to-THz-to-IR-to-Optics

www.electroscience.osu.edu

Terahertz Antennas and Systems300MHz-100GHz Anechoic Chamber

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2 HELIOS THz LaboratoryBridging the gap between Electronics & Photonics with advanced imaging applications

Micro & Nano Fabrication Facilities

RF Hardware and Computational facilities Remote & Cognitive Sensing Radars Medical Sensing & Body Area Networks

with Textile Antennas

Terahertz Antennas and Systems300MHz-100GHz Anechoic Chamber

• ESL is a world-class research center housed in 2 buildings (60,000+ sqft) in Columbus, OH• One of the oldest & largest RF/Thz/Optics labs. • Comprised of 17 faculty, 12 researchers, and 85 graduate and undergrads

Research Focus:• Antennas, propagation, and wireless comm.• Electromagnetic scattering • Remote sensing and cognitive radio• Radar signal processing and GNSS• Sensor fusion, RFID, RFIC• Terahertz sensing and imaging• Optics and Photonics

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ElectroScience LaboratoriesSensing from RF-mmW to THz-Optics

1320-1330 Kinnear RdColumbus, OH 43212

• Invention of model measurement techniques for antennas

• ElectroScience/Antenna Lab) grows to 50 people by 1946

• “Lasers and Applications” symposium in 1962

• TDMA for satellite communication demonstrated

• Wideband and frequency independent antennas introduced

• RCS/Stealth definition & related studies-introduced Radome research

• Polarimetric imaging invented

• Uniform Theory of Diffraction invented

• First ever integral equation solutions

• Compact Range measurement techniques invented

• Finite Element Methods established, and leading to the most popular CAD package in the market

New Initiatives in:

• Commercial Wireless Comm, MIMO Radars, Cognitive Sensing, Compressive

Sensing and Opportunistic Sensing,

• THz technologies, Textiles, Materials and Metamaterials, Photonics/Optics

• Medical Sensing, Security and High data rate secure comm.

Historical Developments

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• AFOSR/AFRL on Metamaterials, Security, Secure GPS, Mixed Signal & RFICs

• AFOSR/AFRL program on Software Radars and Cognitive Sensing

• AFOSR RF textiles

• AFOSR MURI on high power metamaterial RF devices

• AFRL Global Navigation Satellite System Program

• ONR Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting Program

• ONR THz MURI for high speed devices and applications

• DARPA Arrays at Commercial Time Scale

• DARPA Compound Semiconductor Materials on Silicon (COSMOS)

• DARPA Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration

• NASA MIMO radars for earth sensing

• NASA SMAP Mission Science Planning Support

• NASA CYGNSS Mission (First EV-Orbital)

• National Science Foundation: Medical Sensing: Neurosensing, Body Sensing

• National Science Foundation: Time Reversal Imaging

• National Science Foundation RF Systems Program (incoming: Low Power Devices)

– Collaborative industry-university center: Connection One

• Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation and Timekeeping (COUNT)

• THz HELIOS Lab ($3M Lab equipment on imaging, spectroscopy, comm links)

• More than 30 companies having projects with ESL faculty/researchers

• Northrop-Grumman and MIT Lincoln (Fellowships)

Ongoing NSF/NASA/DoD and Industry Programs:

Examples

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Faculty – 16

Chris Baker – Professor

Robert Burkholder – Research Professor

Chi-Chih Chen – Research Associate Professor

Stuart Collins – Faculty Emeritus

Jiti Gupta – Faculty Emeritus

Joel Johnson – Professor, ECE Chair

Waleed Khalil – Associate Professor

Guoqiang Li – Associate Professor

Jin-Fa Lee – Professor

Robert Lee – Professor

Prabhakar Pathak – Professor (Emeritus)

Ronald Reano –Associate Professor

Roberto Rojas – Professor

Kubilay Sertel – Assistant Professor

Fernando Teixeira – Professor

John Volakis – Professor, ESL Director

Researchers – 14

Mark Andrews - Research Associate

Greg Creech – Assistant Director

Sharvil Desai – Senior Research

Associate

Brian Dupaix – Research Scientist

Nima Ghalichechian – Research

Scientist

Asimina Kiourti – Senior Research

Associate

Teh-Hong Lee – Research Scientist

Ronald Marhefka – Senior Research

Scientist (Retiree)

Niru Nahar – Research Scientist

Andrew O'Brien – Senior Research

Associate

Graeme Smith – Research Scientist

Georgios Trichopoulos- Senior

Research Scientist

Eric Walton – Senior Research

Scientist (Retiree)

Caglar Yardim - Research Scientist

Visiting Scholars – 9

Abe Akhiyat

Davide Cataldo

Ayman Eltager

Ming Jiang

Carlos Ivan Paez-Rueda

Jong-Eon Park

Mehmet Taygur

Xuezhe Tian

Xuelian Yu

Post Doctoral Researchers – 8

Elias Alwan

Alexendra Bringer

Jeffrey Chalas

Yasir Karisan

Hongkun Li

Varun Penmatsa

Jeremiah Schley

Yang Shao (off-site)

Administrative Staff & Student Assistant Support – 12

Yesim Anter – Facilities Coordinator

Michelle Diefenbach – Assistant to the Director

Heather Eurez- HR/Fiscal Associate

Jim Moncrief- Electronics Technician

John Puskar-Senior Systems Manager

Ron Terwilliger – System Specialist

Sherry Vogt - Fiscal Administrator

Casimir Hunter – Student Admin Assistant

Hunter Arnold – Student Admin Assistant

Julianna Boerio – Student Admin Assistant

Joshua Groves – Student IT Assistant

Ross Scmittgen– Student IT Assistant

88 graduate, 15 undergrads.

ESL is a Center of Excellence with 164

people.

30 faculty & researchers

12 administrative staff.

Research Assistants– 2

Daron DiSabato

Kevin Lee Scherer

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ESL Count: 164 people/30 Faculty & Researchers/12 support

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FY13/FY14 ESL contributes 10% to CoE & 46%/45% to ECE.

FY12 ESL contributed 11% to CoE & 51.4% to ECE

FY 11 ESL contributed 12.3% to CoE & 57% to ECE

Compared to FY03: ESL was 8.3% of CoE and 38% of ECE.

FISCAL YEAR

Research Funding Over the Years

Year MSc PhD

2000 9 6

2001 16 0

2002 12 5

2003 13 4

2004 8 0

2005 7 11

2006 12 10

2007 10 10

2008 9 11

2009 5 7

2010 5 5

2011 19 16

2012 3 14

OSU-ESL Graduates - Recent Years

2013 8 11

2014 12 8

2014 Awards

Schelkunoff AP

Transactions

Best Paper

Award

IEEE APS

Distinguished

Achievement

Award

Best Paper

Award at USNC/

URSI Meeting,

Boulder, CO

Inspiration Award

from Electronic

Products.

Jin-Fa Lee G. Trichopoulos

2014 Early

Career Innovator

Award; ACES

Fellow.

Kubilay Sertel

Finalist in best

paper competition

at IEEE APS;

ARFTG Roger

Pollard Memorial

Student

Fellowship Award

2014 AMTA

Distinguished

Achievement Award

Allerton best

paper awardAMTA best

paper awardPremium best

paper award by

IET

EMBS best poster

at BRAIN Grand

Challenge

conference

John L. Volakis Teh-Hong Lee Asimina Kiourti

Cosan

Caglayan Elias Alwan Ugur OlgunShubhendu

BhardwajEzdeen

Elghannai Cedric Lee Haksu Moon

Best Paper at

the IEEE

IMWA-Bio

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2015

Presidential

Fellowship

Award

• More than $12M in new equipment

were added over the past 5 years.

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New Investments in Facilities

• New 40,000 ft2 Building (2011)

Overview of ESL Facilities and

Research Activities

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

State of the Art Facilities

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

RFIC Design

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

THz & Millimeter-wave Devices

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

Micro & Nano Fabrication Facilities

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

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Sensing for Guidance and Control

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

Antennas and Arrays

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

RF Measurements

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

Remote Measurements

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

Body Area Networks / Textile RF

Electronics

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

Multiphysics Computations (Design & Development)

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ElectroScience Laboratories

Department of ECE

Electro-optical switches, modulators & sensors

Integrated Optics

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Department of ECE

Medical Sensing

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