Recent Developments at Heriot Watt:

Antenna Technology for Future Satellite

Communication Systems

Dr. Carolina Mateo-Segura, Assist. Professor

6/04/2017

Outline

Who are we?

Project grants

Partners

Research Activity:

Ground Segment – SOTM

Space Segment

Research Themes

Wireless Communications and Radar: Microwave and Antenna

Engineering Group

Micro and Nano Systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Signal and Image Processing

Institute of Sensors Signals & Systems

Laser sintering 3D printing

4x2 MIMO Testbed

In-house LTCC

Antenna & RF

Prof. Jia-Sheng

HongProf. George

Goussetis

Dr. Dimitris

Anagnostou

Dr. Apostolos

Georgiadis

Dr. Paul

RecordDr. Carolina

Mateo-Segura

Dr. Symon

Podilchak

Post-doc

Dr. Wenxing Tang

Dr. Jia Ni

Dr. C. Constantinidis

Dr. Yu Fu

Visiting scholars

Dr. Jose Gomez-Tornero

Dr. Pavel Turalchuk

Ms. Elham Ebrahimi

Ms. Fatemeh Adibzadeh

Research Staff

Prof. Savvas

Kosmopoulos

(Visiting)

The team

PhD studentsMr. Pak Kwan Loo

Mr. Zhou Zhou

Ms. Maria Lorente

Mr. Ross Aitken

Ms. Laura Hepburn

Mr. Hassan Al Aqil

Mr. Ibrahim Alotaibi

Mr. Salva Mercader

Mr. Jose Garcia

Mr. Giuseppe Salza

Ms. Mª Cañavate

Mr. Alexios Costouri

Mr. Spyros Daskalakis

Ms. Victoria Buendia

Mr. Pascual Hilario

Mr. Samuel Rotenberg

Mr. Rahil Joshi

Dr. Ana

Collado

Six faculty appointments on RF and

Antenna engineering since 2013

2016 Bell Labs Prize Winners (Georgiadis, Goussetis)https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/2016-bell-labs-prize-winners/

2016 EuMC Microwave Prize Winner, London (Podilchak)http://www.eumwa.org/en/european-microwave-week/eumc/prize-winners.html

2015 Best paper award IET Microwave, Antennas Propagation (Georgiadis)http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/premium-awards#2015

2015 URSI Young Scientist Award (Podilchak)http://www.at-rasc.com/call-ys.asp

2014 IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) Distinguished Lecturerhttp://www.ieee-rfid.org/distinguished-lectures/apostolos-georgiadis/

2012 EuCAP Antenna Theory Award (Goussetis)http://www.eucap2012.org/conference/best-paper-award

2011 EuCAP Best Student Paper (Goussetis)http://www.eucap2011.org/files/EuCAP2011_Awards_Finalists.pdf

2011 ESA Young Engineer of the Year (Goussetis)http://cordis.europa.eu/event/rcn/33749_en.html

2009-14 RAEng Research Fellowship (Goussetis)http://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/strategy-and-finance/annual-review-2011-2012

Recent Recognition & Achievements

Live grants of total value £2M, about £1M per annum since 2013

Live/Recent externally funded projects (2016):

EPSRC (2017-19, £700K, HWU £250K) – Smart QV-band gateway management

ESA (TRP, 2017-19, €450K, follow-up project) - Multibeam antenna technology

ESA (TRP, 2016-17, €350K, HWU €100K) – W-band beacon for propagation

QV-LIFT (H2020-COMPET-2016, €3.5M, HWU €350K) – Q/V-band satcom terminals

REVOLVE (H2020-MSCA-ITN, 2017-21, €1.8M) – Radio link in future space systems

DORADA (MC IAPP, 2014-17, Total €1.5M, HWU €1M) – Ka & Q/V-band satcom terminals

iREACT (H2020-MSCA-GF, 2016-19, €350K) – Wireless Power Transmission

CSA-EU (H2020-MSCA-IF, 2017-19, €200K) – Cubesat antennas

STFC (IPS, £100K, 2016) – Power handling in spaceborne filters

Textile Future Forum (£50K, 2016) – Textile antennas for on-body communications

Samsung (GRO, 2015-16, US$100K) – Wireless power transmission

Samsung (GRO, 2016-17, US$100K) – Automotive radar

ESA (TRP, 2015-16, Total €400K,) – Metamaterial flat antenna

ESA (TRP, 2013-15, Total €350K,) – CP Dual Optics PoC

ESA (ARTES 5.1, 2012-14, QUB €100K) – Ku/Ka CP FSS

ESA (TRP 2012-14, QUB €150K) - Liquid Crystals Reconfigurable Systems

ESA (ITI, 2013-15, Total €150K, HWU £31K) - Helical Resonator Filters

ESA (TTD, 2014, Total HWU €39K) – Compact Helical Filters

ESA (TRP, 2014-16, Total HWU €250K) – Miniature IF filters

DSTL (2013-14, HWU £100K) - Miniature RF antennas

Partners

Ground Segment

Projects (SOTM):

DORADA (£1M FP7):

WP1: SSPA WP2: Antennas WP3: Filters

WP4: System architecture & demo

Research agenda

2013: ALPHASAT Q/V band

payload (TDP#5): Europe’s

latest mm-wave civil

communication payload

(launched 2013)

2010: Mobile Very Small

Aperture Terminals (mVSAT):

satellite connection for trains and

airplanes presently in Ku-band

2020: broadband internet on the

move with mm-wave technology

for next generation Q/V-band

mVSAT

Context

Q-BAND TERMINAL @ HWU

Spectrum

Projects (SOTM):

METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS

GRADED INDEX LENS ANTENNABandwidth

Steerability

Solution proposed by HWU hybrid solution between Kymeta and

Phasor Tech products

Patent filed – Scottish

Enterprise (Spin Out)

Space Segment

Projects:

REVOLVE (£1.8M H2020): 7 PhDs

MULTIBEAM ANTENNA TECHNOLOGIES

• ESA Young Engineer of the year (2011)

• 1 patent filing in progress

Frequency

dispersive

designs for

payload

Quasi-optical

actuated

beamformers

Beamformers for

compact and

highly efficient

feeds

Graded index

optical

techniques

Reconfigurable

reflectarray

using

mechanical

techniques

Advanced

synthesis of

reflectarray

Deployable

structures

for antennas

• Polariser:

• FSS

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Projects:

LIQUID CRYSTALS RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS

M3MSAT CUBESAT ANTENNA

EuCAP 2012 Best Antenna Paper

Q&A