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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
3D THz Imager
THz Realtime
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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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End of Cold War
Industrial Funding
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ESL Count: 164 people/30 Faculty & Researchers/12 support
staff.
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
2014
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
Cognitive Sensing
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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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ElectroScience Laboratories
Department of ECE
Medical Sensing
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