Jean Paul Santos, Prof. Rahmat-Samii, and I were invited to write a feature article for a news featured on an online news organization sourced from the academic and research community, The Conversation. Through a collaboration with JPL engineers, we were able to prototype a 4×4 subarray antenna with excellent measured results, potentially allowing its use for the upcoming Mars2020 mission. This was a great opportunity to publicize our work, considering that The Conversation website has an annual...

The annual IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (IEEE APS) conference was held in Vancouver, BC, Canada for the year 2015. While I was excited about travelling to an awesome city with great latte's, I was even more excited about presenting some of my recent work on CP antenna designs. The grand challenge inherent to CP antennas is to satisfy two performance requirements simultaneously. Antenna engineers describe these performance parameters as impedance matching and axial...

I am excited to announce my latest journal paper entitled "Design and Implementation of Broadband MEMS RHCP/LHCP Reconfigurable Arrays Using Rotated E-Shaped Patch Elements" with co-authors Harish Rajagopalan and Yahya Rahmat-Samii. This paper describes our development of a wideband antenna design that can switch between right-handed and left-handed circular polarization states, increasing the antenna flexibility for remote terminal applications.  Our design used the E-shaped patch antenna t...

Over the last year, I have been collaborating with Prof. Rahmat-Samii on a project with JPL related to the characterization of radiation in the near field zone of large antennas, such as reflector dish antennas. Our goal was to quantify the absolute magnitudes of the electric field distributions in their respective V/m values. Our approach relies on the spectral theory of radiation, which has often been termed the Plane Wave Expansion technique. The beauty of this approach is that one can relate...