Radiofrequency Materials Research at Loughborough University: Inkjet printed antennas, 3D-Printed dielectrics and metamaterials, wearable antennas, phantoms, RFID tags and a few other things
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Radiofrequency Materials Research at Loughborough University: Inkjet printed antennas, 3D-Printed dielectrics and metamaterials, wearable antennas, phantoms, RFID tags and a few other things
Tue, 24/04/2018 - 14:30
Location:
Speaker:
Dr. Will Whittow
Affiliation:
Loughborough University
Synopsis:
This talk will cover some of my research areas relating to antennas and electromagnetics. I appreciate that some of you will not be antenna engineers and I will try to make my talk accessible to non-specialists. The talk will include specific absorption rates, antennas for smart glasses,wearable antennas, phantoms, embroidered antennas, inkjet printed RF structures, RFID tags, 3D-printed dielectrics and lenses.
Biography:
Dr. William Whittow SMIEEE (WW) is a Reader in Radiofrequency Materials in the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering (MEME). After eight years of postdoc experience, he became a Lecturer in 2012 and a Senior Lecturer in 2014. He is Deputy Leader of the LU Communications Research Theme. He has >180 publications, including 58 journal papers and 12 invited papers. His h-Index is 19 with >1,250 citations. He is a named Investigator on EPSRC grants totalling £8.2M (PI: EP/K011383/1; CI: EP/N010493/1, CI: EP/K011383/1; CI: EP/K014137/1; R-CI: EP/I01490X/1). He has successfully led three EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account innovation projects.
He has specialist expertise in RFID tags, Inkjet printing, Wearable antennas, Embroidered antennas, Textile transmission lines, Phantoms, On-body propagation, Specific absorption rate, 3D-Printing, Metamaterials, and Artificial dielectrics. His research publications can be freely downloaded from here: http://publications.lboro.ac.uk/publications/all/collated/elwgw.html
He has given an invited four-day workshop on EM waves in or near the human body in Malaysia (2012); and invited seminars on material characterisation at the European School of Antennas (ESoA) in Greece (2015). His work on covert wearable antennas led to a BAE Systems Innovation Award (2014). He has managed consultancy projects about printed RFID tags (2018). He is a Visiting Researcher at Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France. In addition to collaborating on large research grants, he has extensive management experience as the Coordinating Chair of the Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC) from 2007-2011. He serves as an Associate Editor for Electronics Letters. In 2017, he won the inaugural Women Engineering Society Men As Allies Award for his outreach work. He has an extensive network of influence with 20,500+ Followers on Twitter and 4,300+ Connections on LinkedIn.
w.g.whittow@lboro.ac.uk
@willwhittow