New Antenna and Feeding Configurations based on Surface-waves and Leaky-waves for Microwave Frequencies
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New Antenna and Feeding Configurations based on Surface-waves and Leaky-waves for Microwave Frequencies
Wed, 05/06/2019 - 15:00 to 16:00
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Speaker:
Victoria Gomez-Guillamon Buendia
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University
Synopsis:
The fast development in communications systems such as radars, satellites, sensors, medical imaging, etc., is resulting in an increased demand for efficient and compact antenna designs that can satisfy the high data throughput requirements. Leaky-wave antennas can be a very interesting solution for the different issues encountered in modern day communications. By using different leaky-wave implementations, such as partial reflective surfaces or Fabry-Perot cavities, in parallel with modern technologies such as substrate integrated waveguide or substrate integrated image guide more efficient, low-cost and simpler designs can be achieved. These proposed structures may be alternatives to more conventional designs which are not able to satisfy the high data requirements of modern communication systems.
Biography:
Victoria Gomez-Guillamon Buendia was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1990. 0. She received the Telecommunications Engineer degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain, in 2015. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., where she joined, in 2015, as an International Research Student under a COST short-term scientific mission and was involved in the development of an in-flight wireless communication system for aircraft. Her current research interests include the analysis and design of planar leaky-wave antennas and surface-wave launchers for microwave frequencies in different planar technologies, such as microstrip, parallel-plate waveguides, substrate integrated waveguides, dielectric, and substrate integrated image guides.