Antenna Array Design and Microwave System Integration for Retrodirective Wireless Power Transmission and Rad
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Antenna Array Design and Microwave System Integration for Retrodirective Wireless Power Transmission and Rad
Fri, 31/05/2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
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Speaker:
Pascual D. Hilario Re
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University
Synopsis:
Wireless power transmission (WPT) and automotive radar are emerging topics which have attracted a lot of interest in the past few years. The development of these systems usually brings high associated costs if competitive performance is required. The first part of the talk is concerned with the development of a retrodirective antenna array (RDA) system for WPT which uses sub-arrays in transmit to save costs.
On the other hand, the second part of the talk relates to the development of two important elements within a frequency-modulated-continuous-wave (FMCW) automotive radar working at 24 GHz: a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) butler matrix antenna array as the transmitter and a new post-processing technique called Pwr+. These two in combination bring some interesting advantages in terms of angular resolution improvements when compared to conventional single-input-multiple-output (SIMO) radars.
Biography:
Pascual D. Hilario Re was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1990. He received the B.Eng. degree in telecommunications engineering in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in 2015, both from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT). He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. His research interests include analysis and design of power amplifiers, far-field wireless power transmission using retrodirective systems with application on energy harvesting for electronic devices, antenna array design and radar.