Retrodirective antennas at QUB – what have we done, and where to next?
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Retrodirective antennas at QUB – what have we done, and where to next?
Thu, 23/05/2024 - 14:00 to 15:30
Location:
Speaker:
Dr. Neil Buchanan
Affiliation:
Queen’s University Belfast
Synopsis:
Dr Neil Buchanan has spent a large proportion of his career working on retrodirective antennas. In this talk he highlights on why this type of antenna is so fascinating and has demonstrated so many features not seen on other types of phased arrays. This includes the ability to compensate for multipath, enhanced transmission through brick walls, satellite communication from very unstable platforms, space launch vehicle comms, angle of arrival detection, ultrafast radar, physical layer security, wireless power transmission (WPT) to drones and potentially wireless power transmission from space.
Biography:
Neil Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Wireless Innovation, Queens University Belfast. His research interests include Wireless power transfer, self-steered (retrodirective) antenna systems for space applications. He is currently a Principal Investigator on the space solar wireless power transmission project “CASSIOPeiA Antenna with Steering Scaled Indoor Experiment (CASSIE)”, funded by the UK BEIS/UKSA and project managed by Satapps Catapult. He has successfully completed five ESA funded projects in the areas of retrodirective antennas for Satcom and launch vehicle antennas. He has published over 100 papers and was awarded the GSMA “Mobile World Scholar Award” Gold prize, presented at the 2018 Mobile World Congress, for outstanding research into 5G self-steered antenna technologies. He is also a previous holder of the ESA Young Antenna Engineer Prize in Oct 2010 for outstanding work in retrodirective Satcom antennas. He is passionate about commercialization of research and has held CTO positions in University spin out companies, winning a local entrepreneurial award (Northern Ireland Science Park 25k awards) in 2011 for “Flish, the flat satellite dish company”.