The AWC academic team at the South China University of Technology, as a satellite group of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA, explores advanced antenna theory and technology for modern wireless communications. The research activities include new design techniques for antennas in mobile and satellite communication systems, phased arrays and smart antennas for radar applications, wireless sensors and RFID technology, electromagnetics and information theory.
Research Projects:
Broadband Omni-Directional Circularly Polarized Antennas supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
A New Type of Broadband Omni-Directional Circularly Polarized Antennas supported by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation.
Mechanisms of Broadband Omni-Directional Circularly Polarized Antennas supported by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education.
Key technology research about microwave UWB chaos-based wireless communications supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China..
New scheme about Multiple access chaos-based communication and its BER performance analysis supported by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation.
Noncoherent Chaos-based digital communications supported by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation.
Awards
Scientific and Technical Achievement Award, Ministry of Education of China, 1996.
Scientific and Technical Achievement Award, Bureau of Education of Zhejiang Province, China, 2000.
NASA Recognition for the creative development of a technical innovation, USA, 2008.
Research Spotlight Award, Georgia Institute of Technology-ECE, USA, 2009.
Patent
Multi-Band Broadband Planar Antennas, US Patent, No. 6917339B2, 2005.
Book Chapters
[1]“Wideband Antennas on Silicon,” The Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, Marcel Dekker, 2005.
[2]“Multiband Planar Wire Antennas,” Multiband Integrated Antennas for 4G Terminals, Artech House, 2008.
[3]“Advanced SOP Components and Signal Processing,”Advanced Integrated Communication Microsystems，Wiley-IEEE Press，2009
Lab Facilities:
1. CST MICROSTRIPES™ antenna design software
2. E8363C PNA Series Microwave Network Analyzer, 10 MHz to 40 GHz
3. Dell Precision Workstation 690 (64bit, 64 GB of RAM)
