Seminar title：Smart Antennas for Satellite Communications on the Move

Lecturer：Prof. Steven GaoUniversity of Kent, U.K.

Organizer：Prof. Binjie Hu

Time: Friday, April 14th, 2017, 10:00-11:30

Venue: Lecture Hall, Shaw Building of Humanities, Wushan Campus

Abstract：

Electronically beam-steerable smart antenna is the key technology for Satellite communications On The Move (SOTM) at both Ka and Ku frequency bands.  SOTM is important for achieving high-speed wireless connections between satellites and mobile terminals such as air planes, high-speed trains, ships, etc. This talk will discuss the recent development of antennas for SOTM. Then, some examples of smart antennas for SOTM, developed at the University of Kent in collaboration with partners internationally, will be shown and the results are discussed. A conclusion and future look are given in the end.

Biography：

Steven Gao (M’01–SM’16) is currently a Professor and the Chair of RF and Microwave Engineering with the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He has authored or co-authored two books including Space Antenna Handbook (Wiley, 2012) and Circularly Polarized Antennas (IEEE-Wiley, 2014), and over 200 papers. He holds several patents. His current research interests include smart antennas, phased arrays, MIMO, satellite antennas, RF/microwave/mm-wave circuits, satellite communications, UWB radars, synthetic-aperture radars, and mobile communications. Prof. Gao is a Fellow of the IET, U.K. He was the General Chair of LAPC 2013, and a Keynote Speaker or Invited Speaker with some international conferences, such as AES’2014, China, IWAT’2014, Sydney, SOMIRES’2013, Japan, and APCAP’ 2014, China. He is an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer, an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, an Associate Editor of the Radio Science, and the Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Book Series on Microwave and Wireless Technologies.