Title: Devices and Applications for the millimeter wave and terahertz band
Abstrat: The millimeter wave and terahertz bands are associated with several attractive applications, including spectroscopic identification, security, non-destructive imaging and wideband proximity wireless communications. However, exploitation of the terahertz band is still at its infancy. Recently, Ohio State acquired several sub-terahertz and terahertz equipment for signal generation, spectroscopy, imaging, testing and evaluation of components and systems. In this presentation, we will review millimeter wave and terahertz developments as relates to sources, communications, and imaging. Unique equipment set-ups will be presented along with demonstrations that exploit the potential these bands for near-zone communications, imaging and security.
Speaker:
JOHN L. VOLAKIS
R. & Chope Chair Professor, Electrical & Computer Eng.,
The Ohio State University
Director, ElectroScience Laboratory
Education:
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, September 1982
M.Sc., The Ohio State University, December 1979
B.E., Summa Cum Laude, Youngstown State University, June 1978
Email: volakis.1@osu.edu, Website: http://esl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~volakis/
2012 IEEE Institute article on bio/career: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/people/profiles/john-volakis-uncharted-waters
Academic and Professional Appointments:
Chope Chair Professor, The Ohio State Univ., ECE Dept., Columbus, OH, 2003 - Present
Director, ElectroScience Laboratory, 2003 – Present (26 faculty & researchers, 140 people and $12.5M in external funding)
Professor, Dept. of Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994 - 2003.
Director, Radiation Lab., Dept. of Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, 1998 -2000.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, 1989 – 1994.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Elec. Eng. & Comp. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, 1984 -1989.
Rockwell International, North American Aircraft Operations (now Boeing), Columbus, OH, 1982 – 1984.
The Ohio State Univ., Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ElectroScience Lab, 1978 – 1982.
Volakis has published over 330 refereed journal papers and nearly 650 conference papers, 8 books, and 23 book chapters. In 2004, he was listed among the top 250 most referenced scientists in Computer Science/Engineering; Mentored nearly 80 Ph.Ds and Post-Docs over the past 30 yrs; 23 of his students received best paper awards at conferences;
Google h-index in Sept. 2013: 45 (>9100 citations); i10-index=214
ISI h-index in Sept. 2013: 30 (>3800 citations)
Honors, Awards and other Professional Activities:
- President, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 2004
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Fellow, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
- Endowed Chair Professor at The Ohio State University
- 23 best paper awards between 2002-2012.
- Research (1998) & Service Excellence(2002) Awards, Univ. of Michigan College of Engineering
- Scott College of Engr. career award for teaching/research/service, Ohio State 2010.
- IEEE Chen-To Tai Distinguished Education Award, 2011(given to a single individually annually)
- IEEE Henning Distinguished Mentoring award (2013), given annually for exemplary service in mentoring young engineers to advance careers in the RF/Microwave and/or Wireless Engineering
Books and Selected Relevant Publications:
1. L. Zhang, Z. Wang & J.L. Volakis, “Textile Antennas and Sensors for Body-Worn Applications," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagat. Letters, Vol. 11, pp. 1690-1693, 2012
2. S. Salman, D. Psychoudakis & J.L. Volakis, “Determining the Relative Permittivity of Deep Embedded Biological Tissues," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagat. Letters, Vol. 11, pp. 1694-1697, 2012
3. Ugur Olgun, C.-C. Chen and J.L. Volakis, “Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Technology and its Applications,” IET Microwaves, Ant. & Propagat., Vol. 6 (11), pp. 1200-1206, 2012
4. Jae-Young Chung, N. Nahar, L. Zhang, Y Bayram, and K. Sertel, “Broadband RF Conductivity Measurement Technique for Engineered Composites,” IET Microwaves, Ant. & Propagat, Vol. 6 (4), pp. 371 – 376, 2012.
5. Zheyu Wang, Lanlin Zhang, and John L. Volakis, “Textile Antennas for Wearable Radio Frequency Applications,” Textiles and Light Industrial Science and Technology (TLIST) Journal, www.tlist-journal.org, Volume 2 Issue 3, July 2013.
6. S. Salman, Z. Wang, A. Kiourti, E. Topsakal, “Pulmonary Edema Monitoring Sensor with Integrated Body-Area Network for Remote Medical Sensing," to appear in IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagat.
7. J.L.Volakis ed., Antenna Engineering Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 2007 (1800pp handbook)
8. J.L. Volakis, C.C Chen and K. Fujimoto, Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques and Applications, ~450pp, McGraw-Hill, 2010
9. J.L.Volakis, A. Chatterjee and L. Kempel, Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics, IEEE Press, New York (ISBN 0-7803-3425-6) and Oxford Univ Press, London (0-19-850479-9), 1998.
10.J.L. Volakis and K. Sertel, Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetics, Scitech Publishing, ISBN: 9781891121937, 550pp ,end of 2011
11.Y. Zhou, J.L. Volakis, and C-C Chen, Polymer-Ceramic Composites for Conformal Multilayer Antenna/RF Systems, ISBN 978-3-8383-7979-1, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 184pp.
12.J.L. Volakis and Tom Senior, Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (Institution of Electrical Engineers, London,1995)
13.Y. Bayram and J.L. Volakis, Computational Methods for High Frequency Electromagnetic Interference, Springer-Verlag, 2009
14.J. L. Volakis and K. Sertel, “Narrowband and Wideband Metamaterial Antennas Based on Degenerate Band Edge and Magnetic Photonic Crystals,” IEEE Proceedings, 2011 (special issue on metamaterials)
15.L. Zhang, G. Mumcu, K. Sertel, J.L. Volakis, and H. Verweij, “Fabrication and characterization of anisotropic dielectrics for low-loss microwave applications”, Journal of Materials Science , 43(5), 1505-1509, 2008.
Some Recent Major Projects Serving or Served as PI:
1. Center for Radio Frequency Systems (a joint University-Industry National Science Foundation Center)-2006-pres. A new NSF center to link industry and universities to educate future leaders in RF, and address next generation solutions in RF systems (from bits to receivers and antennas).
2. TeraHertz Center (2010-2013): Serves as PI for this $3M 3rd Frontier award to establish a new Laboratory on Terahertz research and applications.
3. THz Device MURI (2011-2016): ONR MURI on III-N Devices and Architectures for Terahertz Electronics; Goal is to develop GaN THz devices operating above 1 THz. MURI is led by Patrick Fay at Notre-Dame and our groups is focused on the device testing and in developing THz sources.
4. Metamaterials and Metastructured UWB miniature conformal antennas(2010-2013): An ONR funded program to develop novel meta-structures for highly thin and conformal antennas exhibiting over 30:1 bandwidth. Focus is also on MIMO capabilities, low angle scanning, pattern re-configuration, and integration with wideband RFIC back-ends.
5. High Power Devices MURI (2012-2017): An AFOSR MURI to develop high power Metamaterials in Confining, Controlling, and Radiating Intense Microwave Pulses. MURI is led by Edl Schamiloglu at the Univ. of New Mexico. Ohio State is focused on high power device miniaturizations.
6. Physiological Studies of Brain Signals using a Wireless Neuro-Sensing-Diagnostic System (2013-2017): NSF Smart-Connected-Health program to create a non-intrusive brain signal sensor to study the causes of diseases such as Epilepsy and Parkinson; project is with Arizona State (Prof. J. Chae).
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