All wireless communications require antennas to transmit and receive radio wave signals, with the quantity and quality of the data being processed depending on the performance of the antenna.  The CRC has assembled a dedicated team of researchers in this field, bringing hardware and software innovations to antenna design, with an emphasis on emerging broadband systems.  Their work includes in-house, university, and industry participants, addressing the challenges of active and passive arrays, reconfigurable antennas, and quasi-optic design techniques, with applications from the L-Band to millimetre wavelengths.

Partnered with industry, much of this work has been aimed at bringing high performance, low-cost, compact systems into the markplace.  Specific projects have dealt with multi-layer printed arrays, dielectric resonator, holographic antennas, reflectarrays, and integrated phased arrays.

This CRC group also maintains an outstanding set of testing facilities, including anechoic chambers for far-field and compact range measurements, a planar near-field scanner, electromagnetic simulation software, and shops for fabricating prototypes.

Technology

Multi-Layer Microstrip Antennas