This talk will showcase the use of RF materials to create artificial dielectrics, filters, metamaterials, and antennas. It will also delve into the challenges of measuring dielectric properties and introduce the latest development – a bespoke system to measure the properties of anisotropic and (dia)magnetic materials. In addition, he will touch on exciting topics such as inkjet printing on curved surfaces, metasurfaces, intelligent reconfigurable surfaces, sensing for bioelectromagnetics in healthcare, and the use of ceramics for ultra-low loss materials.
About the Speaker:
Prof. Will Whittow FIET, AFWES, SFHEA, SMIEEE (WW) is Professor of Radiofrequency Materials and leads the Wireless Communications Research Group in the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering (WSMEME). He is the Director of the Connected Infrastructure Research Hub, and also is the Director of PGT Admissions (and formerly UG Admissions Director), and member of the WSMEME Athena Swan Silver application committee. He is a named PI/CI on grants totalling > £14m: 3D
Metamaterials for RF, Microwave and THz Applications, Anisotropic metasurfaces for microwave and THz, Transparent metasurfaces, Embedded intelligence for manufacturing. He has > 300 peer-reviewed publications (> 100 journal papers) (> 4,200 citations, h-index = 34): relevant papers to this grant include metasurfaces; frequency selective surfaces (FSS), reconfigurable radiofrequency (RF) devices; dielectric lenses, dielectric characterisation; 3D printed capacitors and filters; millimetre-wave (MMwave) antennas; and direct write / inkjet printing. He has recently led an IET Book on Bioelectromagnetics in Healthcare: Advanced sensing and communication applications. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in in Additively Manufactured RF Devices. He is the Leader of the IEEE Additively Manufactured Radio Systems Working Group. He has delivered keynote workshops on material characterisation at the European School of Antennas (ESoA) in Greece (2015) and at LU (2019), and at the Centre for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics (CDP) (2019). He has successfully led 20 consultancy projects including winning a BAE Systems Innovation Award. He has served on the editorial boards for IET MAP, Electronics Letters, Electronics, and Frontiers in Communications and Networks. WW won the inaugural Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Men As Allies Award (2017) for outreach and is the inaugural male Associate Fellow of WES.
Affiliation: Loughborough University
Contact Person: Prof. Giacomo OLIVERI <giacomo.oliveri@unitn.it>