Microwave Antennas for Near Field Imaging (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adnan, S., Mirza, A., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Al Khambashi, M., Yousuf, Q., Asif, R., & Excell, P. (2014, December). Microwave Antennas for Near Field Imaging. Presented at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio 2014), Queen Mary University of London

Near field imaging using microwaves in medical applications has gained much attention recently as various researchers have shown its capability and accuracy in identifying features of interest compared to well-known screening tools. This paper docume... Read More about Microwave Antennas for Near Field Imaging.

Automatic liquid level indication and control using passive UHF RFID tags (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Tu, Y., Elmegri, F., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., & Child, M. (2014, November). Automatic liquid level indication and control using passive UHF RFID tags. Presented at 2014 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

This paper proposes a new perspective to the liquid level monitoring and control technique by deploying energy efficient passive UHF RFID tags as liquid level sensors. The system consists of the pump, storage tank, level sensors (passive tags), RFID... Read More about Automatic liquid level indication and control using passive UHF RFID tags.

Study on specific absorption rate (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asif, R., Abd-Alhameed, R., Bin-Melha, M., Qureshi, A., See, C., Abdulraheem, Y., Mapuka, T., & Noras, J. (2014, November). Study on specific absorption rate. Presented at Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough University

In the past fifty years it has been clearly identified that the presence of biological tissues effect the performance of the antenna and considerable effort has been made to improve the characteristics of the mobile phone antenna's but very less effo... Read More about Study on specific absorption rate.

Compact MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Portable and Mobile UWB Terminals (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C. H., Ali, N., Atojoko, A., Jan, N., Abd-Alhameed, R., Elkahzmi, E., & McEwan, N. (2014, November). Compact MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Portable and Mobile UWB Terminals. Presented at 2014 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Sendai, Japan

A novel MIMO/diversity Planar Inverted-F antenna (PI FA) is presented for UWB applications. This antenna assembly is formed by two identical PIFAs, a T-shaped decoupling structure which connects the two PIFAs and a finite ground plane. The compact en... Read More about Compact MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Portable and Mobile UWB Terminals.

Design of a Wideband Printed MIMO Monopole Antenna using Neutralisation Lines Technique (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elkazmi, E., See, C. H., Jan, N. A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Ali, N., & McEwan, N. J. (2014, November). Design of a Wideband Printed MIMO Monopole Antenna using Neutralisation Lines Technique. Presented at 2014 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Sendai, Japan

A novel printed diversity monopole antenna is presented for WiFi/WiMAX applications. The antenna comprises two crescent shaped radiators placed symmetrically with respect to a defected ground plane and a wideband zigzag neutralization line is connect... Read More about Design of a Wideband Printed MIMO Monopole Antenna using Neutralisation Lines Technique.

Loop feed meander-line Antenna RFID tag design for UHF band (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ma, Y., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., Abidin, Z., Jin, C., & Peng, B. (2014, August). Loop feed meander-line Antenna RFID tag design for UHF band. Presented at 2014 XXXIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), Beijing, China

A loop feed meander-line Antenna (LFMLA) RFID tag on a relatively low dielectric constant substrate operates on the European UHF band 865-868 MHz is presented. The tag modeling is analyzed using two different electromagnetic simulator HFSS and CST. A... Read More about Loop feed meander-line Antenna RFID tag design for UHF band.

In vivo in uterus non-invasive methods to predict placental insufficiency and adverse pregnancy outcomes in antiphospholipid syndrome (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Girardi, G., Fraser, J., Bertolaccini, M. L., Lennen, R., Vontell, R., & Hutchison, G. (2014, December). In vivo in uterus non-invasive methods to predict placental insufficiency and adverse pregnancy outcomes in antiphospholipid syndrome

Objectives: To use MRI-based methods to non invasively detect placental insufficiency and predict fetal outcomes in obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
Methods and result: A) Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) nanoparticles conjug... Read More about In vivo in uterus non-invasive methods to predict placental insufficiency and adverse pregnancy outcomes in antiphospholipid syndrome.

Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prokofieva, E., Luciani, C., & McGregor, I. (2014, April). Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at 136th International AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

The auralization room was designed as a joint project between School of Engineering and Built Environment and the School of Computing of Edinburgh Napier University. The interior acoustic design specialists conducted the acoustic design of the aurali... Read More about Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University.

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013, December). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. Presented at 2013 Design and Test Symposium (IDT), Marrakesh

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.

Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds (2013)
Journal Article
Wei, H., Wang, Z., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Cheng, G. (2013). Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds. Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 1(1), 6-9. https://doi.org/10.12720/jiii.1.1.6-9

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach to solve Software Service Evolution problems in Computing Clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns... Read More about Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds.

Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Korolkiewicz, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sambell, A., Danaher, S., & Busawon, K. (2013). Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61, 2304-2308. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2241716

This communication presents a simplified approach to the design of a single feed dual polarised, dual frequency (1.9 and 2.4 GHz) aperture coupled microstrip antenna. Using simulation and practical investigation, the coupling between the microstrip f... Read More about Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna..

Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sambell, A., Danaher, S., & Smith, D. (2013). Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61, 5785-5787. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2275745

This communication presents a simplified design approach to obtain the turns ratio nf which models the coupling between the microstrip feed and slot line of an aperture coupled slot antenna by using the S11 parameter. Equations are derived using S11... Read More about Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter..

Energy efficient gully pot monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Jan, N., Elmgri, F., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., & Noras, J. (2013, November). Energy efficient gully pot monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID). Presented at 2013 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Sewer and gully flooding have become major causes of pollution particularly in the residential areas majorly caused by blockages in the water system and drainages. An effective way of avoiding this problem will be by deploying some mechanism to monit... Read More about Energy efficient gully pot monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID).

Dielectric resonator antenna design for UWB applications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elmegri, F., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zebiri, C., & Excell, P. (2013, November). Dielectric resonator antenna design for UWB applications. Presented at 2013 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

A small dielectric resonator antenna has been designed for ultra wideband (UWB) communication system applications. The antenna element is a rectangular low permittivity ceramic block, with a dielectric constant of 9.4, and the modified T-shaped feed... Read More about Dielectric resonator antenna design for UWB applications.

Compact Circularly Polarised Antenna for Satellite-Mobile Application (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C. H., Excell, P. S., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & McEwan, N. (2013, November). Compact Circularly Polarised Antenna for Satellite-Mobile Application. Presented at 4th International Scientific Rocket and Space Technology (RST) Conference, Moscow, Russia

Effect of polymeric properties on the operation of gel-type audio transducers (2013)
Thesis
Cho, M. Effect of polymeric properties on the operation of gel-type audio transducers. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6256

A novel design of a moving-coil transducer coupled with a low-hardness elastomer called “the gel surround” is presented in this thesis. This device is termed a “gel-type audio transducer”. The gel-type audio transducer has been developed to overcome... Read More about Effect of polymeric properties on the operation of gel-type audio transducers.

A Comprehensive Study for Indoor Localization Techniques Using Received Signal Strength (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Obeidat, H. A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Elkazmi, E. A., Asif, R., Usman, M., See, C. H., & Elmegri, F. (2013, September). A Comprehensive Study for Indoor Localization Techniques Using Received Signal Strength. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13), Glyndwr University, Wales, UK

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Dielectric Resonator Antenna Design for Lower-UWB Wireless Application (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elmegri, F., See, C. H., Bin-Melha, M., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Jan, N., & Excell, P. S. (2013, September). Dielectric Resonator Antenna Design for Lower-UWB Wireless Application. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13), Glyndwr University, Wales, UK

A small dielectric resonator antenna has been designed for lower ultra wideband (L-UWB) communication system applications. The antenna element is a rectangular low permittivity ceramic block, with a dielectric constant of 9.4, and the feed network in... Read More about Dielectric Resonator Antenna Design for Lower-UWB Wireless Application.

Investigation of Harmonic Rejection for Triangular Patch Microstrip Antenna (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bin-Melha, M., Jan, N., Usman, M., Elmegri, F., See, C. H., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2013, September). Investigation of Harmonic Rejection for Triangular Patch Microstrip Antenna. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13),, Glyndwr University, Wales, UK

A coplanar edge-fed triangular patch antenna with an integrated stubline is proposed for harmonic rejection application. The design is aimed to achieve a good impedance matching to 50 ω at the fundamental frequency while suppressing radiation of the... Read More about Investigation of Harmonic Rejection for Triangular Patch Microstrip Antenna.

A Review of Location Based Services: Current Developments, Trends and Issues (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Anoh, K., Asif, R., Migdadi, H., Jan, N., & See, C. H. (2013, September). A Review of Location Based Services: Current Developments, Trends and Issues. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13), Glyndwr University, Wales, UK

Location based services are a diverse and growing set of related technologies which may be used to provide tracking and location awareness. LBS are employed in both fixed and mobile networks. A concise overview of the development of LBS, and some of... Read More about A Review of Location Based Services: Current Developments, Trends and Issues.