Small Wideband Antenna For GSM And WLAN Applications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hraga, H., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., Adnan, S., Elfergani, I., & Excell, P. (2010, April). Small Wideband Antenna For GSM And WLAN Applications. Presented at 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (Eucap 2010), Barcelona, Spain

In this paper, a small printed antenna for mobile handset and WLAN applications is presented and discussed. The proposed antenna is a printed crescent shape monopole which is mounted on top of a defected ground plane. A 50 ohms microstrip line is use... Read More about Small Wideband Antenna For GSM And WLAN Applications.

Design of Dual-Band Quadrifilar Spiral Antennas For Satellite-Mobile Handsets (2010)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., & Excell, P. S. (2010). Design of Dual-Band Quadrifilar Spiral Antennas For Satellite-Mobile Handsets. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 52(4), 987-990. https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.25090

A novel quadrifilar spiral antenna is proposed for use in personal communications mobile terminals exploiting the “big low earth orbit” (big‐LEO) satellite system (uplink 1.61–1.63 GHz; downlink 2.48–2.5 GHz). Feeding of the antenna from the outer pe... Read More about Design of Dual-Band Quadrifilar Spiral Antennas For Satellite-Mobile Handsets.

The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications (2010)
Thesis
Austin, A. N. The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3751

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a growing problem in the modern world and as the number of devices and their operating frequencies increase so do the issues associated with EMI.
The aim of this study is to understand and quantify the main para... Read More about The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications.

New Design of Balanced Handset Antenna for WLAN Application (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Zhou, D., Alhaddad, A., Elfergani, I., & Excell, P. S. (2010, March). New Design of Balanced Handset Antenna for WLAN Application. Presented at Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (MIC-CPE 2010), Amman, Jordan

New Antenna Designs for Wideband Harmonic Suppression Using Adaptive Meshing and Genetic Algorithms (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Zhou, D., See, C. H., Bin-Melha, M., & Excell, P. (2010, March). New Antenna Designs for Wideband Harmonic Suppression Using Adaptive Meshing and Genetic Algorithms. Presented at Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (MIC-CPE 2010), Amman, Jordon

MRI suites and residual design risk from static magnetic field (2010)
Journal Article
Price, T., Wamuziri, S., & Gupta, N. (2010). MRI suites and residual design risk from static magnetic field. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 163(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1680/mpal.2010.163.1.7

Since the inception of the UK Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 through to the 2007 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations a duty has been imposed upon the client of premises where a notifiable project has been carried... Read More about MRI suites and residual design risk from static magnetic field.

A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C., Horoshenkov, K., Tait, S., Abd-Alhameed, R., Hu, Y., Elkhazmi, E., & Gardiner, J. (2009, December). A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring. Presented at 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009), Singapore, Singapore

Blockages in sewers are major causes of both sewer flooding and pollution. Water companies which fail to tackle this problem face hefty fines and high operational costs if they unsuccessful to provide a practical solution to prevent flooding. As a re... Read More about A Zigbee based wireless sensor network for sewerage monitoring.

Soft-sphere soft glasses. (2009)
Journal Article
Heyes, D. M., Clarke, S. M., & Brańka, A. C. (2009). Soft-sphere soft glasses. Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 204506. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3266845

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to compute physical properties of model fluids in which the particles interacted via the soft-sphere pair potential (SSP) ϕ(r)=ϵ(σ/r) n , where ϵ and σ are the characteristic energy and distance, respe... Read More about Soft-sphere soft glasses..

Precise computation of the induced fields inside biological cell tissue using floquet boundary and subgridding quasi-static FDTD method (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramli, K., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Zhou, D., Elkhazmi, E., & Excell, P. (2009, December). Precise computation of the induced fields inside biological cell tissue using floquet boundary and subgridding quasi-static FDTD method. Presented at 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009), Singapore, Singapore

This paper demonstrates the detailed electromagnetic modelling of biological cell structures by using modified subgridding FDTD techniques. This is done by incorporating a quasi-static FDTD solution, Floquet periodic boundary conditions and modified... Read More about Precise computation of the induced fields inside biological cell tissue using floquet boundary and subgridding quasi-static FDTD method.

Miniature dual-frequency half planar inverted F-L-antenna for WLAN/cellular applications (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., Elkhazmi, E., Abusitta, M., Ramli, K., & Excell, P. (2009, December). Miniature dual-frequency half planar inverted F-L-antenna for WLAN/cellular applications. Presented at 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference - (APMC 2009), Singapore, Singapore

A reduced size miniature dual-bands planar inverted F-L antenna for WLAN and cellular applications is achieved by applying the magnetic wall concept. The proposed antenna provides a 12% and 9.3% bandwidth at S₁₁ < -10 dB for 2.5 GHz and 5.2 GHz WLAN... Read More about Miniature dual-frequency half planar inverted F-L-antenna for WLAN/cellular applications.

New approach for designing beam steering uniform antenna arrays using Genetic Algorithms (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abusitta, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., Jones, S., & Excell, P. (2009, November). New approach for designing beam steering uniform antenna arrays using Genetic Algorithms. Presented at 2009 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, UK

A new approach to the design of electronic beam steering in antenna arrays is introduced and analysed. The technique is demonstrated for a uniform antenna array structure. The radiation pattern of the antenna array is formed and the beam steering tun... Read More about New approach for designing beam steering uniform antenna arrays using Genetic Algorithms.

Dual-band balanced handset antenna for WLAN application (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaddad, A., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., Usman, M., Abidin, Z., & Excell, P. (2009, November). Dual-band balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. Presented at 2009 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, UK

A built-in planar metal plate antenna for mobile handsets with balanced operation is presented. The antenna was designed by folding a thin strip planar dipole with extra arm on each monopole. The antenna features balanced operation, is to reduce the... Read More about Dual-band balanced handset antenna for WLAN application.

Design of Wideband Balanced Folded-Arms Dipole Antenna for Mobile Handsets (2009)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., & Excell, P. S. (2009). Design of Wideband Balanced Folded-Arms Dipole Antenna for Mobile Handsets. Electromagnetics, 29(8), 641-651. https://doi.org/10.1080/02726340903287406

Investigations of a wideband balanced antenna for mobile handsets covering three bands—GSM1800, GSM1900, and UMTS—are presented. Balanced antennas have advantages in handset applications as they are less affected by juxtaposition with human tissue th... Read More about Design of Wideband Balanced Folded-Arms Dipole Antenna for Mobile Handsets.

Quadrifilar Helical Antenna Design for Satellite-Mobile Handsets Using Genetic Algorithms (2009)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., See, C., Alhameed, R., Excell, P., Khalil, K., Hu, Y., & McEwan, N. (2009). Quadrifilar Helical Antenna Design for Satellite-Mobile Handsets Using Genetic Algorithms. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 51(11), 2668-2671. https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.24694

A circularly polarized quadrifilar helical antenna, operated at 2.4 GHz and intended for applications in satellite mobile communications, is designed using genetic algorithms (GA). The antenna was firstly considered as a test on an infinite ground pl... Read More about Quadrifilar Helical Antenna Design for Satellite-Mobile Handsets Using Genetic Algorithms.

Equal-Spaced Rectangular Meander-line Antenna RFID Tag Design for UHF Band (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Zhou, D., AlKhambashi, M., See, C. H., Abusitta, M., & Excell, P. S. (2009, September). Equal-Spaced Rectangular Meander-line Antenna RFID Tag Design for UHF Band. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 09), Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales, UK

Design and testing of an equal-spaced rectangular meander-line antenna (ESRMLA) for RFID tag applications in the European UHF band 865-868 MHz is presented. The tag antenna was modelled and analysed using two established electromagnetic simulator pac... Read More about Equal-Spaced Rectangular Meander-line Antenna RFID Tag Design for UHF Band.

The rate of electroless deposition of a four-component Ni–W–P–ZrO2 composite coating from a glycine bath (2009)
Journal Article
Szczygieł, B., & Turkiewicz, A. (2009). The rate of electroless deposition of a four-component Ni–W–P–ZrO2 composite coating from a glycine bath. Applied Surface Science, 255(20), 8414-8418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.05.145

Four-component Ni–W–P–ZrO2 composite coatings were electroless deposited. A bath containing aminoacetic acid as the agent complexing nickel ions, and sodium tungstate(VI) as the source of tungstate was used. It has been determined that as the bath's... Read More about The rate of electroless deposition of a four-component Ni–W–P–ZrO2 composite coating from a glycine bath.

Modelling of nonuniform magnetic field effects on partially magnetised Y-junction circulator (2009)
Thesis
Chung, H. Modelling of nonuniform magnetic field effects on partially magnetised Y-junction circulator. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2563

The success of modelling partially magnetised linear 3-port junction circulator, which is non-uniformly biased, depends chiefly on the precise representation of the strength of the intrinsic magnetic field in the axial direction across the ferrite ma... Read More about Modelling of nonuniform magnetic field effects on partially magnetised Y-junction circulator.

Meander-line antenna design for UHF RFID tag using a genetic algorithm (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Alkhambashi, M., Zainal Abidin, Z., Ramli, K., Abusitta, M., & Usman, M. (2009, March). Meander-line antenna design for UHF RFID tag using a genetic algorithm. Presented at 25th Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Beijing, China

In this paper, a simple planar meander-line tag antenna for RFID application at UHF band designed and optimized using genetic algorithms (GA). The meander-line tag antenna dimensions were optimized and evaluated using GA in collaboration with NEC-2 s... Read More about Meander-line antenna design for UHF RFID tag using a genetic algorithm.

SAR Measurements for Several Two Elements Phased Antenna Array Handsets (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moustafa, J., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., McEwan, N., Excell, P., Ramli, K., & Abidin, Z. (2009, March). SAR Measurements for Several Two Elements Phased Antenna Array Handsets. Presented at European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (Eucap 2009), Berlin, Germany

In recent years, electromagnetic dosimetry has been increasingly oriented towards the evaluation of energy deposition in the human body due to an exposure to cellular telephones. In this case of near-field exposure, the significant dosimetric paramet... Read More about SAR Measurements for Several Two Elements Phased Antenna Array Handsets.

Dual-frequency balanced mobile antenna for WLAN and short range communication systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Chung, S., Alhaddad, A., & Excell, P. (2009, March). Dual-frequency balanced mobile antenna for WLAN and short range communication systems. Presented at Progress In Electromagnetics Research (PIER) Symposium, Beijing, China

In this paper, a balanced antenna for mobile handset applications with dual-frequency performance, that covers 2.4-GHz and 5.2-GHz WLAN bands, is investigated. The antenna is a thin-strip planar dipole with folded structure and a dual-arm on each mon... Read More about Dual-frequency balanced mobile antenna for WLAN and short range communication systems.