Machine Vision System for Corrosion Detection as an Additional Tool beside EIS for Evaluation of Protective Properties of Electrolessly Deposited Ni-P Coatings (2015)
Journal Article
Stankiewicz, A., Stankiewicz, M., Winiarski, J., Szczygieł, I., & Szczygieł, B. (2015). Machine Vision System for Corrosion Detection as an Additional Tool beside EIS for Evaluation of Protective Properties of Electrolessly Deposited Ni-P Coatings. Solid State Phenomena, 227, 557-560. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.227.557

The electroless deposition technique was used to obtain Ni-P coatings with various phosphorus content. Machine vision method was applied as a tool for the analysis and interpretation of the data provided by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS... Read More about Machine Vision System for Corrosion Detection as an Additional Tool beside EIS for Evaluation of Protective Properties of Electrolessly Deposited Ni-P Coatings.

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.

Compact and closely spaced tunable printed F-slot multiple-input–multiple-output antenna system for portable wireless applications with efficient diversity (2014)
Journal Article
Elfergani, I. T., Hussaini, A. S., Rodriguez, J., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., Jan, N., Zhu, S., & McEwan, N. J. (2014). Compact and closely spaced tunable printed F-slot multiple-input–multiple-output antenna system for portable wireless applications with efficient diversity. IET Science, Measurements and Technology, 8(6), 359-369. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2013.0276

In this work, miniaturised tunable two-antenna multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems composed of printed F-slot shaped are developed to operate in the global positioning system (GPS), personal communication system (PCS), distributed control s... Read More about Compact and closely spaced tunable printed F-slot multiple-input–multiple-output antenna system for portable wireless applications with efficient diversity.

Corrosion resistance evaluation of Ni-P\nano-ZrO 2 composite coatings by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and machine vision method : Corrosion resistance evaluation by EIS and machine vision (2014)
Journal Article
Stankiewicz, A., Winiarski, J., Stankiewicz, M., Szczygieł, I., & Szczygieł, B. (2015). Corrosion resistance evaluation of Ni-P\nano-ZrO 2 composite coatings by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and machine vision method : Corrosion resistance evaluation by EIS and machine vision. Materials and corrosion : with International Corrosion abstracts = Werkstoffe und Korrosion : Organ der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Korrosion und der Dechema-Beratungsstelle für Werkstoff-Fragen, 66(7), 643-648. https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201407831

Ni-P\nano-ZrO2 composite coatings were obtained on the AISI 304 steel substrate by the electroless method from a bath containing dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB). This cationic surfactant prevents ZrO2 agglomeration in the bath and affects the... Read More about Corrosion resistance evaluation of Ni-P\nano-ZrO 2 composite coatings by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and machine vision method : Corrosion resistance evaluation by EIS and machine vision.

Metasurface-Epsilon Near Zero-based Electromagnetic Wave Absorber (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Spada, L. (2014, September). Metasurface-Epsilon Near Zero-based Electromagnetic Wave Absorber. Presented at 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks, London, Great Britain

The purpose of this paper is to design a new electromagnetic wave absorber. It consists of a planar layered structure with an isotropic Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) material and a gold metal inclusion, both placed over a perfect conductor (PEC) plate. Abs... Read More about Metasurface-Epsilon Near Zero-based Electromagnetic Wave Absorber.

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.

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.

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.

Step forward to map fully parallel energy efficient cortical columns on field programmable gate arrays (2014)
Journal Article
Ghani, A., See, C. H., & Usman Ali, S. M. U. (2014). Step forward to map fully parallel energy efficient cortical columns on field programmable gate arrays. IET Science, Measurements and Technology, 8(6), 432-440. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2014.0004

This study presents energy and area-efficient hardware architectures to map fully parallel cortical columns on reconfigurable platform - field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). An area-efficient architecture is proposed at the system level and benchm... Read More about Step forward to map fully parallel energy efficient cortical columns on field programmable gate arrays.

Surface plasmon resonance of nanoshell particles with PMMA-graphene core (2014)
Journal Article
Tarparelli, R., Iovine, R., La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2014). Surface plasmon resonance of nanoshell particles with PMMA-graphene core. COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 33(6), 2016-2029. https://doi.org/10.1108/compel-11-2013-0351

The purpose of this paper is to contribute an analytical and numerical study of a new type of nanoshell particles operating in the visible regime.
The structure consists of a core/shell particle, arranged in a planar array configuration, with a poly... Read More about Surface plasmon resonance of nanoshell particles with PMMA-graphene core.

Sensor Failure Detection, Identification, and Accommodation Using Fully Connected Cascade Neural Network (2014)
Journal Article
Hussain, S., Mokhtar, M., & Howe, J. M. (2015). Sensor Failure Detection, Identification, and Accommodation Using Fully Connected Cascade Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62(3), 1683-1692. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2014.2361600

Modern control systems rely heavily on their sensors for reliable operation. Failure of a sensor could destabilize the system, which could have serious consequences to the system's operations. Therefore, there is a need to detect and accommodate such... Read More about Sensor Failure Detection, Identification, and Accommodation Using Fully Connected Cascade Neural Network.

John Currie’s Infra-red Scanner (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Currie, J. (2014, October). John Currie’s Infra-red Scanner

Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency (2014)
Journal Article
Vedreno-Santos, F., Riera-Guasp, M., Henao, H., Pineda-Sanchez, M., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2014). Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(9), 4947-4959. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2013.2288192

This paper proposes a methodology to improve the reliability of diagnosis of different types of faults in wound-rotor induction generators which work under variable load conditions, as in wind turbine applications; the method is based on the extracti... Read More about Diagnosis of Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound-Rotor Induction Machines Under Nonstationary Operation Through the Instantaneous Frequency.

Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Riera-Guasp, M., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., & Vedreno-Santos, F. (2014, September). Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)

Induction generators used in windmills usually work in non-stationary conditions, due to the varying speed of the wind. Therefore, in order to perform its diagnosis through the stator current analysis, adequate time-frequency transforms must be used.... Read More about Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms.

Natural light controls and guides in buildings. Energy saving for electrical lighting, reduction of cooling load (2014)
Journal Article
Gago, E., Muneer, T., Knez, M., & Köster, H. (2015). Natural light controls and guides in buildings. Energy saving for electrical lighting, reduction of cooling load. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 41, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.002

The residential sector is responsible for approximately a quarter of energy consumption in Europe. This consumption, together with that of other buildings, mainly from the tertiary sector, makes up 40% of total energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emiss... Read More about Natural light controls and guides in buildings. Energy saving for electrical lighting, reduction of cooling load.

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.

Corrosion resistance of Ni-P\CePO 4 coatings obtained from sol solutions : Corrosion resistance of Ni-P\CePO 4 coatings (2014)
Journal Article
Winiarski, J., Gałuszka, M., & Stankiewicz, A. (2015). Corrosion resistance of Ni-P\CePO 4 coatings obtained from sol solutions : Corrosion resistance of Ni-P\CePO 4 coatings. Materials and corrosion : with International Corrosion abstracts = Werkstoffe und Korrosion : Organ der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Korrosion und der Dechema-Beratungsstelle für Werkstoff-Fragen, 66(6), 557-561. https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201307570

Combined sol–gel and electroless plating techniques were used to obtain nickel-matrix composite coatings. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to examine the surface morphology. Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) was employed to analyze the... Read More about Corrosion resistance of Ni-P\CePO 4 coatings obtained from sol solutions : Corrosion resistance of Ni-P\CePO 4 coatings.

Spectral Green's Function for SPR Meta-Structures (2014)
Journal Article
Iovine, R., La Spada, L., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2014). Spectral Green's Function for SPR Meta-Structures. Materials Science Forum, 792, 110-114. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.792.110

In this paper we propose a new approach to study the electromagnetic field in Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) meta-structures. The geometry is a planar structure infinitely extended with a pulse excitation current embedded in the substrate. The gener... Read More about Spectral Green's Function for SPR Meta-Structures.

Ultra-Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Four Capacitively Coupled Feeds (2014)
Journal Article
Zhu, F., Gao, S., Ho, A. T. S., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., Brown, T. W. C., Li, J., Wei, G., & Xu, J. (2014). Ultra-Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Four Capacitively Coupled Feeds. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 62(5), 2440-2449. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2014.2308524

A novel dual-polarized patch antenna for ultra-wideband
(UWB) applications is presented. The antenna consists of a
square patch and four capacitively coupled feeds to enhance the
impedance bandwidth. Each feed is formed by a vertical isosceles
tr... Read More about Ultra-Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Four Capacitively Coupled Feeds.