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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.

Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection (2013)
Journal Article
Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2013). Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection. Advances in nanoparticles, 02(03), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2013.23036

Metallic nanoparticles play an important role in the design of sensing platforms. In this paper, a new electromagnetic study for conical metal nanoparticles, working in the Near Infrared and Visible frequency regime, is proposed. The structures consi... Read More about Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection.

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..

Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement. (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 178, 694-699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2012.11.062

Long period gratings (LPG)-based sensors are widely used due to their high sensitivity to a range of suitable measurands. However, a typical configuration involving a single grating-based LPG sensor system frequently has the disadvantage of the probe... Read More about Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement..

Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors. (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors. Review of Scientific Instruments, 84, 25002. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789768

Optical fibre grating based sensors make a significant contribution to relative humidity measurement for various applications and a number of different designs and sensor configurations have been produced and discussed in the literature. Recent devel... Read More about Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors..

Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, 767-771. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2012.2227714

A long-period grating (LPG)-based relative humidity (RH) sensor is developed, based on using a tailored layered polyimide coating on the grating region at the distal end of the fiber probe and allowing it to respond to humidity changes. The attenuati... Read More about Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor.

Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index. (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, 1117-1124. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2012.2230534

Recent research has shown that the transmission spectrum of a long period grating (LPG) written into an optical fiber is sensitive to the thickness and the refractive index (RI) of a thin layer deposited on it, a concept which forms the basis of a nu... Read More about Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index..

Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2013, November). Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have been attracting tremendous attention in both academia and industry due to emerging applications that pave the way towards safer enjoyable journeys and inclusive digital partnerships. Undoubtedly, these I... Read More about Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks..

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.

Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands (2013)
Journal Article
Climente-Alarcon, V., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., Vedreno-Santos, F., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2013). Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 49(6), 2576-2582. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2013.2265872

In recent years, the study of transients of induction motors for diagnosis purposes has gained strength in order to overcome some inherent problems of the classical diagnosis of such machines, which uses Fourier analysis of steady-state quantities. N... Read More about Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands.

The dynamic decode-and-forward channel: SNR allocation. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maagh, S., Sharp, J., & Binnie, D. (2013, November). The dynamic decode-and-forward channel: SNR allocation. Presented at 21st Telecommunications forum TELFOR 2013

In the half-duplex relay channel applying the decode-and-forward protocol the relay introduces energy over random time intervals into the channel as observed at the
destination. Consequently, during simulation the average signal power seen at the de... Read More about The dynamic decode-and-forward channel: SNR allocation..

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

Electromagnetic analysis of deep brain stimulation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tarparelli, R., Iovine, R., La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2013, September). Electromagnetic analysis of deep brain stimulation. Presented at 2013 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), Torino (Turin), Italy

In this contribution the stimulus complications in DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) are evaluated and discussed. In particular we present a new method to predict the network response when a DBS stimulus is applied. A neural network similarly to ipsi-cont... Read More about Electromagnetic analysis of deep brain stimulation.

A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wojtczuk, P., Binnie, D., Armitage, A., Chamberlain, T., & Giebeler, C. (2013, October). A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor. Presented at UIST '13 Adjunct Proceedings of the adjunct publication of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

A sensing device for a touchless, hand gesture, user interface based on an inexpensive passive infrared pyroelectric detector array is presented. The 2 x 2 element sensor responds to changing infrared radiation generated by hand movement over the arr... Read More about A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor..

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.

SRR Metamaterial Loaded on Horn Antennas for Broadband Application (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lashab, M., See, C., Zebiri, C.-E., Fauzi, E., Benabdelaziz, F., Abd-Alhameed, R., & Jan, N. .. (2013, September). SRR Metamaterial Loaded on Horn Antennas for Broadband Application. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13), Glyndwr University, Wales, UK

A Split Ring Resonator (SRR) as Metamaterial has been loaded on pyramidal horn antennas for broadband wireless application. The aim of this work is to exhibit the advantage of metamaterial (SRR) use inside horn antenna; this is mainly enhancement of... Read More about SRR Metamaterial Loaded on Horn Antennas for Broadband Application.

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.