MILLIBAN: Millimetre-wave Antennas and Components for Future Mobile Broadband Networks

Building on our recent developments with low-loss reconfigurable metasurfaces, we are researching new enabling technologies for 5G systems which will deliver analogue and reconfigurable beam-steering antenna designs that operate with low-losses in the millimetre-wave band. 

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Illustration of a mmWave cellular network (after “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications”, T. S. Rappaport, et al., 2014 Prentice Hall)
Beam Scanning Metasurface-based Low-Loss Millimetre-wave (60GHz) antenna performance
Beam Scanning Metasurface-based Low-Loss Millimetre-wave (60GHz) antenna performance

In collaboration with the University of Surrey, we are developing theoretical models and requirements of future wireless networks along with research into tuneable mm-wave components, hybrid phased array antennas, reconfigurable metasurface based antennas and resource optimisation.