Ben Willetts

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Researcher in RADAR

Contact details

Email: bxw942@bham.ac.uk

Biography

Ben joined the University of Birmingham in 2010 and later graduated with a first class MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2014. He is currently carrying out his PhD in the same subject.

Research

Research Interests

Ben is interested in the propagation and scattering phenomena of low Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves in complex environments. He is also interested in making use of the inherent advantages of THz devices to detect and analyse particular objects of interest such as overhead power cables.

Current Project

Ben is currently working with his academic supervisors and an associate from Thales UK, Dr Malcolm Stevens, on experiments that look to investigate the behaviour of high frequency waves (>150GHz) in various environments.

Publications

B. Willetts; M. Gashinova; A. Stove; C.C. Constantinou; E.G. Hoare; E. Marchetti, Low-THz Overhead Power Cable Signatures: The effect of surface features on Low-THz reflectivities, 2016, 17th International Radar Symposium (IRS)

B. Willetts; M. Gashinova; A. Stove; C.C. Constantinou; E.G. Hoare, Low-THz Rough Surface Imaging, 2016, 2016 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)

B. Willetts, M. Stevens, A. Stove, M. Gashinova, Overhead Power cable Bragg signatures in Ka and Ku band high-resolution SAR imagery, 2017, IET RADAR 2017

B. Willetts, M. Gashinova, A. Stove and C.C Constantinou, Distinguishing surfaces with different roughness characteristics by using a wideband 300 GHz device, 2017, 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS)

Fatemeh Norouzian; Feng Qi; Ben Willetts; Marina Gashinova; Costas Constantinou; Peter Gardner; Edward Hoare; Mikhail Cherniakov, Characterisation of Attenuation at Low THz Frequencies in Radar Sensors, 2015, 2015 European Radar Conference (EuRAD)

Rui Du; Fatemeh Norouzian; Emidio Marchetti; Ben Willetts; Marina Gashinova; Mikhail Cherniakov, Characterisation of Attenuation by Sand in Low-THz Band, 2017, 2017 IEEE Radar Conference