Antennas Measurement Lab

The Antenna Research Group within the Centre for Electronics has a long-standing record on antenna design and related electromagnetic research. The fundamental philosophy behind the group’s research has always been driven by highly reliable electromagnetic modelling corroborated by high quality experimental verification. In its >50-year history, the group has built an extensive antenna test range and electromagnetic characterisation facility, which now covers the whole RF to THz frequency bands, from 400 MHz to 500 GHz. In addition to this, time domain spectrometry at THz frequencies, between 0.1 to 3 THz, is also available.

Facilities

Supported by three full-time professional staff, the facility is arguably one of the most comprehensive among European universities and it includes:

Millimetre-wave CATR The Millimetre-wave CATR is a unique offset tri-reflector Cassegrain-Gregorian system design to work up to mm-wavelength bands.
General purpose anechoic chamber Opened in 1995, this 9 metre long with 3m by 3m cross-section microwave and millimetre wave anechoic chamber is used for the measurement of radiation characteristics of feeds and millimetre wave antennas up to 500 GHz.
NSI planar near-field beam pattern scanner The NSI Planar near-field to far-field antenna measurement scanner is an ideal system for measuring medium and high gain antennas (>15 dBi) with small apertures.
THz Research Laboratory The THz TDS system is based on a NPL design that has been adapted to accommodate fluid and gaseous based systems for study by either reflection or transmission configurations