The RF & Microwaves Specialty Area
Summary
Radio freqency waves and microwaves are at the heart of many applications of electronics. Some of these applications include:
- Radar - Radar is used for tracking aircraft and missles. Airborn radar is used for mapping the earth and locating natural resources. Whether radar tracks storms and provides storm warnings.
- Cell Phones and Wireless Internet - Cell phones and wireless internet operate using microwaves. The designers of this equipment must design circuitry that produces, detects, and manipulates microwaves.
- Antennas - Specialists in electromagnetic fields and waves are the people who design antennas.
- Medical Imaging - Work is being done on using micrwaves to detect breast cancer.
Research on RF & Microwaves at the University of Arkansas
The following Electrical Engineering faculty are doing research on RF and microwaves. Details on their research can be found by clicking on their names and on the Electromagnetics Group link.
- Samir El-Ghazaly does research on High Frequency and high-speed systems; Microwave and RF Circuits; Wireless Communication Systems; Circuits and Devices; Reconfigurable Antennas; Microwave-Optical Interactions; Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Semiconductor Devices and Passive Components; MEMS in RF Circuits; Analysis of Microwave Transmission Lines; Semiconductor Device Simulations; Ultra-Short Pulse Propagation; Electromagnetics; Wave-Device Interactions; and Numerical Techniques Applied to Microwave Integrated Circuits.
- Magda El-Shenawee does research on Breast cancer detection, Microwave imaging, Buried object Detection, Rough surface scattering, Computational electromagnetics, and RF microwave modeling.
- Vasu Varadan does research on Smart Materials and Systems, Ambulatory Medical Monitors, Microwave and Millimeter Wave Imaging and Characterization
Courses for the RF & Microwaves Specialty Area
Recommended Undergraduate Elective Courses
MATH 3353 Numerical Metthods in Analysis
MATH 3423 Advanced Applied Mathematics
ELEG 4713 Electromagnetic Transmission
ELEG 4723 Introduction to RF and Microwave Design
Additional Graduate & Undergraduate Courses
ELEG 4713 Electromagnetic Transmission
ELEG 4723 Introduction to RF and Microwave Design
ELEG 5713 Antennas and Radiation
ELEG 5723 Advanced Microwave Design
ELEG 5733 Remote Sensing Systems
ELEG 5743 Radar Systems
ELEG 5753 Satellite Communications & Navigation Systems
ELEG 5763 Advanced Electromagnetic Scattering & Transmission
