2016中南大学王元勋教授学术报告会

一、报告题目

       Time‐Varying Electromagnetic Devices: Breaking the Fundamental Limits of Passives

二、报告时间

       2016年11月25日(星期五)上午8:40

三、报告地点

       民主楼小礼堂

四、内容简介

       Passive electromagnetic devices such as transmission lines, filters and antennas are essential parts of a wireless system. They often dominate the system’s efficiency, bandwidth and noise performance. Traditional passives often operate in a time-invariant manner as they are built with materials and structures that have time independent properties. They are subject to many well-known fundamental limits such as the reciprocity of transmission line, limit of quality factors of passive filters and limit of efficiency bandwidth product in electrically small antennas. Utilization of transistor based active electronics may help to overcome some of these challenges but they oftentimes incur noise and power handling issues.

       In this talk, I will introduce the multiple initiatives supported by NSF and DARPA on the development of a new class of electromagnetic devices that are operating in a time-varying fashion. These time-varying devices including transmission lines, filters and antennas may be constructed on semiconductor or electromechanicalplatforms to leverage on their time-dependent property enforced through parametric modulation or switching modes. It will be demonstrated through the addition of the new time dimension the aforementioned fundamental limits of passives can be lifted.Potential new applications such a full-duplex radios, tuneable RF front-ends and broadband VLF transmitters may be developed with this novel device concept.

五、报告人简介

       Dr. Yuanxun Ethan Wang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China in 1993, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Texas at Austin, in 1996 and 1999. He became an Assistant Professor with the EE department of UCLA since Nov. 2002 and is now a Professor with the same department. Dr. Wang is a senior member of IEEE and an associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers. His research is in the general area of microwave systems with emphasis on the front-ends including antennas, phased arrays, high performance RF transmitters and receivers. His researches blend digital technologies and concepts into RF design, which often leads to novel antenna and circuit configurations with performances beyond the conventional bound. Dr. Wang is the director of the Digital Microwave Lab and the Center for High Frequency Electronics in the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA and the leader of the antenna thrust in National Science Foundation funded Engineering Research Center – Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS).