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Low cost and small volume prototypes UPCT facilitate air and space communications and minimize interference
The electronic reconfiguration of antennas, changing parameters such as operating frequency, polarization and the radiation pattern is the subject of a recent thesis defended at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
The dissertation of Raúl Guzmán Quirós, entitled 'Analysis and design of new electronically reconfigurable antennas', "is a great contribution to the development of smart antennas, which are reconfigured to adapt to the environment and streamline communications," says research director José Luis Gómez-Tornero.
"They have application in the aviation sector, to enable reconfigure their antennas aircraft in flight for coverage of the Internet, and bidirectional communications or point to point, avoiding interference by establishing only paths between transmitter and receiver," continues Polytechnic teacher and member of the research group Electromagnetism Applied to Telecommunications, directed Alejandro Alvarez Melcón.
Pioneering antennas designed for the new doctor for UPCT "have great applicability in systems oriented space industry for its high directivity communications," says the author of the thesis.
"They are less expensive than the technology used so far reduced (only three inches high) and scalable to many frequency spectra volume," says Guzman.
The young researcher, Telecommunications Engineer and Master in Information Technology and Communications UPCT developed from October at the University of Grenoble antennas for geostationary satellites.
"Thanks to the training received at the Polytechnic of Cartagena we are demanding research groups abroad, where companies collaborate with universities," he says.
"Electronic reconfiguration is part of the future of telecommunications" notes Guzman, who designed three prototype antennas were built and tested by the CSIRO ICT Centre prestigious Sydney.
With the last of his prototypes won first prize for young researchers at the International Scientific Radio Union.
Source: UPCT
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