R&D Area 02

Advanced Science Electromagnetism

Advanced electromagnetic science connecting fields, materials, antennas, resonators, scattering and RF instrumentation to measurable wireless response.

ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING PATHElectromagnetism & Sensing

01RF EXCITATIONpatch / horn antenna

02RESONANT FIELDchipless structure / material interaction

03SCATTERINGreturn / transmission / RCS

04MEASUREMENTVNA / NanoVNA / anechoic chamber

05SENSING RESULTresonance shift / material response

Block diagram connecting excitation, interaction, measurement and interpretation.

7 primary systems

Problems, Methods and Outcomes

Electromagnetics, RF and microwave sensing, antenna and resonator physics, scattering, S-parameters, RCS, nano-electromagnetics, field-material interaction, VNA/NanoVNA instrumentation and wireless SHM.

P012020-2024

Portable Microwave and Passive Wireless Sensing Platform

Problem: Conventional material-health assessment can require contact, disassembly or laboratory processing that limits continuous industrial monitoring.
Solution: A portable non-contact microwave sensing architecture that links passive RF structures, instrumentation, controlled positioning and computational analysis.
Evidence / result: 1 integrated portable platform

RF architectureVNAchipless resonatorsPython

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P022020-2024

Antennas, Chipless Resonators and Radar Cross-Section

Problem: Passive sensing requires resonant structures whose frequency, bandwidth, quality factor and scattering response remain interpretable under material and environmental change.
Solution: A family of modelled and experimentally evaluated antenna-resonator configurations for chipless and non-contact sensing.
Evidence / result: Validated resonant sensing structures

CSTHFSSpatch antennaschipless RFID

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P032020-2024

VNA/NanoVNA Measurement and Python Processing Toolchain

Problem: RF experiments produce instrument data that must be acquired consistently, associated with controlled geometry and transformed into useful engineering evidence.
Solution: An end-to-end VNA/NanoVNA-class workflow combining acquisition, electromechanical positioning, Python processing, comparison and reporting.
Evidence / result: Laboratory-to-deployment workflow

VNA/NanoVNAPythonmeasurement automationS-parameters

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P042020-2024

Free-Space Microwave Characterization of CNT/Epoxy

Problem: CNT concentration changes electrical and dielectric behaviour, but a contactless method is needed to assess how those changes alter microwave response.
Solution: A free-space patch-antenna characterization method combining VNA measurements with finite-element electromagnetic analysis.
Evidence / result: Distinct field-region behaviour

free-space measurementpatch antennasVNAFEM

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P102020-2024

Non-Contact Structural-Health-Monitoring Methods

Problem: Structural-health-monitoring applications need sensing methods matched to damage scale, access constraints, sensitivity and deployment cost.
Solution: A structured review of non-contact SHM tools and the tradeoffs between global, local, wireless and hybrid approaches.
Evidence / result: Wireless and hybrid sensing direction

SHMwireless sensingradarvision

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P222026

Wireless Sensor Networks for Agricultural Monitoring

Problem: Agricultural epidemic monitoring needs distributed sensing and communications capable of supporting timely field awareness.
Solution: A wireless-sensor-network research architecture connecting field sensing, communications and monitoring.
Evidence / result: Accepted research output

wireless sensor networksagriculturemonitoring

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P302024-2026

Cathodic Protection Sensor Design

Problem: Cathodic-protection monitoring requires dependable sensing and instrumentation to assess protected structures without excessive deployment cost.
Solution: A sensor-design project connecting electromagnetic principles, instrumentation, embedded integration and mechatronics for cathodic-protection monitoring.
Evidence / result: 90% reported cost reduction

sensor designcathodic protectioninstrumentationembedded systems

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Cross-Disciplinary Connections

Connected Work

Related work in which this area provides a supporting method, technology or scientific context.

P05Contactless Characterization under Acid ExposureWireless measurements and multiscale models connected acid diffusion with changes in nanocomposite electrical and RF behaviour.P06Acid Diffusion, Mechanical Response and Wireless SHMMechanical and electromagnetic measurements converged on material degradation behaviour relevant to multimodal structural-health monitoring.P11Computational Multiphysics and Experimental ValidationA cross-study modelling workflow linking electromagnetic, diffusion, mechanical and electrical-network physics with experiments.P21Telecommunications Programme and Laboratory ModernizationCurriculum, laboratory and industry-partnership development across wireless sensing, embedded systems, digital twins, mechatronics and AI.P26Telecommunications Network ImplementationCustomer-facing telecommunications implementation connecting system requirements, configuration, testing and technical delivery.