Professor Qammer H. Abbasi, University of Glasgow

Industrial Fellowships 2022

The next generation of satellite communication systems are increasingly adopting phased arrays to combine several individual antenna elements to improve overall performance, increase gain, cancel out interference, and steer the beam in different direction. This enables operators to adjust and optimise reception and transmission in real time in response to changing link requirements. But phased arrays are expensive and generate a lot of heat because of the electronics involved in them. The physical architecture and integration of those electronics have a huge impact in performance and cooling needs. In this project, Professor Abassi and his team take novel approaches to investigate, design, and fabricate radiating antenna elements, feeding mechanisms, and array system integrations. To remove the heat generated by the phased array, novel array architectures are investigated as a part of the team’s approach. 

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/qammerabbasi/ 

Professor Jason Hallett