Scattering/diffraction of EM waves, computational EM using FDTD, field visualiz./software devel. for EM education, RFID/sensor integrated FRID systems, and reflector/printed antennas & antenna array.
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Our labs are currently under development to provide the research group a student-built anechoic chamber for antenna aperture testing.
The ARC Group operates and maintains a variety of equipment within the group labs in support of meeting research tasks:
EM Simulation Software including:
Current Faculty
Co-Director
Multi-physics based modelling and measurement methodologies for high-power and high-frequency electronic devices, non-linear electrothermal transistor modelling efficient electromagnetic simulations, development of compact models for microwave power transistor and RFICs, calibration techniques for microwave measurements.
ContactCurrent PhD Electrical Engineering Candidates
Research interests include antenna design, SDR Applications, FDTD, and Channel Sounding.
Projects
Research interests include wideband antenna design and antenna array optimization.
Research interests include antenna design and metrology and channel sounding.
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coming soon
ProjectsCurrent MS Electrical Engineering Students
coming soon
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Embedded system design, Wireless/RF communications, and non-invasive medical technology
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Computational electromagnetics in FDTD relating to biomedical applications and implants, brain-computer interfaces, wireless communications optimization, and antenna design.
ProjectsCurrent Undergraduate Researchers
Research areas include embedded development, rfid localization, and SDR.
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Research areas include computational electromagnetics and electromagnetic education via field visualizations and software programs.
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Unique/wideband antenna geometry and biomedical applications of RF/Microwave design
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Research areas include electromagnetics education and SDR.
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SDR, RFID, and Satellite Communication.
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Advancing the Efficacy of Implantable Antennas in Medical Devices.
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Antenna theory and design, SDR applications, microwave devices, and RF systems.
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Antenna design and optimization for healthcare applications
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Developing computational tools for visualization of electromagnetic waves and antenna patterns
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Computational electromagnetic and antenna design
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Narrowband Electronically Steerable Arrays (ESA), RFID, Spacecraft Communication Systems
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Antennas in aerospace applications
ProjectsPast Members
Past Co-Director
Research areas include finite-difference time-domain theory, large-scale and multi-scale electromagnetics systems, and GPU computing.
ContactPast PhD Students
Research areas include multi-GPU/CPU FDTD and RFID localization.
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Research interest include:
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Research interests include cylindrical FDTD for drilling applications.
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Past Masters Students
Research areas include computational electromagnetics in FDTD, antenna design, and numerical method analysis.
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Research interests include dispersive material simulations.
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Research interests include 5G antenna design.
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Research interests include higher-order FDTD.
Projects
Research interests include antenna design and metrology and channel sounding.
Projects
Research interests include antenna design, SDR Applications, FDTD, and Channel Sounding.
Projects
Research areas include multi-GPU/CPU FDTD and RFID localization.
Projects
Research interest include:
Projects
Research interests include dispersive material simulations, FDTD analysis for 5G biomedical applications, and electromagnetic education.
Projects
Antenna Design
ProjectsPast Undergraduate Students
Research areas include chipless RFID, RFID localization and applications.
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Research interest include:
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Research areas include FDTD time reversal.
Projects
Research interests include antenna design and metrology and channel sounding.
Projects
Research areas include computational electromagnetics in FDTD, antenna design, and numerical method analysis.
Projects
Research interests include dispersive material simulations, FDTD analysis for 5G biomedical applications, and electromagnetic education.
Projects
What we've done
While many members of the research team have studied disciplines other than electrical engineering we have common strengths in these areas.
We train these skills through our course work as well as through research projects.
Antenna Design
RFID Systems
Computational Electromagnetics
Software packages that our lab has created for download and use
See what our group has been doing
May 2024 | News
Matthew Dodd, Charles Vath, Nelson Angles, Silje Ostrem, Grace Martienz, Elizabeth Peterson, Kenny Hora, Lisa Elmiladi, Trevor Wolf and Drs. Atef Elsherbeni, Peter Aaen, and Jamal Rostami members of the ARC research group at Mines participated in the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Symposium, held in May 2024 in Orlando. They presented 6 papers (Matthew Dodd, Charles Vath, Nelson Angles, Silje Ostrem, Kenny Hora, Lisa Elmiladi), co-shared four sessions (Charles Vath, Nelson Angles, Silje Ostrem, Elizabeth Peterson) and all managed the conference registration and help desk. Four other members participated in the presented work (Nolan Grant, Cameron Evanovich, Collin Kringlen, Trevor Wolf), but could not attend the conference.
April 2024 | News
One of our amazing combined students, Kenny Hora, presented at the GRADS symposium last month! GRADS stands for the ‘Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium’ hosted by Mines every Spring. This is a great opportunity to present your hard work and innovation to peers, faculty, and industry professionals who provide valuable feedback and collaboration opportunities. Dr. Atef Elsherbeni has been pivotal in helping and guiding these students through their research. Kenny presented with fellow students, Silje Ostrem and Charles Vath, on Sensor Data Relay System for Underground Mine Equipment. A novel system is developed to communicate data from sensor-enabled cutting tools (“smart bits”) on a continuous mining (CM) cutterhead to carry the data to the machine for control and maintenance management purposes. This will allow operators to understand the wear status of the rock cutting tools or bits in addition to the type of rock currently being drilled.
September 2024 | News
Dr. Atef Elsherbeni presented two papers and offered a short course at the combined ICEAA and IEEE APWC conferences during 3th to 6th of September 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Dr. Elsherbeni was also the chair of the conference awards committee
2023 News Archieves
2023 | News
Dr. Atef Elsherbeni received the 2023 Antennas and Propagation Society 2023 Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics. Award cited Dr. Elsherbeni’s contribution to computational electromagnetics with hardware acceleration techniques.
2023 | News
Congratulations to Matthew Dodd for his participation at the APS-UES 2023 meeting.
April 2023 | News
Congratulations to Nelson, Rachel, and Silje for their participation in the 2023 ACES Conference held in Monterey, CA.
April 2023 | News
Rachel Lumnitzer successfully earned her Masters degree. Congratulations!
April 2023 | News
Congratulations to Nelson and Silje for their ARDC Award
April 2023 | News
Congratulations to 5 of our research group members who presented at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Kenny Hora
Charles Vath
Silje Ostrem
Trevor Wolf
Kobe Prior
2020 News Archieves
August 2020 | News
Congratulations to 3 of our research group members who have succesfully defended their Thesis/Dissertation!
Abdullah Algarni - Ph.D. Dissertation
Yuhao Feng- Master's Thesis
Madison Le - Master's Thesis
June 2020 | News
Dr. Atef Elsherbeni has been selected as a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) for the period of 2020-2022.
April 2020 | News
Mines GRADS 2020 - Awards Ceremony (LIVE): GRADS awards announced by President Johnson, declaring two of the ARC group members category winners in Engineering and Modeling and Simulation. Winners include Madison Le (4:50) and Rachel Lumnitzer (6:01).
April 2020 | News
Madison Le’s GRADS long-form presentation "Sub-gridding errors in Standard and Hybrid Higher Order FDTD Simulations" places top in Modeling and Simulation category for $500 prize.
April 2020 | News
Rachel Lumnitzer's GRADS short-form presentation "One Dimensional FDTD in Dispersive Media for Biomedical Imaging Applications" places second in Engineering Category for $500 prize. Co-researchers include Allison Tanner.
2019 News Archives
March 2019 | News
Madison Le's paper “Error Analysis of Subgridding when Modeling Multiscale Structures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method” won third place in the 2019 ACES student paper competition. A poster outlining the paper can be viewed in the hallway outside the EE department office BB310C.
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Brown Hall 1610 Illinois St., Golden, Colorado 80401 USA
Office: Brown Building 314C
Email: aelsherb@mines.edu