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Our labs are currently under development to provide the research group a student-built anechoic chamber for antenna aperture testing.

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Buildings

Resources and Equiptment

The ARC Group operates and maintains a variety of equipment within the group labs in support of meeting research tasks:

Equiptment

  • Keysight E5080A ENA VNA 9 kHz to 9 GHz
  • Keysight FieldFox VNA 100 kHz to 26.5 GHz
  • Near-Field EMScan RFX2 300 MHz to 6 GHz
  • Rohde and Schwarz Spectrum Analyzer 100 kHz to 6 GHz
  • RF Signal Generator 100 kHz to 20 GHz

  • Near/Far-field Anechoic Chamber (700 MHz - 18 GHz)
  • HP 8656B Signal Generator 0.1 - 990 MHz
  • Agilent 89441A Vector Signal Analyzer DC-2650 MHz
  • T-Tech PCB Milling Machine
  • Fujifilm Dimatix Material Printer

Software Tools

EM Simulation Software including:

  • Ansys High Frequency Structure Simulation (HFSS)
  • Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS)
  • CST Studio Suite Electromagnetic Field Simulation Software

RF Hardware

  • ICOM 9100 Transceiver + Roof Mounted UHF/VHF Yagi Pair for LEO Satellite Communications
  • ThingMagic M6e RFID Reader
  • Alien ALR Gen 2 RFID Reader
  • Rolls of Gen 2 RFID Passive Tags

Processing Power

  • 16-core Xeon computer with 256 GB of RAM
  • Ryzen Threadripper 2990X 32-core computer with 128 GB of RAM
  • 12-core Xeon computer with 128 GB of RAM
  • Various Nvidia GPUs including: 700 series, 1000 series, 2000 series, Titan-Z, Titan-X, Titan-RTX, Tesla K40C

THE GROUP


Current Faculty

Dr. Elsherbeni

Dr. Atef Elsherbeni

Director

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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Dr. Aaen

Dr. Peter Aaen

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.

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Current PhD Electrical Engineering Candidates

Joseph Diener

Joseph Diener

Research interests include antenna design, SDR Applications, FDTD, and Channel Sounding.

Projects

Joseph Diener

Matthew Dodd

Research interests include wideband antenna design and antenna array optimization.

Projects

Rob

Robert Jones

Research interests include antenna design and metrology and channel sounding.

Projects

Nolan

Nolan Grant

coming soon

Projects


Current MS Electrical Engineering Students

Cameron

Cameron Evanovich

coming soon

Projects

Lisa

Lisa Elmiladi

Embedded system design, Wireless/RF communications, and non-invasive medical technology

Projects

Nelson

Nelson Angels

Computational electromagnetics in FDTD relating to biomedical applications and implants, brain-computer interfaces, wireless communications optimization, and antenna design.

Projects


Current Undergraduate Researchers

Kenny

Kenneth Hora

Research areas include embedded development, rfid localization, and SDR.

Projects

Charles

Charles Vath

Research areas include computational electromagnetics and electromagnetic education via field visualizations and software programs.

Projects

Silje

Silje Ostrem

Unique/wideband antenna geometry and biomedical applications of RF/Microwave design

Projects

Kobe

Kobe Prior

Research areas include electromagnetics education and SDR.

Projects

Trevor

Trevor Wolf

SDR, RFID, and Satellite Communication.

Projects

Grace

Grace Martinez

Advancing the Efficacy of Implantable Antennas in Medical Devices.

Projects

Grace

Madeleine Nightengale-Luhan

Antenna theory and design, SDR applications, microwave devices, and RF systems.

Projects

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Petersen

Antenna design and optimization for healthcare applications

Projects

Lydia

Lydia Tan

Developing computational tools for visualization of electromagnetic waves and antenna patterns

Projects

Andrew

Andrew Smith

Computational electromagnetic and antenna design

Projects

Aidan

Aidan Malensek

Narrowband Electronically Steerable Arrays (ESA), RFID, Spacecraft Communication Systems

Projects

Aiden

Aiden Morrison

Antennas in aerospace applications

Projects


Past Members

Past Co-Director

Dr. Hadi

Dr. Mohammed Hadi

Research areas include finite-difference time-domain theory, large-scale and multi-scale electromagnetics systems, and GPU computing.

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Past PhD Students

Alec Weiss

Alec Weiss

Research areas include multi-GPU/CPU FDTD and RFID localization.

Projects

Kyle

Kyle Patel

Research interest include:

Projects

Joshua Kast

Joshua Kast

Research interests include beamforming, RFID localization, and SDR.

Projects

Abdullah

Abdullah Algarni

Research interests include cylindrical FDTD for drilling applications.

Projects

Yiming

Yiming Chen

Research interests include antenna array optimization and machine learning.

Projects


Past Masters Students

Madison

Madison Le

Research areas include computational electromagnetics in FDTD, antenna design, and numerical method analysis.

Projects

Andy

Andy Velasco

Research interests include dispersive material simulations.

Projects

Yuhao

Yuhao Feng

Research interests include 5G antenna design.

Projects

Tony

Tony D'Esposito

Research interests include higher-order FDTD.

Projects

Rob

Robert Jones

Research interests include antenna design and metrology and channel sounding.

Projects

Joseph Diener

Joseph Diener

Research interests include antenna design, SDR Applications, FDTD, and Channel Sounding.

Projects

Alec Weiss

Alec Weiss

Research areas include multi-GPU/CPU FDTD and RFID localization.

Projects

Joshua Kast

Joshua Kast

Research interests include beamforming, RFID localization, and SDR.

Projects

Kyle

Kyle Patel

Research interest include:

Projects

Rachel

Rachel Lumnitzer

Research interests include dispersive material simulations, FDTD analysis for 5G biomedical applications, and electromagnetic education.

Projects

Collin

Collin Kringlen

Antenna Design

Projects


Past Undergraduate Students

Spencer

Spencer Hutchinson

Research areas include chipless RFID, RFID localization and applications.

Projects

Kyle

Kyle Patel

Research interest include:

Projects

Allison

Allison Tanner

Research areas include FDTD time reversal.

Projects

Rob

Robert Jones

Research interests include antenna design and metrology and channel sounding.

Projects

Madison

Madison Le

Research areas include computational electromagnetics in FDTD, antenna design, and numerical method analysis.

Projects

Rachel

Rachel Lumnitzer

Research interests include dispersive material simulations, FDTD analysis for 5G biomedical applications, and electromagnetic education.

Projects


OUR WORK

What we've done

Cubesat
Antenna Pattern
RFID
Subgridding
Antenna Test Range
ACES Conference Student Competition Winner
ARC Lab
ACES 2019 Conference
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Our Skills.

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

90%

RFID Systems

85%

Computational Electromagnetics

75%
12+
Current Members
55+
Projects Done
50+
Published Papers
150+
Meetings

Software

Software packages that our lab has created for download and use


News Updates

See what our group has been doing


2024 NEWS

At the ARC Lab, they got to do some hands-on antenna prototyping using copper tape and a Tektronix VNA. Kaino designed a Yagi-Uda antenna operating at 1.5 GHz, and Sophia designed a 3 GHz microstrip patch antenna. Both students got to solder, interpret S-parameters, and iterate through their designs to improve performance. Once their antennas were working well on the VNA, they took them into the anechoic chamber to measure radiation patterns.

The students were able to explore the anechoic chamber and see their antennas' performance in real time. It was wonderful to share the fun of electromagnetics with a couple of incredible students and see their understanding of concepts develop.

Nov 2024 | News

Two high school students, as a part of the LEAD SUMMET program, began their lab shadowing experiences in the ARC LAB. Sophia and Kainoa are part of the inaugural class of high school students invited to shadow in various research labs. As an expansion of SUMMET (Summer Multicultural Engineering Training), these students learn to read papers, use lab equipment, and will present their experiences to next year's SUMMET students. First, they visited Connor Denny in the thin-film deposition lab in Coorstek. Connor is a quantum engineering graduate student doing research on low-noise amplifiers and is involved in research under Dr. Aaen. There, they learned about wire bonding, integrated circuit fabrication, and even got to use the Science Microwave to perform plasma etching on a borosilicate sample.


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.

  • Paper #1 entitled "Pyramidally Shaped Absorbing Boundary for FDTD Simulations" and was coauthored by members of the ARC group: Robert Jones, Joseph Diener, Alec Wess, and Jushua Cast.
  • Paper #2 entitled "A Review of Radar Cross-Section evaluation of Canonical and Complex Objects"
  • Short course entitled: "Time Domain Simulation of Electromagnetic Problems Combined with Linear and Nonlinear Circuit Elements"

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.

CONTACT

Let's get in touch. Send us a message:

Brown Hall 1610 Illinois St., Golden, Colorado 80401 USA

Office: Brown Building 314C

Email: aelsherb@mines.edu