Antenna Chamber

The Antenna Chamber, also known as the Electromagnetics Informatics Lab (EIL), provides world-class facilities to measure the performance of antennas – a key component in sensing and communications systems. 

Equipment

  • Largest near-field antenna anechoic chamber in Australia, operating from 700MHz to 50GHz 

Capabilities

  • Near-field and Far-field antenna pattern testing
  • Antenna gain measurement
  • Antenna factor measurement
  • Antenna directivity measurement
  • OTA System performance 

Research topics

  • Reconfigurable antennas
  • Multi-beam antenna arrays 
  • Conformal transmit antenna arrays 
  • Tightly coupled antenna arrays 
  • Base station antennas for 5G and beyond 
  • Metamaterial-inspired antennas 
  • Metasurface-based antennas 
  • Electrically small antennas 
  • Non-foster circuit augmented antennas 
  • Rectennas 
  • RF filters and matching circuits 
  • High temperature superconducting (HTS) Terahertz and mm-wave receivers 
  • Electromagnetic jamming
  • Beamforming and beamshaping