活动/讲座时间：2014-05-16 下午2:30-4:00

活动/讲座地点：犀浦校区X2537

活动/讲座嘉宾：Professor Ian Robertson, University of Leeds, UK

嘉宾介绍：

Professor Ian Robertson

Head of School, Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Chair in Microwave and Millimetre Wave Circuits

Prof Ian D. Robertson (FIET, FIEEE) was born in London, U.K., in 1963. He received the B.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. degrees from King’s College London, London, U.K., in 1984 and 1990, respectively. From 1984 to 1986, he worked with the MMIC Research Group, Plessey Research, Caswell, U.K. After that he returned to King’s College London, initially as a Research Assistant and then as a Lecturer, finally becoming Reader in 1994. He led the MMIC Research Team within Prof. Aghvami’s Communications Research Group.

In 1998, he was appointed Professor of Microwave Subsystems Engineering at the University of Surrey, where he established the Microwave Systems Research Group and was a founder member of the Advanced Technology Institute. He has organized many colloquia, workshops, and short courses for both the IEE and IEEE. He edited the book MMIC Design (IEE, 1995) and co-edited the book RFIC & MMIC Design and Technology, (The Institute of Electrical Engineering, 2001) which has been translated into Chinese. He has published over 400 papers in the areas of MIC and MMIC design. He was the Honorary Editor of IEE Proceedings—Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation for many years and Editor-in-Chief of the rebranded IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation from 2005 to 2009.

In June 2004, he was appointed to the University of Leeds Centenary Chair in Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Circuits. He is Technical Programme Committee Chair of the European Microwave Week 2011/2016 and Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the International Journal of RF and Microwave Engineering (Cambridge University Press). He was Director of Learning and Teaching for 5 years and is currently Head of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, which was ranked top in the UK in the last UK Government Research Assessment Excellence. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2012 for his contributions to monolithic microwave integrated circuit design and millimetre-wave system-in-package technology.

www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/electronic

主要内容：

Abstract: The Internet of Things vision will be presented, with a range of application examples in healthcare, sport, entertainment, the creative arts and smart energy systems. The importance of wireless communications will be highlighted. Samsung's recent press releases about 5G systems, using a 28 GHz 64-element antenna system, have shown the importance of the exploitation of the millimetre-wave part of the spectrum for achieving the Gigabit data rates required for future mobile systems.

The basis of this approach, using electronically-steered high-gain antennas and high levels of RF/DSP integration, will be briefly reviewed and prospects for use of frequencies from 20 GHz to 300 GHz explored. Subsequently, it will be shown that the IoT presents another set of RF design challenges, such as ultralow power operation, energy harvesting and sensing in ultra-low cost technologies such as printed and wearable electronics.

The talk will be made suitable for Engineering and Computing students from a wide range of backgrounds.