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Education
Ph.D., Electronics Engineering 2013
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Thesis: Cost Effective Antenna Design for Small Satellite Pulsed and LFMCW RaDAR
- Investigated antenna cost factors for both pulsed and Linear Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (LFMCW) satellite RaDAR to monitor tropical deforestation
- Used mutual coupling to decrease the multimode horn element’s height and effective volume in the phased array
- Skills acquired:
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- Mission analysis to see how the objective and sub-systems affect each other and the antenna design
- Wrote mode matching simulator in C programming language
- Numerical simulator HFSS
- Antenna design using analytical model and verification through numerical simulators
- Mentored another Ph.D. student in aerodynamics with simulators’ experience and mission analysis design.
B.Eng (2nd Upper), Electrical Engineering 2005
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Final Year Project: Study of Human Head Effects on UWB Antenna
- Designed a small Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) antenna with isotropic radiation pattern
- Investigated the effect of the presence of the human head on the antenna
- Discovered the human head does not absorb much of the Radio Frequency (RF) but acts as a ground plane in the UWB range
- Skills acquired:
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- Numerical simulator XFDTD
- Far field antenna measurement using anechoic chamber
Victoria Junior College 2000
5 GCE “A” and 2 “AO” Level Passes
Zhonghua Secondary School 1998
8 GCE “O” Level Passes
Experience
R&D Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 2005-2007
Industry Project: HF RFID Smart Shelf Proof of Concept
- Produced a proof of concept antenna to detect items on a metal shelf using only 1 planar antenna instead of the conventional solution of 2 antennas
- Awarded 2 patents
- Skills acquired:
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- Numerical simulator IE3D
- HF near field measurement
Project: Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) Study
- Studied the effectiveness of UHF RFID in the near and far field with different materials in an enclosed cluttered space
Industrial Attachment Student, DSO Laboratories 2004
Project: Satellite and Wide band Line of Sight Communication System
- Selected a propagation model and integrated into a simulator using C++ programming language
- Skills acquired:
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- C++ programming language
International Publications
Journal
- Z.N. Chen, A. Cai, T.S.P. See, X. Qing, M.Y.W. Chia, “Small Planar UWB Antennas in Proximity of the Human Head, ” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, no. 4, part 2, pp. 1846-1857, April 2006.
Conferences
- A. Cai, C.I. Underwood, M.N. Sweeting, “Height Reduction Using Mutual Coupling for the Multimode Horn Phased Array, ” EuCAP 2013, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2013.
- Z.N. Chen, A. Cai, T.S.P. See, M.Y.W. Chia, “Small Planar UWB Antennas in Proximity of Human Head, ” IEEE International Conference on UWB 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 286-289, Sept. 2005.
- T.S.P. See, A. Cai, Z.N. Chen, “Study on the Transmission of RF Signals on the Human Body, ” IEE WIdeband and Multi-band Antennas and Arrays 2005, Birmingham, United Kingdom, pp. 83-87, Sept. 2005.
- A. Cai and Z.N. Chen, “Characterization of Printed UWB antennas in the proximity of Human Head, ” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2005, Washington D.C., United States, pp. 698-701, July 2005.
- A. Cai, T.S.P. See, and Z.N. Chen, “Study of Human Head Effects on UWB Antenna, ” IEEE International Workshop on Antennas and Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials, Singapore March 2005. (Won Best Poster)
Patents
- X. Qing, Z.N. Chen, A. Cai, “Antenna for Radio Frequency Identification System”, 24 May 2007, WO 2007058619 A1.
- X. Qing, Z.N. Chen, A. Cai, “Multi-loop Antenna for Radio Frequency Identification Applications, 24 May 2007, WO 2007058620 A1”.
Languages
- English - Writing, Speaking, Reading, Hearing (Fluent)
- Chinese - Writing, Speaking, Reading, Hearing (Fluent)
- Japanese - Reading, Hearing (not Fluent)
- German - Hearing (not Fluent)
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