Prof. Volakis has more than 30 years of experience in sensors and sensing, novel metamaterial antennas, RF materials for high performance hardware, ultra wideband beamforming arrays and RF systems integration. He is internationally known for introducing hybrid finite element methods in electromagnetics. His research covers all aspects of electromagnetics, and includes antennas and wireless communications, electromagnetic compatibility and interference, propagation, design optimization, RF materials and metamaterials, multi-physics engineering, bioelectromagnetics, mm-wave front ends for GB communications, THz, radar scattering, and computational methods. More recently, his work focused on miniaturizing antennas and sensors, and RF systems integrations. He has also transitioned several antennas and computational tools to the market.
Professor Volakis’ research interests cover the following topics:
Novel Reconfigurable RF Front End using Frequency Independent Hybrid Beamformer
Secure Multi-User Communication in Contested Environment using Coding
Millimeter Wave Integrated Antenna Arrays On LTCC
Unobtrusive Batteryless Implantable System for Neurosensing
Wideband High Isolation with Four-Arm Spiral
UWB Self-Interference Cancellation for STAR
2.45 GHz Wearable Power Harvester on Textiles
Recent UWB Antenna Designs (UHF – W Band)
Fabricated RF Systems at RFCOM
mm-Wave UWB-CDMA Transmitter
Millimeter-Wave Camera
STAR Cancellation Network
Software Radio Transceivers
Reconfigurable and Tunable Antenna Array
Wearable Foldable Electronics