Applied Electromagnetics, Acoustics, and Plasmas
Electromagnetic and acoustic waves are at the heart of countless innovative technologies and scientific tools for applications in wireless communications, remote sensing, Internet of Things, wireless networks, medical imaging, healthcare, security, and defense. UW-Madison ECE faculty and students in this area are known internationally for their research advances in:
- Antennas
- Phased-array systems
- Metamaterials
- Microwaves/millimeter-wave/THz systems
- Wave propagation through media and channels
- High-power microwave sources and amplifiers
- Vacuum electronics
- Wireless power transfer
- Computational electromagnetics
- RF/microwave/ultrasonic medical imaging and remote sensing
- Nondestructive testing
- Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of RF/microwaves/acoustics
- Bioelectromagnetics
- Ab initio calculations and measurements of dielectric properties of materials at the nanoscale
- Micron-sized particle accelerators
Faculty
- David Anderson – Active Emeritus
- Nader Behdad
- John Booske – Active Emeritus
- Susan Hagness
- Irena Knezevic
- Daniel Ludois
- Chu Ma
- Paul Milenkovic
- Nathan Strachen
- Haihan Sun
- Dan van der Weide
- Andreas Velten
- Amy Wendt
- Zongfu Yu
Focus on Faculty – Chu Ma
Research labs and facilities
- HSX – Helically Symmetric eXperiment
- UW-Madison Acoustic Sensing and Functional Materials (ASFM) Lab
- UW-Madison Photonics Lab
- UW-Madison Cross-Disciplinary Electromagnetics (UWCEM) Lab
- van der Weide Group
Next-gen research from inside our anechoic chamber
This photograph shows a near-field antenna measurement system used for measuring the radiation properties of antennas operating in the 600 MHz to 18 GHz frequency band. In the center of the photograph, you can see a scaled model of a midsize aircraft with several antennas mounted on it. Scaled model measurements are often used to characterize the radiation properties of antennas mounted on large structures such as aircrafts, ships, and vehicles at an early design and optimization stage.