Research Topic 1
Research Topic 1
Wireless energy harvesting and wireless power transfer technologies (via far-field RF, mmWave and near-field coupling)
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We have developed world-leading wireless energy harvesting systems to capture energy from ambient wireless signals with state-of-the-art efficiencies.
We have showcased the first real-world sensors fully powered by the wireless energy harvester.
We are pioneering the research in wireless power transfer via mmWave signals.
Research Topic 2
Research Topic 2
Stretchable and flexible electronics, sensors and RF devices, mechanically reconfigurable antennas and on-body flexible devices
We are developing emerging flexible antennas and circuits using advanced soft materials.
We aim to enable state-of-the-art on-body wireless connectivity, remote sensing and power autonomy for human-to-machine intelligence and smart healthcare.
This research is conducted in a wide collaboration partnership with researchers from material science, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering.
Research Topic 3
Research Topic 3
Dielectric antennas, dielectric resonators, liquid antennas and RF devices (liquid metal and liquid dielectrics)
We have developed emerging liquid antennas using unconventional liquid materials with radical properties (e.g. ionic liquid).
We have led the research activities in compact hybrid liquid & metal antenna engineering and new liquid reconfigurable antennas.
Research Topic 4
Research Topic 4
Metamaterials and metasurfaces in antennas, energy harvesting and sensing technologies
We are developing advanced meta-harvesters for eletromagnetic waves
We are developing meta-textiles for on-body shielding and protection
We are developing meta-sensors to detect man-kind activities.
Research Grants
Research Grants
Principal Investigator (PI), "Revolutionizing Antenna Miniaturization and Performance Enhancement for Stretchable and Flexible Electronics, Royal Society, £20k. Oct. 2024 - Sep. 2025
KCL Co-I, "Co-design Of an Advanced Educational Program To Support The Emerging And Future Eco-system Of Semiconductor Manufacturing And Design In The UK" Innovate UK funding competition on Semiconductor industry skills and training, £491,855. (PI: Dr. Tayebeh Mousavi) Aug. 2023 - Jan. 2025.
Principal Investigator (PI), "Wireless Power Transfer" Industrial Funded Research Grant (Project 1115859), £180k. Jan. 2023 - Jan. 2024
Principal Investigator (PI), “Joint TENG/RF harvesting enabled smart skin and green flexible electronics ” Jiangsu Province Oversea Cooperation Grant, PI at UK, CNY 1.2 million (£138k) (50% sharing, in partnership with Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science) May 2022 – Apr. 2025
Co-Principal Investigator, "Fishing for data" Cisco, $150k (B19R13615), Jan. 2021-Dec. 2021.
Principal Investigator (PI), “5.8 GHz Integrated Reconfigurable Rectennas and Arrays for High Power WPT” Sichuan Province Oversea Cooperation Grant, PI at UK, CNY 300k (£34.5k) (50% sharing in partnership with Sichuan University) 2020 – 2022
Research co-Investigator (1 of 4), “Wearable helmet antennas for tracking construction workers using LoRa-WAN” Sensor City Innovation Voucher, in collaboration with Wearable-Link Ltd. £6,500. 2019 – 2020
Research co-Investigator (1 of 3), “Introducing Mobile communications Industry-related courses in Undergraduate Curriculum (IMMISSU)” Royal Academy of Engineering, IAPP1R2\100035, £50,000. 2018 – 2019
Participators, (a) “Liquid Antennas”, EPSRC, EP/P015751/1, £587,312 (Postdoc). 2017 – 2020. (b) “Compact GNSS Antennas”, Ministry of Defence, SBRI_MOD_236, Phase-1: £48,080 and Phase-2: £190,144. 2015 – 2016. (c) “Broadband Rectennas”, Aeterum Grant, £100,000 (PhD studentship). 2013 – 2017.
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