Friday, April 17, 2015

IEEE APS Lecture Series

TITLEIntegrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Compact and Power Efficient Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics



Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Time:6:00 PM
Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory A-Café
Refreshments & Snacks Served at 5:30pm
Speaker: Prof. Nian Sun /  Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics
Abstract: The coexistence of electric polarization and magnetization in multiferroic materials provides great opportunities for realizing magnetoelectric coupling, including electric field control of magnetism, or vice versa, through a strain mediated magnetoelectric interaction effect in layered magnetic/ferroelectric multiferroic heterostructures . Strong magnetoelectric coupling has been the enabling factor for different multiferroic devices, which however has been elusive, particularly at RF/microwave frequencies. In this presentation, I will cover the most recent progress on different magnetic and multiferroic heterostructures and devices, including nanoelectromechanical system magnetoelectric sensors with picoTesla sensitivity by usingFeGaB/Al2Omultilayers, new integrated GHz magnetic inductors based on solenoid structures with FeGaB/Al2O3 and FeCoB/Al2O3 multilayers exhibiting >150% enhanced inductance and quality factor ~20 at GHz frequencies over their air core counterparts, power efficient voltage tunable magnetoelectric inductors with inductance tunability of 50%~150% at GHz, etc. These novel voltage tunable GHz inductors show great promise for applications in radio frequency integrated circuits. At the same time, we will demonstrate other tunable multiferroic devices, including multiferroic voltage tunable bandpass filters [6], tunable bandstop filters, tunable phase shifters, multiferroic antennas,and spintronics, etc. 

For more information, contact:
Raoul O. Ouedraogo, raoul.ouedraogo@ll.mit.edu
Wajih Elsallal, welsallal@mitre.org , or
Jonathan Doane, jon.doane@ll.mit.edu
For directions please see: http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/map.html



 
Speaker Bio: Nian Sun is a professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, and Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a Scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, the Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, etc. His research interests include novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, devices and subsystems. He has over 160 publications and over 20 patents and patent disclosures. One of his papers was selected as the “ten most outstanding full papers in the past decade (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”. Dr. Sun has given over ~100 invited presentations or seminars. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. 


(Thanks to the Boston Photonics Society for the following directions.)
From interstate I-95/Route 128: Take Exit 31B onto Routes 4/225 towards Bedford - Stay in right lane; Use Right Turning Lane (0.3 mile from exit) to access Hartwell Ave. at 1st Traffic Light.; Follow Hartwell Ave. to Wood St. (~1.3 miles); Turn Left on to Wood Street and Drive for 0.3 of a mile.; Turn Right into MIT Lincoln Lab, at the Wood Street Gate.
From Exit 30B: Take Exit 30B on to Route 2A - Stay in right lane; Turn Right on to Mass. Ave (~ 0.4 miles - opposite Minuteman Tech.).; Follow Mass. Ave for ~ 0.4 miles.; Turn Left on to Wood Street and Drive for 1.0 mile.
Turn Left into MIT Lincoln Lab, at the Wood Street Gate.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Distinguished Guest Lecturer: Eli Brookner on "MIMO Radars ­­­and Their Conventional Equivalents"





IEEE APS-AESS-MTT Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Eli Brookner, Raytheon Company (retired)
Distinguished Guest Lecturer: Eli Brookner
TITLE: MIMO Radars ­­­and Their Conventional Equivalents
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015                         Time: 6:00 PM
Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory (A-Cafe)             
Refreshments served at 5:30pm. INCLUDES COOKIES, DRINKS, FREE PIZZA.
Contact: Raoul Ouedraogo x7949 – Raoul.ouedraogo@ll.mit.edu

Abstract: This talk is given in tutorial form for the benefit of those not familiar with MIMO. The aim is to give physical insight into MIMO and its conventional equivalents. The math will be limited to the basic Fourier Transform which we all learned in undergraduate college. We will start with an explanation of MIMO and conventional arrays. It had been shown by the speaker in the past that contrary to common belief a MIMO full/thin array does not provide orders of magnitude better resolution and accuracy (10x, 100x or 1000x better) than a conventional array. Specifically, It was shown that that a conventional full/thin array can do just as well as a MIMO full/thin array. The conventional full/thin array had some grating lobes (GLs) but these were dealt with. Here a new conventional array that does not have GLs but has the SAME accuracy and resolution as the MIMO full/thin array is presented. It is a conventional thin/full array radar which is the conventional full/thin array radar with the roles of the arrays reversed, thin array transmitting and full array receiving.

It is also  shown that conventional equivalents to MIMO radar systems can do just as well as the MIMO systems in rejecting barrage-noise jammers, repeater jammers, hot-clutter jammers and main-lobe jammers. Signal processing loads, waveforms and the operation of the MIMO and its equivalents are detailed.        

Dr. Eli Brookner Bio: