Centre for Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering
CELANE conducts high-quality research in the general areas
of Electromagnetic and Microwave Engineering.
CELANE's expertise lies is in the areas of:
Antennas for wireless computer networks, other wireless
communication systems, mobile communications and GPS/non-GPS
locating systems, including microstrip antennas, E-shaped
patch antennas, dielectric-resonator antennas (DRA), planar
inverted F antennas (PIFA), stacked patch antennas, hybrid
resonator antennas, wide slot antennas, electromagnetic
band gap (EBG) resonator antennas, ultra-broadband pulse
transmitting and pulse receiving antennas, resistively loaded
dipole and loop antennas, Luneberg lens antennas, antennas
for radio astronomy.
New theoretical methods in Electromagnetics, including
new closed-form Green's functions for microstrip and
other layered structures, enhanced FDTD method for diagonal
metal edges, FDTD techniques for 2D and 3D photonic crystals,
new close-form frequency-domain Method of Moments, time-domain
Method of Moments for resistively loaded antennas, semi-analytical
Bessel expansion method for loop antennas, analytical and
semi-analytical methods for biological (bioelectromagnetic)
systems (e.g. magnetic stimulation of neurons) and geological
(geoelectromagnetic) systems, solving large electromagnetic
problems with supercomputers and parallel computers.
CELANE is situated in the Electronic Engineering Department
of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
and is directed by Professor Karu Esselle.
News
PhD scholarships are available for highly qualified international (overseas) and domestic (Australia and New Zealand) students.
WHY PhD in CELANE is special?
- Excellent scholarships with full tuition waivers and an excellent living allowance (about $19,000 per year) that is tax-free. These include MQRES (unique to Macquarie University), APA and IPRS.
- Access to excellent funding schemes for your project and travel expenses, typically around $16,000 for a PhD over 3.5-4 years
- Funding to travel to conferences and to visit collaborators overseas through the above mentioned schemes
- Possibility of getting TWO PHD DEGREES for the same work and same thesis, one from Macquarie University and other from European, North American university through Cotutelle-type inter-university arrangements
- Supervision by staff who are know worldwide for their research achievements
- Excellent research facilities worth over a Million dollars (details on research page), including modern personal computers for PhD students, latest software etc. Facilities are frequently updated through external and internal grants. (see RIBG and LIEF grants in the Grants List.)
- Collaboration with top research groups around the world, and CSIRO - the Australian government research organisation
- Availability of supplementary scholarships from ICS and CSIRO (from $4,000 to $12,000 per year)
- Availability of teaching assistantships for additional income and/or teaching experience
- Qualified candidates can apply for MQRES, obtain scholarship and start studies anytime during the year.
Please contact Karu as soon as possible if you are interested in postgraduate scholarships.
Awards
Ghaffer Kiani was awarded the best student poster prize at WARS 2008
held in Gold Coast. He also received an award from Lund University in
Sweden for his collaborative research. Dr Yuehe Ge of CELANE was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship for
2005-07 from ARC under Discovery scheme. He was also offered a very competitive
Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MURF) for the same period, Yuehe
accepted the ARC offer.This is a continuation of the success CELANE had
in external and internal postdoctoral fellowship schemes. In 2005, Dr Nasimuddin was awarded a Young Scientist Award from International
Union of Radio Science (URSI). In 2004, Dr
Nasimuddin, an overseas applicant, was awarded a three-year ARC (Discovery)
postdoctoral fellowship. In 2003, Dr Andew Weliy received one of the five
MURFs earmarked for that year. Later in the same year Andrew was awarded
a Linkage (CSIRO) postdoctoral fellowship from the ARC in a very competitive
round where 187 applicants competed for 10 fellowships.
