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Near-Field Antenna & Metamaterials Characterization

Anechoic Chamber

  • Fully automated planar/cylindrical/spherical near-field scanner up to 40GHz
  • Designed by Nearfield Systems
  • 5'×5' XY-scanning range
  • 5'×360° cylindrical scanning range
  • 180°×360° cylindrical scanning range
  • Z-translation:
    • 5' + additional 10" on AUT side
    • 4" on probe side
  • 360° probe rotation around Z
  • Fully customizable fixtures on AUT side
  • 8-axis antenna range controllers
  • Wired remote control
  • Fully programmable/scriptable software GUI control of RF equipment, positioners, and processing functions
  • Request to use equipment


Near-Field Scanner

  • Fully automated planar/cylindrical/spherical near-field scanner up to 40GHz
  • Designed by Nearfield Systems
  • 5'×5' XY-scanning range
  • 5'×360° cylindrical scanning range
  • 180°×360° cylindrical scanning range
  • Z-translation:
    • 5' + additional 10" on AUT side
    • 4" on probe side
  • 360° probe rotation around Z
  • Fully customizable fixtures on AUT side
  • 8-axis antenna range controllers
  • Wired remote control
  • Fully programmable/scriptable software GUI control of RF equipment, positioners, and processing functions
  • Request to use equipment

Laser-Based Rapid PCB Prototyping

  • LPKF ProtoMat D104
  • Combination UV-laser etching (for sub-100um features) and mechanical drilling/routing/cutting/surface milling
  • Laser: 349nm (UV) 100mW, max. 15um diameter (focused), 3um resolution, 1um repeatability
  • Mechanical: max. 100,000rpm (variable), hole drilling at 100 holes/min.
  • 9"×12"×0.4" work area
  • 50um traces with 30um spacing or better on rigid/woven materials, PTFE based substrates, and unfired LTCC substrates
  • Fiducial alignment camera for double-sided PCBs
  • LPKF CircuitPro 2.3 software
  • Request to use equipment

High Performance Probe System


Summit™ series manual and semi-automated probe systems, with PureLine™ and AttoGuard® technology, allow you to access the full range of your test instruments for 200 mm and 150 mm wafers. Whatever your application: RF/Microwave, device characterization, wafer level reliability, e-test, modeling, or yield enhancement, Summit series platforms lead the industry in onwafer measurements. Summit series probe stations are easy to configure with your choice of measurement performance, manual or semi-automated operation, chuck size, thermal range and microscope options. All platforms are -60°C to 300°C compatible to ensure an upgrade path to meet your future needs [1].


[1] For more info., you can refer to the following link.

3D Printing Facility


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About US

All facilities within this lab are belong to three UofA faculty members:

Mojgan Daneshmand, PhD, PEng

Associate Professor,ECE

Mojgan Daneshmand received a B.Sc. degree from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 1999, a M.Sc degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2001, and a Ph.D. Degree from the University of Waterloo in 2005; all in Electrical Engineering.

Ashwin K. Iyer, PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor, ECE

Ashwin K. Iyer received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2009. He joined the faculty of the University of Alberta Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Assistant Professor in the fall of same year and currently leads a growing team of talented students.

Pedram Mousavi, PhD, PEng

Assistant Professor, ME

Dr. Pedram Mousavi is an Associate Professor with Departments of Mechanical Engineering within Engineering Management group and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta.He has over twelve years of entrepreneurial academic experience with start-up companies from the University of Waterloo and the University of Alberta.

Contact Us

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