Three-birds with One Stone. High-frequency Instrumentation for Device Characterization and Future Radar and Communication System Measurements
Abstract
Funding is requested to upgrade a network analyzer by Keysight Technologies that operates from 10 MHz to 26.5 GHz so that it can extend its frequency range in the mm-wave band up to 110 GHz. The new vector network analyzer will be shared among six laboratories at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and will dramatically advance, with experimental activities, multiple existing research projects and collaborations among the investigators in three major areas of electrical engineering: semiconductor devices, communications, and radar systems. The new instrumentation will augment the research results of two currently funded DoD projects: (1) (AFOSR) Electronic properties and interactions in emerging electronic system: fundamentals of phonon e ects and (2) (ARO) Photonic e ects in diamond electronics. In addition, with the new instrumentation the investigators will validate, showcase and bring to new heights their research results, as well as attract additional research funding in 11 areas of interest to the Department of Defense. The team of 12 investigators, 7 of whom are women and minority, consists of researchers who actively contribute to making discoveries in solid state electronics, electromagnetics, communications, radar systems as well as an expert in STEM engineering education. The research activities will heavily involve Ph.D., M.S., and undergraduate students, including those from under-represented minority groups, who are very well represented at UIC, a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) and one of the most diverse college campuses in the U.S. It is one of only 16 institutions in the country that is designated as both a Carnegie 1 Institution (R1) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and it is also designated as an Asian American and Native American Paci c Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI). Nearly 60% of rst-time freshmen at UIC are Pell grant eligible and 35% identify as rst-generation college students. Graduate students will take active role in the research activities associated with the proposed instrumentation purchases as part of their thesis research work. Undergraduate students will be involved through (1) the course ECE 392 Undergraduate Research; (2) the Guaranteed Internship Program of the College of Engineering during the Summer semesters; (3) the Chancellor s Undergraduate Research Program; (4) Honors College Activities; (5) visits to research labs during lectures (see included letter of collaboration). Outreach activities will be coordinated through the College of Engineering, which attracts to the UIC campus about 3,000 student from local high school as well as their instructors (see included letter of collaboration). Outreach activities will include also be coordinated through the advisors of the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the Society of Women Engineers, who collectively outreached to over 300 middle and high school students in the Chicagoland area during 201-2021 (see included letter of collaboration). Minority students will be attracted through various forms of advertisement, including announcements in the courses taught by the investigators. The investigators have a strong record of involving undergraduate students, including underrepresented minorities, in their research activities. The PI been the research advisor of 43 undergraduate students, including underrepresented minorities. The Co-PIs have similar track records of involving undergraduate students.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 02, 2022
- Source ID
- W911NF2210222
Entities
People
- Danilo Erricolo
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- University of Illinois at Chicago