Research
CWI has a 50-strong team of academics, postdocs, PhD students and engineers who develop innovative underpinning technologies for physical layer wireless.
Since CWI’s inception, our mission has been to develop truly disruptive, end-to-end physical layer wireless technologies and techniques that will assist in the creation of a data-driven, hyper-connected society.
Our researchers focus on two primary themes of investigation -- RF through THz Systems, and Signal Processing and Communication Theory.
Underlying these two primary themes are six, grand challenged focused, sub themes:
- Future Cellular Systems (5G & Beyond, 6G)
- Electromagnetic Sensing (incl. Imaging)
- Green Wireless (Wireless Power Transfer, Energy scavenging, …)
- Space Applications (Antenna designs)
- Connected & Autonomous Systems (IoT, Body Area networks, …)
- Physical Layer Secure Wireless
Research Culture
Professor Simon Cotton, Research Director at CWI, explains the research culture in wireless.
The videos below show the cutting-edge research that we're doing at CWI to create a positive impact for society.
5G Networks
The effect of the human body on mm-wave wireless channels for 5G networks
Satellite Communications
Resonant FSS as Linear to Circular Polarisation Converters
Building Advanced Structures for Spacecrafts
Electromagnetic Energy Absorbing Structures
Creating New Medical Communication Networks
Tissue-independent implantable antenna for in-body communications