TAC student is selected as a *FINALIST* at the 2023 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition.

Congratulations to FIU student Muhammad Hamza for his paper ‘A 33–101 GHz Ultra-Wideband Tightly Coupled Monopole Array (TCMA)’, which has been selected as one of the ten FINALISTS amongst 221 papers submitted to the 2023 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition.

 

FIU ranked No. 46 for Electrical and Electronic Engineering by U.S. News & World Report

Groundbreaking research is why U.S. News & World Report ranks us No. 46 for Electrical and Electronic Engineering among public universities.

 

TAC Researchers Receive 2 Awards at the 2020 ERN Conference in STEM

Congratulations to FIU students Briana Gonzalez and Gianfranco Perez-Greco for receiving two awards at the 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, DC!

Air Force awards FIU $4.82 million to propel research on origami antennas

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded FIU an additional $4.82 million to expand its groundbreaking research on origami antennas. Last year, the AFOSR granted $4.82 million to establish the Transforming Antennas Center (TAC). The funding total, close to $10 million, will be distributed over six years.

Origami antenna showcase in IDETC-CIE 2019

Dr. Constantinos L. Zekios presenting an innovative multi-layer,multi-material fabrication approach for origami antennas in the IDETC-CIE conference in Anaheim CA. To demonstrate the new fabrication technique an origami based helical antenna was electromagnetically and mechanically analyzed and tested showing excellent agreement between simulations and measurements.

TAC student is selected as a *FINALIST* at the 2022 IEEE PAST Student Paper Competition.

Congratulations to FIU student Dimitrios Lialios for his paper ‘A New Class of Ultra-Wideband Beamforming Networks for sub-6 GHz Bands’, which has been selected as one of the ten FINALISTS​ to the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology Student Paper Competition.

 

TAC student receives IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant

Congratulations to FIU student Nicholas Russo for receiving an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant for his research on space and time modulated 4D MIMO antennas.

 

TAC student receives honorable mention at the IEEE AP-S 2021

Congratulations to FIU student Muhammad Hamza for his paper “A Planar Ultra-Wideband Dual Polarized Reflectarray” been selected as an *HONORABLE MENTION* amongst 245 papers submitted to the 2021 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition.

 

These Satellite Antennas Were Inspired by Origami

Transforming Antennas Center (TAC) is thriving its innovations towards the goal of designing lightweight, easy packing origami antennas for space and military applications. The combination of Engineering and Art together can open new horizon of innovation which is the already proven through the works of TAC. Recently, TAC’s research appeared in the Air & Space Magazine.

FIU to showcase tech and entrepreneurship at eMerge Americas 2019

Professor Stavros V. Georgakopoulos (director of TAC) and his research team displayed their foldable origami antennas at eMerge Americas 2019. These physically reconfigurable foldable and deployable multifunctional antennas maintain robustness as they dynamically actuate, fold/unfold, adjusting their electromagnetic characteristics in the environmental demands. Origami and reconfigurable systems are critical for future small size airborne and spaceborne structures, satellite systems, energy harvesting and autonomous wireless communication and sensing systems and are expected to significantly impact antenna engineering in the following
years.

Air Force awards FIU $4.8 million to establish a center for origami antennas

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded FIU a $4.8 million grant to launch the Center for Physically Reconfigurable and Deployable Multifunctional Antennas. The center will be led and directed by researcher Stavros Georgakopoulos, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing and inventor of foldable origami antenna systems.

TAC students receive honorable mention at the IEEE AP-S 2022

Congratulations to FIU students Akash Biswas, Muhammad Hamza, and Dimitrios Lialios for their papers ‘An Ultra-Fast Method for Designing Phase Shifting Surfaces’,  ‘A Planar Ultra-Wideband Modular Transmitarray’, and ‘A Planar True Time Delay 2D Beamformer’, respectively, that have been selected as an HONORABLE MENTION​ amongst 202 papers submitted to the 2022 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition.

 

TAC Graduate Students Receive 2 Best Paper Awards at the IEEE WAMICON 2020/2021

Congratulations to FIU students Antonio J. Rubio, and Akash Biswas for receiving two awards at the IEEE WAMICON 2020/2021 conference that held virtually!

The power of one small basic research investment

AFOSR issued the funding opportunity announcement for the first CII and a team from Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida International University won in open competition. Concurrently, AFRL began taking notice of origami basic research as a promising concept for transition to Air Force applications and provided an additional $20 million of funding to a number of small teams around the lab.

Launch of Transforming Antennas Center means future jobs in groundbreaking technology

TAC, a play on the word “tactical,” was recently launched thanks to a $4.8 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The center held a ribbon cutting this month, which was attended by several government leaders, including Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, who serves on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives.