Dr Stephen Henthorn
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Lecturer in Wireless Communications
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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Profile
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I received my MEng and PhD degrees from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ in 2015 and 2019, respectively. During my PhD I investigated how metamaterials can be used to produce low cost, energy efficient transmitters for wireless communications, and explored suitable modulation formats and waveforms for this new class of transmitters. I was then a Research Associate also at ºù«Ӱҵ in the Electronic and Electrical Engineering department, where I worked on direct RF sampling receivers for low footprint energy efficient receivers.
From spring 2020 I have been an Academic Fellow, with responsibilities for teaching and research. I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate research projects on wireless communications and electromagnetics, and lecture on electromagnetic compatibility, where I aim to enable students to consider how the systems they design in the future may impact on other equipment in their environment.
My research is primarily focussed on energy efficient communications. This is becoming increasingly important as mobile communications expands, with power consumption of networks rising sharply with the introduction of 5G. I am particularly interested in applying newly mature and emerging electromagnetic technologies, such as metamaterials, in wireless transceivers and mobile networks. This is now an expanding topic in research for 6G mobile, where the ability of metasurfaces to manipulate signals offers new ways of designing communications systems by controlling the propagation environment. These techniques are often referred to as Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) or Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS).
I am also available to take, or assist in taking, a variety of microwave measurements, including radiation patterns and reflection parameters, as well as system-level measurements such as error vector magnitude and error rates where appropriate.
- Qualifications
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PhD (Electronic Engineering, University of ºù«Ӱҵ) 2019
MEng (Electronic Engineering with Communications, University of ºù«Ӱҵ) 2015
- Research interests
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Directly modulating antennas
Reconfigurable metasurfaces and antennas
Intelligent reflecting surfaces/Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Energy efficient wireless transceivers
Intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for wireless communications
Modulation techniques and waveforms
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1-1.
- . IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
- . IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 16, 2038-2041.
- . IET Communications.
Conference proceedings papers
- . 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 17 March 2024 - 22 March 2024.
- . 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 26 March 2023 - 31 March 2023.
- . 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022.
- . 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 7 December 2021 - 11 December 2021.
- . 2020 IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications. London, UK, 31 August 2020 - 3 September 2020.
- . Proceeding of 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 March 2020 - 20 March 2020.
- . 2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT), 17 March 2020 - 20 March 2020.
- . 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2018)
- . Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC 2017)
- . 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 19 March 2017 - 24 March 2017.
- . 5th Colloquium on Antennas, Wireless and Electromagnetics (CAWE 2017)
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- . IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1-1.
- Professional activities and memberships
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ECR co-lead of Wireless and Microwave Special Interest Group, EPSRC UK Metamaterials Network