Water-Based Antennas

The purpose of this project is to examine the potential of pure water as the basic element for efficient and directive electrically small antennas. Owing to the rather high permittivity of water, strong Mie resonances of different orders can be induced inside such particles. By tailoring their shape and size, either electric or magnetic resonances can be excited in spherical water particles. Combining such particles with e.g., standard, metal-based electrically small antennas which behave as either electric (short wire) or magnetic (small loop) dipoles, Huygens sources may be realized with directivities surpassing those of electrically small antennas.  The project will not only consider these fundamental dipole resonances, but also those of higher order which may lead to highly directive, geometrically simple and electrically small antennas. The project is both analytical and numerical, and the analysis is done in terms of typical radiation and scattering properties. The project falls within our recently started research activity in the field of water-based metamaterials and metasurfaces in collaboration with DTU Photonics.