In recent years, liquid antenna has been becoming an interesting topic that is receiving growing affection. As a special case of fluid antenna, water antenna is probably the most popular, due to its low cost and easy access. This talk summarizes our latest research work on water antennas. The applications of water in the design of reconfigurable antennas are presented. Two reconfigurable water antennas are introduced. One is a water-grating leaky-wave antenna for wide-angle beam-scanning and the other is a sea-water monopole antenna for maritime wireless communications.

 

 

 

Dr. Changzhou Hua was born in Zhejiang, China, in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in electronics information engineering and the Ph.D. degree in communication engineering, both from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, during 2009–2012.  Currently, he is a Research Fellow (Postdoc) with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has authored or coauthored over 20 journal and conference papers, and has submitted five patent applications. His research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave passive devices and circuits, multi-beam lens antenna, and re-deployable antenna.