Raoul Ouedraogo

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3/01/2011

All five papers have been accepted for presentation at the IEEE AP-S International Symposium and URSI Radio Science Meeting to be held July 3-8, 2011 .

1/11/2011

Visited MIT Lincoln Laboratory, excellent place with very smart people and cool projects

1/03/2011

I am in Atlanta for the NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference.

12/18/2010

The paper "Waveguide Filter Design Using Optimized Pixelated Inserts" has been submitted for publication in the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.

12/13/2010

The paper "A Reconfigurable Microstrip Leaky-wave Antenna with a Broadly Steerable Beam" has been accepted for publication in the journal: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation .

11/29/2010

11/29/2010

Passed his comprehensive exam.

11/17/2010

Officially a US citizen

11/12/2010

I was awarded a student participation grant for the 2011 NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference

08/09/2010

Preparing for the AIAA conference that will be held in Texas, (September 2010).

07/14/2010

I won third place at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation best student paper competition, held in Toronto, Canada.

07/11/2010

I am in Toronto, Canada, for the IEEE APS/URSI international Symposium.

06/28/2010

The paper entitle " A Self-Tuning Electromagnetic Shutter" has been accepted for publication in the journal: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

02/10/2010

The paper "In Situ Optimization of Metamaterial-Inspired Loop Antennas" has been accepted for publication in the journal: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

01/05/2010

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Compact Broadband Waveguide Filters:

    Rectangular waveguides are indispensable components in applications such as radars and satellite communication due to their low loss and high power handling capability. In applications requiring specified bandwidths, a filtering system capable of producing desired rejection bands while maintaining a low insertion loss must be implemented. Conventional E-plane waveguide filters involve physical alterations of the waveguide and result in complex and costly structures that are several wavelengths long.

    The goal of this project is to use my in situ optimization technique to design compact rectangular waveguide filters that are easy to design and manufacture at a very low cost. This is achieved through topology optimization of a pixelated metallic patch backed by a dielectric sheet placed along the longitudinal axis of a rectangular waveguide. The length of the filter is just 3cm.

    Pic 1 Waveguide with resonant structure inserted along the longitudinal axis.

    Pic 1 Simulated and measured transmission and reflection coefficients of a waveguide filter using the prototype resonant structure shown in the inset.

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