Keynote Speakers

Atomically thin planes of carbon atoms, graphene, were isolated in 2004, and the two discoverers received Nobel Prizes. Graphene flakes and powders are being increasingly used in car tyres, paint, concrete, running shoes, tennis racquets, etc. However, widespread manufactured graphene electronic devices do not exist because of the lack of high-quality large-area graphene.

This talk will introduce our next-generation large-area graphene, which is free from metallic contamination and transfer problems, and can be produced on a variety of substrates (sapphire, Si, GaN, etc.). The first proof-of-concept product made from this graphene, a magnetic Hall-effect sensor will be described. The potential of our next-generation graphene for THz applications will be discussed.

Colin Humphreys is Professor of Materials Science and Director of Research in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was educated at Imperial College (BSc) and Cambridge (PhD). He was a Lecturer at Oxford and a Professor in Liverpool before coming to Cambridge. He founded and directs the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride (GaN). He founded a spin-off company, CamGaN, to exploit the research of his group on low-cost LEDs for home and office lighting. The company was acquired in February 2012 by Plessey, which is now manufacturing LEDs based on this technology at their factory in Plymouth, UK. He founded and directs the Cambridge/Rolls-Royce Centre for Advanced Materials for Aerospace. Materials developed by this Centre are now flying in Rolls-Royce engines. He has given public lectures on science throughout the world. He has received national and international medals for his research in electron diffraction and microscopy and in GaN. He is also the author of The Miracles of Exodus and The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus. He was Knighted in 2010 for services to science.

Antennas for mobile terminals have been receiving considerable attention in recent years because of their wide applications in mobile phones, tablets, laptops, smart watches and body centric sensors. Over the years, the antenna design for mobile terminals has become increasingly difficult and challenging, especially for mobile terminals with metallic industry design (ID). This is mainly attributed to more and more frequency bands, carrier aggregations (CA) and MIMO requirements. A typical smart phone should now have a large number of antennas, including 2G/3G/4G/5G Sub 6GHz antennas, GPS antennas, WiFi antennas, MIMO antennas and a NFC antenna. For mobile terminals of the 5th generation mobile communication, which aims mm-Wave frequency bands and has much higher capacity, the antenna design is even more complex and challenging. The major problems and challenges could be classified as:

(a)   Co-exist with 2G/3G/4G/5G Sub 6GHz antennas;

(b)   Very limited antenna volume and restricted antenna location;

(c)   High requirement of EIRP;

(d)   360 degree of beam-forming radiation coverage;

(e)   Severe impact of human body and hands on antennas’ performance, including radiation pattern, bandwidth and efficiency/EIRP. 

In this talk, all the above challenges and possible solutions will be addressed.

Hanyang Wang received the Ph.D. degree from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. in 1995. From 1986 to 1991, he served as a Lecturer and an Associate Professor with Shandong University, Jinan, China. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., and the University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. From 1999 to 2000, he was with Vector Fields Ltd., Oxford, U.K., as a Software Development and Microwave Engineering Consultant Engineer. He joined Nokia U.K. Ltd., Farnborough, U.K. in 2001, where he had been a Mobile Antenna Specialist for 11 years. He joined Huawei Technologies after leaving Nokia, and he is currently the Chief Mobile Antenna Expert and the Head of the Mobile Antenna Technology Division. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. His current research interests include small and multi-band antennas for mobile terminals, antennas and antenna arrays for 5G mobile communications, and numerical methods for the solutions of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. He holds over 50 granted and pending US/EU/CN patents, and he has authored over 100 refereed papers on these topics. He was a recipient of the Title of Nokia Inventor of the Year in 2005 and the Nokia Excellence Award in 2011. He was also a recipient of the Huawei Individual Gold Medal Award in 2012 and the Huawei Team Gold Medal Award in 2013 and 2014, respectively. His patent was ranked number one among 2015 Huawei top ten patent awards. Dr. Wang is a Huawei Fellow and an IET Fellow. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

Recently, 6G (Sixth Generation Mobile Communications) has become a hot topic. People begin to discuss the key technologies for 6G, and some countries have launched research programs. Some people think THz will be the key technology for 6G, and others think it should be satellite communications. In this talk, we’ll present the perspective of ours on 6G, and will discuss the role of millimeter wave (mmWave) and THz technologies in the evolution of 5G to 6G.

Wei Hong (M’92-SM’07-F’12) received the B.S. degree from the University of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou, China, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, all in radio engineering.

Since 1988, he has been with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves and serves for the director of the lab since 2003, and is currently a professor and the dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University. In 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, he was a short-term Visiting Scholar with the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz, respectively. He has been engaged in numerical methods for electromagnetic problems, millimeter wave theory and technology, antennas, RF technology for wireless communications etc. He has authored and co-authored over 300 technical publications with over 9000 citations, and authored two books. He twice awarded the China State Natural Science Prizes (second and fourth classes), thrice awarded the first-class Science and Technology Progress Prizes issued by the Ministry of Education of China and Jiangsu Province Government etc. Besides, he also received the Foundations for China Distinguished Young Investigators and for “Innovation Group” issued by NSF of China.

Dr. Hong is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of CIE, Vice-Presidents of Microwave Society and Antenna Society of CIE, Chairperson of IEEE MTT-S/AP-S/EMC-S Joint Nanjing Chapter. Beisdes, he was an IEEE MTT-S AdCom Member (2014-2016), and served for the associate editor of IEEE Trans. on MTT during 2007-2010.

Yong Fan, Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC), Dean of School of Electronic Engineering, was born in 1963. He received the B.E. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, in 1985, and the M.S. degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, Sichuan China，in 1992.

Prof. Fan is an IEEE senior member, a senior member of Chinese Institute of Electronics. From 1985 to 1989, he was interested in microwave integrated circuits. Since 1989, He dedicated himself to researching and teaching on subjects of Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Techniques for many years. His main research fields are as follows: electromagnetic theory, millimeter-wave communication, millimeter-wave and Terahertz Circuits etc. Besides, he was interested in other subjects including Broadband Wireless Access, automobile anti-collision，intelligent transportation intelligent transportation etc. He has authored and co-authored over 300 papers in various and famous technical journals at home and abroad, such as IEEE Trans. MTT, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, IEE Electronics Letters, International Journal of Electronics etc. More than 80 papers have been embodied by SCI.