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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
97
Citations
41706
World Ranking
215
National Ranking
105

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2006 - IEEE Electromagnetics Award “For contributions to research and education in computational electromagnetics.”
  • 1971 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to electromagnetic theory as applied to the solution of problems in antennas and waveguides.
  • 1965 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Raj Mittra is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant body of work in aerospace engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including antenna design and analysis, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, microwave engineering and waveguides, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, electromagnetic scattering and analysis, electromagnetic simulation and numerical methods, and millimeter-wave propagation and modeling.

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • Ultra-Wideband Flat Metamaterial GRIN Lenses Assisted With Additive Manufacturing Technique, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Compact Dual-Band Metamaterial-Based High-Efficiency Rectenna: An Application for Ambient Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting, 2020, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
  • Cognitive Conformal Antenna Array Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning Method, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Dual Circularly Polarized 3-D Printed Broadband Dielectric Reflectarray With a Linearly Polarized Feed, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Reconfigurable Liquid Metal-Based SIW Phase Shifter, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Frequent co-authors include Ravi Kumar Arya, Abdelkhalek Nasri, James R. Kelly, Hatem Rmili, and Özlem Özgün.

Raj Mittra tends to publish often in the following venues:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Access
  • 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI)
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI)
  • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Awards received by Mittra include the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2006 for contributions to research and education in computational electromagnetics. They were named an IEEE Fellow in 1971 for work on electromagnetic theory applied to antennas and waveguides, and also are a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1965.

Best Publications

  • Computational Methods for Electromagnetics

    Andrew F. Peterson;Scott L. Ray;Raj Mittra;Ieee Antennas

  • Techniques for analyzing frequency selective surfaces-a review

    R. Mittra;C.H. Chan;T. Cwik

  • Analytical techniques in the theory of guided waves

    Ráj Mittra;S. W. Lee

  • Design of lightweight, broad-band microwave absorbers using genetic algorithms

    E. Michielssen;J.-M. Sajer;S. Ranjithan;R. Mittra

  • Characteristic basis function method: A new technique for efficient solution of method of moments matrix equations

    V. V. S. Prakash;Raj Mittra

  • Frequency dependence of the constitutive parameters of causal perfectly matched anisotropic absorbers

    M. Kuzuoglu;R. Mittra

  • Electromagnetic Penetration Through Apertures in Conducting Surfaces

    Chalmers M. Butler;Yahya Rahmat-Samii;Raj Mittra

  • Spectral-Domain Approach for Calculating the Dispersion Characteristics of Microstrip Lines (Short Papers)

    T. Itoh;R. Mittra

  • Fractal antenna engineering: the theory and design of fractal antenna arrays

    D.H. Werner;R.L. Haupt;P.L. Werner

  • Computer techniques for electromagnetics

    Raj Mittra

  • A locally conformal finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm for modeling three-dimensional perfectly conducting objects

    S. Dey;R. Mittra

  • A technique for extracting the poles and residues of a system directly from its transient response

    M. Van Blaricum;R. Mittra

  • Frontiers in electromagnetics

    Douglas H. Werner;Raj Mittra

  • Implementation of the periodic boundary condition in the finite-difference time-domain algorithm for FSS structures

    P. Harms;R. Mittra;Wai Ko

  • Application of electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) superstrates with controllable defects for a class of patch antennas as spatial angular filters

    Young Ju Lee;Junho Yeo;R. Mittra;Wee Sang Park

  • Variational Method for the Analysis of Microstrip Lines

    E. Yamashita;R. Mittra

  • A conformal finite difference time domain technique for modeling curved dielectric surfaces

    Wenhua Yu;R. Mittra

  • FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications

    Yang Hao;Raj Mittra

  • An Iteration-Free MoM Approach Based on Excitation Independent Characteristic Basis Functions for Solving Large Multiscale Electromagnetic Scattering Problems

    E. Lucente;A. Monorchio;R. Mittra

  • New Waveguide Structures for Millimeter-Wave and Optical Integrated Circuits

    W.V. McLevige;T. Itoh;R. Mittra

  • Frequency Dependence of the Constitutive Parameters of Causal Perfectly Matched

    Mustafa Kuzuoglu;Raj Mittra

Frequent Co-Authors

Agostino Monorchio
Agostino Monorchio University of Pisa
Tatsuo Itoh
Tatsuo Itoh University of California, Los Angeles
Douglas H. Werner
Douglas H. Werner Pennsylvania State University
Chi Hou Chan
Chi Hou Chan City University of Hong Kong
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Yahya Rahmat-Samii University of California, Los Angeles
Michael T. Lanagan
Michael T. Lanagan Pennsylvania State University
Wenwu Cao
Wenwu Cao Pennsylvania State University
Simone Genovesi
Simone Genovesi University of Pisa
William Whittow
William Whittow Loughborough University
Omar M. Ramahi
Omar M. Ramahi University of Waterloo

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