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Overview

Rolf Jakoby is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Other areas of study include Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials as well as Materials Chemistry.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to advanced technologies and materials in microwave and antenna systems. Key research themes include:

  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
  • Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis

Notable recent papers by Rolf Jakoby include:

  • "Microwave Liquid Crystal Enabling Technology for Electronically Steerable Antennas in SATCOM and 5G Millimeter-Wave Systems," 2020, published in Crystals
  • "Ridge Gap Waveguide Based Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter," 2020, published in IEEE Access
  • "Wide-Angle Ceramic Retroreflective Luneburg Lens Based on Quasi-Conformal Transformation Optics for Mm-Wave Indoor Localization," 2022, published in IEEE Access
  • "Frequency Selective Surface Coded Retroreflectors for Chipless Indoor Localization Tag Landmarks," 2020, published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • "Highly Miniaturized Continuously Tunable Phase Shifter Based on Liquid Crystal and Defected Ground Structures," 2022, published in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include Holger Maune, Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez, Henning Tesmer, Ersin Polat, and Martin Schüßler. These partnerships have contributed to a range of studies primarily within electromagnetic and microwave engineering domains.

Their publications appear regularly in scientific journals such as Frequenz, IEEE Access, Crystals, IEEE Journal of Microwaves, and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

In addition to articles, Rolf Jakoby has authored a book titled Reconfigurable Circuits and Technologies for Smart Millimeter-Wave Systems, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Metamaterial Inspired Microwave Sensors

    Martin Schueler;C. Mandel;M. Puentes;R. Jakoby

  • Reconfigurable Folded Reflectarray Antenna Based Upon Liquid Crystal Technology

    Saygin Bildik;Sabine Dieter;Carsten Fritzsch;Wolfgang Menzel

  • Measurement of wet antenna effects on millimetre wave propagation

    A. Arage;G. Kuehnle;R. Jakoby

  • Beam Steering Transmitarray Using Tunable Frequency Selective Surface With Integrated Ferroelectric Varactors

    M. Sazegar;Yuliang Zheng;C. Kohler;H. Maune

  • Broad-band microwave characterization of liquid crystals using a temperature-controlled coaxial transmission line

    S. Mueller;A. Penirschke;C. Damm;P. Scheele

  • Electronically reconfigurable reflectarrays with nematic liquid crystals

    A. Moessinger;R. Marin;S. Mueller;J. Freese

  • INVESTIGATION OF BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE THICK FILMS FOR TUNABLE PHASE SHIFTERS

    F Zimmermann;M Voigts;C Weil;R Jakoby

  • A 2-D Electronically Steered Phased-Array Antenna With 2 $\, imes\,$ 2 Elements in LC Display Technology

    O. H. Karabey;A. Gaebler;S. Strunck;R. Jakoby

  • Cavity perturbation method for characterization of liquid crystals up to 35 GHz

    A. Penirschke;S. Muller;P. Scheele;C. Weil

  • Transmission Lines Loaded With Pairs of Stepped Impedance Resonators: Modeling and Application to Differential Permittivity Measurements

    Jordi Naqui;Christian Damm;Alex Wiens;Rolf Jakoby

  • Tunable passive phase shifter for microwave applications using highly anisotropic liquid crystals

    S. Muller;P. Scheele;C. Weil;M. Wittek

  • Microwave Liquid Crystal Enabling Technology for Electronically Steerable Antennas in SATCOM and 5G Millimeter-Wave Systems

    Rolf Jakoby;Alexander Gaebler;Christian Weickhmann

  • Low-Cost Phased-Array Antenna Using Compact Tunable Phase Shifters Based on Ferroelectric Ceramics

    M Sazegar;Yuliang Zheng;H Maune;C Damm

  • Design of compact planar antennas using LH-transmission lines

    M. Schussler;J. Freese;R. Jakoby

  • Electrically Tuned Microwave Devices Using Liquid Crystal Technology

    Pouria Yaghmaee;Onur Hamza Karabey;Bevan Bates;Christophe Fumeaux

  • Liquid Crystal-Reconfigurable Antenna Concepts for Space Applications at Microwave and Millimeter Waves

    A. Gaebler;A. Moessinger;F. Goelden;A. Manabe

  • Passive chipless wireless sensor for two-dimensional displacement measurement

    Christian Mandel;Bernd Kubina;Martin Schusler;Rolf Jakoby

  • Highly-anisotropic liquid-crystal mixtures for tunable microwave devices

    Carsten Weil;Stefan Müller;Patrick Scheele;P. Best

  • Tunable inverted-microstrip phase shifter device using nematic liquid crystals

    C. Weil;G. Luessem;R. Jakoby

  • Frequency Multiplexed 2-Dimensional Sensor Array Based on Split-Ring Resonators for Organic Tissue Analysis

    M. Puentes;M. Maasch;M. Schussler;R. Jakoby

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Vossiek
Martin Vossiek University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ferran Martin
Ferran Martin Autonomous University of Barcelona
Andreas Klein
Andreas Klein Technical University of Darmstadt
Jordi Bonache
Jordi Bonache Autonomous University of Barcelona
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy Eindhoven University of Technology
Wolfgang Menzel
Wolfgang Menzel University of Ulm
Roberto Sorrentino
Roberto Sorrentino RF Microtech srl

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