Dr Geoffrey Hilton
B.Sc.(Leeds), Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Geoff’s research interests include antenna element, array and system design for a variety of communications and radar applications, and he is a reviewer for IET publications and EPSRC grant proposals in these areas. He has been the principal investigator or supervised projects involving Ground Penetrating Radar (QinetiQ); performance evaluation of antennas used in mobile radio (Ofcom and Mobile VCE); antenna array design/analysis (Airspan, Kyocera, ProVision, QinetiQ and Toshiba); tuneable elements (Hewlett Packard, QinetiQ and Samsung), and vehicle-mounted antennas (BAR/Honda). The latter involved the design of a low profile antenna, which was employed on their F1 racing cars from 2004 until they withdrew from F1 racing.
Antenna element and array design - electrically small elements, active elements & integrated antennas
Antenna pattern analysis for antenna performance evaluation in real environments – this includes propagation analysis and the interaction of the antenna with its local environment
Antenna and microwave circuit modelling – using commercial packages and in-house FDTD software
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Senior Lecturer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
SWAN (Secure Wireless Agile Networks) EPSRC Prosperity Partnership
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/02/2020 to 31/01/2025
SPHERE (EPSRC IRC)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
SPHERE : An EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC).
This project aims to develop a platform of sensors to be deployed in people's homes to monitor the health and wellbeing
SPHERE is…Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2018
Thesis supervisions
Real aperture synthetically organised radar
Supervisors
Practical investigation of Butler matrix application for beamforming with circular antenna arrays
Supervisors
Enhanced Radio Propagation Modelling for Future Wireless Networks
Supervisors
Practical Millimetre wave Material Characterisation
Supervisors
Miniaturisation and Efficiency in Compact and Electrically Small Tuneable UHF Antennas
Supervisors
Low Cost Millimetre Wave Over-the-Air Testing Method For 5G and Beyond
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
08/01/2020Efficiency-Based Approach to Quantifying “Tuneability"Performance in Frequency-Agile Narrowband Antennas
Experimental evaluation of 3D printed spiral phase plates for enabling an orbital angular momentum multiplexed radio system
Royal Society Open Science
Characterisation of Doppler shift in Millimetre Wave Vehicular Channel
IET Antennas and Propagation Conference 2019 (APC-2019)
Hexaferrite Substrate Versus Impedance Matching for Tuneable Patch Antenna Miniaturisation
2018 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2018
LTE-A Virtual Drive Testing for Vehicular Environments
2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2017)