Specialist Labratories

Anechoic Chamber

Room location: N248

Contact Person: Assoc. Prof. Christophe Fumeaux

In order to take accurate RF measurements, the School has a purpose-built anechoic chamber. Anechoic chambers are enclosed areas designed to completely absorb sound and radio waves, thereby allowing researchers to test different radio-frequency device characteristics with no interference from reflected radio waves. The chamber's effeciency is such that a mobile phone with full signal strength outside the chamber will lose all signal when enclosed within the chamber.

Biomedical Engineering Laboratory

Room Location: N233

Contact Person: Prof. Derek Abbott

The home of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME), postgraduate students here undertake research in the field of biomedical engineering. For further information, see the CBME Home Page.

Communications Laboratory

Room Location: EM319

Contact Person: Assoc. Prof. Cheng-Chew Lim

This laboratory is utilised by 4th Year students working on communications-related Final Year projects. It is also used for some postgraduate research work.

Microelectronics Laboratory (NNTTF)

Room Location: EM405

Contact Person: Assoc. Prof. Cheng-Chew Lim

The South Australia Node of the National Networked TeleTest Facility for Integrated Systems (NNTTF) provides remote access to the Agilent 93000SOC VLSI test facility for university researchers and industry partners. Other facilities include the state of the art EDA software for chip design, a probing station, and the Altera FPGA development system.

Power Research Laboratory

Room Location: NG08

Contact Person: Dr. Wen Soong

The Power Research Laboratory provides facilities for research in areas such as electrical machines, power electronics and power systems. Current projects include:

• the development of a high power automotive alternator
• fault-tolerant electric drives for electric aircraft
• condition monitoring of induction machines for early fault detection
• renewable power generation from solar and wind sources
• electric drives for bicycles and automotive applications

The laboratory is well equipped with flexible dynamometer facilities and precision voltage, current and power measurement devices and is used by staff, and undergraduate and postgraduate research students.

Radio Frequency (RF) Laboratory

Room Location: EM415

Contact Person: Assoc. Prof. Chris Coleman

The Postgraduate Radio Frequency Laboratory provides facilities for research in areas such as propagation, antennas and RF electronics. Current projects include the development of a high frequency channel probe, a passive radar and work on propagation in fire.

The laboratory is equipped for measurements up to a frequency of 3GHz and is used by staff and postgraduate research students.

RFID Laboratory

Room Location: N203

Contact Person: Prof. P. Cole

The Auto ID Laboratory provides facilities for its staff and postgraduate students to undertake research in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems. The laboratory has a range of electromagnetic measurement instruments relevant to HF and UHF RFID system design and evaluation. It also maintains an IC design workstation, used to create and simulate IC layouts of RFID circuit elements.

Rotating Machines Laboratory

Room Location: NG06

Contact Person: Dr. Nesimi Ertugrul

In this lab, undergraduate students perform experiments to demonstrate the basic principles of rotating machines and power generation. It is also used by postgraduate students for machines systems research.

T-Ray Research Laser Laboratory

Room Location: N225

Contact Person: Prof. Derek Abbott

Terahertz radiation, or 'T-Rays', are electromagnetic waves oscillating at frequencies between 100GHz and 10THz. Their ability to penetrate materials such as paper, clothing, wood and ceramics, but not through metal or water, means they have enormous scope for defence, security and biomedical applications.

The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering houses Australia's only multi-user T-Ray research laboratory with bio-sensing facilities. This facility attracts researchers from around the world to further their research in this emerging field and is heavily used by the School's postgraduate students.

VLSI Laboratory

Room Location: EM419

Contact Person: Dr. C. C. Lim

The VLSI Laboratory provide facilities for PhD postgraduate research students to undertake research in the areas of multiple antennas communications and VLSI chip design, verification and testing. Facilities accessible from the laboratory include Synopsys and Cadence EDA tools for designing of microelectronic circuits and hardware verification of complex system-on-a-chip.