Chaoyun Song-College of Electronics and Information Engineering

Chaoyun Song Professor

Office room：N815,Zhixin Building
Tutor category：PhD. Supervisor
E-mail:chaoyunsong@gmail.com
Tele：+86 (0) 13602526534

Personal Details: Basic Information

lTitle: IEEE Senior Member, FIET, FRSA

lEmail: chaoyunsong@gmail.com

lTel: +86 (0) 13602526534

lOffice: Room Number, Building Name

lPersonal Website: https://ceie.szu.edu.cn/info/1016/2432.htm

Brief Introduction

I am Distinguished Full Professor at Shenzhen University.

Prior to this, I was an Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Engineering at King’s College London (QS ranking top 35 universities in the world), and was an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, affiliated with the Microwave and Antenna Engineering Research Group. I previously worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at widely recognized group of Prof. Yi Huang (FIEEE) at the University of Liverpool where I also received my PhD (2017), MSc (2013) and BEng (2012) degrees all in electrical engineering and electronics.

My research experience has been interdisciplinary, covering both microwave engineering, telecommunications, and radical material science, as well as the coupled electromagnetic and mechanical analysis for flexible and stretchable devices and sensors. My major research interests (with measurable track record) including:

(i) Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer technologies (via far-field RF, mmWave and near-field coupling) (ii) Stretchable and flexible electronics, sensors, and RF devices. (iii) Metamaterials and metasurfaces in communication, energy harvesting and sensing technologies. (iv) Dielectric antennas, dielectric resonators, liquid antennas and fluidi

Education Background

University of Liverpool (UoL), Liverpool, UK

ØDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Electronics (EEE) Nov. 2013 – Jul. 2017

ØMaster of Science (Distinction), Microelectronics and Telecommunications Sep. 2012 – Oct. 2013

ØBachelor of Engineering (Hons.), Telecommunication Engineering Sep. 2008 – Jul. 2012

Working Experience

Distinguished Professor, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China Sep. 2023 – present

I am currently with the Shenzhen University as Affiliate Distinguished Professor. I am leading a research team of 10 PhD/MSc students and a number of visiting fellows.

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Engineering, King’s College London, UK Mar. 2023 – Sep. 2023

I am leading a research team consists of 8 PhD students and 2 Postdoc researchers at King’s College London.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK Mar. 2020 – Mar. 2023

I was an Assistant Professor in Antennas, Electromagnetics and Wireless Communications within the Institution of Sensors, Signals and Systems (ISSS) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

I led a research team of 5 PhD students and annually taught 2 courses to undergraduate students.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of EEE & Department of Chemistry, UoL, UK Jul. 2017 – May 2020

Working on a £587k EPSRC project –Liquid Antennas .

Developed and characterized more than 100 ionic dielectric liquids for RF applications. These liquids are low-loss, non- flammable, and have a very stable material property.

A new class of liquid antennas with gravity-based passive beam-steering feature, re-configurability, flexibility, miniaturised size, and wide bandwidth were designed.

Research Assistant & Antenna Design Engineer, UoL and BAE Systems, Chelmsford, UK Mar. 2015 – Aug. 2016 Worked on a £650k DSTL and Innovate UK project – Compact GNSS Antennas (Phase 1 and Phase 2)

I was the antenna design engineer and core team member for this project led by Rob Lewis and Prof Yi Huang.

Designed 2 compact GNSS antennas using cutting-edge metamaterial technologies. Successfully helped the team to win the final project competition in both Phase 1 and Phase 2 (among 13 industrial competitors).

PhD Researcher, Department of EEE, UoL, UK (advisorProf Yi Huang) Nov. 2013 – Jul. 2017

Fully funded PhD studentship (by EPSRC and Aeterum Solutions Inc.). Planned, organized and carried out long-term and short-term research projects with minimal supervision; quickly learned complex laboratory procedures; designed, fabricated, and tested a number of innovative antennas, microwave circuits and systems for various applications. Published more than 30 papers (13 as first author) in top internationally refereed journals and conference proceedings on the topic of wireless energy harvesting. Two have been selected as ESI Highly Cited papers.

Awards

tBest Paper Award 2023 of Proceedings of the IEEE (the first best paper award of this journal). (May 2024)

tWorld’s Top 2% of Scientists , 2022-2023, by Stanford University (Nov. 2023)

tEuCAP2023 Best Paper Award, my work on mmWave wireless power has won the Best Paper Award of this flagship conference (largest in the Europe) out of 1172 accepted papers. (Mar. 2023)

tIEEE Raj Mittra Travel Grant 2023 - Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) has been established to partially support travel by one Ph.D. level scientist to attend the joint IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. (Mar. 2023)

tIEEE AP-S YP Ambassadors (Class of 2023) The objective of this program is to inspire and enhance Young Professionals’ interest and engagement in the field of Antennas and Propagation. I am 1 of the 10 ambassadors globally. (Nov. 2022)

tNSF Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas), this program is funded by NSF and aimed to attract high-calibre researchers and academics around the world for age below 40 (highly competitive, successful rate < 10%). (Nov. 2022)

tIET Innovation Awards 2018 – Entry title “Ambient Wireless Energy Harvesting”. Highly Commended over more than 350 entries (including some big R&D sectors and companies such as BT, Jaguar and Land Rover etc.) across three categories “Emerging Technology Design”, “Power & Energy” and “Young Innovators”. (Nov. 2018)

tEW Bright Sparks Award 2018 –Top 30 Engineers under age 30 in the UK. (With media Interviews) (May 2018)

tBAE Systems Chairman’s Award 2017 –Team Winner of the BAE Systems Chairman's Award for the innovation of next generation GNSS antennas. I was invited to receive the award at BAE Systems Annual Banquet in London. (Jan. 2018)

tIET Present Around the World Competition (PATW) – Runner-up of UK Final; Winner of Northern Regional Heat and Mersey and West Cheshire Network. Title of my talk: Free energy from the air, let’s get it. (Jul. 2016)

tMSc Project Prize of the University of Liverpool – Awarded a prize for the Best MSc Dissertation of the year from the department of electrical engineering and electronics, University of Liverpool. (Dec. 2013)

Representative Publications

【1】C. Song*, Y. Huang, J. Zhou, J. Zhang, S. Yuan and P. Carter., “A high-efficiency broadband rectenna for ambient wireless energy harvesting,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 3486–3495, May 2015. (* corresponding author) (511 citations, 20k+ downloads, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

【2】C. Song, Y. Huang, P. Carter, J. Zhou. S. Yuan. Q. Xu and M. Kod, “A novel six-band dual CP rectenna using improved impedance matching technique for ambient RF energy harvesting,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 64, no. 7, pp. 3160–3171, Jul. 2016. (370 citations, 10k+ downloads, ESI Highly Cited Paper).

【3】C. Song, Y. Huang, J. Zhou, P. Carter, S. Yuan, Q. Xu and Z. Fei, “Matching network elimination in broadband rectennas for high-efficiency wireless power transfer and energy harvesting,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 3950–3961, Apr. 2017. (300 citations, 7000+ downloads, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

【4】C. Song*, Yuan Ding, Aline Eid, Jimmy Hester, Xuanke He, Ryan Bahr, Apostolos Georgiadis, George Goussetis and Manos Tentzeris. “Advances in Wirelessly Powered Backscatter Communications: From Antenna/RF Circuitry Design to Printed Flexible Electronics” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 171-192, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2021.3125285. (Best Paper Award)

【5】C. Song*, L. Wang, Z. Chen, G. Goussetis, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, and Y. Huang, “Wideband mmWave Wireless Power Transfer: Theory, Design and Experiments,” EuCAP 2023. (invited) EuCAP2023 Best Paper Award

【6】S. Wan, P. Lu, C. Song, K. Huang, and X. Guan, "Highly Integrated, Electrically Small, Planar Huygens Antenna with Directly Embedded Rectifiers for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) " IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, under review, Jun. 2023.

【7】Ping Lu, Linjie Yang, Ce Wang, Cheng Zhang, C Song, and Yi Huang, “Power-Efficient Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) Using A Co-Designed Rectifying Metantenna,” IEEE Journal of Microwaves, under review, Jan. 2024.

【8】C. Zhang, Y. Wang, Z. Zhu, S. Sun, P. Lu, and C. Song, "Rectenna-Enabled New Paradigm with Hybrid Harmonic Beamforming for Integrated Energy Harvesting, Sensing and Communications" IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, major revision, Jan. 2024.

【9】J. Shi and C. Song et al, "Circularly Polarized mmWave Rectennas Co-Design Over Ka/Ku Bands with High Conversion Efficiency and Wide Bandwidth " IEEE IoT Journal, under review, Jan. 2024.

【10】G. Moloudian and C. Song et al, "A Novel Class-F−1 Microwave Rectifier to Improve Wireless Communication

Range of NFC Sensor" IEEE Trans. on CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS-II, EXPRESS BRIEF, under review, Feb. 2024.

【11】Z. Zhang and C. Song et al, "Full-Metal Shared Structure for Dual-mode Millimeter-Wave Cavity Slot Antenna Phased Array with End-fire/Broadside Beamforming" IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, under review, Jun. 2024.

【12】K. Xu, W. Gong, Y. Li, J. M. Purushothama, G. Goussetis, S. McLaughlin, J. Thompson, C. Song, and Y. Ding, "In- band 2FSK Ambient WiFi Backscatter Communication with Novel Energy Harvesting Co-design" IEEE IoT Journal, under review, Apr. 2024.

【13】Hongran Zeng, Ping Lu, Xiaowei Lia, LingLing Huang, Chaoyun Song, Dahai Li, In-kwon Lee, Seok-Tae Kim, Qiong- Hua Wangf, Yiguang Liu, "Optical management of keys via OFDM-assisted metasurface for multiuser computational imaging cryptography" PhotoniX, under review, Apr. 2024.

【14】Z. Zhang and C. Song et al, "Reconfigurable Multi-Mode Millimeter-Wave Three-State Phased Antenna Array for Vehicular Ground-Air-Space Communication" IEEE Journal of Microwaves, under review, Apr. 2024.

【15】Q. Fan, C. Song* and P. Fu* "Biomass-based MnO2 Composite Materials for Efficient Microwave Absorption Performance: Strong Interfacial Polarization and Electron Transition Effects" Industrial Crops & Products, under review, May 2024.

【16】Q. Fan, C. Song* and P. Fu* "Enhanced Microwave Absorption Efficiency of Fe-atom Linked Two-Phase Heterogeneous Interface Structure (C&Ti3C2) Synthesized under Magnetic Environment through Expanding EAB and Reducing Thickness" Advanced Materials, submitted, Jul. 2024.

【17】Manoj Kumar, Chaoyun Song, et al., "From MHz to mmWaves: A Review of Application-Driven UK-Based Wireless Power Research", IEEE Microwave Magazine, under review, Aug. 2024.

【18】J. Zhu, G. Chen and C. Song, et al., "Amplitude-Domain Reflection Modulation for Active RIS-Assisted Wireless Communications", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, under review, Aug. 2024.

【19】L. Luo, P. Lu and C. Song, et al., "A Stretchable Wideband Dipole Antenna Design Using Machine Learning Assisted Optimization", Advanced Functional Materials, submitted, Aug. 2024.

【20】Kyriaki Niotaki, Chaoyun Song, Furong Yang, and Apostolos Georgiadis, "Versatile Rectifiers 2.0: Theory, Design and Emerging Applications", IEEE Microwave Magazine, in press, Aug. 2024.

GRANT AND FUNDING

tPrincipal Investigator (PI), "Development of key technologies in low-power long-range wireless powering, communication and sensing" NSF Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas), 国家自然基金海外优青 CNY 3 million (423k USD) (no. 22IAA00668), collaboration university: Shenzhen University, China. Jan. 2024 - Jan. 2027

tPrincipal Investigator (PI), "Flexible antennas and circuits co-design" Shenzhen Peacock High Talent Research Grant, 深圳鹏城孔雀计划B 类研究基金， CNY 4.5 million (630k USD). Jan. 2024 - Jan. 2029

tPrincipal Investigator (PI), "Revolutionizing Antenna Miniaturization and Performance Enhancement for Stretchable and Flexible Electronics" Royal Society, £20k Oct. 2024 - Sep. 2025

tPrincipal Investigator (PI), “Joint TENG/RF harvesting enabled smart skin and green flexible electronics” Jiangsu Province Oversea Cooperation Grant, PI at UK, CNY 1.2 m (50% sharing, in partnership with Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science) May 2022 – Apr. 2025

tPrincipal Investigator (PI), “Thermal management of satellite high power Pas and active antenna arrays”, funded by Celestia UK (ESA E-scan project subcontract), £15k. completed Aug. 2020 – Aug. 2021

tCo-Investigator (Co-PI), “Fishing for data" funded by Cisco, $150k (B19R13615), completed. Jan. 2021-Dec. 2021

tPrincipal Investigator (PI), “5.8 GHz Integrated Reconfigurable Rectennas and Arrays for High Power WPT” Sichuan

University State Key Laboratory Oversea Cooperation Grant, PI at UK, CNY 300k (50% sharing). 2020 – 2022

tResearch co-Investigator (1 of 4), “Wearable helmet antennas for tracking construction workers using LoRa-WAN” Sensor

City Innovation Voucher, in collaboration with Wearable-Link Ltd. £6,500. 2019 – 2020

tResearch co-Investigator (3 of 3), “Introducing Mobile communications Industry-related courses in Undergraduate

Curriculum (IMMISSU)” Royal Academy of Engineering, IAPP1R2\100035, £50,000 2018 – 2019

tParticipators, (a) “Liquid Antennas”, EPSRC, EP/P015751/1, £587,312 (Postdoc). 2017 – 2020. (b) “Compact GNSS Antennas”, Ministry of Defence, SBRI_MOD_236, Phase-1: £48,080 and Phase-2: £190,144. 2015 – 2016. (c) “Broadband Rectennas”, Aeterum Grant, £100,000 (PhD studentship). 2013 – 2017.

Granted Patents

1) P. Carter, Y. Huang, and C. Song, “Broadband Rectenna” US patent US9966656, EU patent EP3319169A1 and US patent US10090595B2 (This patent has been utilized by Aeterum Innovations https://www.aeternum.co/ ).

2) Y. Huang and C. Song, “A compact broadband circularly polarized crossed dipole antenna for GNSS applications”

UK patent GB2552828A.

3) Y. Huang, and C. Song, “A compact multiband circular-polarization cross-dipole antenna” UK patent GB2532727A.

4) Y. Huang, C. Song, E. Bennett and J. Xiao, “Liquid Antenna” UK patent GB 35065A1.

5) P. Carter, Y. Huang, and C. Song, “Rectenna” US Patent US20190067802A1.

6) J. Xiao, E. Bennett, Y. Huang and C. Song, “Composition and Method” UK patent GB1914777.6.

People

Chaoyun Song Professor

Basic Information

Brief Introduction

Education Background

Working Experience

Awards

Representative Publications

GRANT AND FUNDING

Granted Patents