Dr Nathan Hu of Ascan Technologies

The development of 4G and 5G network together with smart phone and its applications in the last 15 years reshaped people’s life today. This seminar would like to review a couple of key challenges and its solutions in cellular antenna design in the last decade particularly from industrial point of view. It discussed the issues due to coupling between radiators in an interleaved placement and working at different bands, and challenges in multi-beam base station antenna design. At the end of the seminar the passive base station antenna’s test solutions are also included with a little touch of 5G OTA measurement.

Biography:

Nathan Hu (senior member, IEEE) was born in Shandong, China. He received B.E. in 2006 from Northwest Ploytechnical University, China and Ph.D in 2011 from The University of Adelaide. He joined Confidex as a product design engineer working on RFID tag antenna from 2011-2012 in Tampere, Finland. He stayed a short period in Monash University as a post-doc fellow in 2013. From 2013-2017, he was senior RF design engineer and then RF manager in CommScope, Sydney design centre. He led key 4G base station antenna product development for Australian and global market. He and his team released a few first in the industry such as wideband multi beam antenna and the first 12 port antenna with 4 by 4 MIMO capability for both low band and high band. He joined Rosenberger Technologies from 2017 until 2022 as an engineering director leading both the Australian and Asian Pacific design team for 4G and 5G cellular antenna development. From 2022, he co-founded Ascan Technologies which focuses on antenna test range solutions based on robots.

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Address: Ascan Technologies, , Australia