Junbo Wang

Junbo Wang is currently a Ph.D. student at University of California Los Angeles under the supervision of Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii. He received his B.Eng. in 2017 from the Department of Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China and M.S. in 2019 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently working on beam steerable antennas, reflectarrays, transmitarrays, and 3D printed antennas.

His current research focuses on metasurface, transmitarray/reflectarray beam steering antennas.

• J.Wang and Y.Rahmat-Samii, "New Cosine-q Pattern Formulas for the Analysis of Elongated-Aperture Antennas," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 1893-1898, February 2024.
• Z. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Xu, R. Hensleigh, H. Lu, M. Sowers, M. A. Worsley, Y. Rahmat-Samii, and X. R. Zheng, "Charge-Programmable Photopolymers for 3D Electronics via Additive Manufacturing," Advanced Functional Materials(Early View), vol. , no. , pp. , January 2024.
• J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Simplified Configuration of Beam Steerable Risley Prism Antennas: Principles and Validation," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 2288-2292, June 2022.
• J. Wang, V. Manohar and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "K-band Circularly Polarized Beam Steerable Reflectarray Enabling Internet of Space: Conceptualization and Validation," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. , no. , pp. , 2022.
• J. Wang, V. Manohar, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Enabling the Internet of Things With CubeSats: A Review of Representative Beamsteerable Antenna Concepts," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 14-28, December 2021.
• Junbo Wang and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, "Step-Like Structures in Electrostatic and Electrodynamic Implementation of Method of Moments: Some Unique Observations," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, vol. 85, no. , pp. 27-48, July 2019.

• Y. Rahmat-Samii, J. Wang, J. Zamora, G. Freebury, R. E. Hodges and S. J. Horst, "A Large Aperture Parabolic Cylinder Deployable Mesh Reflector Antenna for Next-Generation Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar," in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), pp. 1723-1724, Portland, OR, USA, July 2023.
• Z. Wang, Z. Xu, J. Wang, R. Hensleigh, Y. Rahmat-Samii and X. R. Zheng, "Materials Design for Charge-Programmed Additive Manufacturing of Antennas," in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), pp. 945-946, Portland, OR, USA, July 2023.
• J. Wang, Z. Xu, Z. Wang, R. Hensleigh, X. Zheng and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "An Overview of Novel Antennas Manufactured via Charge-Programmed Multi-Material 3D Printing," in 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), pp. 943-944, Portland, OR, USA, July 2023.
• J. Wang, B. Zhang, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Hexagonal Pixels Facilitating Topological Design of 2-bit 2- switch Phase-Reconfigurable Unit Cells," in 2023 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), Boulder, CO, USA, January 2023.
• Y. Luo, J.Wang, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "The Significance of Nearby-term Approximation in Method of Moments: An Observation in 2D Electrodynamic Scenarios with TE Polarization," in 2023 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), Boulder, CO, USA, January 2023.
• J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A Novel Reduced-Complexity Low-Profile mm-Wave Beam Steerable Risley Prism Antenna," in 2022 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), pp. 1-6, Denver, CO, USA, October 2022.
• J. Wang, B. Zhang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Maximizing RF Switch Usage Efficiency in Electronically Reconfigurable Unit Cells: A Design using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization," in 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), pp. 1614-1615, Denver, CO, USA, July 2022.
• J.Wang, R. Hensleigh, Z. Xu, Z.Wang, X. Zheng and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Fully 3D-Printed Lightweight Combination of a Circularly Polarized Transmitarray and a Feed Horn," in 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI), pp. 645-646, Denver, CO, USA, July 2022.
• A. Papathanasopoulos, J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Understanding the Far-Field Properties of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams through the Antenna Aperture Field Method," in the National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 178-179, Boulder, CO, USA, January 2022.
• J. Wang, A. Papathanasopoulos, Y. Rahmat-Samii, Ryan Hensleigh, Zhenpeng Xu, and Xiaoyu Zheng., "Ultra-Lightweight Transmitarray Antenna Enabled by Charge-Programmed Three-Dimensional Multi-Material Printing," in 2022 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), pp. 302-303, Boulder, CO, USA, 2022.
• J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "A 3-State Broadband Circularly-Polarized Unit Cell Enabling Steerable Reflectarrays for CubeSats," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI), pp. 561-562, Singapore, Singapore, December 2021.
• A. Papathanasopoulos, J. Wang, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Transmitarray Antenna Generating Circularly Polarized Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Beams: Synthesis, Prototyping and Measurements," in Proceedings of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), pp. 1-4, Daytona Beach, FL, USA, October 2021.
• J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Development of Novel K-band Beam Steerable Reflectarray for CubeSat Internet of Space," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, pp. 1779-1780, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 2020.
• J. Wang, V. Manohar, and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Beam Steerable Reflectarray Enabling CubeSat Internet of Space: Conceptualization and Design (Invited Paper)," in Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1-4, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020.
• J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Meixner's Current Edge Behaviors and their Appearances in MoM Solutions: A Novel Step-Like Structure Creating Edges and Inner and Outer Wedges," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 1300-1300, Granada, Spain, September 2019.
• J. Wang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Phase Method: A More Precise Beam Steering Model For Phase-Delay Metasurface based Risley Antenna," in Proceedings of the URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS), pp. 1-4, San Diego, CA, May 2019.