Research Highlights
Ghalichechian Receives NSF Career Award
Professor Nima Ghalichechian receives 5-year NSF CAREER award titled “CAREER: Understanding and Exploiting Non-linear Behavior of Phase-Change Materials for Millimeter-Wave Applications”. For more information please see the ECE press release... | LEARN MOREGhalichechian Receives Lumley Research Award
The Lumley Engineering Research Awards are presented to a select group of outstanding researchers in the College of Engineering who have shown exceptional activity and success in pursuing new knowledge of a fundamental or applied nature. Professor... | LEARN MOREThin Film Deposition: Mark Lust
Mark Lust is a first year PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering . Currently, Mark was an undergraduate researcher under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. He... | LEARN MORESROP Student: Josh Frenchwood
Undergraduate researcher Josh Frenchwood from University of Houston completed a two-month tenure with RF Microsystems Group. Josh joined the team as a part of Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) sponsored by the OSU Graduate School and Big... | LEARN MORE3D Printed Antennas
-------- DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF FRESNEL LENS --------------------------------- Traditional lens structures are used in a wide range of applications: from imaging systems for magnifying small objects, to energy systems for harvesting more solar energy without using expensive or large cells. | LEARN MOREFun Day at ESL
December 15, 2016
ESL Community Building Commitee organized a nice Happy Hour on Dec 14 called "ESL Holiday Dessert and Ugly Sweater Open House". It was fun! Read more about it at https://electroscience.osu.edu/2016-Holiday-OpenHouse Check out the pictures at https://electroscience.osu.edu/news-events/photo-library... | LEARN MOREReconfigurable Antennas and RF Components at Millimeter Wave
Reconfigurability is a vital feature of future agile millimeter wave systems for sensing, imaging, wireless, and satellite communications. Reconfigurable antennas are an integral part of such systems as they can control polarization, frequency, radiation... | LEARN MORE2016 NSF REU Students
Ohio State University students Mahnoor Naqvi and Spandan Shah are two researchers working with our RF Microsystems team during the summer of 2016 under National Science Foundation (NFS) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Mahnoor... | LEARN MOREPhase Change Materials for RF Microsystems
Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) is a phase-change material (PCM) that exhibits a solid-to-solid crystalline structure transition at 68 °C. The electrical conductivity of VO2 is that of a dielectric (or insulator) below the transition temperature and a conductor above it. | LEARN MOREElectrical Characterization of Novel Materials
Understanding material properties (dielectric constant and loss tangent) are crucial in designing next-generation antennas and RF components at millimeter wave (30-300 GHz) and terahertz (>300 GHz) bands. In our group, we have developed a free space... | LEARN MOREImplantable Pulmonary Artery Banding for Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart diseases (CHD) affect nearly 1% of – or about 40,000 – births per year in the United States. Among them, about 25% of newborns are in critical condition and need surgery or other procedures in the first year of life. Pulmonary... | LEARN MORE
Research Group and Interests
Research Group:
https://microsystems.osu.edu/about/team
Research Interests:
-Phase-change materials and devices
-Micro/nano-bolometers
-Reconfigurable antennas and components
-Antenna arrays
-Millimeter-wave microsystems
-Electrical characterization of novel materials
-Novel materials and microfabrication processes
-Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
Principal Investigator

Nima Ghalichechian
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University