Nader Behdad Assistant Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Courses Education Fields of Interest Publications Awards & Honors

Contact Information

3438 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1691

Tel: 608 262 8804 E-mail: behdad@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

Courses

• ECE 744: Theory of Microwave Circuits and Devices

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2000

Fields of Interest

• Applied Electromagnetics and RF/Microwaves

Publications

• Mudar Al-Joumayly and N. Behdad, "A New Technique for Design of Low-Profile, Second-Order, Band-Pass Frequency Selective Surfaces," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• N. Behdad, Mudar Al-Joumayly, and Mohsen Salehi, "A low-profile third-order band-pass frequency selective surface," to appear IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
• Mohsen Salehi and N. Behdad "A Second-Order Dual X-/Ka-Band Frequency Selective Surface," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 785-787, Dec. 2008.
• N. Behdad, "Compact Odd-Order Band-Pass Filters Using Capacitively Coupled Spiral Resonators," Microwaves and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 4172-3175, Dec. 2008.
• N. Behdad "A Second-Order Band-Pass Frequency Selective Surface Using Non-Resonant Sub-Wavelength Periodic Structures," Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, issue 6, pp. 1639-1643, June 2008
• K. van Caekenberghe, N. Behdad, K. M. Brakora, and K. Sarabandi, "A 2.45 GHz Electrically Small Slot Antenna" IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 7, pp. 346-348. 2008.
• K. Sarabandi and N. Behdad, "A Frequency Selective Surface With Miniaturized Elements", in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 55, no. 5, pp.1239-1245, May 2007
• W. Hong, N. Behdad, and K. Sarabandi, "A Novel Method of Miniaturizing Cavity-Backed Slot Antennas", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1461-1466, May 2006.
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "Improved Slot and Wire Loop Antenna", IEE Proceedings on Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation, Vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 287-292, June 2006
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "A Dual-Band Reconfigurable Antenna with a Very Wide Tunability Range", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, no. 2, part 1, pp. 409-416, Feb. 2006.
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "A Varactor Tuned Dual-Band Slot Antenna", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, no. 2, part 1, pp. 401-408, Feb. 2006
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "A Compact Antenna for Ultrawide-Band Applications", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 53, pp. 2185-2192, July 2005.
• K. Sarabandi, N. Behdad, A. Nashashibi, M. Casciato, L. Pierce, and F. Wang, "A Measurement System for Ultrawide-Band Communication Channel Characterization," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 53, pp. 2146-2155, July 2005.
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "A Wideband Slot Antenna Design Employing A Fictitious Short Circuit Concept", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 53, pp. 475-482, Jan 2005.
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "Bandwidth Enhancement and Further Size Reduction of a Class of Miniaturized Slot Antennas", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 52, pp. 1928-1935, Aug 2004.
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "A Multiresonant Single-Element Wideband Slot Antenna", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 3, pp. 5-8, 2004.
• N. Behdad and K. Sarabandi, "Wideband Double-Element Ring Slot Antenna", Electronics Letters, Vol. 40, pp. 408 - 409, Apr. 2004.

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• Young Scientist Award, International Union of Radio Science, 2008
• Horace H. Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006
• Second place award, Student paper competition of the USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, CO, Jan 2004.
• Best Student Paper Award 27th Antenna Applications Symposium, Allerton Park, Monticello, IL, Sep 17-19, 2003.

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