David Kearney
Researcher
Department of Antenna and High frequency
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
David Kearney was a Part-Time Masters Research student in the Dublin Institute of Technology’s Antennas & High Frequency Research Centre. He completed his MPhil in 2009. His research on "Small Antenna Options for Ultra-Wideband Applications" was funded by TDK Electronics Ireland, where David has worked as a Front End Module and Antenna Design Engineer since 2001. His work at TDK has included various Ceramic Chip Antenna designs for Bluetooth, WiMAX & UWB applications and their integration into portable devices such as Handsets, PDAs, Laptops etc.
Research Interest
Size ReductionTechniques for Ceramic Chip UWB Antennas Broadbanding Techniques for Planar Inverted-F Antennas Near-Field and Far-Field Antenna Measurement Techniques
Publications
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Kearney, D. and Ammann, M. J., “Small Ultra-Wideband Antenna for Mobile Handsetâ€, in LAPC - Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, Loughborough, UK, 2009, pp. 457-460.
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Ammann, M. J., Kearney, D., and John, M., “Surface-Mounted UWB Handset Antenna with Small Envelope Volumeâ€, in European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCAP, Rome, Italy, 2011, pp. 2622-2624
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Kearney, D., John, M., and Ammann, M. J., “Miniature Ceramic Dual-PIFA Antenna to Support Band Group 1 UWB Functionality in Mobile Handsetâ€, IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 336-339, 2011.
