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The Center for Advanced Communications (CAC), a Villanova/Ben Franklin/National Science Foundation Center, was founded in 1990 to help stimulate regional industrial competitiveness by encouraging collaborations with undustry (both large and small companies), emphasizing team-based interdisciplinary engineering, involving undergraduate and graduate students, and preparing students to work successfully in industry. Over the past decade, the Center has provided an integrated and creative environment for university, industry, and government to focus on computational, informational, and communication issues.
The CAC has four state-of-the-art research labs:
The labs were established from external funds. Each lab has its own Director and is maintained from revenues generated from research contracts and grants.
Primary Research Areas
- Radar Signal Processing
- Near-Field Source Characterization
- Target Tracking and Source Discrimination
- Over the Horizon Radar
- Through-Wall Microwave Imaging
- Low-Profile Antennas
- Antenna Design and Analysis on Rotocraft
- Modeling of Low-Profile and Conformal Antennas
- Novel Metamaterial Media and Surface for Antenna Applications
- High Gain Printed Antennas for Millimeter-Wave Applications
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- Smart and Secure Communications
- Smart Antennas and Space-Time Processing
- Interference Mitigation in Broadband Communication Platforms
- Signal Processing for Anti-Jamming GPS Receivers
- Space-Time Coding
- Multi-User Detection
- Microwave & RF Microelectronics
- Linear and Nonlinear Modeling of Devices
- Thermal Management of High Power Electronic and Wireless Devices
- Wireless Communication Channel Estimation and Equalization
- Wireless Networks
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