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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab

The Radio Frequency Identification Lab (RFID Lab) was established by an initial seed grant from the Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP) made to the Center for the Advanced Communications (CAC). The objective of this State funded Lab is to become a leading provider of RFID research in the region and promote collaboration and partnership with RFID manufacturing industries. The Lab provides capabilities of RFID system evaluation and design, development of new RFID technologies and RFID antennas, and performing electromagnetic modeling and analysis. It hosts testing facilities for RFID products, and supports the evaluation of RFID tags and RFID-assisted tagged localization methods, collision avoidance techniques, and signal propagation characteristics.

Area of Expertise

  • RFID System Evaluation and Design
    • Systems feasibility study
    • Testing and performance evaluation
    • Prototype development
  • Signal Processing
    • Real-time locating systems (RTLS)
    • Beamforming and interference cancellation
    • Collision avoidance
  • Antennas & Propagation
    • Innovative antenna designs
    • Computational electromagnatic software & modeling
    • Antenna testing & measurements

Facilities

  • Two Agilent ESG E4438C Vector Signal Generators
  • Agilent 89641 Vector Signal Analyzer
  • Agilent Infiniium 54855A Digital Oscilloscope
  • Agilent ENA 5071B Vector Network Analyzer
  • RFID readers

Opportunities

The RFID Lab is looking for qualified candidates to fill in the following position:

Research Assistant
A Research Assistant position is available for graduate students in the areas of statistical signal and array processing for RFID applications, such as direction finding, positioning, source separation, and interference cancellation.

If you are interested, please send your resume, including your education background, course transcript, research experience, a list of publications, and the GRE score, to the following address. If your first language is not English, please also provide the TOEFL score. Preference will be given to those who have finished Master's program in the related areas and plan to pursue the Ph.D. degree at Villanova.

Dr. Yimin Zhang
Director, Wireless Communication and Positioning Lab

Acting Director,
Radio Frequency Identification Lab

Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610-519-4544
FAX: 610-519-6118


 

More Information

Dr. Yimin Zhang
Acting Director
Radio Frequency Identification Lab
Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610.519.4544
FAX: 610.519.6118

Janice J. Moughan
Center Coordinator
Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610.519.4599
FAX: 610.519.6118

Address: 119 Tolentine Hall
800 Lancaster Ave.
Villanova, PA 19085-1699


Sponsors

We greatly appreciate the generous support of the following Government agencies and industries through funded projects and donations. We are looking for industrial sponsors and collaborators. If you are interested, please contact the Lab director.