Professor Dr.-Ing. Rolf Jakoby

Address Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Mikrowellentechnik und Photonik
Fachgebiet Mikrowellentechnik
Merckstraße 25
64283 Darmstadt

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - High-Performance TE10-Waveguide Phase Shifters for Millimeter Waves - Generic Concepts Towards Liquid Crystal (LC) filled MultiGap WaveGuides (MGWG) (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Verlustmechanismen in steuerbaren Mikrowellendielektrika (Research Grants)
  - Verlustmechanismen in steuerbaren Mikrowellendielektrika (Research Grants)
  - Investigations of Agile Nematic and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Passive Tunable Microwave devices (Research Grants)
  - Rekonfigurierbare Millimeterwellen-Antennen mit steuerbaren hoch-anisotropen Flüssigkristallen (Research Grants)
  - Planar tunable metamaterials for microwave applications, including matching circuits and leaky wave antennas based on liquid crystals (Research Grants)
  - Elektrooptische und dielektrische Eigenschaften von flüssigkristallinen Nanokompositen (Research Grants)
  - Glaskeramiken mit ferro- und paraelektrischen Phasen für Mikrowellenantennen (Research Grants)
  - Realisierung von neuartigen, elektrisch steuerbaren Hochfrequenzkomponenten auf Basis keramischer Schichten durch elektrophoretische Abscheidung (Research Grants)
  - Tunable Gradient Index Fishnet Structures based on Liquid Crystals for Beam Steering Applications (Research Grants)
  - Characterisation of highly anisotropic liquid crystals in the range of 2 to 8 THz (Research Grants)
  - Broadband Switch-Mode Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers using Tunable Ferroelectric Thick-Film Components (Research Grants)
  - Elucidating stress responses in bacterial biofilms using electromagnetic sensors and transcriptome analysis on single-cell level (Priority Programmes)
  - Novel continuously tunable and miniaturized passive "slow-wave" phase shifters with fast response time for millimeter wave applications based on a combined Liquid Crystal (LC) and Nanowire-filled Membrane (NaM) technology (Research Grants)
  - Chipless Microwave RFID based on Printed Circuit Technology: Sensor Integration, Tag Localization and Robustness Optimization (Research Grants)
  - Tunable Gradient-Index Fishnet for Beam Steering Applications at 60 GHz (Research Grants)
  - Inorganic, dielectric composite materials as sensitive elements for chipless wireless high temperature microwave RFID sensors (Research Grants)
  - Millimeter wave beam steering antenna platform for mobile 140 GHz wireless systems in hybrid Liquid Crystal - Nanowire Membrane technology (Research Grants)
  - Tunable composites with low permittivity for microwave applications (Research Grants)
  - Dual-mode microwave applicator for diagnosis and thermal ablation treatment of organic tissue (Priority Programmes)
  - Coordination Funds (Priority Programmes)
  - First Investigations on Electrically Tunable Dual-Mode Liquid Crystal-based Substrate Integrated Waveguide Bandpass Filters for W-Band Applications (Research Grants)
  - Concepts for and Synthesis of Liquid Crystal-Tunable Ka-band Filters with Independently Tunable Center Frequency and Bandwidth (Research Grants)
  - The art of delivery: uptake into living cells by microwave field induced perturbation of the plasma membrane (Research Grants)
  - Thin-film interface engineering of low-voltage tunable ferroelectric varactors with oxide electrodes (Research Grants)
  - Additive manufacturing of dielectric phased array antennas with liquid crystal beam-steering for future integrated millimeter wave systems (Research Grants)
  - Broadband microfluidic dielectrometry of biochemical liquids based on microwave precision measurement technique (Research Grants)
  - Concept of frequency-agile multi-bandstop filters for low-loss liquid crystal filters with large tuning ranges of the center frequency and bandwidth (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Vektorielle Netzwerkanalyse bis 500 GHz (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Spokesperson
- Completed projects
  - GRK 1037: Tunable Integrable Components in Microwave Technology and Optics, TICMO (Research Training Groups)
  - SPP 1857: Elektromagnetische Sensoren für Life Sciences (ESSENCE) (Priority Programmes)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - GRK 410: Physik and Technology of Accelerators (Research Training Groups)
  - GRK 749: System Integration for Ubiquitous Computing in the Information Technology (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Ceramic Technologies for Passive Sub-mm Localization Infrastructure (CRC/Transregios)