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Dr Soe Min Tun

  • was educated at Queen Mary College, University of London (B.Sc., 1981 and Ph.D., 1984)
  • worked at RF Technology Division, ERA Technology Ltd on research and design of antenna systems(1984-1989)
  • Consultant (S.M.T. Consultancies Ltd.) on design of antennas and feed components, development of electromagnetic analysis software(1989-present)

Work Carried Out

  • Design of splash plate antennas at 10 GHz for mass production
  • Design of a manpack antenna operating at SHF band
  • Design of compact dual offset antennas for V-Sat applications
  • Analysis of wideband TEM coaxial line tapers
  • Design of low cross-polar Tx/Rx feeds for satellite borne shaped reflector antennas(Ku & C bands)
  • Design of wideband corrugated horns
  • Design and analysis of a coaxial orthomode diplexer at C band
  • Design of feed network components for a dual band/dual polarised radar antenna
  • Design and analysis of an ultra-wideband coaxial balun
  • Design and analysis corrugated waveguide filters
  • Design and analysis of a dual band coaxial feed

Past Experience

  • Mutual coupling analysis in waveguide and horn arrays
  • Analysis of array fed reflector antennas
  • Synthesis and analysis of single and dual shaped reflector antennas for contoured beam generation
  • Design of ground station antennas at Ku, Ka, SHF and EHF bands
  • Design of multi-band feed horns
  • Design and analysis of dielectric loaded horns
  • Radar antenna siting analysis
  • RCS of antennas
  • Design of TVRO flat plate and reflector antennas

Published Literature

  1. Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., Dawkins, A W, 'A low sidelobe Potter horn', Fifth International Conference on Computation in Electromagnetics, CEM 2004, IEE Conerence Publication, april 2004.
  2. Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., 'A small splashplate feed antenna', International conference for antennas and propagation, ICAP-2003, IEE Conf. Publ. No. 491, pp 87-89.
  3. Tun,S.M, .Foster, P.R. , 'Computer optimised wideband dual-mode horn', Electronics Letters, Vol.38, No.15, July 2002, pp. 768-769.
  4. Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., 'Modelling complex waveguide structures', Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Monterey CA, March 2001.
  5. Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., 'Modelling of high gain reflectors mounted on structures', International conference for antennas and propagation, ICAP-2001, IEE Conf. Publ. No. 480, pp 356-360.
  6. Foster, P.R., Browning, D.J., Tun,S.M., 'Siting Considerations and Performance Implications for Antennas on Helicopters', International Radar Conference, Brest, May, 1999.
  7. Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., 'Modelling Waveguide Components using Mode-matching Techniques', Microwave Engineering Europe, April 1996.
  8. Tun, S.M., Analysis of rectangular waveguide filters and polarisers with reduced width E plane stubs., Int.Conf. on Computations in Electromagnetics, IEE Conf. Publ. No. 420, April 1996, p 421-424.
  9. Foster, P.R., Tun, S.M., A wide band balun from coaxial to TEM line, International conference for antennas and propagation, ICAP-95, IEE Conf. Publ. No. 407, p 286-290.
  10. Tun, S.M., Foster, P.R., Mode matching analysis of small Cassegrainian reflector antennas, International conference for antennas and propagation, ICAP-93, IEE Conf. Publ. No. 370, p 627-630.
  11. Tun, S.M., Mode matching analysis of combined circular and coaxial structures loaded with dielectrics, Int.Conf. on Computations in Electromagnetics, IEE Conf. Publ. No. 350, Nov 1991, p230-233.
  12. Dang, N., Patel, M., Williams, N. and Tun, S.M., A Flat-Plate TVRO Antenna., IEE Colloquim on flat-plate and low profile antennas, Digest No. 1990/006, Jan 1990.
  13. Driscoll, B., Tun, S.M. and Mathiesen,M.,Compact dual-frequency radiometer, IEEE APS International Symposium, San Jose, California, USA, June 1989.
  14. Adatia,N., Ramanujam, P. and Tun, S.M., Multi-coverage shaped reflector antenna design, IEEE APS International Symposium, San Jose, California, USA, June 1989.
  15. Ramanujam, P., Tun, S.M. and Adatia, N., Side-lobe performance of shaped reflector antennas for contoured beams, ICAP-89, IEE conference publication U.K.
  16. Ramanujam, P., Tun, S.M. and Philippou, G.Y., Gain improvement in dual reflector monopulse antenna with a four-horn feed, Colloque international sur le radar, Paris, April 1989.
  17. Tun, S.M., Bustamante, R. and Williams, N., Dielecrically loaded horns, Military microwaves 88, London, 1988, p71-76.
  18. Tun, S.M., Adatia, N., Davis, I.M., Sidat, M.S., Costello,W.T.D. and Crone, G.A.E., Shaped dual offset reflector antenna contoured beam space-craft application, IEE colloquim on shaped beam satellite antennas, London, 1987.
  19. Adatia, N. and Tun, S.M., Low sidelobe antennas using shaped reflector techniques., Military Microwaves 86, Conference Proceedings, Brighton, England, June 1986, p 139-145.
  20. Mehler, M., Tun, S.M. and Adatia, N., Direct far-field GO synthesis of shaped beam reflector antennas, MOA, Part H, IEE Proceedings, Vol 133, No.3, June 1986, p213-220.
  21. ;Tun, S.M. and Philippou, G.Y. and Adatia, N., Analysis and design of rotationally symmetric dielectric-loaded waveguides and horns, ICAP-87, U.K.
  22. Tun, S.M., Adatia, N., Shaped dual offset reflector antennas for contoured beam coverage of Europe, IEEE APS Symposium Proceedings, Philadelphia, USA, 1986.
  23. Tun, S.M., Clarricoats, P.J.B. and Parini, C.G.,Experimental investigation of mutual coupling in a conical horn array, Elecronics letters, Vol 20, No.22, p937-939.
  24. Tun, S.M., Clarricoats, P.J.B.,Single-offset reflector antenna with a matched-feed array, IEEE APS symposiums proceedings, Boston, USA, 1984.
  25. Clarricoats, P.J.B.,Tun, S.M. and Brown,R.C., The effects of mutual coupling in dual offset reflector antennas fed from conical horn arrays, IEEE APS symposiums proceedings, Boston, USA, 1984.
  26. Clarricoats, P.J.B.,Tun, S.M. and Brown,R.C., Performance of offset reflector antennas with array feeds, IEE proceedings, Part H, MOA, Vol.131, No.3, June 1984, pp172-178.
  27. Clarricoats, P.J.B.,Tun, S.M. and Parini,C.G., The effects of mutual coupling in conical horn arrays, IEE proceedings Part H, MOA, Vol.131, No.3, June 1984, pp172-178.

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