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
- 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.
- 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.
- Tun,S.M, .Foster, P.R. , 'Computer optimised wideband dual-mode horn', Electronics Letters, Vol.38, No.15, July 2002, pp. 768-769.
- Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., 'Modelling complex waveguide structures', Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Monterey CA, March 2001.
- 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.
- Foster, P.R., Browning, D.J., Tun,S.M., 'Siting Considerations and Performance Implications for Antennas on Helicopters', International Radar Conference, Brest, May, 1999.
- Foster, P.R., Tun,S.M., 'Modelling Waveguide Components using Mode-matching Techniques', Microwave Engineering Europe, April 1996.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Driscoll, B., Tun, S.M. and Mathiesen,M.,Compact
dual-frequency radiometer, IEEE APS International
Symposium, San Jose, California, USA, June 1989.
- Adatia,N., Ramanujam, P. and Tun, S.M., Multi-coverage
shaped reflector antenna design, IEEE APS International
Symposium, San Jose, California, USA, June 1989.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tun, S.M., Bustamante, R. and Williams, N., Dielecrically
loaded horns, Military microwaves 88, London, 1988,
p71-76.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ;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.
- Tun, S.M., Adatia, N., Shaped dual offset reflector
antennas for contoured beam coverage of Europe, IEEE APS
Symposium Proceedings, Philadelphia, USA, 1986.
- 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.
- Tun, S.M., Clarricoats, P.J.B.,Single-offset reflector
antenna with a matched-feed array, IEEE APS symposiums
proceedings, Boston, USA, 1984.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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