Laboratory resources

Our laboratory provides the capacity to conduct research in diverse fields ranging from antenna and RF amplifier design to dielectric spectroscopy, medical applications of RF and microwave fields and non-ionising radiation risk assessment.

This facility provides the infrastructure for training students in electromagnetic compatibility and immunity testing, increase research activity into biomedical applications and enables monitoring of electromagnetic field (EM) emissions in the environment and exposure of these fields.

Together with electromagnetic software and the supercomputer, Albert on campus this laboratory provides the place for fundamental and applied research.

Some of the equipment in use at EMRG

  1. Vector network analyser - R&S ZVA 50 (10MHz-50GHz with frequency extension up to 90GHz)
  2. Various calibration kits -  such as ZV-Z135, ZV-Z170
  3. Planar vector reflectometer (85MHz - 5.4GHz)
  4. NARDA Selective Radiation Meter (SRM-3006)
  5. NARDA Broadband Meter (NBM-550)
  6. NARDA IDA 2
  7. 3-axis Hall Magnetometer Metrolab THM-1176
  8. Various antennas
  9. (Log periodic antenna 200MHz-5GHz , Schwarzbeck 0.8-4GHz, Aronia Hyperlog 700MHz-6GHz)
  10. Portable RF safety personal monitoring - EME Spy
  11. Various dielectric measurements kits incl. Agilent 85070E and 85071E
  12. X-band & R-band waveguide system
  13. Constant temperature water bath
  14. 4 channel fibre optic thermometer
  15. TDS system (10MHz - 10GHz)
  16. Power meter & sensors
  17. Power amplifiers (100kHz - 3GHz - 100W)
  18. Signal generators and spectrum analysers
  19. EMC test systems
  20. Anechoic Chamber 700MHz - 10GHz

Software available at EMRG

  1. SIM4LIFE
  2. CST Studio Suite
  3. Matlab 
  4. HFSS
  5. Maxwell
  6. Solidware
  7. EFC 400

https://www.um.edu.mt/r/research/electromagnetics/laboratoryresources