Mr LIU Xiangke was awarded the IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship for Fall 2009 by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, US, for his “Design of Small Antenna for Mobile Communication” in support of his M.S./Ph.D programme in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is among six students worldwide to receive this scholarship. This is the fourth consecutive year CityU students have received this award.

The antenna developed by Xiangke is more powerful than most base station antennas in use nowadays. The small antenna integrates such features as a compact body, high receptivity and transmission power and wide-band properties that existing base station antennas do not simultaneously accommodate. It is suitable for most frequency bands that are widely used in wireless communications systems. These include TV signal transmission and wireless mobile communications such as CDMA, GSM, PCS, UMTS, BLUETOOTH and wireless LAN. Xiangke’s product provides users with a more economical choice as it averts the need to instal various base station antennas for different purposes.