Monday, July 08, 2013

Weapons-detecting radars



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Published on Mar 21, 2013


In the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting, a University of Michigan professor envisions a new use for a weapons-detecting radar system. The technology could potentially identify a hidden gun or bomb on an approaching person from the distance of a football field away in less than a second. U-M Engineering Professor Kamal Sarabandi used computer simulations and lab experiments to demonstrate that a portable, millimeter-wave radar system could spot a metal object concealed near a person's torso.

ABOUT THE PROFESSOR: Kamal Sarabandi (http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~saraband/) is the Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (http://www.eecs.umich.edu/) at the University of Michigan College of Engineering (http://www.engin.umich.edu/). His research focus encompasses a wide range of topics in the area of applied electromagnetics, including microwave and millimeter-wave radar remote sensing, antenna miniaturization and reconfigurable antennas for wireless applications, wireless channel characterization for performance assessment of wireless systems and millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave subsystems and components with applications to radar imaging.

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