Dr. Rana Pratap Yadav

Dr. Rana Pratap Yadav

  

Designation:

Assistant Professor

Specialization:

Radar, Microwave Remote Sensing, RF energy harvesting, antenna and Microwave Engineering

Email:

rpyadav@thapar.edu

Research Interest

RF and Microwave Engineering: High power RF, microwave device and circuits

Academic Background 
 
Ph.D.  in High Power RF/Microwave Engineering     Date of Completion Oct. 2014 
Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India 
Under Supervision of Dr. S. V. Kulkarni 
Field of Study: RF/Microwave Engineering 
Masters (M.Tech.) in Electrical Drives                       2007-2009  
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal      
 
Bachelor (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering             2003-04 
Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India      
 
Fellowships: 
 
    Prince of wales foundation fellowship, U.K     March-2018 to March-2019 
    John Oldacre Foundation Fellowship, U.K.     August-2017 to Feb.-2018 
    Department Atomic Energy (DAE), Prestigious DGFS Fellowship     March-2011to June-2014 
    MHRD fellowship during M. Tech. course     July-2007to July-2009 


Professional Experience:  
 
Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Electronics and     08-August-2017 to 31-December-2018 Communication Engineering,  
University of Oxford, IEB, OX1 3PJ,  UK 
 
Assistant Professor at Electronics and Communication Engineering,     30-June-2014 to till date Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, 
Patiala, India-147004 
 
Electrical Assistant Engineer, Power Grid Corporation of India     02-March-2009 to 01-March-2011 Limited (PGCIL), Alankar Palace, Boaring Road,  Patna, India 
 
 Ongoing/Completed Research Project 
 
[1] Project Title: Design and development of Harmonics RADAR system for tracking of pollinators  
 
Brief of project: This project is about development of the harmonics radar System for tracking of pollinators which is subject interest of Microwave Engineering.  The harmonic radar system is a multi-static radar system with a mobile receiver flown with UAV for tracking of target. A stationary radar transmitter provides power to the tags which is attached with insects for tracking. The tags are highly miniaturized meta-material resonant antennas along with frequency double circuit that receive and respond at fundamental and harmonics frequency.  We have produced the smallest, lightest harmonic radar tags on record (2.8 x 2.8 x 0.7mm); designed and built a light, ultra-sensitive receiver to mount on the UAV; and produced a filtering system for a commercial 3.0kW radar transmitter to eliminate the undesirable harmonics. 
               Key Role: Post-doctoral Researcher 
August 2017-Dec2018 
Sponsoring Agency: Prince of Wales Foundation, U.K. and John Oldacre  
 
[2]    Project Title: “Design and development of the mock-up ICRH system of Tokamak with variable load” Brief of project: This project is about development of high power RF matching network for tokamak application. It proposed to achieve the speed in order of few ms, where development of the high power components like Couplers, Phase and Amplitude comparator, Magnitude Detector, De-coupler, Stub tuner, Line Stretcher, variable load, high power antennae etc. as used in real ICRH system. 
Key Role: Principle Investigator 
Time duration March-2016 to March 2020 
Sponsoring Agency: Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences(BRNS), India   
  
[3]    Project Title: “Development of the Reconfigurable Plasma Antenna” 
Brief of project: This about development of Reconfigurable plasma antenna. Project is aimed to design plasma based reconfigurable stealth antenna which can be tuned at any frequency with in the 1-3GHz by changing the plasma properties. The basic experimental setup includes the 1kW RF source, matching network, vacuum and gas supply system, antenna column and plasma diagnostic. 
Key Role: Principle Investigator Status: Completed 
[4]    Thapar and ISRO Student Satellite Project Progarm (THAPSAT): THAPSAT is a program which is being proposed by Thapar University with support of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The objective of this project is to monitor the pollutant in the area of Punjab through satellite hyper spectral Imaging and also provide a wonderful learning experience to the students by working on a multi-disciplinary complex system of space technology and also to setup a research laboratory for testing of the future technologies under academic practice. 
       Key Role: Coordinator 
       Continued from June, 2017 
        Sponsoring Agency: Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala, India 
 
 
Engineering/Computational/ Analytical Skills  
 
Engineering Skills     RF and microwave hardware design and Fabrication, Photolithography and Nano- Fabrication, High Power Component microwave design on passive waveguide devices; use of power dividers, loads, tees, couplers, waveguides to coax adaptors, antenna and more.. 
Scientific software     HFSS, CST, PSIM, KiCad, Eagle, Pspice, MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, Fusion 360 (AutoCad) 
Platforms     Linux, Windows 
 
Journal Publications 

  1. Rana Pratap Yadav, Sunil Kumar, and S. V. Kulkarni, “Design and Development of the 3dB patch compensated tandem hybrid coupler.” Review of Scientific Instruments, 84, 014702 (2013). 

  2. Rana Pratap Yadav, Sunil Kumar, and S. V. Kulkarni, “An analysis of junction discontinuity effects in multi-element coupled lines and its diminution at designing stage.” Progress In Electromagnetic Research B, Vol. 56, 25-49, 2013. 

  3. Rana Pratap Yadav, Sunil Kumar, and S. V. Kulkarni, “Design and development of ultra-wideband 3dB hybrid coupler for ICRF heating in Tokamak.” Review of Scientific Instruments 85, 044706 (2014). 

  4. Rana Pratap Yadav, Sunil Kumar, and S. V. Kulkarni, “Design of the 1.5MW ultra-wideband 3dB high power hybrid coupler for ICRF heating in fusion grade reactor”, Review of Scientific Instruments, 87, 014703 (2016). 

  5. Tanvi Mittal, Rana Pratap Yadav and Dhiraj Bora, “Analysis of trapped oscillation modes in magnetized PPC and its tunability for variable plasma parameters.” optics communications volume 382, 1 January 2017. 

  6. Rana Pratap Yadav, Vinay Kumar and Rajveer Dhawan, “Design and development of patch compensated wideband Vivaldi antenna.” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 10(9), 10811087. 

  7. Abhinav Jain, Rana Pratap Yadav, and S. V. Kulkarni. "Design and development of 2 kW, 3 dB hybrid coupler for the prototype Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency (ICRF) system." International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies 11, no. 1 (2019): 1-6. 

  8. Abhinav Jain, Rana Pratap Yadav and Sunil Kumar, "Design and development of resonant loop antenna for mock-up ion cyclotron resonance frequency system of tokamak". IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. Volume 13, Issue 7, 12 June 2019, p. 976 – 98. 

  9. Abhinav Jain and Rana Pratap Yadav. "Design and development of high power variable dual directional radio frequency coupler." IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (2019), accepted 

  10. Yadav, R., Lander, T.A., Stevens, C. In prep. Design and development of a hand held multi-static Radar system for tracking pollinating insects. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Conference Publications 

  1. Rana Pratap Yadav, Sunil Kumar, and S. V. Kulkarni. "Junction discontinuity effect in multi element coupled lines and its compensation" Region 10 Symposium, 2014 IEEE. 

  2. S.V. Kulkarni, Sunil Kumar, Srinivas Y.S.S., Atul Varia, Ramesh Joshi, H.M. Jadav, Paihar Manoj, B.R. Kadia, Kirit Parmar, Gayatri Ashok, R.P. Yadav,… , “Recent ICRH-Wall Conditioning, Second Harmonic Heating and Disruption Mitigation Experiments using ICRH system in Tokamak ADITYA” 25th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014), Saint Petersburg, Russia 13 -18 October 2014. 

  3. Gurkirandeep Kaur, and Rana Pratap Yadav. "Study of the radiation characteristic of plasma antenna using 2D FDTD method." Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS). IEEE, 2016. 

  4. Mittal, Tanvi, Rana Pratap Yadav and Abhinav Jain. "Analysis of 1-D magnetized plasma photonic crystal band gap characteristic for variable plasma parameters." Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS). IEEE, 2016. 

  5. Abhinav Jain, Rana Pratap Yadav and Sunil Kumar, “Design and Development of Coaxial Line Based 2kW, 10-30dB Variable Dual Directional Coupler”. In MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. 

  6. Abhinav Jain, Rana Pratap Yadav and Sunil Kumar, “Design and Development of high power matching network for variable load”. In MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), presented on dated 13-15 Dec-2018, Kolkata. IEEE. 

  7. Salma Khatoon, Rana Pratap Yadav and Abhinav Jain, “Design and Simulation of 8-cavity hole-slot type magnetron in CST”. In 2018 2nd International Conference on Electronics, Materials Engineering & NanoTechnology (IEMENTech) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. 

  8. Shreya singh, Rana Pratap Yadav and Abhinav jain. "Miniaturized dual-band branch-line coupler with folded stubs". IEEE international conference for convergence in technology, pune, India. Apr 2019. 

  9. Manpreet kaur, Rana Pratap Yadav, Abhinav jain. "Stripline based isolator at UHF band". IEEE international conference for convergence in technology, pune, india. Apr 2019. 

  10. Gurkirandeep Kaur, Rana Pratap Yadav, Abhinav Jain and R. S. Kaler, “Design and Development of Capacitive Coupled Plasma Monopole Antenna.” IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE). May, 2019.