Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE)
Senior member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE)
Member of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA)
EM Romanowska
On the use of time-domain gating techniques for electromagnetic scattering measurements in a compact range
MEng degree awarded, (cum laude)
September 1995
G Mayhew-Ridgers
Accuracy of the Gain Transfer Method for Aperture Antenna Gain Measurements
MEng degree awarded, (cum laude)
September 1998
P Niemand
The Characterization of Electromagnetic Absorber Material in a Free Space Facility
MEng degree awarded, (cum laude)
September 1998
DM De Haaij
Wide band matching techniques for patch antenna elements
MEng degree awarded, (cum laude)
September 2003
E Gerber
Design of low ripple omnidirectional waveguide antenna
MEng degree awarded
April 2005
S Joubert
Accurate modelling of bi-conical dipole Antennas for calibration purposes
MEng degree awarded
April 2005
JM Steyn
A dual-band dual-polarized antenna for WLAN applications
MEng degree awarded
September 2009
JB du Toit
Characterisation and phase compensation of a coplanar Waveguide to coplanar strip line balun
MEng degree awarded
April 2010
Doctorates
WH Theunissen
Reconfigurable contour beam antennas using an adjustable subreflector and a single feed
PhD degree awarded
April 2000
MW da Silveira
Analysis of spatially distributed adaptive antenna array systems in cellular networks
PhD degree awarded
September 2004
G Mayhew-Ridgers
Development and modelling of new wideband microstrip patch antennas with capacitive feed probes
PhD degree awarded
September 2004
P Niemand
Null Synthesis with cylindrical antenna arrays
PhD degree awarded
April 2005
JP Jacobs
Mutual admittance between CPW-fed slots on conductor-backed two-layer substrates
PhD degree awarded
April 2008
WP du Plessis
A Comprehensive Investigation of Retrodirective Cross-Eye Jamming
PhD degree awarded
April 2010
[1] JW Odendaal and CWI Pistorius, “Horn antenna with suppressed sidelobe level”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 238-239, May 1991.
[2] JW Odendaal and CWI Pistorius, “E-plane analysis of a modified horn antenna with suppressed sidelobe level”, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol AP-40, pp. 620-627, June 1992.
[3] JW Odendaal and CWI Pistorius, “A method to measure the aperture field and experimentally determine the near field phase center of a horn antenna”, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol 42, No. 1, pp. 51-53, February 1993.
[4] JW Odendaal, E Barnard and CWI Pistorius, “Two-dimensional superresolution radar imaging using the MUSIC algorithm”, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol AP-42, pp. 1386-1391, Oct 1994.
[5] JW Odendaal, “Multi-dimensional microwave imaging”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 146-149, Feb 1995.
[6] A van der Merwe, JW Odendaal and EC Botha, “Two-dimensional microwave imaging using ESPRIT with matrix enhancement”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 218-222, Mar 1995.
[7] JW Odendaal and PA van Jaarsveld, “Parameter estimation of frequency dependent scatterers”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 71-74, Oct 1995.
[8] JW Odendaal “Reducing the contribution from support structures for radar cross section measurements using microwave imaging techniques”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 247-250, April 1996.
[9] JW Odendaal and J Joubert “Radar cross section measurements using near field radar imaging”, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 948-954, December 1996.
[10] JW Odendaal, E Barnard and CWI Pistorius, “On the asymmetry in the PSD for 2-D linear prediction”, Signal Processing, Vol 60, No 1, pp 43- 49, July 1997.
[11] P Niemand and JW Odendaal, “Radar imaging using higher order statistics”, Microwave and Optical technology Letters, Vol 16, No 1, pp 1-4, September 1997.
[12] EC Botha, JW Odendaal and KM Geggus, “Aircraft down-range profiles from simulated and compact range radar backscatter”, Microwave and Optical technology Letters, Vol 17, No 3, pp 207-213, February 1998.
[13] J Abele, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Introduction of multiple nulls in an otherwise omni-directional pattern of a circular dipole array” Electronics Letters, Vol 34, No 14, pp1371-1373, July 1998.
[14] P Niemand and JW Odendaal, “Characterization of surface wave radar absorbing material”, Microwave and Optical technology Letters, Vol 20, No 2, pp 131-132, January 1999.
[15] JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Using hardware gating to improve antenna gain measurements in a compact antenna range”, Electronics Letters, vol 35, no 22, pp 1894-1896, October 1999.
[16] EC Botha and JW Odendaal, “Aerospace radar target recognition based on a ROOT-MUSIC representation”, Transactions SAIEE on Communications, Signal Processing and Information Theory, Vol 91, No 1, pp 22-27, September 2000.
[17] J Abele, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Introduction of multiple nulls with controllable depths in an omni-directional pattern of a circular array”, Signal Processing, Vol 80, pp 141-149, 2000.
[18] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “On primary wave models for pyramidal horn directivity calculations”, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol 48, No 8, pp 1246-1252, August 2000.
[19] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Horn antenna analysis as applied to the evaluation of the Gain-transfer method”, IEEE Trans. On Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol 49, No 5, pp 949-958, October 2000.
[20] JW Odendaal and D Grygier, “RCS measurements and results of an engine inlet system design optimization”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation magazine, Vol 42, No 6, pp 16 - 23, December 2000.
[21] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “New feeding mechanism for annular-ring microstrip antenna”, Electronics Letters, vol 36, no 7, pp 605-606, March 2000.
[22] M da Silveira, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Same cell co-channel interference reduction using multiple spatially distributed adaptive array systems”, Signal Processing, Vol 81, pp. 2059-2068, 2001.
[23] DM de Haaij, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Wideband dual-frequency stacked microstrip patch antenna”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol 31, No 4, pp 289-292, November 2001.
[24] P Niemand, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Null-forming synthesis for cylindrical patch arrays”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol 32, No 6, pp 442- 446, March 2002.
[25] JP Jacobs, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, ”Radiation efficiency and impedance bandwidth of conductor-backed CPW-fed slot dipole antenna with two-layered dielectric substrate”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol 34, No 2, pp 138 – 141, 2002.
[26] DM de Haaij, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Diplexing feed network for wideband dual-frequency stacked microstrip patch antenna”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol 36, No 2, pp 100-102, January 2003.
[27] JW Odendaal and P Niemand, “Statistical properties of radar backscatter data for imaging applications”, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol 51, No 3, pp 670-672, March 2003.
[28] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Single-layer capacitive feed for wideband probe-fed microstrip antenna elements”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol 51, No 6, pp 1405-1407, June 2003.
[29] JP Jacobs, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, ”Radiation efficiency and impedance bandwidth of conductor-backed CPW-fed broadside twin slot antennas on two-layer dielectric substrate”, IEE Proceedings-Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Vol 150, No 4, pp 185-190, Aug 2003.
[30] P Niemand, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Practical considerations for interference suppression using cylindrical arrays”, SAIEE Transactions, Vol 94, pp 37-39, July 2003.
[31] DM de Haaij, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Increasing the bandwidth of a microstrip patch antenna with a single parallel resonant circuit”, SAIEE Transactions, Vol 94, pp 25-27, July 2003.
[32] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, ”Entire-domain versus subdomain attachment modes for the spectral-domain moment-method analysis of probe-fed microstrip patch antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol 52, No 6, pp 1616-1620, June 2004.
[33] JW Odendaal, ”Predicting the directivity of standard gain pyramidal horn antennas”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol 46, No 4, pp 93-98, August 2004.
[34] J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Wideband Quarter-Wave patch Antenna with a Single-layer Capacitive Feed on a Finite Ground Plane” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 45, No 3, pp 225-227, May 2005.
[35] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Efficient Full-Wave Modelling of Patch Antenna Arrays with New Single-Layer Capacitive Feed Probes”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and propagation. Vol. 53, No 10, pp 3219-3228, Oct. 2005.
[36] JP Jacobs, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, ”Effect of back plane distance on mutual coupling between CPW-fed slots on conductor-backed two-layer substrates”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 47, No 5, pp 407-409, Dec 2005.
[37] JW Odendaal, J Joubert and MJ Prinsloo,”Extended edge wave diffraction model for near-field directivity calculations of horn antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp 2469 – 2473, Dec 2005.
[38] J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Analysis and design of wide-band reflector gratings in rectangular waveguide”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 659-665, June 2006.
[39] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Considerations for the efficient spectral evaluation of reaction integrals associated with separated domains”, IEE Proceedings Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 153, No. 5, pp. 469-474, Oct. 2006.
[40] M da Silveira, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “The Range Increase of Adaptive vs. Phased Arrays in Mobile Systems in the Presence of Interference”, South African Journal of Science, 102, pp. 609 - 612, Nov./Des. 2006.
[41] JW Odendaal, L Botha and J Joubert, “A full scale static RCS measurement facility”, South African Journal of Science, 103, pp. 196 - 199, May 2007.
[42] C Dohmen, JW Odendaal, and J Joubert, “Synthesis of conformal arrays with optimized polarization” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and propagation, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 2922-2925, Oct. 2007.
[43] J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Characterization of a first-resonance CPW-fed slot as an array element”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 1523-1527, June 2008.
[44] J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “A 2×2 etched slot array with a corporate slotline feed network”, Electronic letters, Vol. 44, No. 14, pp. 833-834, July 2008.
[45] J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “An impedance matching design approach for a dual-band coplanar-waveguide-fed slot antenna”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 50, No. 8, pp. 2031-2034, Aug. 2008.
[46] JB du Toit, JW Odendaal, and J Joubert, “Characterization and phase compensation of a coplanar waveguide to coplanar strip line balun” accepted for publication Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, volume 22, no. 17/18, page 2463-2474, 2008 .
[47] JP Jacobs, J Joubert and JW Odendaal, “Extended reciprocity-based computation of mutual admittance between CPW-fed slots on conductor-backed two-layer substrates”, accepted for publication Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Jan. 2009.
[48] JM Steyn, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Double dipole antenna for dual-band WLAN applications”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 2034-2038, Sept. 2009.
[49] WP du Plessis, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Extended analysis of retrodirective cross- eye jamming”, IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2803-2806, Sept. 2009.
[50] G Mayhew-Ridgers, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Improved diffraction model and numerical validation for horn antenna gain calculations”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 701-711, Nov. 2009.
[51] JM Steyn, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Dual-band dual-polarized array for WLAN applications”, Progress in Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 10, pp. 151-161, 2009.
[52] B Jacobs, JW Odendaal, and J Joubert, “The Effect of Manufacturing and Assembling Tolerances on the Performance of Double-Ridged Horn Antennas” Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications. Vol. 24, no. 10, page 1279 1290, 2010.
[53] J Joubert, JW Odendaal and J Prinsloo, 'A high gain dual-polarized planar slot array for WLAN applications' Electronics Letters, Vol. 46, No. 15, 22 July 2010.
[54] WP du Plessis, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Experimental Simulation of Retrodirective Cross-eye Jamming’, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 734-740, January 2011.
[55] WP du Plessis, JW Odendaal and J Joubert, “Tolerance Analysis of Cross-Eye Jamming Systems’, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 740-745, January 2011.
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University of Pretoria
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