A. R. Harish

PhD (IIT Kanpur)

Professor, Departement of Electrical Engineering

Specialization



Research Interest

 

Education

  • PhD, IIT Kanpur (1997)
  • M.Tech., IIT Roorkee (1990)
  • B.Tech., University of Mysore (1987)

Website(s)

  • Homepage

CV

Books/Book Chapters:

  • A.R. Harish and M. Sachidananda, Antennas and Wave Propagation, Oxford University Press, 2007

  • A chapter on “RFID Technology overview” in the book The Internet of Things: Connecting Objects, John Wiley& Sons, 2010, Edited by Hakima Chaouchi

Journals

    • Kapil Saraswat, A.R. Harish, “A dual band circularly polarized 45° rotated rectangular slot antenna with parasitic patch,” AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 123, pp. 153260, 2020

    • Kapil Saraswat, Trivesh Kumar, A.R. Harish, “A corrugated G-shaped grounded ring slot antenna for wideband circular polarization,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, vol. 12, pp. 431-436, 2020.

    • Kapil Saraswat, A.R. Harish, “A polarization reconfigurable discontinuous ring dipole antenna,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 62, pp. 363-370, 2020.

    • Kapil Saraswat, A.R. Harish, “A polarization and band reconfigurable cross-slot antenna for multiband application,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, vol 11, pp. 1054-1060, 2019.

    • Kapil Saraswat, A.R. Harish, “Flexible dual-band dual-polarised CPW-fed monopole antenna with discrete-frequency reconfigurability,” IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 13, pp. 2053-2060, 2019.

    • Gaurangi Gupta, Vaishnavi Bhope, Japneet Singh and A. R. Harish, “Device-Free Crowd Count Estimation using Passive UHF RFID Technology,” IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, vol. 3, pp. 3-13, 2019.

    • Manikanta Lalkota, Gaurangi Gupta, Vivek Kumar Pandit and A. R. Harish, “UHF Reader Antenna for Near and Far-Field RFID Operation,” IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, vol. 3, pp. 14-24, 2019

    • Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, “A CPW fed Tilted-Fractal inspired Slot Antenna for Wideband Circular Polarization,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 61, pp. 1607-1611, 2019

    • Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, “A Wideband Polarization Reconfigurable Isosceles Trapezoidal Monopole Antenna,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, April 2019, vol. 29, no. 4

    • Vivek Kumar Pandit and A. R. Harish, “Compact Wide Band Directional Antenna using Cross-Slot Artificial Magnetic Conductor (CSAMC),” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 29, 2019

    • Harish Naik, Abhishek Kumar Awasthi and A. R. Harish, “Low-profile wide-scan closely spaced antenna array of electrically small antennas,” IETE Technical Review, vol. 36, pp. 150-156, 2019

    • Harish Naik, Abhishek Kumar Awasthi and A. R. Harish, “Shared-aperture dual-band orthogonally polarised antenna array for L-band and S-band applications,” IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 13, pp. 431-435, 2019

    • Abhishek Kumar Awasthi and A. R. Harish, “Wideband tightly-coupled compact array of dipole antennas arranged in triangular lattice,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technology, vol. 11, pp. 382-389, 2019

    • Jilu Li, Jose A. Vélez González, Carl Leuschen, Ayyangar Harish, Prasad Gogineni, Maurine Montagnat, Ilka Weikusat, Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, and John Paden, “Multi-channel and multi-polarization radar measurements around the NEEM site,” The Cryosphere, vol. 12, pp. 2689-2705, 2018

    • Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, “Analysis of Wideband Circularly Polarized Ring Slot Antenna Using Characteristics Mode for Bandwidth Enhancement,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 28, 2018

    • Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, “A polarization reconfigurable CPW fed monopole antenna with L-shaped parasitic element,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 28, 2018

    • Vivek Kumar Pandit and A. R. Harish, “A Compact Triple Band CPW-fed Tapered Monopole Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Applications,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 60, pp. 2298-2303, 2018

    • Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, “Dual Band Circularly Polarized CPW-Fed SRR Loaded G-shaped Slot Antenna with Wide Frequency Ratio,” IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 12, 1920-1925, 2018

    • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Generation of Circularly Polarised Beam Pattern using Torus Knot Antenna”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 5740-5746, Nov. 2017

    • G. Gupta and A. R. Harish, “Performance of a Dipole Placed above a Novel Double Layered Via-less High Impedance Surface,” IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, vol. 11, no. 11, Aug. 2017

    • G. Gupta, A. R. Harish, “Antenna on Cavity Backed High Impedance Surface,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 374-379, Jan. 2017

    • K. Saraswat, A. R. Harish, “Split Ring loaded Monopole Antenna,” IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 420-425, Mar. 2016

    • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, "Trefoil Torus Knot Monopole Antenna," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 15, no. , pp. 464-467, 2016

    • G. Gupta, A. R. Harish, “Circularly Polarised Antenna using a Double Layered Via-less High Impedance Surface,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 340-343, Feb. 2016

    • G. Gupta, B. P. Singh, A. Bal, D. Kedia, A. R. Harish, "Orientation Detection Using Passive UHF RFID Technology [Education Column]," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 221-237, Dec. 2014

    • T. Kumar, A. R. Harish, "Broadband Circularly Polarized Printed Slot-Monopole Antenna," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol.12, pp.1531-1534, 2013

    • A. R. Behera, A. R. Harish, "A Novel Printed Wideband Dipole Antenna," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol.60, no.9, pp. 4418-4422, Sept. 2012

    • K. J. Byers, A. R. Harish, S. A. Seguin, C. J. Leuschen, F. Rodriguez-Morales, J. Paden, E. J. Arnold, R. D. Hale, "A Modified Wideband Dipole Antenna for an Airborne VHF Ice-Penetrating Radar," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 61, no. 5, pp.1435-1444, May 2012

Conferences:

  • IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, A Novel Bandstop Frequency Selective Surface using Coupled Split Ring Resonators, Vaishnavi Bhope and A. R. Harish, Singapore, Dec. 2019

  • IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Design of Wideband Small Footprint 3D posts Antenna with Coupled Meta-Surface Patches, Gaurangi Gupta and A. R. Harish, Singapore, Dec. 2019

  • IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Feeds for Dipole Over High Impedance Surface, Gaurangi Gupta and A. R. Harish, Ahmedabad, India, Dec. 2019

  • Vivek Kumar Pandit, A.R. Harish, “Performance Improvement of a CPW-fed Dual-band Antenna using Swastic-Shaped Asymmetric Artificial Magnetic Conductor,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Ahmedabad, India, 2019

  • Kapil Saraswat, A.R. Harish, “Discontinuous Annular Ring Monopole Antenna for Circular Polarization,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Ahmedabad, India, 2019

  • Payel Mondal, Debapratim Dhara and A. R. Harish, “A Wideband Slotted D-Shaped Monopole MIMO Antenna with Triple Branch Neutralization Line,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2018

  • Saurabh Shukla, and A. R. Harish, “Solomon Knot Monopole Antenna,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2018

  • Debapratim Dhara, Gaurangi Gupta and A. R. Harish, “A Wideband Polarization Diversity 3D MIMO Antenna,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2018

  • Vivek Kumar Pandit, Gaurangi Gupta and A. R. Harish, “UHF Wideband Near-Field Coupled Antenna,” IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Dec. 2018, Hyderabad, India

  • IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), Frequency and Band Reconfigurable Circularly Polarized Square Ring Slot Monopole Antenna, Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2018

  • International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Single feed dual polarized crossed slot antenna for tri-band operation, Kapil Saraswat and A. R. Harish, Busan, South Korea, October 2018

  • K. Saraswat, A. K. Awasthi, A. R. Harish, “A Fishing Hook Shaped Dipole Antenna for Broadband Circular Polarization”, 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics, ISM Dhanbad, Feb. 2018

  • A. K. Awasthi, K. Saraswat, A. R. Harish, “Analysis of Infinite Array of Finite Feed Gap Dipole Antennas placed over a Reflector” 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics, ISM Dhanbad, Feb. 2018

  • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Two-Port 3D Printed Trefoil Torus Knot Antenna with Pattern Diversity,” 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics, ISM Dhanbad, Feb. 2018

  • G. Gupta, V. Bhope, R. Biswas and A. R. Harish, “Crowd Management using Passive UHF RFID Technology,” 2018 IEEE Intl. RFID Conf., Orlando, USA, Apr. 10-12 2018

  • M. Lalkota, G. Gupta and A. R. Harish, “UHF Reader Antenna for Near and Far field RFID Operation,” 2018 IEEE Intl. RFID Conf., Orlando, USA, Apr. 10-12 2018

  • S. V. Kumar and A. R. Harish, “Generation of circularly polarized conical beam pattern using (3, 8) torus knot antenna,” 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Paris, 19-24 Mar. 2017

  • G. Gupta, A. R. Harish and M. Rao, “Performance Enhancement of 3D Posts based Antenna using High Impedance Surface,” 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication (IESC), Shillong, 6-7 Apr. 2017

  • A. K. Awasthi, A. R. Harish, “Ultra-Wideband Tightly Coupled Dipole Phased Array Antenna,” IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, Manipal, Sept. 2017

  • G. Gupta and A. R. Harish, “Wideband Antenna using Cavity Backed Non-Uniform Double Layered Meta-surface,” International Conf. on Antenna Innovation and Modern Technologies (iAIM 2017), Bangalore, 24-26 Nov. 2017

  • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Circularly Polarised 3D Printed Knot Antenna with Sequential-Phase Feed,” International Conf. on Antenna Innovation and Modern Technologies (iAIM 2017), Bangalore, 24-26 Nov. 2017

  • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Trefoil Torus Knot Antenna with Bore-sight Radiation Pattern,” International Conf. on Antenna Innovation and Modern Technologies (iAIM 2017), Bangalore, 24-26 Nov. 2017

  • K. Saraswat, A. R. Harish, “An Asymmetrical Scaled Rotated Microstrip Antenna for Conical Beam Radiation,” IEEE Applied Electromagnetic Conference (AEMC), Aurangabad, Dec. 2017

  • V. K. Pandit, “Gain enhancement of a dual-band monopole antenna loaded with dual-band AMC,” IEEE Applied Electromagnetic Conference (AEMC), Aurangabad, Dec. 2017

  • G. Gupta and A. R. Harish, “Coupling Analysis of Dipole Antenna over High Impedance Surface,” 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), New Delhi, 5-8 Dec. 2016

  • V. K. Pandit, A. R. Harish, “A compact CPW-fed Triple-band Monopole Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Applications,” 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), New Delhi, 5-8 Dec. 2016

  • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Generation of circularly polarized conical beam pattern using toroidal helical knot antenna,” 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), New Delhi, 5-8 Dec. 2016

  • K. Saraswat, A. R. Harish, “CPW fed wideband circularly polarized monopole antenna,” 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), New Delhi, 5-8 Dec. 2016

  • A. K. Awasthi and A. R. Harish, “Wideband Low-Profile Tightly-Coupled Dipole Antenna Array with an Integrated Balun,” 2016 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication Technologies (ETCT), Dehradun, Nov. 2016

  • V. K. Pandit and A. R. Harish, “Dual band monopole antenna loaded with dual band AMC for WLAN/WiMax applications,” 2016 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication Technologies (ETCT), Dehradun, Nov. 2016

  • K. Saraswat, A. R. Harish, “CPW fed circularly polarized hexagonal slot antenna,” 2016 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication Technologies (ETCT), Dehradun, Nov. 2016

  • G. Gupta and A. R. Harish, “Baluns for Dipole with Reflector,” 2016 IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), Bangalore, 16-18 Dec. 2016

  • V. K. Pandit and A. R. Harish, “Design of Dual band CPW fed monopole antenna with dual band AMC surface for WLAN,” 2016 IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), Bangalore, 16-18 Dec. 2016

  • J. Li, S. Gogineni, S. Yan, A. Mahmood, A. Awasthi, F. Rodriguez-Morales, “Recent Airborne Radar Depth Sounding of Recovery Glacier,” 2015 EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 Apr. 2015

  • A. K. Awasthi, A. R. Harish, "Low complexity feed system for a long slot antenna array," 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Vancouver, pp. 2529-2530, 19-24 Jul. 2015

  • P. Sravani, G. Gupta, A. R. Harish, M. Rao, “Design and Analysis of 3D Posts Based Antenna,” 2015 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Tasmania, Nov. 2015

  • S. V. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Dual Mode Bandpass Filter Using Trefoil Torus Knot Resonator,” Proceedings, 2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), Hyderabad, 10-12 Dec. 2015

  • G. Gupta, A. R. Harish, “A broadband dipole on a double layered via-less High Impedance Surface,” in 2014 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), Memphis, pp.1560-1561, 6-11 Jul. 2014

  • T. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “A low profile wideband circularly polarized antenna,” 2013 IEEE-APS Tropical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), Torino, Italy, pp.1048-1051, 9-13 Sept. 2013

  • A. Jain, A. R. Harish, “Performance study of RFID tags placed on metallic cylinders,” 2013 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), Torino, Italy, pp. 1052-1055, 9-13 Sept. 2013

  • A. K. S. Rathore, A. R. Harish, “A novel printed dual mode resonator filter based on radial stub,” in 2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference, New Delhi, 14-16 Dec. 2013

  • R. Meena, A. R. Harish, “Broadband elliptic tapered slot antenna,” 2012 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Prague, pp.1851-1854, 26-30 Mar. 2012

  • S. Gogineni, J. Li, J. Paden, L. Smith, R. Crowe, A. Hoch, C. Lewis, E. Arnold, F. Rodriguez-Morales, C. Leuschen, R. Hale, A. R. Harish, D. Braaten, “Sounding and imaging of fast flowing glaciers and ice-sheet margins,” 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2012. EUSAR., pp.239-242, 23-26 April 2012

  • T. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Wideband directive dipole antenna with integrated balun,” 2012 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), Chicago, 8-14 July 2012

  • T. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Dipole excited wideband circularly polarized slot antenna,” 2012 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), Chicago, 8-14 July 2012

  • T. Kumar, A. R. Harish, “Generation of circular polarization using electric and magnetic current elements,” 2012 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), Chicago, 8-14 July 2012

Patents:

    • A.R. Harish and R.K. Joshi, “Wide Band Loop Antenna,” Indian Patent No. 312928, Granted on 21 May 2019.

    • A.R. Harish, S.R. Ware, Al Salour, “Production Tool having RFID Device Mounted within a Dielectric Inclusion,” US Patent No. 9898698, Granted on Feb 20, 2018

    • A.R. Harish and Akshay Jain, “Performance Enhancement of RFID Tags on Conductive Grids,” Indian patent Application No. 1467/DEL/2013

    • D.J. Lye, A.R. Harish, and G. Howcroft, “Microwave filter having a temperature compensating element,” US Patent No. 6,734,766, Granted on May 11, 2004.

Technologies/Software Developed:

  • Software for the Analysis of Multipaction in Microwave Structures

  • Portable UHF RFID reader (Hardware and associated software)

  • Software and middleware for inventory tracking using UHF RFID and NFC technologies

  • Software for Cellular network optimization and diagnostics

  • Ku-K-Ka Band Phase Array Antenna for Satcom on-the-move Applications, SERB, IMPRINT-II, 2019 - 22

  • Ku-K-Ka Band Phase Array Antenna for Satcom on-the-move Applications, Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab. Pvt. Ltd. (IMPRINT-II), 2020-22

  • Real Time Location System Using BLE, TRACKIT Solutions FZ LLC, Dubai, 2019-20

  • Design of Antenna Element and Array, University of Alabama, 2018-19

  • Development of 3D Multipacting Software, BARC, 2011-13

  • Analysis of Wideband Printed Dipole Antenna, Centre for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, University of Kansas, 2010-13

  • Antenna Design for Water Meter, Tata Consultancy Services, 2015-17

  • Performance Improvement of RF Module of V200, CMC Ltd., 2015

  • Performance of Access Points and Shielded Chamber, Airtight Networks, 2012-17

  • BSNL Mobile Cellular Network Optimization, BSNL IITK Telecom Centre of Excellence, 2012-16

  • Passive and Active RFID and Location Technology Research, Boeing Company, 2006-17

Teaching:

    • Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Kanpur, 2020

    • Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial Distinguished Teacher Award, IIT Kanpur, 2014

Research:

    • Best paper award was presented to S. Vinoth Kumar and Dr. A. R. Harish, who authored the paper titled “Circularly Polarized 3D Printed Knot Antenna with Sequential-Phase Feed” at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Antenna Innovations & Modern Technologies for Ground, Aircraft and Satellite Applications (iAIM 2017) at Bangalore, India on 24-26 November 2017

    • Best paper in the Microwave Technology Track of INDICON 2016 presented to Gaurangi Gupta and A. R. Harish who authored the paper titled ‘Baluns for Dipole with Reflector’ at 13th International IEEE India Conference (INDICON 2016) at Bangalore, on December 16th-18th , 2016

    • Best poster in all tracks of INDICON 2016 presented to V. K. Pandit and A. R. Harish who authored the paper titled ‘Design of Dual band CPW fed monopole antenna with dual band AMC surface for WLAN’ at 13th International IEEE India Conference (INDICON 2016) at Bangalore, on December 16th-18th, 2016

    • IIT Kanpur team consisting of Amrita Bal, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Deepam Kedia and Gaurangi Gupta (Mentor: Dr. A.R.Harish) won the Second Prize in the 2014 AP-S Student Design Contest held at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Memphis, TN, USA in July 2014.

    • Young Scientist Award for the paper "Array of high directive end-fire elements" at the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Japan, 1996

Memberships:

  • Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India)

  • Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA

  • Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK

  • Chartered Engineer (UK)

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Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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Office Phone: 0512-259-7569 (O)

Fax: 0512-259-0063

Email: arh[AT]iitk.ac.in

 

   
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