Carolina Mateo-Segura

Carolina Mateo-Segura is currently a Research Associate in the Wireless Communications Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough University. She is also affiliated with the Microwave Group at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where she is finalising her Ph.D.. Her current area of research is in the field of Frequency Selective Surfaces and artificial periodic electromagnetic structures and their applications in near field sensing, antennas and imaging systems. She has published a number of refereed journals and conference proceeding papers in these areas.

Her work within this group involves the analysis, design and fabrication of microwave near-field focusing plates and Leaky-Wave Antennas.

Carolina Mateo-Segura graduated with an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a band 1 A in her Final Project “Photonic Filters for UMTS” from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 2006. In November 2006, she was awarded a prize studentship by the Edinburgh Research Partnership and the Joint Research Institute of Integrated Systems and since then she has pursued a Ph.D. degree in Metamaterials to be jointly awarded by the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, she was working at the prestigious National Defence and Security Department of Indra-Systems (www.indra.es) in the programming of Air Defence, Navigation and Terrestrial Command and Control Systems, in Spain.

In July 2008, Carolina was awarded the international travel grant from the RAEng in order to financially support her attendance to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Conference in San Diego. Between July-September 2008, she was hosted as a visiting researcher in Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland, working in the group of Prof. Tretyakov. Her research activity within this group centred on the study of the near-field enhancement and subwavelength imaging of coupled 2-D arrays of metal nanoellipsoids.

In November 2009, she started a one year Postdoctoral Research Associate position within the Wireless Communications Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Loughborough University. Her research is based on the analysis, design and fabrication of microwave near-field focusing plates and their application in imaging devices.

She has a number of published papers in major peer-reviewed International Conferences as well as International journals.

Ms Carolina’s research focuses on the analysis and design of frequency selective surfaces, artificial periodic electromagnetic structures with applications on antennas (high-gain arrays and leaky-wave), and medical imaging systems. Her research has been funded primarily by the Edinburgh Research Partnership, the Joint Research Institute for Integrated Systems, MRC, EPSRC and BBSRC.

Ms Carolina's is involved with supervising several students in their final year project.

View all Mateo-Segura’s publications in the central publications database

Selected Publications

Journals

1. C. Mateo-Segura, George Goussetis, and Alexandros P. Feresidis, “Resonant Effects and Near Field Enhancement in Perturbed Arrays of Metal Dipoles,” submitted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation, January 2009.

2. C. Mateo-Segura, C. Simovski, G. Goussetis, and S. Tretyakov, “Subwavelength resolution for horizontal and vertical polarization by coupled arrays of oblate nanoellipsoids”, Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 15, pp. 2333–2335 (2009).

3. JJ. Sanz-Fernandez, C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis, and R.Cheung, “Quality Factor of Frequency Selective Surfaces at Infrared”, submitted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation, July 2009.

4. C. Mateo-Segura, George Goussetis, and Alexandros P. Feresidis, “Analysis of Thin 2-D Leaky-Wave Antennas Employing Two Periodic Layers,” submitted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation, September 2009.

Conference papers

1. C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis, “Near field calculation for a doubly periodic array of metal strips”, Annual International Conference, Days on Diffraction 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3-6 June 2008.

2. G. Goussetis, C. Mateo-Segura, J.-L. Gomez-Tornero, N. Uzunoglu, “Waveguide Loaded with Metamaterial Surface for Dispersion Linearization: Numerical and Experimental Results”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium 2008, San Diego, USA 7-12 July 2008.

3. C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis, “Near and far fields for a doubly periodic array of metal strips”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium 2008, San Diego, USA 7-12 July 2008.

4. C. Mateo-Segura, J. Sanz-Fernandez, G. Goussetis, R. Cheung, “Structured Planar Surfaces Exhibiting Strong Near Field Enhancement at FIR”, Optics and Photonics 2008, Edinburgh, UK, 26-29 August 2008.

5. C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis, “Miniaturised double periodic arrays exhibiting strong bianisotropy”, 2nd International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Pamplona, Spain , 21-26 September, 2008.

6. C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis and A. Feresidis , “Analysis of 2D periodic leaky wave antennas with subwavelength profile” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium 2009, North Charleston, USA 1-5 June 2009.

7. M. García-Vigueras, C. Mateo-Segura, J.L. Gómez-Tornero, G. Goussetis and A. Feresidis “Analysis and Design of 1D and 2D High-Gain Leaky-Wave A-tennas using Metallodielectric FSS and AMC”, 3^rd International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, London, UK, 30-4 September, 2009.

8. C. Mateo-Segura, M. García-Vigueras, G. Goussetis, J.L. Gómez-Tornero and A. Feresidis “Analysis of Sub-wavelength Cavity Leaky-Wave Antennas with High-Impedance Surfaces”, Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference 2009, Loughborough, UK, 16-17 November, 2009.

9. C. Mateo-Segura, M. García-Vigueras, G. Goussetis, J.L. Gómez-Tornero and A. Feresidis “Efficient dispersion analysis of 2D High-Gain Leaky-Wave Antennas”, European Conference on Antennas & Propagation 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 12-16 April, 2010.

10. C. Mateo-Segura, A. P. Feresidis and G. Goussetis “Highly directive 2-D Leaky-Wave Antennas based on double layer meta-surfaces,” special session European Conference on Antennas & Propagation 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 12-16 April, 2010.

Seminars

1. C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis, “Strong Bianisotropy in perturbed grid of metal strips”, 14th International Student Seminar, Microwave and Optical Applications of Novel Physical Phenomena, Belfast, UK, August 2007.

2. C. Mateo-Segura, G. Goussetis, R. Cheung, E. Mastropaolo, “Analysis of multilayer frequency selective surfaces for metamaterial-enabled devices”, Institute of Integrated Systems workshop, University of Edinburgh, October 2007.

School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering