News archive

2008-07-25 Anders Pettersson who has done his master thesis work "ZigBee-enabled Wireless Water Leak Detector" with us has been nominated to the Best Student Embedded System Award in Sweden in 2008, after hard competition with students from all universities in the country. The final competition will take place among a few finalists at the Technical Exhibition 2008 in Stockholm in October.
2008-07-07 Erika Tejedor Royo, an exchange student from Spain, has finished her Master thesis "Characterization and optimization of ultra-wideband antennas
". Congratulations!
2008-06-19 David García Lorente and Ana Lorido Herashas, two exchange students from Spain, have finished their Master thesis "Design of multi-band ring-filters and ultrawideband six-port correlators in the frequency band 6-8.5 GHz". Congratulations!
2008-06-04 Anders Pettersson has successfully defended his Master thesis "Development of Water Leakage Detectors". Congratulations!
2008-02-29 Magnus Karlsson has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Ultra-wideband Antenna and Radio Front-end Systems". We heartly congratulate him!
2008-02-24 Pär Håkansson has successfully defended his Lic. thesis: “High Speed Wireless Parallel Data Transmission and Six-Port Transmitters and Receivers”. Congratulations!
2008-01-11 Welcome to meet us at Elektronik/EP 2008 Exhibition in Stockholm. We together with NCC AB will show up a demonstration system of a ZigBee-enabled wireless sensor network for the purpose of energy saving in the home environment. The project has been financially supported by the Swedish Energy Authority (Energimyndigheten) and the “Svenska Byggbranschens Utvecklingsfond (SBUF)”. Place: Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö Booth/Monter: C12:81 Date: 28-30 January 2008.
2007-09-25 Jose Luis Alcaraz Gonzalez from Spain and Mutaz Hamed Hussien Khairi from Sudan have successfully defended their Master theses entitled “Design of an ultra wideband radio front-end for multi-band communications” and “Study of multi-band and ultra-wideband antennas (6-8.5 GHz), respectively. Congratulations!
2007-06-07 We have received a grant of 5 million kronor from the Swedish Energy Authority (Energimyndigheten) for a 4-year project entitled: “Control of indoor climate in historical and cultural buildings using wireless systems”. The project will have cooperation with Gotland University.
2007-02-09 Johan Nordlander has successfully defended his Master Thesis: ”Data collection for an individual energy consumption measurement system using a ZigBee wireless network”. Meanwhile, he has been employed as a graduate student to continue the project. Congratulation and Welcome!
2006-12-20 We have received a grant of one million SEK from Vinnova for a project entitled “Study of Wireless Data Transmission for NANO DIRECT”
2006-12-12 Allan Huynh has successfully defended his Lic. thesis “Flexible Cables for Massive-Parallel High-Speed Data Communications”. Congratulations!
2006-12-04 Adriana Serban has successfully defended her Lic. thesis “Low-Noise Amplifier Design for Ultra-Wideband Systems”. Congratulations!
2006-08-22 We have received 1.8 million SEK from the Swedish Energy Authority for a project named “Effective energy consumption at home utilizing wireless sensor networking and control”.
2006-08-08 Prof. Duxiang Wang from Nanjing Electronic Equipment Institute has joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome!
2006-04-21 Erik Ottosson successfully defended his Master thesis "Low Noise Amplifier design for Ultra Wideband systems" We congratulate him!
2006-04-10 Prof. Shaofang Gong has received an invitation to write a paper to the conference HDP 06 in Shanghai , China.
2006-04-07 Sang Yu successfully defended his Master thesis "Design of a multi-band RF front-end between 2-12 GHz"
2006-03-02 The second most downloaded student thesis 2005 at LiU is ZigBee for wireless networking. The top 10 list of most downloaded student theses at LiU can be seen here.
2006-02-17 Hawar Ramazanali successfully defended his Master thesis "Characterization and evaluation of Zigbee modules.
2005-12-09 Magnus Karlsson has successfully defended his Lic. thesis entitled "Low profile antennas for UWB" on Dec. 9, 2005. We congratulate him!
2005-10-10 We have received 10 additional ADS licenses from Agilent Technologies Inc. in USA. Plus the previous 10 ADS licenses, Linköping University in Norrköping has 20 ADS licenses now. These donation licenses, having the market price of 20 million SEK according to Agilent, are used in both research and education at Campus Norrköping.
2005-09-05 We have received 300,000 kr from "Energimyndighet" in Sweden för a pre-study aiming at a new research program: Energy, IT and Design starting from 2006.
2005-08-30 In the media: Read the article "Svenska Högskolor gör ZigBee framsteg" in Elektroniktidningen.
2005-08-29 ZigBee ready modules nominated to Embedded Student Award 2005. The ZigBee ready modules were nominated as one of five finalists, in hard competition, for the Swedish national Embedded Student Award 2005 . The prize is awarded by the jury to what is considered the best embedded technology product/project of the year. The five finalists will present their products/projects to the public at the Technical Fair ( Tekniska Mässan ) in Stockholm, October 2005. The submission by Jonas Olsson and Johan Lönn, Linköping University presents different ways of using the ZigBee ready modules for wireless sensor networks (WSNs).
2005-08-27 Press release: "Press release: "ZigBee applications with joint efforts of universities and companies in Sweden"
2005-08-23 Applied Wave Research, Inc. in USA has, via MTT Components &amp; Systems AB in Stockholm, donated 20 licenses of Microwave Office (MWO) to Linköping University in Norrköping. The market price for those licenses may exceed 10 Million SEK according to MTT. These licenses will be used in both research and education at Campus Norrköping.</p>
<p>2005-08-15 SAAB Bofors Dynamics AB in Linköping has donated two machines to Link&ouml;ping University in Norröping. The two machines for electronic assembly will be used for student lab and research purposes. They cost ~300 kkr if such new machines are purchase today. "We are grateful for SAABs donations and thank their support in our electronic education and research at the university", said by Professor Shaofang Gong.
2005-05-13 UWB antenna to be presented at EuMC 2005 in Paris. Magnus Karlssons paper "An integrated spiral antenna system for UWB" has been accepted for an oral presentation at the European Microwave Week 2005 in Paris. Moreover, he has been invited to write a long paper for publication in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques related to the 8th European Microwave Week. " This is a great achievement of Magnus's research work and we congratulate him commented by Professor Shaofang Gong.
2005-05-03 In the media: Read the article about Prof. Shaofang Gong in “Elektroniktidningen”. </p>
2005-03-04 Welcome to the Master thesis presentation “Zigbee for wireless networking” by Johan Lönn and Jonas Olsson the 15th of march at 10:00 in room K2.
2005-02-04 Data sheets of the Zigbee modules developed at Communcation Electronics. Zigbee-ready module for wireless networking and IEEE 802.15.4 radio module.
2005-01-30 In the media: Read the article about the Zigbee-module in "Elektronik i Norden"
2005-01-26 Meet us at
Electronics Exhibition 2005 (Elektronikm&auml;ssan 2005) in Stockholm on 1-3 February in booth A:33:45.
2005-01-03 Press release: "Say Bye-Bye to the lumped element model approach at frequencies above 5GHz."