NextGen Antenna Lab
Vision
To become a center of excellence in antenna and RF system design, fostering innovation and research in next-generation wireless technologies, and contributing to the advancement of global communication systems through cutting-edge solutions and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Mission
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Promote Advanced Research
To conduct high-quality research in antennas, microwave engineering, and RF systems, focusing on emerging areas such as 5G/6G, UWB, IoT, and biomedical applications.
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Develop Innovative Solutions
To design and develop compact, efficient, and reconfigurable antenna systems addressing real-world communication challenges.
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Enhance Learning & Skill Development
To provide students and researchers with hands-on experience using modern tools, simulation software, and measurement techniques.
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Encourage Industry & Academic Collaboration
To establish partnerships with industries, research organizations, and academic institutions for joint research, consultancy, and technology transfer.
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Foster Innovation & Entrepreneurship
To motivate students and faculty to engage in patents, startups, and product development in RF and antenna technologies.
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Contribute to Society
To develop sustainable and impactful wireless solutions for healthcare, defense, and smart communication systems.
Faculty Members:
Dr. Prashant Ranjan (Head, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Prof. Surajit Sur (Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Dr. Anjali Yadav (Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Prof. Kanhaiya Lal Bunkar (Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Student Members
- Shashank Rai
- Arghyajit Pathak
- Jayasmit Ganda
- Suraj Rathore
Publications:
SCI/Scopus Journals:
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, S. Sen, et al. “A Compact Nano Device of Antenna and Filter for THz Application Separated by a Sandwiched Plastic Isolator.” Journal of Electronic Materials, March 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-026-12822-0
- Dheeraj Nagar, Prashant Ranjan, & Atanu Chowdhury, “Design and Study of Twin Band Quad Terminal Reflector Loaded Wearable Radiator With Reduced SAR and High Gain.” International Journal of Communication Systems, January, 39, no. 3, e70368, Jan 2026. (Impact Factor: 1.8) (ISSN: 1099-1131) (Q2, SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.70368
- Dheeraj Nagar, Prashant Ranjan, & Atanu Chowdhury, “Dual‑Band Metamaterial Absorber‑Loaded Wearable MIMO Antenna with Low SAR and High Isolation.” Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 54, pages 7839–7847, 05 July, 2025. (Impact Factor: 2.5) (ISSN: 1543-186X) (Q2, SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-025-12164-3
- Ritu Sharma, Prashant Ranjan, “Machine Learning Detects Stealthy Hardware Trojans via Side-Channel Analysis,” Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management, Vol. 10, No. 45s, Pages- 1147 – 1161, 30 November, 2025. (Impact Factor: 3.6) (ISSN: 2468-4376) (Scopus). https://doi.org/10.52783/jisem.v10i45s.9142
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “A Circularly Polarized Silicon-Dioxide Based compact Graphene Nano MIMO Antenna with multiple Neltec NY9208(IM) Lens for Optical Connectivity with improved Gain and Efficiency.” Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 54, pages 5949–5958, 06 May, 2025. (Impact Factor: 2.5) (ISSN: 1543-186X) (Q2, SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-025-11996-3
- Dheeraj Nagar, Prashant Ranjan, & Atanu Chowdhury, “Flexible Metasurface Loaded Felt Substrate Built Wearable Antenna with Tri-band and High Gain Features for WBAN Applications.” Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 54, pages 5918–5927, 12 April, 2025. (Impact Factor: 2.5) (ISSN: 1543-186X) (Q2, SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-025-11910-x
- Ritu Sharma, Prashant Ranjan, “Enhancing Hardware Security in Integrated Circuit Design Through Pre-Silicon Detection of Hardware Trojans Using Compressive Sensing and Deep Learning Techniques,” Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, Vol. 6, Issue 2 pp. 128-150, July (2024). Journal homepage: (ISSN: 2462-1943) (Scopus) https://jaraset.com/enhancing-hardware-security-in-integrated-circuit-design-through-pre-silicon-detection-of-hardware-trojans-using-compressive-sensing-and-deep-learning-techniques/
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “A Novel Stepped-Flower Shaped UWB Frequency Reconfigurable Printed Filtering Antenna Using PIN Diodes with Trackable Notch-Band for Mid-5G Band & X-Band Applications,” MAPAN (2024), Volume 39, pages 1031–1044, 14 October, 2024. (Impact Factor: 1.0) (ISSN: 0974-9853) (Q3, SCIE) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12647-024-00778-7
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “A high-performance slotted bow-tie nano graphene antenna for optical frequency application with silicon lens and stacked aligning layers,” Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Vol. 308, 171840, August, 2024. (ISSN 0030-4026), (Scopus), (Impact Factor 3.1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2024.171840
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “SRR and DGS-Based Highly Isolated Four-Port MIMO Antenna for Mid-5G Band and High-5G Band,” MAPAN, Vol. 39, pp. 321-336, 18 November 2023. (Springer Nature), (Impact Factor: 1.0) (ISSN: 0974-9853) (SCIE). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12647-023-00704-3
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “A Novel PIN diode-based Frequency Reconfigurable Patch Antenna with switching between the mid-5G and high-5G Frequency Band,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, Vol. 16 (4), 595-604, 07 December 2023 (Cambridge University Press), (Impact Factor: 1.4) (ISSN: 1759-0787) (SCIE). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1759078723001149
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “A novel circularly polarized, CPW-Based MIMO antenna for 5G-Wireless communication in sub-6 GHz band” International Journal of Electronics Letters (Taylor & Francis), 03 October, Vol. 12 (3), pp. 222-238, 2023. (Impact Factor: 0.709) (ISSN: 2168-1732) (Scopus) https://doi.org/10.1080/21681724.2023.2266608
- Amit Kumar, Gaurav Saxena, Preetam Kumar, Yogendra Kumar Awasthi, Priyanka Jain, Sumer Singh Singhwal, Prashant Ranjan, “Quad-band circularly polarized super-wideband MIMO antenna for wireless applications,” International Journal of R.F. and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering, Wiley, Vol. 32 (6), pp. 1-21, 24 February, 2022; e23129. (SCI Journal, Impact Factor: 1.987, ISSN: 1099-047X) https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.23129
- Prashant Ranjan, Amit Kumar. “Circularly Polarized Ultra-Wide Band Filtering Antenna with Controllable Band-Notch for Wireless Communication System.” International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Vol. 135, 153738, 2021. (ISSN: 1434-8411), (SCI Journal Impact Factor: 3.169) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2021.153738
- Prashant Ranjan, “Triple-band and multiband filters using S.I.L. and MSLOR for wireless communication system,” International Journal of Electronics Letter (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 156-170, 27 October, 2019. (Impact Factor: 0.709) (ISSN: 2168-1732) (Scopus) https://doi.org/10.1080/21681724.2019.1695150
- Prashant Ranjan, V. S. Tripathi, “A Compact Triple Band Microwave Filter Using Symmetrically Placed Stub Loaded Open-loop Resonators,” International Journal of Electronics Letter (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 364–375, 13 September, 2017. (Impact Factor: 0.709) (ISSN: 2168-1732) (Scopus) https://doi.org/10.1080/21681724.2017.1378419
- Prashant Ranjan, Saurabh Raj, Gaurav Upadhyay, V. S. Tripathi, S. Tripathi, “Circularly slotted flower shaped U.W.B. filtering antenna with high peak gain,” International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Vol. 81, pp. 209-217, November, 2017. (SCI Journal, Impact Factor: 3.169). (ISSN: 1434-8411). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2017.08.055
- Gaurav Upadhyay, Nand Kishore, Prashant Ranjan, V. S. Tripathi, Shivesh Tripathi, “Frequency Reconfigurable Multiband Patch Antenna Using PIN-Diode for ITS Applications” International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology), Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 735–739, 03 September, 2018. (ISSN : 1307-6892) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1474897
- Gaurav Upadhyay, Nand Kishore, Prashant Ranjan, V. S. Tripathi, Shivesh Tripathi, “PIN-Diode Based Slotted Reconfigurable Multiband Antenna Array for Vehicular Communication”, International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 16–19, 2018. (ISSN : 1307-6892) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1340579
Conferences and Workshops:
- A. Chowdhury, P. Ranjan and D. Yadav, “Z-Slotted Circular Patch Antenna with DGS for Mid-5G Band Communication and Polyflon Cuflon Layer for Gain and Efficiency Improvement,” 2025 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Kochi, India, 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/MAPCON65020.2025.11426670.
- M. Tripathi, R. Tomar, G. K. Soni, D. Yadav, P. Ranjan and R. Pandhare, “A Study of Fluidic Reconfiguration in a Vivaldi Antenna Using Distilled Water,” 2025 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Kochi, India, 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/MAPCON65020.2025.11426179.
- P. Ranjan et al., “Tensorflow, Computer Vision, and Edge Ai-Based Face Recognition Attendance Monitoring System Using Raspberry Pi 5,” 2025 13th International Conference on Intelligent Embedded, MicroElectronics, Communication and Optical Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMECON69302.2025.11365706.
- D. Nagar, A. Chowdhury and P. Ranjan, “Four port Honeycomb-slotted Line strip with Round cap MIMO Nanoantenna for Optical Frequency Applications,” 2024 12th International Conference on Internet of Everything, Microwave, Embedded, Communication and Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 24th -26th October, 2024, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMECON62401.2024.10846706.
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, “L-Slotted Rectangular Patch Antenna with D.G.S. for mm Wave Applications” 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Internet of Everything, Microwave Engineering, Communication and Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2023, 10th-11th Feb, 2023. (ISBN: 978-1-6654-7512-9) https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMECON56962.2023.10092365
- R. Sharma and Prashant Ranjan, “A Review: Machine Learning Based Hardware Trojan Detection,” 2021 IEEE 10th International Conference on Internet of Everything, Microwave Engineering, Communication and Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2021, 1-2 December, 2021 pp. 1-4. (ISBN: 978-1-6654-2686-2) https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMECON53809.2021.9689165
- Krishna Kumar, Ravindra Pratap Singh, Prashant Ranjan and Narendra Kumar, “Daily Plant Load Analysis of a Hydropower Plant Using Machine Learning” In: Gao XZ., Kumar R., Srivastava S., Soni B.P. (eds) Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore, pp. 819-826. (ISBN 978-981-334-604-8) (1st Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Engineering & Management, Jaipur, September 8-10, 2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4604-8_65
- Prashant Ranjan, S. Sur and V. K. Pandey, “Multiple Mode Resonator Based Triple Band Filter for WLAN, Intelligent Transportation System, Satellite Communication and X-Band Applications,” 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electromechanical Engineering and Microelectronics Conference (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2019, pp. 247-250, 13-15 March 2019. (ISBN 978-1-5386-9325-4) https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMECONX.2019.8876976
- Prashant Ranjan, N. Kishore, V. K. Dwivedi, G. Upadhyay and V. S. Tripathi, “U.W.B. filter with controllable notch band and higher stop band transmission zero using open stub in inverted T-shaped resonator,” 2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017, pp. 817-820, 13th to 16th, November 2017. (ISBN 978-1-5386-0640-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC.2017.8251574
- Prashant Ranjan, G. Upadhyay, N. Kishore, V. S. Tripathi and S. Tripathi, “Triple band microwave filter using stepped impedance line (S.I.L.) and stub loaded resonator with five transmission zeroes,” 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and R.F. Conference (IMaRC), Ahmedabad, 2017, pp. 287-289, December 11-13, 2017. (ISBN 978-1-5386-1320-7) https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC.2017.8611245
- Prashant Ranjan, N. Kishore, I. Singh and V. S. Tripathi, “Inverted Z and circular slot patch antenna for WLAN and WiMAX,” 2012 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems, Allahabad, 2012, pp. 1-5, 1-5, December 2012. (ISBN 978-1-4673-1049-9). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCES.2012.6508079
- Nand Kishore, Prashant Ranjan, Indrasen Singh, and V.S. Tripathi, “Right Angled Isoceles Triganular Ring Patch Antenna With Different Feeding Techniques”, International Conference on Innovations and Advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICIAICT 2012), pp. 281 – 286, March 2012 (ISBN 978-93-81583-34-0).
- Nand Kishore, Prashant Ranjan, Indrasen Singh, and V. S. Tripathi, “Comparison Between Triangular and Rectangular Stepped Dielectric Resonator Antenna”, Advances in Computer Communication and Embedded Systems (ACCES-2012), pp. 155 – 158, March 2012.
Books Published:
- Prashant Ranjan, Ram Shringar Rao, Krishna Kumar, and Pankaj Sharma. “Wireless Communication: Advancements and Challenges.” CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group LLC, 1st ed. 2022. Book ISBN 9781003181699. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003181699
- Prashant Ranjan, Dharmendra Kumar Jhariya, Manoj Gupta, Krishna Kumar, and Pradeep Kumar, (Eds.) “Next-Generation Antennas Advancements and Challenges” John Wiley & Sons and Scrivener Publishing L.L.C., 1st ed., U.S.A., 2021. Book ISBN No. 9781119791967. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119792765
Books Chapters:
- Atanu Chowdhury, Prashant Ranjan, ” A Mid-Band 5G Filtering Antenna with a Round Slot in a Flower-Like Patch and an MMR-Based BPF. In: Mishra, R.A., Srivastava, V.K., Kumar, A., Naik, K. (eds) Advances in VLSI, Communication, and Signal Processing. VCAS 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1445, January 2026. Springer, Singapore., (ISSN- 978-981-96-8690-2), (Scopus), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8690-2_8
- Ritu Sharma, Prashant Ranjan, “Machine Learning–Based Hardware Trojans Detection in Integrated Circuits: A Systematic Review.” In: Nanda, S.J., Yadav, R.P., Gandomi, A.H., Saraswat, M. (eds) Data Science and Applications. ICDSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 818. Springer, Singapore, 2024. (ISBN: 978-981-99-7862-5) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7862-5_3
- Prashant Ranjan, Krishna Kumar, Sachin Kumar Pal and Rachna Shah, ‘Different Types of Microstrip Filters for U.W.B. Communication’ In: Prashant Ranjan, Dharmendra Kumar Jhariya, Manoj Gupta, Krishna Kumar, and Pradeep Kumar, (Eds.) “Next-Generation Antennas Advancements and Challenges” John Wiley & Sons and Scrivener Publishing L.L.C., 1st ed., U.S.A., pp. 1-22, 2021. Book ISBN No. 9781119791967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119792765.ch1
- Prashant Ranjan, Krishna Kumar, Sachin Kumar Pal and Rachna Shah, ‘Ultra-Wideband Filtering Antenna: Advancement and Challenges’ In: Prashant Ranjan, Dharmendra Kumar Jhariya, Manoj Gupta, Krishna Kumar, and Pradeep Kumar, (Eds.) “Next-Generation Antennas Advancements and Challenges” John Wiley & Sons and Scrivener Publishing L.L.C., 1st ed., U.S.A., pp. 155-164, 2021. Book ISBN No. 9781119791967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119792765.ch9
- Krishna Kumar, Ravindra Pratap Singh, Prashant Ranjan, and Narendra Kumar, ‘Daily Plant Load Analysis of a Hydropower Plant Using Machine Learning’ In: X.-Z. Gao et al. (eds.), Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021. Print ISBN: 978-981-33-4603-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4604-8_65
Events
IEEE Conference Organized:
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024 12th International Conference on Internet of Everything,
Microwave, Embedded, Communication and Networks (IEMECON), 24-26
Oct. 2024
DOI: 10.1109/IEMECON62401.2024
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2025 13th International Conference on Intelligent Embedded,
MicroElectronics, Communication and Optical Networks (IEMECON), 8-10
Dec. 2025
DOI: 10.1109/IEMECON69302.2025
