Microwave seminar | 30 August 2021

The need to label miniature light-weight airborne targets, i.e. drones or copters, emerged just recently, when those items made available to general public. Being extremely low-cost, miniature drones may be operated by marginal individuals, who may underestimate probable consequences of their actions. There are quite a few unfortunate events, when airports shut down the traffic owing to an unexpected appearance of miniature airborne targets. The main difficulty of detecting light-weight drones is related to their extremely small radar scattering cross-section (RCS). Pure electromagnetic contrast makes drones to be almost invisible to conventional radar systems, which are used for civil purposes of tracking and monitoring. My proposal is to introduce additional lightweight elements, which will tremendously increase RCS of small airborne targets.

Main paper/arXiv, related to the seminar, and other references

Anna Mikhailovskaya, Ildar Yusupov, Dmitry Dobrykh, Sergey Krasikov, Diana Shakirova, Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Filonov and Pavel Ginzburg / Omnidirectional miniature RFID tag/ Applied Physics Letters 2021.
Anna Mikhailovskaya, Diana Shakirova, Sergey Krasikov, Ildar Yusupov, Dmitry Dobrykh, Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Filonov and Pavel Ginzburg / Anapole-enabled RFID Security against Far-field Attack/ Nanophotonics – under review (2021).