This page is maintained by Dr Tim Brown. As part of my research and other activity in the University, I am activtely running and using our anechoic chamber. The chamber is available for rental for small assignments at competiive prices and includes the support from myself. This has been useful for clients where they require it to be able to come and see the measurements carried out and understand more of the detail of the meaning of the results and reasons behind them, which may not be available from other commercial measurement services. We can also commit to doing the work at relatively lower time leads to fit around other research and teaching activity we undertake. If you have an enquiry about using the anehcoic chamber, please feel free to contact me. If it is found that the job is viable to do, a quotation and contract to do the services can be set up via our University Consultancy and Expert Services facility.
Our anechoic chamber has a tes range from the transmit to receive antenna of just over 3m in order to measure radiation patterns. Also it has been possible to do far field predictions for large antennas where this range only allows to measure in the near field. The turntable can handle antennas in the order of up to approximately 1m maximum dimension. The entire structure can maintain free space conditions up to 65 GHz and beyond.
Another very beneficial feature of the chamber is that being designed for research, it has been possible to reconfigure for a range of different measurements, not only antenna patterns, to suit our own and clients needs. These include radar cross section measurements, material and object penetration measurements, over the air tests of communication devices with free space conditions.
Regular supporting equipment including signal generators, spectrum analysers and amplifiers ranging up to mmWave frequencies is available as well as our four port ZVA 67 network analyser with capability to measure both at sub 6GHz and mmWave frequencies using a range of horn, dipole, conical spiral and other standard antennas required.
