Dr Daniel Holtby

Research Associate

email: d.holtby@sheffield.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5879

Qualifications

Daniel Holtby received a MEng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Communications) from the University of Sheffield, in 2006 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield, in 2010 on the subject of “Impedance Loaded Geometric Transition Radar Absorbers”.

Research Interests

• Novel radar absorbing structures
• Radar signature management
• Antenna miniaturisation
• Metamaterial applications
• Stochastic optimisation techniques

Selected Publications

• D. G. Holtby, K. L. Ford, and B. Chambers, “Optimisation of stepped permittivity impedance loaded absorber,” Electronics Letters, vol. 45, no. 7, p. 339, 2009
• K. L. Ford, D. G. Holtby, and B. Chambers, “Optimisation of a pyramidal geometric transition radar absorbing material loaded with a resistive frequency selective surface,” IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 3, no. 6, p. 596, 2009
• K. L. Ford, D. G. Holtby, and B. Chambers, “Oblique incidence optimisation of a pyramidal absorber using a frequency selective surface,” Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on. pp. 1-4, 2010
• D. G. Holtby, K. L. Ford, and B. Chambers, “Geometric transition radar absorbing material loaded with a binary frequency selective surface,” IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 483, 2011