Antenna & RADAR Systems Laboratory

Prof. K. P. RAY

Prof. K. P. Ray is M. Tech in Microwave Electronics from University of Delhi and PhD from Department of Electrical Engineering IIT, Bombay. Presently he is a Professor in the Dept. of Electronics Engineering, DIAT, DRDO, Pune.

Department of Electronics Engineering, DIAT, Pune

Fellow of INAE, MASc, IETE, VEDAS

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" We are a research laboratory in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Defence Institute of Advanced Technology based in the vivacious city of Pune, Maharashtra, India. We currently work on Planar Antenna Designs, OTH radar Antennas, Formulation of Microstrip antennas, Microwave Absorbing Materials, and Ground Penetrating radar. Highly motivated research scholars, fellows, and postgraduate students comprise of our research group. We are open to collaborate on related research topics."

-Prof. K. P. Ray

Publications

“The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”

-Dr. Roopleen

Latest articles:

A. K. Singh, K. P. Ray, and B. B. Padhy, “High Performance Square Patch Power Dividers”, IEEE Access, Vol. 13, pp.30811-30816, Feb 2025.
A. K. Singh, B. B. Padhy, and K. P. Ray, “Miniaturized and Low-Cost Design for Rectangular Slotted Crossovers with High Isolation”, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (Taylor & Francis), pp.1-15, 2025.
V. Kulkarni, A. Vengadarajan, and K. P. Ray, “Frequency Diverse Array Radar Application for Drone Detection”, IETE Journal of Research (Taylor & Francis), pp. 1-17, Feb 2025.
M. Nagarakshit and K. P. Ray, “Design of Super Wide Band 3-way Power Divider/Combiner”, IET Microwaves, Antenna and Propagation, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 830 - 837, 2024.
D. S. Gyan, K. P. Ray, and A. K. Poddar, “Generation of Higher Order OAM Waves with Single Point Fed Circular Microstrip Antenna using Bifurcated Cylindrical Harmonics”, IEEE Transaction in Antennas & Propagation, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 6950–6958, 2024.

Books/Chapters:

G. Kumar and K. P. Ray, Broadband Microstrip Antennas. Artech House, Boston & London, 2003. ISBN: 1580532446
H. Vasudevan, A. A. Deshmukh, K. P. Ray, Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Communication: ICWiCom 2017, Springer Singapore, Vol. 19, 2017. ISBN: 978-981-10-8339-6 (online), 978-981-10-8338-9 (print), ISSN: 2367-4512
K. Raha and K. P. Ray, Low Cost Simple Compact and Portable Ground Penetrating Radar Prototype for Detecting Improvised Explosion Devices, IntechOpen, London, 2022, K. Raha and K. P. Ray. (Book Chapter)
K. P. Ray, A. Dixit, D. Adhikari, R. Mathew, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Signal and Data Processing: ICSDP 2022: 1026 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering) Hardcover – Import, 28 June 2023, Springer Verlag, Singapore
K. P. Ray, Introduction to Important Concepts of RF, Microwave, and Millimeter Wave Technologies, Springer Nature, (Book Chapter-in press)

Recognitions

Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering 2023
Fellow of Maharashtra (State) Academy of Science 2024
Delivered “First Abdul Kalam Memorial Lecture” at ITR, DRDO, 2018
Delivered “First G P Srivastava Memorial Lecture” at University of Delhi, 2025
IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Memorial Award 2018
Fellow UNDP at GTRI, Georgia Tech Atlanta, USA, 1993

TPC co-chair for IEEE MAPCON-2024 held at Hyderabad during 9-13 Dec 2024.