Arthur D. Yaghjian
Arthur David Yaghjian is an American electrical engineer who is best known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory and its applications.
Education and career
A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Yaghjian received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University. After working as an instructor at Tougaloo College and Hampton University, he joined the electromagnetics division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1971. In 1983, he became a research scientist at the electromagnetics directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he worked until 1996. He held guest professorships at IIT Kharagpur, Technical University of Denmark and University of Siena.Yaghjian's contributions include probe-compensated near-field antenna measurements, theory of electromagnetic fields in metamaterials, dyadic Green's functions and analysis of electrically small antennas.
Honors
Yaghjian is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. In 2020, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark. Yaghjian received the 2021 IEEE APS Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2022, he received the IEEE Electromagnetics Award "for contributions to fundamental electromagnetic theory and its applications to near-field antenna measurements."Selected publications
;Journal articles;Books
;Patents
- Apparatus for scanning and measuring the near-field radiation of an antenna
- Electrically small supergain endfire array antenna