Trang Thai earned B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering with Research Option (Honor) and in Physics (Honor) from Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2008. She is currently a graduate student working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, to be completed in May 2012.

Ms. Thai has become a member of ATHENA group since Jan 2006 and has been advised by Prof. Manos Tentzeris and Dr. Gerald DeJean. Her research interests focus on antenna design in microwave and RF circuits, sensor designs utilizing nanotechnology, and electromagnetics study in nano-structures bridging with RF modules.

Conference Papers

2008

1. Thai T., Haque A., Ratner J., Tentzeris M.M., DeJean G. - Development of a Fully-Integrated Ultrasensitive Wireless Sensor Utilizing Carbon Nanotubes and Surface Plasmon Theory Procs. of the 2008 IEEE-ECTC Symposium, pp.436-439, Orlando, FL, May 2008 Motorola Award Finalist.
2. Thai T., Haque A., DeJean G., Tentzeris M.M. - A novel ultrasensitive gas detector system based on carbon nanotube mixtures and antenna radiation variation Proc. of the 2008 IEEE-APS Symposium, pp.1-4, San Diego, CA, July 2008.

2007

1. Thai T., DeJean G.,Tentzeris M.M. - Design and Development of a Novel COmpact Soft-Surface Structure for the Front-to-Back Ratio Improvement and Size Reduction of Microstrip Yagi Antenna Arrays Proc. of the 2007 IEEE-APS Symposium, pp.1381-1384, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.

2006

1. DeJean G., Thai T., Tentzeris M.M. - Design of Microstrip bi-Yagi and Microstrip quad-Yagi Antenna Arrays for WLAN and Millimeter-Wave Applications Procs. of the 2006 IEEE-APS Symposium, pp.989-992, Albuquerque, NM, July 2006.

Journal Papers

2008

1. Thai T., DeJean G., Tentzeris M.M. - Design and Development of a Novel Compact Soft-Surface Structure for the Front-to-Back Ratio Improvement and Size Reduction of a Microstrip Yagi Array Antenna IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol.7, pp.369-373, 2008.

2007

1. DeJean G., Thai T., Nikolaou S., Tentzeris M.M. - Design and Analysis of Microstrip Bi-Yagi and Quad-Yagi Antenna Arrays for WLAN Applications IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol.6, pp.244-248, April 2007.