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Dr. Meenu L

Assistant Professor (Level 11), Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri

Qualification: M.Tech., Ph.D
meenul@am.amrita.edu
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Research Interest: RF and Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetics, Bioelectromagnetics, Antenna Design, Wireless Communication, Satellite Communication, Material Characterization, Electromagnetic Radiation Assessment and Mitigation, and Microwave Sensing Technologies.

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Dr. Meenu L. is an Assistant Professor at the Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, specialising in RF and Microwave Communication. She also holds an M.Tech. degree in Wireless Networks and Applications and a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Her research focuses on Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetics, Wireless Communication, Antenna Design and Development, and Bioelectromagnetics. Her doctoral research investigated the effects of electromagnetic radiation on biotic components and explored effective techniques to reduce electromagnetic radiation absorption in biological systems.

Her research interests extend to electromagnetic radiation exposure assessment, dielectric characterisation of biological materials, plant to electromagnetic wave interactions, electromagnetic shielding and mitigation techniques, and the influence of vegetation on outdoor wireless communication. She is also involved in research on microwave-based sensing technologies, resonator-based sensors, metamaterial-inspired antenna systems, and advanced wireless communication applications. Dr. Meenu has contributed to the development of Amritatarang – Advanced RF and Microwave Research Laboratory, supporting experimental research, antenna development, material characterisation and RF measurement activities. She has authored and co-authored 30+ research publications in her areas of expertise, including RF and Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetics, Bioelectromagnetics, Antenna Design, and Wireless Communication. She has also actively delivered technical presentations at various international conferences and workshops, contributing to the dissemination of research findings and academic knowledge in these fields.

 

Publications

Conference Proceedings

Year : 2026

Compact Hexagonal Patch Antenna Array for mmWave V2V Communications

Cite this Research Publication : Manasa Murali, Kalyani Shibu, Aiswarya S, Meenu L, Compact Hexagonal Patch Antenna Array for mmWave V2V Communications, 2026 5th International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems (ICCCES), IEEE, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1109/iccces62661.2026.11436182

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Microwave-based Detection of Hepatic Steatosis: A Diagnostic Approach

Cite this Research Publication : Rohith Nair, Ashish Sopanam, Aiswarya S, Meenu L, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Microwave-based Detection of Hepatic Steatosis: A Diagnostic Approach, 2025 10th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/icces67310.2025.11337113

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Isolation Enhancement in Compact $2 \times 2$ MIMO Patch Antenna Using Metamaterial Array for X-Band Applications

Cite this Research Publication : R. Budhi Sagar, Meenu L, Aiswarya S, Isolation Enhancement in Compact $2 \times 2$ MIMO Patch Antenna Using Metamaterial Array for X-Band Applications, 2025 10th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/icces67310.2025.11336900

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Dielectric-Based Frequency Optimization and Penetration Depth Analysis for Aqueous Glucose Sensing

Cite this Research Publication : Aiswarya S, Meenu L, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Dielectric-Based Frequency Optimization and Penetration Depth Analysis for Aqueous Glucose Sensing, 2025 10th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/icces67310.2025.11337172

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Leaf-Tissue Interaction and Absorption Behavior Under 2.45 GHz Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure in Tectona Grandis

Cite this Research Publication : Anurag Suresh, Harikrishnan V S, Aiswarya S, Meenu L, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Leaf-Tissue Interaction and Absorption Behavior Under 2.45 GHz Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure in Tectona Grandis, 2025 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/mapcon65020.2025.11426402

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Physiological Responses of Plants to 2.45 Ghz Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, Aiswarya S, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K Menon, Physiological Responses of Plants to 2.45 Ghz Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation, 2025 IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/mapcon65020.2025.11426735

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Machine Learning Based Implementation of Antenna Beamforming Algorithm

Cite this Research Publication : M. L. Liya, Hariharan Balaji, L. Meenu, Dhanesh G. Kurup, Machine Learning Based Implementation of Antenna Beamforming Algorithm, 2025 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS-Spring), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/piers-spring66516.2025.11276612

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Metamaterial Based Frequency Tunable mmWave Antenna for Communication Applications

Cite this Research Publication : R. Budhi Sagar, L. Meenu, S. Aiswarya, Metamaterial Based Frequency Tunable mmWave Antenna for Communication Applications, 2025 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS-Spring), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/piers-spring66516.2025.11276760

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Modeling Light-Tissue Interactions in Finger Phantom Using Near Infrared and Mid Infrared Spectroscopy Based on Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring

Cite this Research Publication : Sai Kalyan Rebba Yagna, L. Meenu, S. Aiswarya, Vinodini Ramesh Maneesha, Modeling Light-Tissue Interactions in Finger Phantom Using Near Infrared and Mid Infrared Spectroscopy Based on Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring, 2025 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS-Spring), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/piers-spring66516.2025.11276371

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Evaluating the Impact of Plant Species on Outdoor Wireless Communication by Analyzing Plant Material Characteristics

Cite this Research Publication : L. Meenu, S. Aiswarya, K. A. Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K. Menon, Evaluating the Impact of Plant Species on Outdoor Wireless Communication by Analyzing Plant Material Characteristics, 2025 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS-Spring), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/piers-spring66516.2025.11276563

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2025

Field and Phase Analysis in Printed Passive RFID Tag for Sensor Application

Cite this Research Publication : S. Aiswarya, L. Meenu, K. A. Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K. Menon, Field and Phase Analysis in Printed Passive RFID Tag for Sensor Application, 2025 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS-Spring), IEEE, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/piers-spring66516.2025.11276542

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2024

High Gain Multiband Millimeter Wave Slotted Patch Antenna for 5G Applications

Cite this Research Publication : Aiswarya S, Meenu L, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K Menon, High Gain Multiband Millimeter Wave Slotted Patch Antenna for 5G Applications, Proceedings of the 6th URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science – RCRS 2024, URSI – International Union of Radio Science, 2024, https://doi.org/10.46620/ursi_rsrc24/0552zju4528

Publisher : URSI – International Union of Radio Science

Year : 2024

Investigation on the Effect of Duration of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure on Material Characteristics of Tissue

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, Aiswarya S, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K Menon, Investigation on the Effect of Duration of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure on Material Characteristics of Tissue, Proceedings of the 6th URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science – RCRS 2024, URSI – International Union of Radio Science, 2024, https://doi.org/10.46620/ursi_rsrc24/0546gqq9958

Publisher : URSI – International Union of Radio Science

Year : 2022

Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure from Mobile Phone Under Different Operational Scenarios

Cite this Research Publication : M. L, A. S, S. K. Menon and K. U. Menon, "Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure from Mobile Phone Under Different Operational Scenarios," 2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS), Indore, India, 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118449.

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2022

Analysis and Validation of Planar Microwave Diagonal Stub Loaded Closed Loop Resonator for Glucose Monitoring

Cite this Research Publication : A. S, M. L, S. K. Menon and K. A. U. Menon, "Analysis and Validation of Planar Microwave Diagonal Stub Loaded Closed Loop Resonator for Glucose Monitoring," 2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS), Indore, India, 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118576.

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2022

A Novel 6G based Antenna System for Marine Communication

Cite this Research Publication : A Novel 6G based Antenna System for Marine Communication, Nair, S.B, Meenu, L., Aiswarya, S., Menon, S.K., 2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science, USRI-RCRS 2022, 2022

Publisher : URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science

Year : 2020

Design and analysis of planar resonators for wireless communication

Cite this Research Publication : A. Vinod, S. Aiswarya, L. Meenu and S. K. Menon, "Design and Analysis of Planar Resonators for Wireless Communication," 2020 5th International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES), Coimbatore, India, 2020, pp. 375-380, doi: 10.1109/ICCES48766.2020.9137990.

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2020

A survey on heating effects of electromagnetic radiation on human body

Cite this Research Publication : L Meenu, S Aiswarya, Sreedevi K Menon, "A survey on heating effects of electromagnetic radiation on human body", 2020 5th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS) Pages 1-4

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2019

Stub loaded semi-circular resonator for filter applications

Cite this Research Publication : L. Meenu, S. Aiswarya, S. Bhuvana Nair and S. K. Menon, "Stub Loaded Semi-Circular Resonator for Filter Applications," 2019 Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communication Networks (WOCN), Bhopal, India, 2019, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/WOCN45266.2019.8995031.

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2019

Analysis and design of stub loaded closed loop microstrip line filter for Wi-Fi applications

Cite this Research Publication : S Aiswarya, S Bhuvana Nair, L Meenu, Sreedevi K Menon, "Analysis and design of stub loaded closed loop microstrip line filter for Wi-Fi applications", 2019 Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communication Networks (WOCN) Pages 1-5, 2019

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2018

Study on the Effect of Feeding Mechanism in the Frequency Response of OLR

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L and Dr. Sreedevi K Menon, “Study on the Effect of Feeding Mechanism in the Frequency Response of OLR”, in 2018 2nd International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC), 2018.

Publisher : 2018 2nd International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC) .

Year : 2018

Experimental Investigations on Monopole Loop Antenna with Dual Band Characteristics

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, S. Aiswarya, and Dr. Sreedevi K Menon, “Experimental Investigations on Monopole Loop Antenna with Dual Band Characteristics”, Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), 2017 International Conference on. IEEE, Chennai, India, 2018.

Publisher : Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), 2017 International Conference on, IEEE, Chennai, India.

Year : 2018

Compact Monopole Antenna with Metamaterial ground plane

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, S. Aiswarya, and Dr. Sreedevi K Menon, “Compact Monopole Antenna with Metamaterial ground plane”, in Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Fall (PIERS - FALL), 2017, Singapore, 2018.

Publisher : Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Fall (PIERS - FALL), 2017, IEEE, Singapore .

Year : 2017

Design of microstrip sensor for non invasive blood glucose monitoring

Cite this Research Publication : Satish, Kushal Sen, Sneh Anand, Design of microstrip sensor for non invasive blood glucose monitoring, 2017 International Conference on Emerging Trends & Innovation in ICT (ICEI), IEEE, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1109/etiict.2017.7977001

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2017

Reducing Electromagnetic radiation Hazards Using Resonators

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L and Dr. Sreedevi K Menon, “Reducing Electromagnetic radiation Hazards Using Resonators”, in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM), 2017.

Publisher : 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM) .

Year : 2017

Asymmetric Coplanar Waveguide fed Monopole Antenna with Perturbed Ground Plane

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, S. Aiswarya, and Dr. Sreedevi K Menon, “Asymmetric coplanar waveguide fed monopole antenna with perturbed ground plane”, in 2017 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS), St. Petersburg, Russia, 2018.

Publisher : 2017 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring

Year : 2017

Asymmetric Coplanar Waveguide fed Monopole Antenna with Perturbed Ground Plane

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, “Asymmetric Coplanar Waveguide fed Monopole Antenna with Perturbed Ground Plane”, PIERS 2017. Russia, 2017.

Publisher : PIERS 2017

Year : 2016

Wireless Charging of Mobile Phone Using Bluetooth

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, “Wireless Charging of Mobile Phone Using Bluetooth”, in NACETEC’16, 2016.

Publisher : NACETEC’16.

Journal Article

Year : 2025

Experimental investigation to analyze the electromagnetic radiation exposure from wireless communication devices

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L., Aiswarya S., K.A. Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K. Menon, Experimental investigation to analyze the electromagnetic radiation exposure from wireless communication devices, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, Elsevier BV, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2024.100548

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Year : 2024

A Comprehensive Real Time Investigation on the Influence of Plant Species on Antenna Characteristics in Outdoor Wireless Communication

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, Aiswarya S, K A Unnikrishna Menon Sreedevi K. Menon (2024). A Comprehensive Real Time Investigation on the Influence of Plant Species on Antenna Characteristics in Outdoor Wireless Communication, In IEEE Access

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2023

A Novel Microstrip Sensor Based on Closed Loop Antenna for Adulteration Detection of Liquid Samples

Cite this Research Publication : S. Aiswarya, L. Meenu, K. A. Unnikrishna Menon, M. Donelli and S. K. Menon, "A Novel Microstrip Sensor Based on Closed Loop Antenna for Adulteration Detection of Liquid Samples," in IEEE Sensors Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3332101.

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2022

A novel and effective technique to reduce electromagnetic radiation absorption on biotic components at 2.45 GHz

Cite this Research Publication : L M, S A, Menon SK. A novel and effective technique to reduce electromagnetic radiation absorption on biotic components at 2.45 GHz. Electromagn Biol Med. 2022 Apr 3;41(2):184-200. doi: 10.1080/15368378.2022.2046048. Epub 2022 Mar 30. PMID: 35352614.

Publisher : Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

Year : 2021

Development of a microwave sensor for solid and liquid substances based on closed loop resonator

Cite this Research Publication : S, A.; Menon, S.K.; Donelli, M.; L, M. Development of a Microwave Sensor for Solid and Liquid Substances Based on Closed Loop Resonator. Sensors 2021, 21, 8506. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248506

Publisher : Sensors

Book Chapter

Year : 2024

Real Time Investigation on Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure from Cell Tower

Cite this Research Publication : Meenu L, Aiswarya S, K A Unnikrishna Menon, Sreedevi K. Menon (2024). Real Time Investigation on Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure from Cell Tower, In International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications: Proceedings of ICICC 2024. Springer Singapore, 2024

Qualifications
  • Ph.D. in Engineering (RF and Microwave Engineering) – Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 2025.
  • M.Tech. in Wireless Networks and Applications – Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 2017.
  • B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering – College of Engineering Perumon, (CUSAT), 2015.
Recognitions
  • Best Poster Award – National Symposium on Telecommunication Systems.
  • Honorable Mention – Top Six in the Student Paper Competition (SPC), Commission K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine, URSI-RCRS 2024.
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