Julio Urbina

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Julio Urbina

Most Recent Publications

New and Emerging Directions in the Fields of Antennas and Propagation

Christian Pichot, Gregory H. Huff, Yang Yang, Zhi Hao Jiang, Xuanfeng Tong, Tian Hong Loh, Ala Alemaryeen, Mahmoud Wagih, Sima Noghanian, Rajesh C. Paryani, Yi Huang, Kunio Sakakibara, Francesca Vipiana, Elise Fear, Saikat Ch Bakshi, Rod Waterhouse, Julio Urbina, Sascha Meinrath, Bono Po Jen Shih, Rohit Sharma, Vignesh Manohar, Fikadu T. Dagefu, Koichi Ito, 2025, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation on p. 566-581

Mutual Inductance of Multilayer Spiral-Inductor Clusters for Small-Form-Factor Wireless Power Transfer (μWPT)

Joshua S. Benjestorf, Julio V. Urbina, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, 2025, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Automated entrance monitoring to investigate honey bee foraging trips using open-source wireless platform and fiducial tags

Diego Penaloza-Aponte, Sarabeth Brandt, Erin Dent, Robyn M. Underwood, Benedict DeMoras, Selina Bruckner, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Julio V. Urbina, 2024, HardwareX

On the relationship between the mesospheric sodium layer and the meteoric input function

Yanlin Li, Tai-Yin Huang, Julio Urbina, Fabio Vagas, Wuhu Feng, 2024, Ann. Geophys. on p. 285-299

Capturing First- and Second-Year Master's Engineering Students' Perceptions of Support in Their Transitions to Graduate School

Catherine G P. Berdanier, Julio Urbina, Reginald Felix Hamilton, Catherine L. Cohan, Tonya L. Peeples, Cynthia Howard Reed, 2024, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Peru in State College

L Griggs, Julio Urbina, 2024,

Three-dimensional computer vision for exploring heterogeneity in collective Cancer Invasion

Yanlin Li, Ninghao Zhu, Mona Ahmed, Julio Urbina, Tai Yin Huang, Pak Kin Wong, 2024, Scientific Reports

The Non-Metallic Electrical Connector: A New Connector Technology Based on Wireless Power Transfer

Joshua Benjestorf, Vincenzo Pascucci, Julio Urbina, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, 2024, IEEE Access on p. 121994-122015

Topological optimization of electrically tunable silicon-organic metasurfaces

Ruth E. Rubio-Noriega, Franck Soria-Pinedo, Mark Clemente-Arenas, Julio V. Urbina, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa, 2024,

Non-metallic magnetostatically tunable metasurface absorber for terahertz waves

Mark Clemente-Arenas, Ruth Rubio-Noriega, Julio Urbina, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, 2024, Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics on p. 691-697

Most-Cited Papers

Satellite-Link Attenuation Measurement Technique for Estimating Rainfall Accumulation

C. Hakan Arslan, Kultegin Aydin, Julio V. Urbina, Lars Dyrud, 2018, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on p. 681-693

Effects of the Equatorial Electrojet on FM-Based Passive Radar Systems

Burak Tuysuz, Julio V. Urbina, John D. Mathews, 2017, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on p. 4082-4088

Software-Defined Radar Systems for Polar Ice-Sheet Research

Peng Liu, Jesus Mendoza, Hanxiong Hu, Peter Burkett, Julio Urbina, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Sven Bilen, 2019, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing on p. 803-820

An HF Software-Defined Radar to Study the Ionosphere

Salih Mehmed Bostan, Julio Urbina, John D. Mathews, S Bilen, Sven G. Bilén, James K. Breakall, 2019, Radio Science on p. 839-849

Effect of orientation on excitation of surface-plasmon-polariton waves guided by a columnar thin film deposited on a metal grating

Kiran Mujeeb, Muhammad Faryad, Julio V. Urbina, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, 2020, SPIE J

Multi-instrument observations of SCIPS: 1. ISR and GPS TEC results

Ross Dinsmore, J. D. Mathews, Anthea Coster, R. M. Robinson, Sumanta Sarkhel, Philip J. Erickson, Julio Urbina, 2021, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Sporadic micro-meteoroid source radiant distribution inferred from the Arecibo 430 MHz radar observations

Yanlin Li, Q. Zhou, Julio Urbina, Tai-Yin Huang, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on p. 2088–2098

A Machine Learning Algorithm to Detect and Analyze Meteor Echoes Observed by the Jicamarca Radar

Yanlin Li, Freddy Galindo, Julio Urbina, Qihou Zhou, Tai Yin Huang, 2023, Remote Sensing

GnuRadar: An Open-Source Software-Defined Radio Receiver Platform for Radar Applications

Ryan Seal, Julio Urbina, 2020, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine on p. 30-36

Empirical values of branching ratios in the three-body recombination reaction for O( <sup>1</sup> S) and O <sub>2</sub> (0,0) airglow chemistry

Yolián Amaro-Rivera, Tai Yin Huang, Julio Urbina, Fabio Vargas, 2018, Advances in Space Research on p. 2679-2691

News Articles Featuring Julio Urbina

Mar 05, 2025

Tiny QR codes on bees are helping Penn State researchers study foraging behavior

Organic beekeeping researchers at Penn State placed tiny QR codes on the backs of over 32,000 bees in rural Pennsylvania and New York to collect data on their foraging behavior.

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Jan 31, 2025

What is it like to be a bee? These tiny QR tracking tags helped science find out

In rural Pennsylvania and New York, researchers have attached tiny QR codes to hundreds of honey bees in an effort to track the insects’ foraging habits.

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Jan 22, 2025

‘Buzz me in:’ Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets

Researchers attached QR codes to the backs of thousands of bees to track when and for how long they left their hives.

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Oct 04, 2024

12 Penn State faculty receive U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards for 2024-25 year

Twelve Penn State faculty members received Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2024-25 academic year, according to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. An additional four faculty members have been named Fulbright Specialist Award recipients.

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Jun 12, 2023

Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023

The following is a list of academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023.

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Jul 30, 2022

Undergrads to present research at public symposium on climate science, solutions

Four summer research programs that task undergraduate students with exploring pressing research related to climate science and solutions are culminating in a combined event that is open to the public.

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