2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting
5-10 July 2020 • Montréal, Québec, Canada
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 08:00 - 17:00
Abstract: This short course gives the participants an overview of the application, implementation, design and verification of base station antennas for 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and beyond. In particular it is aimed at microwave, RF- and antenna engineers in the wireless area, but also useful for researchers looking for relevant research topics and system engineers needing a deeper understanding of the antenna component of their system.
Bios:
Claes Beckman is a microwave and antenna systems engineering professor and the founding director of the research center Wireless@kth, at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden. He has more than 30 years of experience from both academia and the wireless (radio and radar) industry, where his work has resulted in numerous products, patents and contributions to standards while serving on both ETSI and 3GPP committees.
Previously, he has been a microwave design engineer with Ericsson, research manager for Allgon, a tenured full professor at the University of Gävle and a visiting professor at KTH The Royal institute of Technology.
Currently he is a senior researcher in the Radio Systems lab at KTH and a part time technical expert for Icomera AB. He also serves as board member of Medfield Diagnostics AB (publ.) and H&E Solutions AB and a technical board member of Skysense AB, InCoax AB and Allgon AB (publ).
John Sanford is a professor of practice with the University of California San Diego and advises a number of companies in the wireless industry. He also manages the asset portfolio of Smartwaves Investments. Until recently, he was Chief Technical Officer of Ubiquiti Networks where he developed next-generation wireless communications systems. Previously he was president of Optimal RF which was acquired by Cushcraft Corporation and subsequently acquired by Laird Technologies. He was CTO of REMEC, Inc. where he developed the technology roadmap, IP and strategic partnerships and ran REMEC's Fixed Wireless Access Division. Prior to that, he founded Smartwaves International, which was acquired by REMEC in February 1999. At both locations, Dr. Sanford developed RF transceivers and related products including antennas, filters, algorithms and amplifiers. He has been active in the development and use of artificial intelligence routines for the design of microwave products. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology where he taught and conducted research related to Electromagnetics, Antennas and Array Signal Processing (MIMO). Dr. Sanford headed the Mobile Tower Top Group at Huber & Suhner AG. There he invented a range of mobile communications products that have become industry norms. From 1985 to 1988 he was a group manager with the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he designed military phased arrays and communication systems.
Specialties: Dr. Sanford uses advanced artificial intelligence methods to develop products with performance that would be impossible to realize using convention techniques. These products include wind turbines, microwave antennas, transceivers, and related products including, filters, amplifiers, and MIMO signal processing algorithms.
Additionally, he has led or participated in five successful equity events (2 IPOs and 3 acquisitions) for companies where he was either a prime or a senior contributor.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 08:00 - 12:00
Abstract: The terahertz gap (0.3 – 3 THz) remains still an underused electromagnetic spectral band sandwiched between conventional electronics and optics. It holds promise however for many applications ranging from high-speed wireless indoor communication, high-resolution imaging, security screening and molecular spectroscopy.
For all these applications, THz technology needs to be developed to the standards of microwaves and optics. In this quest, engineers need to be well aware of the current technology and the challenges related to THz in order wangle the next generation of THz components and systems.
This Short Course aims to provide an opportunity for attendees to familiarize with THz technology (CW and pulsed) and dig into the reasons why THz technology lags behind. The storyline of the Short Course will build upon the presenter’s experience with the commercial instruments: (CW) ABmm vector network analyser and TeraSense Tera-1024 imaging system; (pulsed) Teraview Spectra 3000 and Menlo TERA K15 spectrometers, and with an in-house (University College London) near-field time-domain spectroscopy system.
Bio:
Miguel Navarro-Cía (S’08–M’10-SM’15) received the MEng and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering, and MRes degree in Introduction to Research in Communications from the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain, in 2006, 2010 and 2007, respectively.
He is a Senior Lecturer and a Birmingham Fellow at University of Birmingham. He is also affiliated with Imperial College London and University College London as a Visiting Researcher. Previously, he was a Research & Teaching Assistant at Universidad Pública de Navarra (2010-2011), a Research Associate at Imperial College London (2011-2012) and University College London (2012), and a Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College London (2012-2015). He worked as a Visiting Researcher at University of Pennsylvania (3 months in 2010), at Imperial College London (13 months between 2008 and 2010), and at Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center (2 months in 2008).
He is the coauthor of 2 chapter books (e.g., ‘Principles of THz generation’, published by Wiley-IEEE Press in 2015), 100+ journal papers, and over 275 conferences papers. He is an editorial board member for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Advanced Electromagnetics, Radiophysics and Electronics, and Hindawi Advances in Materials Science and Engineering.
His current research interests are THz microscopy/spectroscopy, (sub-)millimeter-wave antennas, plasmonics, metamaterials, and FSSs.
Dr. Navarro-Cía is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America and a member of The Institute of Physics. He was awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis on Basic Principles and Technologies of Information and Communications, and Applications corresponding to the XXXI Edition of Awards “Telecommunication Engineers” 2010 and the 2012 CST University Publication Awards to the best international journal publication using CST Microwave Studio and was a recipient of the 2011 Junior Research Raj Mittra Travel Grant.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 08:00 - 12:00
Abstract: The terminology standards on antennas (IEEE Std. 145) and propagation (IEEE Std. 211) are important documents which ensure that the right terms are employed in technical papers and reports. IEEE Std. 149 (antenna measurement), IEEE Std. 1720 (near field antenna measurement) & IEEE Std. 1502 (radar cross-section measurement) prove useful when performing antenna measurements. The short course will provide an overview of these standards that have been developed by the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Standards Committee.
Bios:
Dr. Vikass Monebhurrun(SM’07) received the PhD degree in 1994 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2010 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Université Paris-Sud, respectively. His research contributed to the international standardization committees of CENELEC, IEC, and IEEE. He is author and co-author of more than hundred peer-reviewed international conference and journal papers and five book chapters. He is an active contributor to the international standardization committees of IEC 62209, IEC 62232, IEC/IEEE 62704 and IEEE1528. He serves as Associate-Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine since 2015 and Transactions since 2016, and Editor of the IoP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering since 2013 He is the founder of the IEEE RADIO international conference and he served as General Chair for all seven editions since 2012. He is the Chair of the international committees of IEC/IEEE 62704-3 since 2010 and IEEE Antennas and Propagation Standards since 2015. He was recipient of the URSI YSA in 1996 and the IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Humanitarian Technical Field Project Award in 2018. He received the IEEE-SA International Joint Working Group Chair Award in 2017, the IEC 1906 Award in 2018 and the IEEE-SA International Award in 2019.
Mr. Lars Foged (M’91–SM’00) received his B.S. from Aarhus Teknikum, Denmark in 1988 and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, USA in 1990. He was a “graduate trainee” of the European Space Agency, ESTEC and in the following ten years, designed communication and navigation antennas in the satellite industry. He led the antenna design effort on the recently launched GALILEO space segment and performed the multi-physics design of shaped reflectors for the EUTELSAT W satellites, still serving European users. Following his passion to rationalize the multi-disciplinary antenna design process, including measurements and simulations, he joined MVG (formerly SATIMO) in 2001 and founded the Italian branch office. In MVG, he initiated close collaborations with universities and research institutions on measurements with focus on antennas and techniques for analysis/post-processing. He has held different technical leadership positions in MVG and is currently the Scientific Director of the Microwave Vision Group, and Associate Director of Microwave Vision Italy. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 journal and conference papers on antenna design and measurement topics and received the “Best Technical Paper Award” from AMTA in 2013. He has contributed to five books and standards, and holds four patents.
Dr. Vince Rodriguez (SM 2006) attended The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), in Oxford, Mississippi, where he obtained his B.S.E.E. in 1994. Following graduation Dr. Rodriguez joined the department of Electrical Engineering at Ole Miss as a research assistant. During that period he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. (both degrees on Engineering Science with emphasis in Electromagnetics) in 1996 and 1999 respectively. After a short period as visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Dr. Rodriguez joined EMC Test Systems (now ETS-Lindgren) as an RF and Electromagnetics engineer in June 2000. In November 2014 Dr. Rodriguez Joined MI Technologies (now NSI-MI Technologies) as a Senior Applications Engineer. In this position Dr. Rodriguez works on the design of antenna, RCS, and radome measurement systems. During his tenure at NSI-MI Dr. Rodriguez was involved in designing several Antenna and RCS anechoic ranges for near to far field, Compact Range and far field measurements. In 2017 Dr. Rodriguez was promoted to staff engineer positioning him as the resident expert at NSI-MI of RF absorber and indoor antenna ranges. He is the author of more than fifty publications including journal and conference papers and book chapters.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 08:00 - 12:00
Abstract: We provide a fully integrated treatment of communication and electromagnetic theories, where the physics of electromagnetic fields when viewed as spacetime processes is directly linked to signal processing, information, and energy transfer in wireless links. Utilizing general and powerful theoretical tools developed in recent researches, such as the antenna current Green’s function, energy localization in spacetime, the cross-correlation Green’s functions, the infinitesimal dipole model (IDM) techniques in machine learning, we explicate how information capacity, correlation, and energy transfer are influenced by taking into account the full physical content of EM fields as spacetime signals in concrete applications, including spectral efficiency enhancement, diversity gain optimization, engineering MIMO channels using metasurfaces, and dispersion management in large and complex arrays. Various case studies in massive MIMO, 5G, and Future Antennas are introduced to illustrate the main advantages and novel new applications in a pedagogically illuminating manner.
Bio:
Said Mikki received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Mississippi in December 2008. From June 2009 to August 2015, he was a Research Fellow with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Royal Military College of Canada, ON, Canada. In 2015, he joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer and Computer Science Department, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA, as an assistant professor, and is also currently an adjunct assistant professor in Royal Military College of Canada. He has published 120 papers, book chapters, and books in diverse areas including fundamental electromagnetic theory, computational methods, optimization techniques, nanoelectrodynamics, metamaterials, wireless communications, and antenna system design. In 2016, he published his second book, New Foundations for Applied Electromagnetics: The Spatial Structures of Fields (London and Boston: Artech House, 2016). His current research interests include wireless communications, electromagnetic theory, antennas and circuits, nanotechnology, biotechnology, machine learning, and quantum information processing.
Debdeep Sarkar received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2011, the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He was a Visiting Student with Royal Military College, Kingston, ON, Canada in 2017, where he is currently working as a Research Fellow. His current research interests include Massive MIMO in future wireless networks, Correlation and Channel Modelling, Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS), Space-time Near Field Analysis, Computational Electromagnetics (specially FDTD Methods) and Multi-band/Ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna systems for WBAN applications. He has authored or co-authored 29 peerreviewed journal papers and 58 national/international conference papers so far. He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in the URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), New Delhi, India, 9-15 March 2019, along with best paper awards and travel grants in several conferences of international repute. He has served as the Chair of IEEE AP-S Student Branch Chapter, IIT Kanpur (April 2017-July 2018), and contributed in IEEE MTT-S Student Branch Chapter, IIT Kanpur as Vice-Chair (April 2016-March 2017), Webmaster (April 2015-March 2016) and Treasurer (Sept. 2014-March 2015). He also serves as a Regular Reviewer in journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP), IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IET Electronics Letters, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, IET Communications, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (MOTL, Wiley) and International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (RFCAD, Wiley).
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 08:00 - 12:00
Abstract: Communication, medical and cellular industry is in continuous growth in the last few years. Low profile compact antennas are crucial in the development of Communication and Wearable systems.
Several Low Visibility Passive and Active antennas will be presented in the course. Design considerations, computational results and measured results on the human body of several compact wideband printed antennas with high efficiency will be presented in the course.
Bio:
Dr. Albert Sabban the course instructor works as an Antennas and RF specialist in a biomedical and Hi-Tech company. He is an RF and antennas lecturer in colleges and universities. Albert Sabban received his B.S BSc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Tel Aviv University, Magna Cum Laude. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Albert Sabban was a senior leading R&D Scientist and project leader for more than thirty years in RAFAEL. During his work in RAFAEL and other institutes and companies Dr. Albert Sabban gained experience in system development, project management and training. He developed RFIC components on GaAs and silicon substrates. Dr. Sabban developed microwave components by employing MEMS and LTCC technology. Dr. Sabban developed high power Transmitters at Ka band. He developed wideband microstrip aa antenna arrays, wearable antennas for Medical applications, Reflector antennas and wideband mono-pulse co comparators.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 08:00 - 12:00
Abstract: Modern radio-wave communication systems require an antenna to have special capability, such as beam-steering capability, null field-forming capability, or tilted beam-forming capability. It is known that such capabilities can be realized using phased array antenna techniques, where multiple radiation elements, phase shifters, and attenuators are used. However, the phase shifters and attenuators for a phased array antenna are costly and the design of the phased array is complex. The purpose of this short course is to present recently developed techniques that overcome these issues.
Bio:
Hisamatsu Nakano (IEEE Life Fellow) is a Professor Emeritus at Hosei University and a special-appointment researcher at Hosei university graduate school. His research topics include numerical methods for low- and high-frequency antennas and optical waveguides. He has published over 320 articles in major peer-reviewed journals and is the author or co-author of 12 books, including “Low-Profile Natural and Metamaterial Antennas,” IEEE-Press, Wiley, 2016.
Prof. Nakano’s significant contributions are the development of five integral equations for line antennas, including Sommerfeld integral-based equations, and the realization of numerous wideband antennas, including curl, spiral, helical, grid array, and BOR antennas. His low-profile helical array antenna has been used as a primary feed for radio astronomy Cassegrain reflectors. It has also been adopted as a high-gain antenna for the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. His other accomplishments include antennas for GPS, personal handy phone systems, space radio, electronic toll collection systems, RFID systems, UWB systems, and radar systems. He has been awarded 78 patents, including “A Curl Antenna Element and its Array.”
Prof. Nakano received the following major awards (1)~(3) from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society: (1) Best Application Paper Award (H. A. Wheeler Award), 1994. (2) Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award, 2006. (3) Distinguished Achievement Award, 2016. In addition, he received “The Prize for Science and Technology,” from Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, 2010.
Prof. Nakano has served as a member of AdCom (2000-2002) and the Region 10 representative (2004-2010) of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He is an associate editor of several journals and magazines, such as Electromagnetics, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Magazine, etc.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 13:00 - 17:00
Abstract: Multibeam Antennas are becoming more and more important in different areas for their performances, flexibility and reconfigurability. In particular, the topic is of interest for Space Applications but also for Radar Systems and Mobile Communications. In addition, multibeam antennas are assuming an important role in emerging MIMO and 5G communications. The course has been previously proposed during EUCAP, EuMW and IEEE conferences with excellent participation and feedbacks. The course content is updated regularly by the two co-authors who are deeply involved since more than twenty years in this field.
Bios:
Giovanni Toso (IEEE S’1993, M’00, SM ’07) received the Laurea Degree (cum laude), the Ph.D. and the Post Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1992, 1995 and 1999. In 1996 he was visiting scientist at the Laboratoire d'Optique Electromagnétique, Marseille (France). In 1999 he was a visiting scientist at the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles, he received a scholarship from Alenia Spazio (Rome, Italy) and he has been appointed researcher in a Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Italian National Council of Researches (CNR). Since 2000 he is with the Antenna and Submillimeter Waves Section of the European Space Agency, ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. He has been initiating and contributing to several R&D activities on satellite antennas based on arrays, reflectarrays, discrete lenses and reflectors. In particular, in the field of onboard satellite antennas, he has been coordinating activities on multibeam antennas (active and passive) mainly for Telecom Applications. In the field of terminal antennas for Telecom applications, he has been initiating several R&D activities on reconfigurable antennas with electronic, mechanical and hybrid scanning. G. Toso has been coauthoring the best paper at the 30th ESA Antenna Workshop and the most innovative paper at the 30th and 36th ESA Antenna Workshops. He holds about 20 international patents. In 2009 he has been coeditor of the Special Issue on Active Antennas for Satellite Applications in the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. In 2014 he has been guest editor, together with Dr. R. Mailloux, of the Special Issue on “Innovative Phased array antennas based on non-regular lattices and overlapped subarrays” published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and, for the same society, has been an Associate Editor (2013-2016). Since the first edition in 2006 he has been significantly contributing to the ESoA course on Satellite Antennas. Since 2010, together with Dr. P. Angeletti, he has been instructing short courses on Multibeam Antennas and Beamforming Networks during international conferences (IEEE APS, IEEE IMS, IEEE IWCS, EUCAP, EuMW) that have been attended by more than 600 participants. In 2018 G. Toso has been the chairman of the 39th ESA Antenna Workshop on “Multibeam and Reconfigurable Antennas” and received, together with Prof. A. Skrivervik, the Best Teacher Award of the European School of Antennas (ESoA).
Piero Angeletti (IEEE M’07, SM’13) received the Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Ancona (Italy) in 1996, and the PhD in Electromagnetism from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) in 2010. His 20 years experience in RF Systems engineering and technical management encompasses conceptual/architectural design, trade-offs, detailed design, production, integration and testing of satellite payloads and active antenna systems for commercial/military telecommunications and navigation (spanning all the operating bands and set of applications) as well as for multifunction RADARs and electronic counter measure systems. Dr. Angeletti is currently member of the technical staff of the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) of the European Space Agency, in Noordwijk (The Netherlands). He is with the Radio Frequency Systems, Payload and Technology Division of the ESA Technical and Quality Management Directorate which is responsible for RF space communication systems, instrumentation, subsystems, equipment and technologies. In particular he oversees ESA R&D activities related to flexible satellite payloads, RF front-ends and on-board digital processors. Dr. Angeletti authored/co-authored over 200 technical reports, book chapters and papers published in peer reviewed professional journals and international conferences’ proceedings.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 13:00 - 17:00
Abstract: Communication, medical and cellular industry is in continuous growth in the last few years. Low profile compact antennas are crucial in the development of Communication and Wearable systems.
Several small Passive and Active wearable antennas will be presented in the course. Design considerations, computational results and measured results on the human body of several compact wideband printed antennas with high efficiency will be presented in the course.
Bio:
Dr. Albert Sabban the course instructor works as an Antennas and RF specialist in a biomedical and Hi-Tech company. He is an RF and antennas lecturer in colleges and universities. Albert Sabban received his BSc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Tel Aviv University, Magna Cum Laude. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Albert Sabban was a senior leading R&D Scientist and project leader for more than thirty years in RAFAEL. During his work in RAFAEL and other institutes and companies Dr. Albert Sabban gained experience in system development, project management and training. He developed RFIC components on GaAs and silicon substrates. Dr. Sabban developed microwave components by employing MEMS and LTCC technology. Dr. Sabban developed high power Transmitters at Ka band. He developed wideband microstrip aa antenna arrays, wearable antennas for Medical applications, Reflector antennas and wideband mono-pulse co comparators.
Dr. Albert Sabban published four books and two chapters in books about small wearable antennas and microwave technologies. He published around hundred papers about small wearable antennas and microwave technologies.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 13:00 - 17:00
Abstract: There is an emergent need for higher data rate related to upcoming wireless applications. Given the data rate, capacity and quality of service (QoS) requirements, this can only be possible if the vast unlicensed bandwidth available at mmWave frequencies can be utilized and all the technical hurdles at mmWave frequencies (above 30 GHz) are solved in a cost-effective way. In terms of available bandwidth world-wide, flexible transmission rules, 60 GHz is a boon from a system perspective. But RF designers have faced enormous challenges in simulation, design, integration, physical realization, packaging and test of the complete systems. The technical challenges are literally orders of magnitude more complex than 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz Wi-Fi systems of today.
The gap waveguide technology has the potential to be used as a low-loss mmWave technology. The main advantages of the gap waveguide structure are as follows: Gap waveguide is a waveguide where EM wave can be guided and controlled even in an oversized parallel-plate structure. The waveguide can be realized without any requirement of metal contact between the upper metal surface and the lower surface, and thereby allowing cheap manufacturing of low-loss waveguide components at mmWave frequency bands or even higher. The relaxed mechanical requirements pave the way for low or moderate precision machining, lower fabrication time requirements and may even make possible the usage of some low cost fabrication techniques such as injection molding, and plastic hot embossing. The short course will present an overview of the gap waveguide technology with focus on mmWave high efficiency antennas and integration of RF electronics with the proposed antennas.
Bios:
Dr. Ashraf Uz Zaman is an Associate Professor in the Division of Antenna Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research interests include millimeter and sub-millimeter technology and systems in general. He has interest in RF passive components such as filters and antennas. He has also keen interest in RF packaging and integration of RF electronics with antennas. His earlier works on Gap waveguide have been considered as pioneering work in that field. He is a member of IEEE AP society.
Prof. Eva Rajo-Iglesias is a Full Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She has co-authored more than 75 papers in JCR international journals and more than 120 papers in international conferences in the field of antennas and microwaves. Her current research interests include microstrip patch antennas and arrays, metamaterials, artificial surfaces and periodic structures, gap waveguide technology and MIMO systems.
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 13:00 - 17:00
Abstract: Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. As the antennas are becoming more and more complex each day, antenna designers can take advantage of machine learning to generate trained models for their physical antenna designs and perform fast and intelligent optimization on these trained models. Using the trained models, different optimization algorithms and goals can be run quickly, in seconds, for comparison and for types of different studies, such as for example stochastic analysis for tolerance studies etc.. This short course presents the process of fast and intelligent optimization by adopting both the Design of Experiments (DOE) and machine learning. Examples to showcase the advantages of using machine learning for antenna design and optimization will be presented.
Bios:
Gopinath Gampala is a Lead Application Engineer with Altair. He graduated from University of Mississippi with a Master’s degree in computational electromagnetics in 2007 and working in the field of CAE since then. He is a member of IEEE and published extensively on topics like High-impedance surfaces, Low-profile antennas, LTE, Radomes, Characteristic Mode Analysis, 5G and Machine Learning.
Dr. C.J. Reddy is the Vice President, Business Development-Electromagnetics for Americas at Altair Engineering, Inc. Dr. Reddy was a research fellow at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and was awarded the US National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship at NASA Langley Research Center. While conducting research at NASA Langley, he developed various computational codes for electromagnetics and received a Certificate of Recognition from NASA for development of a hybrid Finite Element Method/Method of Moments/Geometrical Theory of Diffraction code for cavity backed aperture antenna analysis. Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and a Fellow of Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA). Dr. Reddy served on ACES Board of Directors from 2006 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Reddy was elected to the AMTA Board of Directors and will serve as the Technical Coordinator for AMTA 2020 conference. Dr. Reddy was awarded Distinguished Alumni Professional Achievement Award by his alma mater, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal in 2015. He published 37 journal papers, 77 conference papers and 18 NASA Technical Reports to date. Dr. Reddy is a co-author of the book, “Antenna Analysis and Design Using FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software,” published in June 2014 by SciTech Publishing (now part of IET).
Date and Time: Sunday, July 5, 13:00 - 17:00
Abstract: From frequency selective surfaces (FSS) to electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) ground planes, from impedance boundaries to Huygens metasurfaces, novel electromagnetic surfaces have been emerging in both microwaves and optics. Many intriguing phenomena occur on these surfaces, and novel devices and applications have been proposed accordingly, which have created an exciting paradigm in electromagnetics, the so-called “Surface Electromagnetics”. This short course will review the development of various electromagnetic surfaces, as well as the state-of-the-art concepts and designs. Detailed presentations will be provided on the unique electromagnetic features of EBG ground planes and advanced metasurfaces. Furthermore, a wealth of antenna examples will be presented to illustrate promising applications of the surface electromagnetics in antenna engineering. The course covers representative materials from a recent book edited by the lectures, “Surface Electromagnetics: With Applications in Antenna, Microwave and Optical Engineering, Eds. F. Yang and Y. Rahmat-Samii, Cambridge University Press, 2019”.
Bios:
Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor, a holder of the Northrop-Grumman Chair in electromagnetics, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the winner of the 2011 IEEE Electromagnetics Field Award, and the Former Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. He was a Senior Research Scientist with the Caltech/NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has authored or coauthored more than 1000 technical journal articles and conference articles and has written over 35 book chapters and six books. He has more than 20 cover-page IEEE publication articles.
Fan Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1994 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant with the State Key Laboratory of Microwave and Digital Communications, Tsinghua University. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Graduate Student Researcher with the Antenna Laboratory, UCLA. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Engineer and Instructor with the Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA. In 2004, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to an Associate Professor. In 2011, he joined the Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University as a Professor, and has served as the Director of the Microwave and Antenna Institute since then.