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Course Program

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Course duration: 32 hours

Course credit information: the course gives 2 ECTS credits

Prerequisites: basic of antennas and microwave, basic knowledge of electromagnetics and mathematics

Capacity: 40 students

Format: onsite

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Day 1: Monday May 20

Hour

Topic

Lecturer

09:00 - 09:15

09:15 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

11:15 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:30

14:15 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:45

Welcome and Registration

Introduction to Metasurfaces

Stefano Maci

Coffee break (drinks and snacks provided)

Control of surface waves and leaky-wave radiation

Stefano Maci

Lunch break (lunch provided)

Analysis of periodically modulated metasurfaces

Enrica Martini

Coffee break (NO drinks or snacks provided)

Design of periodically modulated metasurfaces for radiation and scattering control

Enrica Martini

Day 2: Tuesday May 21

Topic

Hour

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

11:15 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

16:30 - 18:00

Analysis and design of metasurfaces antenna 

David Gonzalez-Ovejero

Coffee break (drinks and snacks provided)

Metasurfaces Antennas - examples

Stefano Maci

Lunch break (lunch provided)

Periodic structures embedded in parallel plate waveguides

Eva Rajo

Coffee break (NO drinks or snacks provided)

Antenna Design in Gap Waveguide Technology

Eva Rajo

Day 3: Wednesday May 22

Topic

Hour

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:45

Metasurfaces with electric, magnetic, and magneto-electric properties

Anthony Grbic

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break (drinks and snacks provided)

11:15 - 13:00

Metasurfaces for polarization and phase control; impedance matching; metaoptics for lossless phase and amplitude control

Anthony Grbic

13:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

16:30 - 18:00

19:30 - 22:30

Lunch break (lunch provided)

Metasurface quasi-optical beamformers

David Gonzalez-Ovejero

Coffee break (NO drinks or snacks provided)

Self Study and  group assignment

Eva Rajo

David Gonzalez-Ovejero

Speech given by Stefano maci + Social dinner

Location TBA

Day 4: Thursday May 23

Topic

Hour

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

11:15 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

16:30 - 18:00

Soft and hard surfaces, EBG surfaces

Zvonomir Sipus

Coffee break (drinks and snacks provided)

Design considerations for soft and hard surfaces, EBG surfaces and metasurfaces

Zvonomir Sipus

Lunch break (lunch provided)

Spectral domain approach to the analysis of soft and hard surfaces, EBG surfaces and metasurfaces

Zvonomir Sipus

Coffee break (NO drinks or snacks provided)

Self Study and  group assignment

Zvonomir Sipus

Stefano Maci

Day 5: Friday May 24

Topic

Hour

Lecturer

09:00 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

11:15 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 17:00

Active metasurfaces - basic concepts

Silvio Hrabar

Coffee break (drinks and snacks provided)

 Active metasurfaces - appplications

Silvio Hrabar

Lunch break (lunch provided)

Survey Course

Cristina Yepes

Test exam

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