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The European School of Antennas (ESoA), is a new model of
geographically distributed post graduate school created thanks to the European Union support through the ACE NoE - Antenna Center of Excellence (2004-2007) and the
Marie Curie Actions. The school is constituted by a highly qualified
integrated set of advanced one-week courses, distributed in the most
accredited European antenna research centers. 100 among the best
European teachers present lectures in antennas and propagation. The
courses are repeated every two years updating the content.
The general objectives of the School are:
- strengthening the European excellence on antennas
- completing
the individual PhD curricula of students in Electrical and Information
Engineering by offering interaction with the best trainers in Europe
- increasing the link between European Universities and Industries in antenna research and development
- facilitating
the interchange of ideas among early stage researchers and teachers,
thus increasing the future mobility and synergy.
The school is furnished with a centralized WEB support and it is
coordinated so that the courses have the same format and apply common
basic rules for exams and credits.
Further information and data on ESoA is available here
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All Courses
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Items in this section:
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Ultra-Wideband Antennas
19/04/2010 - 23/04/2010
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Advanced Mathematics for Antenna Analysis
10/05/2010 - 18/05/2010
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Millimeter Wave Antennas
31/05/2010 - 04/06/2010
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Terahertz Technologies, Antennas and Applications
07/06/2010 - 11/06/2010
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Antenna Measurements
14/06/2010 - 18/06/2010
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Antennas for Mobile Communication
21/06/2010 - 25/06/2010
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RF-Mems Based Antennas
28/06/2010 - 02/07/2010
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Automotive Antennas
06/09/2010 - 10/09/2010
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Antenna Human Body Interaction
13/09/2010 - 17/09/2010
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Advanced Computational EM for Antenna Analysis
04/10/2010 - 08/10/2010
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Time Domain Technique for Antenna Analysis
11/10/2010 - 15/10/2010
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COMPLETED : Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communication
20/04/2009 - 24/04/2009
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COMPLETED : Industrial Antenna Design
04/05/2009 - 04/05/2009
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COMPLETED : Antenna Measurements for Millimeter ans Sub-Millimeter Wavelengths
11/05/2009 - 15/05/2009
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COMPLETED : Antenna Project Management
18/05/2009 - 22/05/2009
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COMPLETED : Terahertz Technology
25/05/2009 - 29/05/2009
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COMPLETED : Antenna Synthesis
08/06/2009 - 12/06/2009
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COMPLETED : Advanced Spherical Wave Near-Field Antenna Measurements Techniques
29/06/2009 - 03/07/2009
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COMPLETED : Compact Antennas
06/07/2009 - 10/07/2009
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COMPLETED : ARTIC Industrial Training (AIT): Antenna Research and Technology for the Intelligent Car
07/09/2009 - 11/09/2009
The prime intention of the ARTIC Industrial Training (AIT) is the dissemination of knowledge on vehicular communication systems and antenna technology (AM/FM-Radio, TV, DVB-T, GSM/UMTS, GPS, C2C, V2V, .....)
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COMPLETED : Cooperative Communications and Distributed Antennas
28/09/2009 - 02/10/2009
Cooperative communications systems improve the capacity of wireless communications by allowing cooperation between nodes at the physical layer level. It is possible to use cooperation to implement distributed antenna arrays, which allow the utilization of multiple antenna techniques that can provide the benefits of multiple antennas to single antenna terminals. The objective of this course is to provide the fundamental tools to understand, analyze, and design cooperative communications systems in general, and distributed array configurations in particular. The students will understand some of the fundamental tradeoffs involved in wireless communication system design and how collaborative transmission can be used as a tool to improve performance. Students will get insight into basic relaying techniques such as decode-and-forward and amplify-and-forward and also more sophisticated methods. The philosophy of the course is to provide a combination of understanding of fundamental principles and learning of state-of-the-art techniques. Lectures will be given in an interactive style, exploiting the interdisciplinary nature of the topic and a diverse composition of the audience.
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COMPLETED : Frequency Domain Techniques for Antennas Analysis
05/10/2009 - 09/10/2009
The course aims to give the student an appreciation of the uses and limitations of frequency domain computational techniques applied to scattering and antenna problems. The module gives the student a thorough background in the methodology of these techniques from a fundamental standpoint, while giving a grasp of the practical applications. Emphasis will be given to the practical problems encountered in the implementation of these techniques, and more particularly on the integral techniques (convergence, singularities, etc.). Differential techniques will be introduced as a mean of comparison, but will be not be treated in depth. Simple problems are considered to give an understanding of how the choices made in designing the algorithms translate into the real strengths and limitations of the software.
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COMPLETED : Artificial EBG Surfaces and Metamaterial for Antennas
26/10/2009 - 30/10/2009
bandgaps, cloaking, gap waveguides, packaging, miniaturization, gain enhancement, sidelobe reduction:
In recent years there has been significant research on synthesizing new materials that can enable new and better antennas. These metamaterials are designed by making use of periodic structures, and often it is the surface characteristics of them that are of interest, in particular in antenna design. Special attention has been given to designing surfaces with high surface impedance in order to obtain an artificial magnetic conductor. These surfaces turn out to have frequency bands (bandgaps) inside which no surface waves can propagate along the surface, and they are therefore also referred to as electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) surfaces. This “stop” characteristic of the EBG surface makes it similar to the transversely corrugated surface that already in 1987 was the basis for introducing a concept of soft and hard surfaces, based on a terminology used in acoustics and diffraction theory. The EBG surface is equivalent to a soft surface. During 2006 metamaterials were used to design RF cloaks for making objects invisible to EM waves. The invention got attention in media due to the pictorial resemblance with Harry Potter’s cloak. Similar cloaks were realized already in 1996 by making use of the “go” characteristics of the hard surface.
During this course the background and theory of ideal magnetic conductors and soft and hard surfaces will be explained, as well as how to implement these theoretical models in existing software based on numerical methods such as GO, UTD, FDTD, FEM and moment method. The course covers also how magnetic conductors and soft and hard surfaces can be designed and practically realized, and how to analyze them without having to model each detail of the periodic structure. The limitations of the different analysis models as well as of the surface realizations themselves will be discussed with particular attention to diffraction effects, dispersion, surface waves, leaky waves, local quasi-TEM gap waves, and bandgap properties.
The work will be presented in relation to specific applications such as: ground planes, low-profile antennas, miniaturization, reduction of coupling, removal of parallel-plate noise in multilayer circuit boards, gap waveguides for millimetre waves, waveguide slot arrays, packaging of microstrip circuits, reduction of far out sidelobes, directivity enhancement, high-efficiency hard horns, quasi-TEM waveguides, compact horn antennas, reduction of blockage from cylindrical objects, grid amplifiers, and infinite array simulators.
See detailed program in pdf file below.
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COMPLETED : Antennas for Space Application
08/03/2010 - 12/03/2010
The aim of the course is to give an overview of design approaches, constraints and technical solutions for Space Antennas addressing both theoretical and technological issues. The course will focus on main space applications such as telecommunication, earth observation and science, but will also address other uses of antennas for space, such as navigation, data transmission antennas. The lectures will cover radiofrequency, mechanical and thermal design, material technology and test aspects, ending with a visit to ESTEC satellite and antenna test facilities.
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