PhD students and researchers
(including participants from industry)
Fees:
PhD students /
university employees: 400 €
Industry employees: 1000 €
(the fees include copies of the presentations, lunches, refreshments)
Short description:
This tutorial
will present an insight into the design, evaluation and measurement procedures
for ultra wideband (UWB) antennas and the characteristics of the UWB radio
channel. State of the art topics regarding UWB systems in the fields of
communications, Radar and sensor networks will be presented. The lectures will
be complemented with laboratory tutorials including antenna design, measurement
techniques and wave propagation simulations. The tutorials will be supported by
Agilent Technologies with state of the art measurement equipment.
Detailed topics are:
Applications and regulations
overview
UWB antenna basics and principles of
wideband radiators, transient antenna characterization, UWB antenna quality
measures derived from the antenna impulse response
UWB radio channel modelling and
channel measurements with special respect to the antenna influence
Properties and design considerations
of the following UWB antennas: UWB ridged horn antennas, Vivaldi antennas,
logarithmic periodic antennas, mono cone antennas, spiral antennas, aperture
coupled bowtie antennas, multimode antennas, sinuous antennas, impulse
radiating antennas
UWB leaky lens antenna, Green’s
function of a slot printed between two infinite dielectrics, dual band leaky
lens antenna design, elliptical lens concept, design of the feeding network
Impulse radio UWB principles,
modulation schemes, pulse shapes, time-hopping codes, transmitter
architectures, receiver architectures, rake structures, stochastic properties
of impulse radio UWB, temporal/spectral properties, amplitude properties,
multi-band OFDM
Beam-forming techniques, lenses and
networks: Luneburg lens, Rotman lens, Maxon-Blass Matrix, Butler Matrix, linear
UWB antenna arrays, true time delay beam-forming, circular arrays
UWB Radar and Imaging, time vs.
frequency domain Radar, high-resolution Radar and imaging, applications
UWB sensor networks, distributed
computing, localization and imaging
Teachers:
Prof. Werner Wiesbeck (IHE,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Prof. Friedrich Jondral (CEL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Dr. Elena Pancera (IHE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Malgorzata Janson (IHE, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
Hanns-Ulrich Dehner (CEL, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
Christian Sturm (IHE, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
Laboratory Tutorials:
Dipl.-Ing. Malgorzata Janson (IHE, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
Dipl.-Ing. Lukasz Zwirello (IHE, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
Dipl.-Ing. Xuyang Li (IHE, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology)
6 scholarships
for PhD students will be granted. The scholarships cover course fees of 400 €. In order to apply please fill the provided
application form and attach a one page summary of your PhD topic explaining the
relevance of this course for your work and a recommendation letter from your
supervising professor. Please send your application to the following address:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner
Wiesbeck
Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Kaiserstr. 12
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany
