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Name (Acronym)Lab on Metasurfaces for Smart Electromagnetic Environment (LSEM)
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ECTS2
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Contact E-mail2025.MAII.LSEM.UniTN.TRENTO.IT@eledia.org
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ABSTRACT
In a Smart Electromagnetic Environment (SEME), the environment is no more an obstacle to wireless signals, but instead enables controlling and tailoring the propagation of electromagnetic waves thanks to the use of smart devices. In this framework, the laboratory aims at providing the methodological and technical skills and knowledge for the design, synthesis, and validation of artificial surfaces, metasurfaces, and Electromagnetic Skins, both static and reconfigurable, for the development of next generation wireless communications and sensing applications in the SEME vision. During the lab, computer-guided exercises will be carried out for the electromagnetic modeling, simulation, and numerical validation of such smart devices using commercial SW tools.
COURSE CONTENT
- Numerical modeling of periodic structures
- Periodic boundary conditions and modeling of Floquet ports
- Simulation of scattering matrices and evauation of tensorial response
- Design and analysis of static and reconfigurable Electromagnetic Skins
- Modeling and simulation of Electromagnetic Skins in complex indoor/outdoor environments
- Analysis of electromagnetic coverage in SEME scenarios
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- Theoretical Lessons
- e-Xam Self Assessment (each teaching class or periodically)
- SW/HW Emulator Exercises
- e-Xam Final Assessment
FURTHER READINGS
- F. Yang, Y. Rahmat-Samii, Surface Electromagnetics with Applications in Antenna, Microwave, and Optical Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- F. Yang, D. Erricolo and A. Massa, "Guest Editorial Smart Electromagnetic Environment," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 8687-8690, Oct. 2022.
- G. Oliveri, F. Zardi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci and A. Massa, "Building a Smart EM Environment - AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 8757-8770, Oct. 2022.
- G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci and A. Massa, "Holographic Smart EM Skins for Advanced Beam Power Shaping in Next Generation Wireless Environments,“ in IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, vol. 6, pp. 171-182, 2021.