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Name (Acronym)Lab on Metasurfaces for Smart Electromagnetic Environment (LSEM)
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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.
Course Information
| Date: | 02 October – 03 October 2025 (15 hours) |
| Format: | The course is offered on-site and on-line (synchronous and asynchronous) with video recordings, hand-outs, etc. of the lectures available off-line |
Registration Information
| UniTN Students: | Free |
| EXTERNAL Students: |
216 Eu: First course 180 Eu: Every course from the second one |
The fees include the course teaching, video recordings, hand-outs, etc. (*).
Registration Procedure for UniTN Students
Please contact the Student Support Office of your Department/Centre/School to include the course in your study plan.
Registration Procedure for EXTERNAL Students
Step 1: Register a "guest" type account (@guest.unitn.it)
- Should you still not have a UniTN account, you have to register and log in with your SPID identity or CIE (electronic ID card). If you cannot use SPID or CIE, please create your own UniTN account.
Step 2: Enroll to a Single UniTN Course
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Complete the online application through the dedicated webpage.
In the application form (Section "Teaching Activities") put the following information:- Name of single class/teaching activity: Lab on Metasurfaces for Smart Electromagnetic Environment
- Code of single class/teaching activity: M220_23
- Degree course to which the teaching activity is associated: [M220] Master in Multifunctional Metamaterials and Metastructures
- Once received the outcome of the application (1-3 days), login into ESSE3 with your "guest" account user-name and password. Then, pay the bulletin you find in Administrative Office – Payments.
NOTES:
- A vademecum with a step-by-step guide to enroll to a single course at the University of Trento is available here
- For any question on the registration process, please write to 2025.MAII.M3.UniTN.TRENTO.IT@unitn.it
(*) Each registered participant acknowledges that the material distributed in the frame of the course, available for the duration of one academic year, is protected by copyright and delivered for educational purposes and personal use only. The participant agrees and undertakes not to forward, publish, disclose, distribute, disseminate - in any form or manner - such a material without written consent of the author(s) of the material. Unless otherwise explicitly allowed by the speaker in written form, no recordings of the online lectures can be made.