2023 ELEDIA@ICAM PhD School Surface Electromagnetics for Wireless Communications and Sensing

Surface Electromagnetics for Wireless Communications and Sensing Trento - Italy, 15-19 May 2023 (on-line & on-site)

The course will be held both on-line and in-presence @ the Department
of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University
of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, Trento (Italy) in the week 15-19 May 2023.

The course will feature a combination of front lessons and hands-on
exercises, plus several self-assessment sessions to enable the attendees
to check their preparation and acquisition of most important content,
for a total of 32 hours. The course provides 4 ECTS for interested students.

The standard student registration costs are as follows
- 200 Euro - on-line attendance
- 400 Euro - on-site attendance

For more information please visit the course web site: https://edu.eledia.org/courses/phd-school-2023-surface-electromagnetics/

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Surface Electromagnetics for Wireless Communications and Sensing

Course Description:
Artificial surfaces, metasurfaces, and Electromagnetic Skins are artificial sheet
materials with sub-wavelength thickness that enable to control the properties of
the transmitted/reflected waves according to the designer's specifications. Thanks
to their electromagnetic and geometrical properties, these are among the most
important technologies for the development of next generation wireless communications
and sensing applications. The course aims at providing the fundamentals of Surface
Electromagnetics theory and concepts, along with an overview of the most effective
analysis/synthesis techniques and their most appealing/emerging applications in
advanced engineering fields. Application examples including CAD exercises will
corroborate the theoretical concepts.

Course Topics:
- Introduction and fundamentals of electromagnetic wireless systems.
- Recalls to the principles of electromagnetic fields, wireless propagation
  of plane waves, and EM wave scattering phenomena.
- Surface equivalence theorem and the concept of Surface Electromagnetics.
- Electromagnetic propagation through surface structures and 2D boundary conditions.
- Uniform surfaces, periodic and aperiodic boundary conditions and devices.  
- The Generalized Snell's laws for reflection and refraction
- Electromagnetic wave manipulation using static/dynamic 2D artificial skins
  in transmission and in reflection.
- Applications for 6G communications and next-generation sensing systems.

References:
[1] F. Yang, Y. Rahmat-Samii, Surface Electromagnetics with Applications in Antenna,
    Microwave, and Optical Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
[2] N. Yu, P. Genevet, M. A. Kats, F. Aieta, J.-P. Tetienne, F. Capasso,
    and Z. Gaburro, "Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws
    of Reflection and Refraction," Science, vol. 334, no. 6054, pp. 333-337, 2011.
[3] 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.
[4] 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