Research | Electromagnetic Fields

The scientific disciplinary area IINF-02/A Electromagnetic Fields is present with teaching and research activities directed mainly at telecommunications. In that applied field, the group's efforts focus on some fundamental elements of a wireless link: antennas and propagative mechanisms of the electromagnetic signal. Resources are devoted to designing antennas and characterizing them with innovative measurement systems. More recent attention has received problems related to the interaction of the electromagnetic signal with structures present in indoor and outdoor propagation environments. In particular, the mechanism of diffraction is the subject of research activities aimed at deriving efficient solutions to be integrated into software for estimating field levels.

Research topics

• Characterization of antennas using innovative measurement systems and efficient near-field-to-far-field transformation techniques
• Analysis and synthesis of antennas
• Radar cross section evaluation of corner reflectors
• Electromagnetic field scattering from canonical and complex structures
• Indoor and outdoor propagation.

Teaching activity

Teaching effort is focused on Computer Engineering and is organized into activities (lectures, exercises, and laboratory) aimed to provide students with the basic concepts and methodological tools necessary for designing, analyzing, and optimizing wired and wireless networks.

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