Open Grand Challenges
in Industrial Modelling and Applications of Antennas 

Antenna-on-Chip:Design,
Challenges and Opportunities

The objective of this section is to introduce, in a logical order, the design, challenges, and solutions associated with AoC technology. It is designed for academics and researchers, on both side of the conventional divide of circuits and antennas, who are now gearing to design and integrate radiating structures on silicon substrates. The course also intends to serve as a guideline for designers to be able to apply the stated concepts for AoC design for a range of real-life applications.

In the first lecture, the concept of AoC will be introduced with a brief history of both antenna and integrated circuit technologies, followed by advancement in their respective fields that led to the need for their unification. In the following lecture, an overview of the challenges, which revolve around the limitations of silicon technologies, constraints in IC design, and the lack of adequate simulation tools and characterization techniques, will be presented. The subsequent lectures introduce the solutions and strategies that can be used to overcome them. There will be a special focus on radiation performance enhancement, which is one of the major bottlenecks for efficient realization of AoC. The course includes a step-by-step example of an AoC design. This example takes the students through all the stages in the design flow of an AoC using current simulation tools. The course concludes with a discussion of recent trends and future opportunities in AoC design.

Electromagnetic Solvers for
Large Structures

This day will be devoted to computational strategies for analysing intricate and advanced antenna and electromagnetic problems. These challenges arise from the necessity to apply computational electromagnetics in real-world antenna and antenna platform design. The course aims to provide participants with a practical introduction of various topics essential for solving complex antenna scenarios, including advanced regularization strategies and fast solvers. It is designed to cover advanced subjects while ensuring that attendees gain practical insights into problems and the corresponding solving techniques.

Introduction to High Power
Electromagnetics,Environment
and Effects,

This day will be dedicated to present a system view of the High-Power Electromagnetics environment and effects. The talk will present in the first place an introduction to narrowband, mesoband and hyperband systems. This includes a description of the primary pulsed-power systems, beam-based, beamless and solid state sources, HPEM antennas and measurement devices. Following this we’ll present a short introduction to effects and interaction of HPEM signals on systems and mitigation strategies.

Multiphysics simulation of
optoelectronic devicesand
photoconductive antennas

Lectures on Day 4 will focus on multiphysics simulations, specifically highlighting computational frameworks developed for solving the coupled system of Maxwell's and drift-diffusion equations, which model electromagnetic interactions and carrier dynamics in optoelectronic devices. The course will commence by explaining the operational principles of these devices and the fundamental physical mechanisms that underlie them. Subsequently, it will delve into the mathematical model, the approximations and assumptions involved in its derivation, and the utilization of discontinuous Galerkin-based schemes for its discretization. Throughout the lecture, we will provide real-life device simulations as examples to illustrate why multiphysics modeling and simulation techniques are essential for understanding these concepts.

Visit to DERC-TII Labs
Abu Dhabi

The participants will visit the Electromagnetic laboratory at DERC-TII Abu Dhabi and will witness several lab demonstrations.