Welcome to Advanced Antenna Technologies for Next Wireless Communication Systems
Organizer: Shuai Zhang and Peng Mei
Lecturers: Peng Mei
ECTS: 2.5
Date/Time: 8, 15, 22, and 29 of March, 2024, from 12:30 to 15:30
Place: FRB 7B2-109
Deadline: 16 February 2024
Max no. Of participants: 30
Description: Antennas have always been working as essential components to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves in wireless communication systems. With the rapid development of wireless communications, the types and functions of antennas have evolved a lot, e.g., from single-element antenna to large-scale antenna array, single polarization to multiple polarizations, linear polarization to circular polarization, low gain antenna to high gain antenna, etc. To fulfill the requirements such as high gain, high data rate, low latency, wide channel capacity, etc., of next wireless communication systems, antennas should be properly designed and configured to reach the above requirements for a good link budget. Reflectarray and transmitarray antennas have attracted a lot attention due to their superiorities in loss, gain, cost, and complexity, which have been widely deployed in wireless communication systems. With the deep investigations on metamaterials and metasurfaces, it is found that they could be promisingly adopted in wireless communication systems to further achieve system-level performance enhancements. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are proposed and extensively studied since they are regarded as one of the key enablers for next millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz wireless communication systems, which has been proved to significantly improve the spectrum efficiency.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of electromagnetics, microwave related technologies, as obtained through MSc engineering studies at Aalborg University, is expected.
Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Peng Mei
- Teacher: Shuai Zhang