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Abstract:
The ability of a company to thrive in today’s economy depends on new and innovative products. Profitable enterprises require a constant stream of creative ideas moved into products to win new customers and satisfy existing customers’ needs. In the ideation phase, when the freedom to create and modify a design is at its peak and risk is low, creative use of computer-aided engineering can enable quantification of design performance based on the concept. This supplants subjective decision making and may lead to better product outcomes. Computational techniques become tools for requirements-based design creation rather than merely tools for performance assessment. Eventually, this will lead to a more efficient design process which will produce more innovative products.

In the age of Internet of Things (IoT) and autonomous driving with antennas and sensors embedded in every product, multi-physics simulations and optimization that include antenna and sensors is increasingly becoming a necessity. Computational electromagnetics have matured over the past three decades to become industry standard and hence reducing extensive testing and lowering the cost. Simulations are also playing significant role in design of test facilities and verification of measurement errors via virtual testing in general, and virtual test drives for automotive industry in particular.

In this talk, Dr. Schramm will provide current state of the art multi-physics simulations that span over wide range of products. And will address simulation technologies that are helping improve measurement process in multiple disciplines.

Bio:
Dr. Uwe Schramm is the Chief Technical Officer for Altair’s solvers, optimization and smart multi-physics solutions and strategy. Beyond developing computational engines for speed and accuracy to solve today’s most complex engineering problems, his organization is committed to developing and deeply embedding optimization technology throughout Altair’s software portfolio to spur innovation and to drive the design process.

Holding senior management positions at Altair over the past 21 years and globally recognized for his research contributions in structural and multi-disciplinary optimization, Dr. Schramm brings a unique blend of deep technical and business management expertise to his role as CTO.

Dr. Schramm joined Altair in Germany in 1996 as an Engineering Manager following a career in academia at the University of Virginia and University of Rostock. In 1999, Dr. Schramm was promoted to Director and relocated from Germany to California to oversee the development of Altair’s optimization technologies and to build a western region consulting practice. Having success in both endeavors, he was promoted to Vice President of Product Technology for Altair HyperWorks in 2004 and then to CTO of HyperWorks in 2008. Moving back to Germany for the period 2011 - 2013, Dr. Schramm assumed responsibility for Altair’s German operations as Managing Director.

Dr. Schramm received his Dipl.-Ing. (Master’s degree) and Dr.sc.techn. (Doctorate degree) in Solid Mechanics in 1984 and 1988 as well as his Dr.-Ing. habil. (Doctorate degree) in Mechanical Engineering in 1991 from the University of Rostock.

This presentation aims at identifying the future needs and promising concepts for space antennas. Key space antenna challenges have been identified considering on one side the requests from space projects and on the other side the R&D push for technologies/techniques with high potential.

At the conference, the presentation will focus on some key aims where actors in the space antenna domain shall bring solutions as well as the associated antenna measurement challenges.

Bio:
Dr. Mangenot is the chairperson of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP). This association is organizing on a yearly basis the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) attracting more than 1300 delegates and courses as part of the European School of Antennas (ESoA). EurAPP has signed MoU with major international associations in the field.

His main research interests and expertise are Space antenna architectures and technologies for Telecommunication, Earth Observation, Navigation and Science missions with focus on large reflector antennas, sparse arrays, reflect/transmitarrays and system aspects. He gave several lectures in these domains.

He is a member of the IET Antenna and propagation Technical & Professional Network executive committee. He is co-author of the Wiley book “Space Antenna Handbook” for which he wrote the last chapter on the future trends and is author and co-author of 7 international patents in the antenna domain. Since December 2017 he is with Api-Space .

From 2002 to 2017 he has been with the European Space Agency first as Head of Antenna and sub-millimetre wave section, then as Head of the Electromagnetics and Space Environments Division and more recently as Head of RF Payloads and Technology. This division of 70 engineers entails Antennas, sub-millimetre wave instruments, RF equipment’s and Payloads as well as Propagation & wave interactions.

From 1989 to 2002 he was working in industry with Alcatel Space (now Thales Alenia Space), first as an antenna engineer for Spaceborne radars then as Head of the Antenna studies section in the Antenna Department.

Cyril Mangenot (M’98) was born in France in 1962. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France) in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He did his DEA (Extensive Study Diploma) on antenna for cylindrical launcher structure with Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defense and Space) and his Ph.D on power synthesis of shaped beam antenna patterns in partnership with Alcatel Space.

Abstract:
High-speed, ubiquitous wireless networks are beginning to be deployed to form the backbone of next generation wireless connectivity. To realize the overarching goal of anytime-anywhere-anything-“anybaud” connectivity, the 5^th generation (5G) networks must be able to sustain much higher bandwidths, leading to the immediate utility of the millimeter-wave (mmW: 60-300 GHz) bands. To effectively address this need, agile antennas and beamforming arrays, as well as wideband transceivers and digital/analog converters have been a focus of concerted research in the past decade. In parallel, development of high-speed diodes, transistors, integrated circuits (ICs) and on-chip antennas benefited many scientific, commercial, and military applications, ranging from spectroscopy, standoff imaging, and non-destructive evaluation; utilizing the sub-millimeter-wave (300 GHz-3 THz) band.

In this talk, we will summarize the research activity at the Ohio State University HELIOS Laboratory spanning the mmW and THz band applications. Particular focus will be devoted to antennas as the key enabling components in such applications. Namely, we will first present a real-time THz camera that has antenna-based focal-plane-array pixels that are impedance matched to the sensor device and concurrently can correct for optical aberrations. The design and characterization of this camera, which is capable of imaging in 600GHz-1.2THz, incorporates electromagnetic/optical modeling and hardware measurements.

We will next underline the utility of on-chip antennas in enabling non-contact device and IC characterization for the entire 50GHz-1.1THz band. Non-contact probing is a novel alternative to device characterization using contact probes. We will show that with the help of specially-designed antennas, the high-cost, fragility and wear-and-tear of contact probes can be eliminated entirely. Moreover, on-chip balun-tennas enable -for the first time- pure-differential-mode on-wafer characterization well beyond the current state of the art 110GHz.

Time permitting, we will conclude with a novel, on-wafer implementation of tightly-coupled current sheet arrays for mmW applications, enabling wafer-scale fabrication of such low-profile arrays, ideal for addressing 5G applications in a cost-effective way.
Bio:
Dr. Kubilay Sertel received his PhD in 2003 from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Ohio State University. He was an Assistant Professor from 2012-2017.  During 2003-2012, he was a Research Scientist at the ElectroScience Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Ohio State University. His current research focuses on the analysis and design of THz and mmW sensors and radars, on-wafer non-contact metrology systems for device and IC testing, biomedical applications of THz imaging, as well as spectroscopy techniques for non-destructive evaluation. His  research interests also include ultra-wideband low-profile phased arrays for cognitive sensing and opportunistic wireless networks, reconfigurable antennas and arrays, applied electromagnetic theory and computational electromagnetics, particularly, curvilinear fast multipole modeling of hybrid integral equation/finite element systems and efficient solution of large-scale, real-life problems on massively parallel supercomputing platforms.

Prof. Sertel is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation and Microwave Theory and Techniques Societies and an elected member of URSI Commission B. He is a Fellow of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for Electronic Publications for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He co-authored two books: Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetics (SciTech Publishing, 2012) and Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods in Electromagnetics (Morgan & Claypool, 2006), 6 book chapters, 3 patents, and published over 80 journal papers and more than 300 conference articles.