MMS2022: MEDITERRANEAN MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM 2022
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, May 9th Tuesday, May 10th Wednesday, May 11th Thursday, May 12th Friday, May 13th

Monday, May 9th

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10:50-11:40 Session 1: Opening session - Keynote

Keynote

Location: "Reggio" Room
10:50
Welcome to MMS 2022
11:00
Battery-free RF/Microwave Systems (abstract)
11:20
GaN MMICs for millimeter-wave front ends (abstract)
11:40-13:00 Session 2A: Microwave and millimetre-wave circuit, device and system design I
Location: "Reggio" Room
11:40
A Realizability Test as Applied on the Generated Source/Load-Pull Data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sedat Kilinc
12:00
A Unified Real Frequency Technique for the Solution to Broadband Matching Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Siddik Yarman
12:20
Bowtie Antenna Performance Optimization using Metamaterial and Characteristic Mode Analysis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Imen Sansa
11:40-13:00 Session 2B: 5G / 6G / IoT / AI and Machine Learning Based Technologies for Microwaves
Location: "Tropea" Room
11:40
Concentration Measurements of Ethanol in Water Based on RFID-UHF Flexible Sensor for Sterilization Against SARS-CoV (abstract)
12:00
Design of Microstrip Antenna for 5G Applications at 28 GHz (abstract)
PRESENTER: Karima Rabaani
12:20
Superdirective Array Antennas with Pattern Radiation Reconfigurable for Wi-Fi box (abstract)
13:00-14:40Lunch Break
14:40-16:00 Session 3A: RF electromagnetic fields: exposure and health risk assessment I
Location: "Reggio" Room
14:40
Computational Assessment of RF Exposure Levels due to 5G Mobile Phones (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marta Bonato
15:00
Human RF-EMF Exposure Assessment for a Wearable Device by Stochastic Dosimetry (abstract)
PRESENTER: Silvia Gallucci
15:20
Human Body Exposure to a Vehicular Antenna: a Numerical Study in a Realistic Military Scenario (abstract)
PRESENTER: Micol Colella
15:40
Full-wave Validation of Plane Waves Model for Numerical Dosimetry in Reverberation Chambers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fulvio Schettino
14:40-16:00 Session 3B: Microwave for agrotechnology and medicine: materials, devices, systems, applications I
Location: "Tropea" Room
14:40
Dual band flexible Planar Inverted-F antenna for Internet of Healthcare Things applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ilaria Marasco
15:00
Fabrication of a Flexible Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator for Wireless Sensor Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giovanni Niro
15:20
Refinement of a Microwave Needle Applicator for Cancer Therapy via Metamaterials (abstract)
15:40
Temperature-sensitive experimental medical treatments with solid-state microwave generator (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marco Fiore
16:00-16:20Coffee Break
16:20-17:00 Session 4B: RF electromagnetic fields: exposure and health risk assessment II
Location: "Reggio" Room
16:20
Environmental exposure to electromagnetic fields: A geo-referenced Cadaster of the Radiofrequency sources in Basilicata Region (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stefania Romeo
16:40
Possible role of autophagy in in vitro radiofrequency-induced adaptive response (abstract)
PRESENTER: Olga Zeni
Tuesday, May 10th

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09:00-10:20 Session 5A: Additive Manufacturing/3D printing of Microwave, Millimeter wave and THz devices I
Location: "Tropea" Room
09:00
3D-Printing of Antenna-Feed Components for Space Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giuseppe Addamo
09:20
Fabricating 3D Metamaterials via Field’s Metal Injection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ioannis Spanos
09:40
Electromagnetic Evaluation of Conductive and Dielectric Thermoplastic Materials Suitable for Designing Fully-3D-Printable RF Devices (abstract)
10:00
3D Printed Millimeter wave Antenna Integrated into a Ring for 5G Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter Njogu
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-12:20 Session 6A: Additive Manufacturing/3D printing of Microwave, Millimeter wave and THz devices II
Location: "Tropea" Room
10:40
Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing of Overmoded Spherical Filters (abstract)
11:00
Screen-Printed FSS Plasterboard for Wireless Indoor Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Peter Njogu
11:20
3D-printed topologies for microwave and millimeter wave applications (abstract)
11:40
Design and Manufacturing of Microwave Components by 3D Printing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolò Delmonte
10:40-12:20 Session 6B: Advances in Mathematical Methods for Electromagnetics
Location: "Scilla" Room
10:40
Magnetic Shielding of a Thick Circular Conductive Disk Against a Coaxial Current Loop (abstract)
PRESENTER: Giampiero Lovat
11:00
Diffraction by a Slit in a Thin Material Screen (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kazuya Kobayashi
11:20
Modeling of Cylindrical Configurations Coated by Monolayer Graphene with a Modified Method of Auxiliary Sources (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nikolaos Tsitsas
11:40
Analytically Regularized Evaluation of the Wakefield of a Particle Travelling through a Plane Conducting Ring (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fulvio Schettino
12:00
Rigorous Approach to Analysis of Backscattering from 2D Open-Ended S-shaped Cavities (abstract)
11:20-12:00 Session 7: Radars
Chair:
Location: "Reggio" Room
11:20
An Amplified W-Band Radar (abstract)
PRESENTER: L. Butts
11:40
RCS analysis on ultra-wideband sinuous antenna with elliptical slots (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elson Agastra
12:20-13:00 Session 8: Keynote

Keynote

Location: "Reggio" Room
12:20
Millimeter-wave and sub-TeraHz technology research trends to meet requirements of 5G and beyond – An industry view (abstract)
13:00-14:40Lunch Break
14:40-16:00 Session 9A: Results and perspective of GaN technology in MMIC power applications I
Location: "Tropea" Room
14:40
Compact GaN-based Stacked Cells for 5G Applications at 26 GHz (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chiara Ramella
15:00
CMOS Negative Impedance Converter Circuit with the Elimination of Parasitic Gate-Source Capacitance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sami Durukan
15:20
mm-Wave GaN HEMT Technology: Advances, Experiments, and Analysis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Valeria Vadalà
15:40
GaN Stacked Cells for Power Applications in K-Band: A Comparative Study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paolo Colantonio
14:40-16:00 Session 9B: Radars, Antennas and Propagation - I
Location: "Reggio" Room
14:40
Millimeter-Wave Antennas Directivity Enhancement and Feeding Network Reduction Techniques (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yahia Antar
15:00
Loaded Multi Loop Hexagram Shaped Printed Antennas for Multifrequency Communication (abstract)
15:20
Substrate Integrated Waveguide Components on Alumina for E-band Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stefano Moscato
15:40
A SFCW K-Band Radar Modified for LTCC (abstract)
PRESENTER: L. Butts
16:00-16:20Coffee Break
16:20-16:40 Session 10: Automotive Radar Millimeter Wave Microstrip patch Array Simulations

KEYSIGHT TUTORIAL

Location: "Reggio" Room
16:20
Automotive Radar Millimeter Wave Microstrip patch Array Simulations (abstract)
16:40-17:40 Session 11A: Results and perspective of GaN technology in MMIC power applications II
Location: "Tropea" Room
16:40
A Numerical Procedure to Determine the Power Intake/Delivery Capacity of a GaN RF Power Transistor over Broadband (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sedat Kilinc
17:00
GaN-based Single Stage Low Noise Amplifier for X-band Applications (abstract)
17:20
X-band Cascode LNA with Bias-invariant Noise Figure using 0.15 µm GaN-on-SiC Technology (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gizem Tendurus
16:40-17:40 Session 11B: Radars, Antennas and Propagation - II
Location: "Reggio" Room
16:40
Printed Hexagonal antenna with Dual Reconfigurable Wide Rejected Bands (abstract)
PRESENTER: Houda Ayadi
17:00
Low Sidelobe Level Antenna Array with Amplitude Tapering (abstract)
17:20
Tubular resonant networks creating a homogeneous magnetic field via different resonance modes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Karel Juřík
Wednesday, May 11th

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08:40-10:20 Session 12A: Advances in Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing I
Location: "Tropea" Room
08:40
Solving the RFID network planning problem under the perturbation effect defined by a new probabilistic power-based model (abstract)
09:00
Integration of Modulated Scattering Technique (MST) tags with IoT devices (abstract)
09:20
Monitoring freshness of Tommy Mango Fruit with an RFID Tag (abstract)
09:40
A flexible narrowband multiresonator for UHF RFID chipless tag (abstract)
PRESENTER: G. Andrea Casula
10:00
A Hybrid Time/Frequency Domain Near-Field Chipless-RFID system (abstract)
08:40-10:20 Session 12B: Technologies for space I
Location: "Reggio" Room
08:40
Orbital and Spatial Diversity for Next Generation Large NGSO Satellite Constellations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bastien Wioland
09:00
Mutli-layer CTS antenna array in PCB technology for SatCom applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mauro Ettorre
09:20
Dual-Band, Dual-polarized 16-Slot Continuous Transverse Stub Array for SatCom Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ahmed Alwakil
09:40
Comparison between Milling and Wire Erosion for Manufacturing All-Metal High-Pass Dichroic Mirrors (abstract)
PRESENTER: Davide Arenare
10:00
SiGe Circuits for Future LEO Constellations (abstract)
08:50-10:10 Session 13: Doctoral School: Introduction to biomedical applications of electromagnetics
Location: "Scilla" Room
08:50
Automotive Radar Millimeter Wave Microstrip Patch Array Antenna Simulations
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Session 14A: Advances in Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing II
Location: "Tropea" Room
10:40
Research gaps and trends in Radio Frequency Identification: Scoping review (abstract)
PRESENTER: Achraf Haibi
11:00
Microwave Resonator for Humidity Detection Applications: A Comparative Analysis between ANNs and Lorentzian Fitting Method (abstract)
11:20
Radio Frequency Identification and Sensing at the Additive Manufacturing Crosslab (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simone Genovesi
11:40
Miniaturized PIFA RFID UHF Tag Antenna for Metal Surface Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pape Waly Sarr
10:40-12:00 Session 14B: Technologies for space II
Location: "Reggio" Room
10:40
Generalized Thru-Reflect-Line Calibration for the Measurement of Waveguide Devices up to the third Harmonic: First Results (abstract)
11:00
SiGe BiCMOS building blocks for a K/Ka-band flexible phased array system for SatCom applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alberto Colzani
11:20
Multipactor Analysis by Exploiting Kadane's Method (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pablo Gonzalez
11:40
Optimization-based design of isoflux reflectarray (abstract)
10:40-12:00 Session 14C: Brokerage Event

The brokerage event is organized in cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) https://een.ec.europa.eu/about/about , the world’s largest support network for researches and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.

The event will take place on-site and offers participants the opportunity to select and pre-schedule meetings with potential partners for joint research projects, business ideas and technology transfer.

12:00-12:20 Session 15: Tutorial:D-Orbit
Location: "Reggio" Room
12:00
Research In Outer Space: Facilitating access to space supporting scientific and technological advancement (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matteo Bartolini
12:20-13:00 Session 16: Keynote

Keynote

Location: "Reggio" Room
12:20
Doing Real the Smart EM Environment (SEE) – Perspectives, Recipes, and Future Trends (abstract)
12:40
From engineering electromagnetics to electromagnetic engineering (abstract)
13:00-14:20Lunch Break
14:20-14:40 Session 17: Keynote
Location: "Reggio" Room
14:20
Enabling Technologies for Imaging Automotive Radar (abstract)
14:40-15:40 Session 18A: Microwave and millimetre-wave circuit, device and system design II
Location: "Tropea" Room
14:40
Ultracompact Inverted Input Delay Doherty Power Amplifier with a Novel Power Divider for 5G mm-Wave (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aniello Franzese
15:00
K/Ka-Band MIMO Beamforming Phased Antenna Array with Multilayer Substrate Integrated Coaxial Line Feeding Network (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yifang Wei
15:20
Design of a Novel Dual-Wideband Filtenna (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ali Kursad Gorur
15:40
Characterization-oriented design of E-band Variable-Gain Amplifiers in BiCMOS technology (abstract)
14:40-16:40 Session 18C: Brokerage Event

The brokerage event is organized in cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) https://een.ec.europa.eu/about/about , the world’s largest support network for researches and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.

The event will take place on-site and offers participants the opportunity to select and pre-schedule meetings with potential partners for joint research projects, business ideas and technology transfer.

14:40-17:10 Session 18D: Doctoral School: Introduction to biomedical applications of electromagnetics
Location: "Scilla" Room
14:40
Introduction to microwave radar imaging – case of study: breast cancer detection
15:55
Introduction to microwave tomography – case of study: breast cancer detection and characterization
15:40-16:40 Session 19A: Microwave and Communication Technology for Ultra-low-power IoT Applications
Location: "Reggio" Room
15:40
Low Power Secure Backscatter Communication Techniques Exploring Ambient Signals (abstract)
16:00
Towards Multi-Mode Millimeter Wave Body Area Networks for Information and Power Transmission: A Co-Existence Study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mahmoud Wagih
16:20
A Fine-grained Modulation Technology for ZigBee Backscatter Communication (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhaoyuan Xu
Thursday, May 12th

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08:40-10:20 Session 20A: Exploiting symmetries in metamaterials for communications and sensing
Location: "Tropea" Room
08:40
Homogenization and Dispersion Properties of Glide-Symmetric Corrugated Metasurfaces (abstract)
09:00
Wideband antipodal Vivaldi antenna with metalenses for GPR applications (abstract)
09:20
Understanding the Dispersion Diagrams of Two-Dimensional Supercells (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shiyi Yang
09:40
Consideration in designing holey glided-symmetrical structures in gap waveguide (abstract)
10:00
CSRR-based miniaturized dual band filter in SIW multilayer structure for wifi and 5G NR FR1 applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eduardo Jarauta
08:40-10:20 Session 20B: Millimeter and sub-millimeter antennas and systems for next generation high data rate communications I
Location: "Reggio" Room
08:40
60-GHz-band OAM Multiplexing with a RLSA that Simultaneously Generates Three OAM modes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Agnese Mazzinghi
09:00
High-Gain Luneburg Lens on COC Substrate for 300-GHz Applications (abstract)
09:20
Assessing different monoblock dielectric implementations of a low profile beam steering Transmitarray for 3D printing (abstract)
09:40
Design of a Tunable THz 1-D Leaky-Wave Antenna based on Nematic Liquid Crystals (abstract)
PRESENTER: Walter Fuscaldo
10:00
High Data Rate OOK Wireless Link at 300 GHz Band through Metasurface-based Filters: Analysis, Design, and Experiment (abstract)
08:40-10:20 Session 20C: Workshop - Millimeter-wave tunable circuits for 5G/6G and automotive radar applications I

Organizers:Marc Margalef Rovira– IEMN laboratory, Lille, FrancePhilippe Ferrari– TIMA laboratory, Grenoble, France

Location: "Scilla" Room
08:40
mmWave antenna systems with self-correction feeding networks for 5G and radar applications
09:00
Flippable and Hermetic E-Band RWG to GCPW Transition with Substrate Embedded Backshort
09:20
Integrated Characterization Solutions for ICs Beyond 100 GHz
09:40
mm-Wave 2 and 3D Passives Circuits, Miniaturization, and Propositions for Reliable an Cheap Test process
10:00
Millimeter-wave Integrated SWO Based on Slow Wave Resonators
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-12:20 Session 21A: Characterization of electrical properties of biological tissues for biomedical applications
Location: "Tropea" Room
10:40
Effects of Calibration Process on Complex Dielectric Permittivity Measurements with Open-Ended Coaxial Probes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ismail Dilman
11:00
Dielectric Characterization Improvement of Biopsy Samples Via a Coated Open-Ended Coaxial Probe (abstract)
11:20
Advances in MRI based Electrical Properties Tomography: a Comparison between Physics-supported Learning Approaches (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sabrina Zumbo
11:40
Techniques for temperature-dependent dielectric measurements: a review. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Federico Cilia
12:00
Flexible and Low-cost RFID-UHF Tag Antennas for Remote Blood Tracking Applications (abstract)
10:40-12:20 Session 21B: Millimeter and sub-millimeter antennas and systems for next generation high data rate communications II
Location: "Reggio" Room
10:40
A new tunable frequency 4x1 MIMO antennas loaded with liquid crystal dedicated for 5G and WiGig applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adel Kouki
11:00
Beam steering mm-waves dielectric-only reflectarray (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paola Pirinoli
11:20
BiCMOS Rat-Race Coupler Based on Slow-Wave CPS Transmission lines for 120 GHz Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sherif R. Zahran
11:40
E-Band SIW-fed aperture coupled Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna for 5G Backhauling systems (abstract)
12:00
Centrally Corrugated Cross-Coupled Wide Stopband Folded Bandpass Filter with Spurline (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sayan Chatterjee
10:40-12:20 Session 21C: Brokerage Event

The brokerage event is organized in cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) https://een.ec.europa.eu/about/about , the world’s largest support network for researches and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.

The event will take place on-site and offers participants the opportunity to select and pre-schedule meetings with potential partners for joint research projects, business ideas and technology transfer.

12:20-13:00 Session 22: Keynote

keynote

Location: "Reggio" Room
12:20
How to write a technical paper (and get it published) (abstract)
12:40
Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design. A Philosophical Account (abstract)
13:00-14:40Lunch Break
14:40-16:00 Session 23A: Microwave, Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Measurements I
Location: "Reggio" Room
14:40
Observation of diffraction from absorber array and field-probe using long vertical objects (abstract)
15:00
Evaluation of the Far Field Radiated by a Flat AUT from Non-Redundant Near-Field Bi-Polar Samples (abstract)
15:20
Silicon based Metamaterials for Dielectric Waveguides in the THz Range (abstract)
14:40-16:20 Session 23B: Satellite communication emerging solutions and trends (FLEXCOM workshop) I
Location: "Tropea" Room
14:40
Towards a Flexible Communication System (HEFPA EU PENTA Project)
15:00
SatCom antenna requirements for small aircrafts
15:20
Future challenges in microwaves related to aeronautics
15:40
A modular approach to SatCom user terminal design (FLEXCOM EU Project)
14:40-16:00 Session 23C: Brokerage Event

The brokerage event is organized in cooperation with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) https://een.ec.europa.eu/about/about , the world’s largest support network for researches and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.

The event will take place on-site and offers participants the opportunity to select and pre-schedule meetings with potential partners for joint research projects, business ideas and technology transfer.

16:00-16:20Coffee Break
16:20-17:00 Session 24A: Microwave, Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Measurements II
Location: "Reggio" Room
16:20
Broadband terahertz measurements of optical properties of materials (abstract)
16:40
Dimensioning flat, rectangular equivalent radiators (abstract)
Friday, May 13th

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09:00-10:20 Session 25A: Wearable antennas and flexible circuits
Location: "Tropea" Room
09:00
Design of a Textile AMC-backed Antenna for Wearable applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wahida Bouamra
09:20
TLM Mesh Impact on Textile Antenna Modelling (abstract)
09:40
Characterization of Flexible Interconnects (abstract)
10:00
Design of compact size dual-band smartwatch antenna for biomedical applications (abstract)
09:00-10:20 Session 25B: Scattering and Radiation Control through Metasurfaces
Location: "Reggio" Room
09:00
Designing Reconfigurable Reflective and Radiating Structures by Exploiting Composite Vortex Theory (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mirko Barbuto
09:20
Metasurface Coatings Enabling Scattering, Frequency, and Radiation Tunability for Next-Generation Antenna Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stefano Vellucci
09:40
Optimal Design of Huygens Metasurfaces for Oblique Incidence through a Microwave Network Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alessio Monti
10:00
Bessel Beam Scattering Evaluation by PEC Targets and Innovative Launcher Design Criteria (abstract)
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-12:20 Session 26A: Mathematical and Computational Methods in EM
Location: "Reggio" Room
10:40
On the Attenuation Constant Calculation in Periodic Transmission Media (abstract)
11:00
Wide-Angle Anomalous Refraction Using Efficient Surface Field Optimization for Different Polarizations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matteo Albani
11:20
Multi-Frequency Analysis of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Radars for Ship Collision Avoidance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luigi Ferro
11:40
A Simple Design Pattern for T4R Calibration Method (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ziad Hatab
12:00
Cardiff Model Utilization for Predicting the Response of Multiple-Input Power Amplifiers (abstract)
10:40-11:40 Session 26B: Biomedical RF and Microwave applications
Location: "Tropea" Room
10:40
Side-Edge Dual-Band Antenna for 5G and Wi-Fi 6 Applications (abstract)
11:00
A novel Hexagonal Excitation for a Multi-Layer Wearable Miniaturized Antenna (abstract)
11:20
Compound Reconfigurable Bio-Inspired Antenna Design (abstract)
11:40-12:40 Session 27: Integration and packaging
Location: "Tropea" Room
11:40
A Double Mirror Stub Design of Broadband Planar Bias Tee for System on Chip Integration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rahul Yadav
12:00
Preliminary results on a compact duplexer design for K/Ka-Band SatCom on the Move User Terminals (abstract)
12:20
A wideband aperture coupled Rhomboid MagnetoElectric Dipole Antenna for Millimeter Wave Applications (abstract)
12:40-13:00 Session 28: Keynote
Location: "Reggio" Room
12:40
GaN-on-Si: An emerging RF Power technolog (abstract)
13:10-14:40Lunch Break