Università Roma Tre

Antennas are fundamental components of modern wireless communication systems for smart environments such as pervasive systems for distributed information and computing, advanced space systems, intelligent transportation systems. This course aims at providing a selection of advanced topics, including analytical and numerical techniques, in antenna engineering from microwave to THz bands: theory and applications of periodic structures; resonant and traveling-wave antennas for terrestrial and space communication systems; smart and MIMO antenna arrays; innovative materials for reconfigurable antennas; introduction to numerical techniques based on differential formulations (finite differences in time and frequency) and on boundary integral formulations (method of moments). The main commercial CAD tools for antennas based on the above numerical techniques will also be illustrated.