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The Horizon 2020 Future Emerging Topics European project VISORSURF together with the Distributed School on Metamaterials run by EUPROMETA, the Education Department of the METAMORPHOSE VI AISBLand Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering of Aalto University will organize a Doctoral School on Tunable and Software-Driven Functional Metasurfaces.

This school will be the 37th edition of the Distributed Doctoral School on Metamaterials. The school will be supported by the European School of Antennas (ESoA).

The Doctoral School  will be held on June 28- 29, 2018 at the premises of Aalto University in Espoo (the Helsinki region), Finland.

Info about venue, registration fees, visa invitation letters, accommodation and local transportation can be found here.

Please  fill in and send the form at https://eage.aalto.fi/?fs/en/DoctoralSchool for registration.

 

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Credits: 1 ECTS

Dates: 28-29 June 2018

Place: Espoo, Finland

Title of the Course: Tunable and Software-driven Functional Metasurfaces

School Coordinators: Prof. Sergei Tretyakov,  Aalto University, Finland
                                      Dr. Fu Liu,                       Aalto University, Finland
                                      (contact email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 18, 2018    

                               

Confirmed lecturers:

Abstract

Metasurfaces, engineered thin composite structures, have recently enabled the realization of novel electromagnetic and optical components with application-optimized and even un-natural functionalities. These include electromagnetic invisibility of objects (cloaking), total radiation absorption, filtering and steering of light and sound, as well as ultra-efficient, miniaturized antennas for sensors, implantable communication devices, and control of wave propagation. Making metasurfaces tunable, sensible, programmable, and (artificially) intelligent will offer virtually unlimited possibilities in controlling fields of various physical nature using thin intelligent skins. The VISORSURF project, which is organizing this school event, is developing hardware platforms and appropriate software solutions for first software-defined and software-driven metasurfaces for electromagnetic and optical applications. The doctoral school will introduce the participants into this exciting field of research, presenting the theoretical foundations of electromagnetic metasurfaces, various means to tune and control their properties, and provide examples of possible practical realizations. Application aspects will also be discussed. The school program contains lectures, an interactive session with the teachers, and a small test at the end of this two-day course.

 

Tentative School Programme

 

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Time Lecturer Title

9:00 - 11:00

 Sergei Tretyakov Introduction to electromagnetic metasurfaces: motivation, properties and modelling

11:00 - 11:20

   Break
11:20 - 12:50

Christos Liaskos
Sergi Abadal

 Software-defined and software-driven metasurface paradigm
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch
14:00 - 15:30

Eduard Alarcón

Wireless communications aspects within software-driven metasurfaces
15:30 - 16:00  

Break
16:00 - 17:00 All teachers

Self-study and interactions with the lecturers
19:00 - 21:00  

School dinner

 

Friday, 29 June 2018

 

Time  Lecturer Title

9:00 - 11:00

Sergei Tretyakov
and Fu Liu

 

Comparison of functionalities achievable by metasurfaces and phased arrays, possible tunability mechanisms and examples of realizations of tunable and digital metasurfaces

11:00 - 11:20

   Break
11:20 - 12:50

Anna Tasolamprou and Xuchen Wang

 

Tunable fabric- and graphene-based designs
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch
14:00 - 15:00

Ian F. Akyildiz

 Software, system and application aspects
15:00 - 15:30  

Break
15:30 - 17:00 All teachers

Discussion, conclusion and exam
17:00  

Closing ceremony