Short Course

Unconventional Antenna Arrays Synthesis– Fundamentals and Advances –presented by:Professor Andrea MASSA
Co-organized by:Prof. Andrea MASSANAGASAKI University

ELEDIA Research Center(ELEDIA@UniTN - University of Trento)
Italy
L2S UMR8506(CNRS – CentraleSupelec - UPS)FranceELEDIA Research Center

Talk Abstract

Biography:

Antenna arrays are a key technology enabling a huge numberof applications in our everyday lives. They are used incommunications, radar, navigation, remote sensing, radioastronomy, and in many other systems. Pushed by thecontinuous growth of wireless services, antenna arrays havesignificantly evolved since their introduction.
In recent years, modern applications (e.g., 5G, satcoms,autonomous driving) are imposing more and more challenging
constraints and requirements on antenna arrays. These include
the need for multiple functionalities, large bandwidth, and highreconfigurability. These additional functions add significantly tothe cost, complexity, and weight of the array, but they cannot
be jointly accomplished without a careful consideration of theoverall array architecture. Recent advances in the developmentof high-power amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, andartificial materials have enabled new array architectures.
Indeed, advanced array architectures, including sparsity
through thinning or adding some functions at the subarray level,
can help to incorporate these extra capabilities, albeit withtrade-off in terms of gain or aperture efficiency and potentially
increased sidelobes as compared to conventional arraysolutions.
This short course, after briefly reviewing the basics andfundamentals of antenna array theory, will focus on state-ofthe-art and mostly recently introduced methodologies for thedesign and analysis of advanced unconventional arrays,discussing capabilities, limitations, and perspectives.
Applicative examples, including MATLAB exercises, willcorroborate the developed concepts. The Short Course
includes 9 hours of classes (6 hours of lessons and 3 hours ofsoftware exercises/demos) spanning over 3 days.

Andrea Massa (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, ElectromagneticAcademy Fellow) he has been a Full Professor of
Electromagnetic Fields @ University of Trento since 2005.
At present, Prof. Massa is the director of the network offederated laboratories "ELEDIA Research Center" located inBrunei, China, Czech, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Perù,Tunisia with more than 150 researchers. Moreover, he isProfessor @ CentraleSupélec (Paris - France), Guest Professor@ UESCT (Chengdu - China), and Visiting Professor @Tsinghua (Beijing - China).
He has been holder of a Senior DIGITEO Chair @ L2SCentraleSupélec and CEA LIST in Saclay (France), UC3MSantander Chair of Excellence @ Universidad Carlos III deMadrid (Madrid - Spain), Adjunct Professor @ Penn State
University (USA), Visiting Professor @ Missouri University ofScience and Technology (USA), the Nagasaki University(Japan), the University of Paris Sud (France), the Kumamoto
University (Japan), and the National University of Singapore(Singapore).
Prof. Massa is member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications” and of the European
School of Antennas (ESoA). It has been appointed IEEE AP-S
Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2018) and served as Associate
Editor of the "IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation"(2011-2014).
His research activities are mainly concerned with inverse
problems, antenna analysis/synthesis, radar systems and signal
processing, cross-layer optimization and planning of wireless/RFsystems,
system-by-designandmaterial-by-design(metamaterialsandreconfigurable-materials),
andtheory/applications of optimization techniques to engineering
problems (coms, medicine, and biology).
Prof. Massa published more than 350 scientific publications on
international journals and more than 500 in international
conferences (>200 invited). He has organized more than 100
scientific sessions in international conferences and has
participated to several technological projects in the EU
framework (>20 EU Projects), at the national and local level withnational agencies (>300 Projects/Grants).

Course material provided: (a) Short Course Slides and (b)Software (MATLAB-based ELEDIA SW codes), which will be
used during exercises.
Target group: BS/MS Students, PhD students, Researchers,
Scientists, and Engineers who are
Background knowledge: Basics of Mathematical Analysis,
Electromagnetics, and Antenna Theory.
Dates: From Tuesday, March 05, 2019To
Thursday, March 07, 2019
Location:
School of Engineering
Nagasaki University
1-14 Bunkyo-machi
NagasakiJapan

Contact:
Prof. Andrea MASSAELEDIA Research Center, Director
DISI @ University of Trento
Via Sommarive 938123 Trento, ITALY
E-mail: andrea.massa@unitn.it
Web:www.eledia.org

Local organizer: Toshifumi Moriyama, e-mail: t-moriya@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

L2S UMR8506 (CNRS-CentraleSupélec-UPS)
3, rue Joliot-Curie
91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE
andrea.massa@l2s.centralesupelec.fr
More information on www.eledia.org