ICECom 2019 Conference program

ICECom 2019 - Conference Program

Monday, 30th September 2019 Hall A

Opening Ceremony (09:00 – 09:10)

Monday, 30th September 2019 Hall A

Plenary Session (09:10 – 11:10)

Chairs: Davor Bonefačić and Juraj Bartolić

Boris Tomasic

09:10 Self-Calibration and Mutual Coupling Compensation in Digital

Beamforming Arrays
Keynote lecture

Karu Esselle
10:10 Leaky-Wave Antennas: From Niche Applications to Mass Market
Keynote lecture

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Advances in Medical Applications of Electromagnetic Fields (1st part)

(11:40 – 13:00)
Session organizers: Lorenzo Crocco, Alessandro Fanti and Matteo Bruno Lodi
Chairs: Alessandro Fanti and Matteo Bruno Lodi

Giacomo Muntoni, Alessandro Fanti and Giorgio Montisci

11:40 Multi-disciplinary Approach of Microwave Hyperthermia Treatment

Eric Lemmer, Daniel Schmiech, Simon Mueller, Aly Marnach, Thull

René and Andreas Diewald
12:00 Development of a 24 GHz Front-End and first test measurements for
Breathing and Heartbeat Monitoring inside a Cot

Jorge Alberto Tobon Vasquez, Rosa Scapaticci, Giovanna Turvani,

Gennaro Bellizzi, Nadine Joachimowicz, Bernard Duchêne, Mario
12:20 Roberto Casu, Lorenzo Crocco, Francesca Vipiana and Enrico Tedeschi
Design and Experimental Testing of a Microwave Device for
Monitoring Cerebrovascular Diseases

Igor Bisio, Claudio Estatico, Alessandro Fedeli, Fabio Lavagetto, Gian

Luigi Mancardi, Matteo Pastorino, Andrea Randazzo and Andrea
12:40 Sciarrone
A Microwave Imaging System for the Characterization of Brain
Stroke: Testing Against Simulated and Experimental Data

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Monday, 30th September 2019 Hall B

Antenna Arrays (11:40 – 13:00)

Chairs: Sergey Shabunin and Juraj Bartolić

Sergey Shabunin, Juraj Bartolic and Danil Trifonov

11:40 Minimization of the Phase Shifter Control Current in Antenna Arrays
with Switchable Radiation Patterns

Giulia Buttazzoni, Fulvio Babich, Riccardo Tuninato, Francesca Vatta

and Massimiliano Comisso
12:00 Phase-Only Pattern Synthesis with Interference Suppression for
Large-Scale Antenna Arrays

Giada Maria Battaglia, Tommaso Isernia and Andrea Francesco

Morabito
12:20
Optimal Antenna Array Pattern Synthesis via Hybrid Optimization

Andreas Diewald and Simon Mueller

12:40 Fast and Easy Implementation of a Leaky Wave Antenna for the
24 GHz ISM Band

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Advances in Medical Applications of Electromagnetic Fields (2nd part)

(14:30-16:30)
Session organizers: Lorenzo Crocco, Alessandro Fanti and Matteo Bruno Lodi
Chairs: Alessandro Fanti and Matteo Bruno Lodi

Matteo Bruno Lodi, Andrea Vargiu, Alessandro Fanti, Luca Zanatta and
Giuseppe Mazzarella
14:30 A Mathematical Model for Magnetically Targeted Drug Delivery Using
Magnetic Prosthetic Implants for Bone Tissue

Daniela M. Godinho, João M. Felício, Carlos A. Fernandes and Raquel C.

Conceição
14:50 Feasibility Study of Focal Lens for Multistatic Microwave Breast
Imaging

Michele Alessandro Chiapperino, Claudio Maria Lamacchia, Angelo

Palmisano, Pietro Bia, Alessandro Miani and Luciano Mescia
15:10 Electroporation Modelling Based on the Effective Thickness of
Irregularly Shaped Cell Membrane and the Dynamics of Pore Sizes

Cemanur Aydinalp, Sulayman Joof and Tuba Yilmaz

15:30 Sensing Depth Analysis of Open-Ended Coaxial Probe for Skin Cancer
Detection

Sassan Schäfer, Simon Mueller, Daniel Schmiech and Andreas Diewald

15:50 Evaluation of Antenna Pattern for Vital Sign Monitoring of Elderly
People

Lorenz Dirksmeyer, Daniel Schmiech and Andreas Diewald

16:10 Separation of Two Close Targets in CW-Radar Measurement in the
Example of Respiration Monitoring

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Monday, 30th September 2019 Hall B

Microwave and RF Devices and Circuits (14:30-16:30)

Chairs: Denis Letavin and Ivan Lujo

Toshiki Tabei, Zhewang Ma and Masataka Ohira

14:30
A Compact Wideband Bandstop Filter Using Microstrip Ring Structure

Francesco Chiadini, Roberta De Simone, Vincenzo Fiumara and Antonio

Scaglione
14:50
Fractal Defected Ground Microstrip

Denis Letavin
15:10
Design of a Compact Directional Coupler on a Flexible Substrate

Denis Letavin
15:30 Microstrip Matrix Butler Area which is Reduced by the use of
Compact Directional Couplers

Linlin Wu and Kaiyuan Lu

15:50 Investigate a New Type of Vibration-Driven Based Active Actuator for
Capsule Robot

Ivan Lujo, Marko Bosiljevac and Zvonimir Sipus

16:10 Comparison of Different Statistical Methods for Specklegram-Based
Fiber Optic Vibration Sensor

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Measurement Techniques for Antennas and Targets RCS (17:00 -19:00)

Session organizers: Francesco D’Agostino and Claudio Curcio

Chairs: Francesco D’Agostino and Claudio Curcio

Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio and Angelo Liseno

17:00 Sensitivity Analysis of the Singular Value Optimization Method for
Antenna Characterization

Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco

Guerriero and Massimo Migliozzi
17:20 Laboratory Tests Validating a Non-Redundant NF/FF Transformation
with Spherical Spiral Scan for Non-Centered Mounted Long Antennas

Pax Wei
17:40 RCS Measurements on Extended Objects for Radar Field Probes

Luca Olmi, Pietro Bolli, Luca Carbonaro, Luca Cresci, Andrea Donati,
Pasqualino Marongiu, Enzo Natale, Renzo Nesti, Dario Panella and
18:00 Daniela Mugnai
Simulations and Tests of a Super-Resolving Optical Module Using a
Satellite Antenna

Stefania Matteoli, Lorenzo Ciorba, Fabio Paonessa, Giuseppe Virone,

Giuseppe Addamo, Oscar A. Peverini, Pietro Bolli, Giuseppe Pupillo,
Kristian Zarb Adami, Alessio Magro, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Edgar Colín-
18:20 Beltrán and Nima Razavi Ghods
UAV-based Far-Field Measurements on the SKA Aperture Array
Verification System

Giacomo Muntoni, Luca Schirru, Giorgio Montisci, Tonino Pisanu and

Marco Simone
18:40 The New Space Debris Dedicated Receiving Chain of the Sardinia
Radio Telescope

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Monday, 30th September 2019 Hall B

Communication Systems – Characterization and Components

(17:00 -19:00)
Chairs: Sandra Costanzo and Radovan Zentner

Martin Erb, Christian Steger, Josef Preishuber-Pflügl and Martin Troyer

17:00 An Automated Measurement System for Modeling and
Characterization of NFC Communication Systems

Sandra Costanzo, Francesca Venneri and Giuseppe Di Massa

17:20 Liquid Crystal-Based Reconfigurable Reflectarray Cells for 5G Systems

Marco Simone
17:40 An Automatic Design of 5G Antennas through PSO and CST

Kai Liu, Cheng Tao, Liu Liu and Tao Zhou

18:00 Low-Complexity Antenna Selection in Low-Resolution Massive MIMO
Systems

Guichao Chen, Kai Liu, Cheng Tao, Liu Liu and Tao Zhou
18:20 Performance Analysis of Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO System
with Low-Precision ADCs

Goran Belačić and Radovan Zentner

18:40 Mobile Network based Geolocation Estimation System Consisting of
an Online Database and Android Application

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Tuesday, 1st October 2019 Hall A

Numerical Methods and High Performance Computing in

Electromagnetics (08:30 -10:10)
Session organizers: Alessandro Fanti, Angelo Liseno and Santi Concetto Pavone
Chairs: Alessandro Fanti and Angelo Liseno

Dragan Poljak, Anna Susnjara, Vicko Doric, Silvestar Sesnic, Mario

Cvetkovic and Hrvoje Dodig
08:30 On Some Multiphysics Models for Electromagnetic-Thermal-
Hydrodynamics (ETHD) Analysis

Tomoaki Nagaoka
08:50 GPU Acceleration of Largescale Multiphysics Simulation Coupled
Electromagnetic and Thermal Fields

Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio and Angelo Liseno

09:10
Non-Uniform FFT (NUFFT) Algorithms for Antenna Radiation

Jorge Alberto Tobon Vasquez, Zhen Peng, Jin-Fa Lee, Giuseppe Vecchi
and Francesca Vipiana
09:30 Mesh Refinement for Surface Integral Equations based on Residual
Error Estimation

Aleksey Karpov, Sergey Knyazev, Lubov Lesnaya and Sergey Shabunin

09:50 How the Green’s Functions May Be Used for Correct Measurements
of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Dielectric Sheets

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Tuesday, 1st October 2019 Hall B

Radar and Remote Sensing (08:30 – 10:10)

Chairs: Lara Pajewski and Juraj Bartolić

Lara Pajewski and Simone Meschino

08:30 SPOT-GPR Analysis of Ground Penetrating Radar Signals Recorded
over the Limestone Region of the IFSTTAR Geophysical Test Site:
Preliminary Results

Riza Erhan Akdogan and Yasemin Altuncu

08:50 Reconstruction of 3D Objects Buried Under Into Half-Space by Using
Variational Born Iterative Method

Ryosuke Kato, Masaharu Takahashi, Nozomu Ishii, Qiang Chen and

Hiroshi Yoshida
09:10 Investigation of a 3D Undersea Positioning System Using
Electromagnetic Waves

Manuel Steins and Andreas Diewald

09:30 Digital Doppler Effect Generation with CORDIC Algorithm for Radar
Target Simulations

Lara Pajewski
09:50 An Overview of the Educational Activities on Ground Penetrating
Radar Carried out in COST Action TU1208

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Tuesday, 1st October 2019 Hall A

Compact Antennas, Wearable Antennas and Sensors: Design Issues,

Modeling and Experimentation (10:40 – 12:20)
Session organizers: Sandra Costanzo
Chairs: Sandra Costanzo and Davor Bonefačić

Sandra Costanzo and Giovanni Ammendola

10:40
Compact Textile Wearable Antenna for Security Applications

Sandra Costanzo and Vincenzo Cioffi

11:00 Dielectric Models for the Accurate Design of Wearable Diabetes
Sensors

Davor Bonefacic and Juraj Bartolić

11:20
Effects of Moisture on Resonant and Wideband Textile Antennas

Hisashi Morishita
11:40
A Broadband Printed Antenna with Radiation Patterns of Dipole

Hisashi Morishita
12:00 A Simple Method for Decoupling of Two PIFAs by Using Parasitic
Elements

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Tuesday, 1st October 2019 Hall B

Propagation Measurements and Models (10:40 – 12:20)

Chairs: Tomaž Javornik and Radovan Zentner

Klemen Bregar, Tomaž Javornik, Andrej Hrovat, Mihael Mohorčič and

Gorazd Kandus
10:40 Passive Ultra-Wideband Coarse Localization and Activity Detection
System for Assisted Living

Andrej Hrovat, Ke Guan, Teodora Kocevska and Tomaž Javornik

11:00 3D Indoor Environment Characterization based on Radio Scanning:
Initial Idea and Methodology

Nada Bel-Haj-Maati, Nadine Malhouroux, Patrice Pajusco and Michel

Ney
11:20 Massive MIMO Channel Measurements and Simulations at 3.7 GHz in
Outdoor Environment

Branimir Ivšić, Zvonimir Šipuš, Juraj Bartolić and Josip Babić

11:40 Modelling of Ultrawideband Propagation Scenarios for Safe Human-
Robot Interaction in Warehouse Environment

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Wednesday , 2nd October 2019 Hall A

Fundamental Limits and Optimal Antennas (09:00 – 11:00)

Session organizers: Anja Skrivervik and Zvonimir Šipuš

Chairs: Anja Skrivervik and Zvonimir Šipuš

Miloslav Capek, Lukas Jelinek, Mats Gustafsson and Vit Losenicky

09:00 Fundamental Bounds on Dissipation Factor for Wearable and
Implantable Antennas

Mats Gustafsson and Miloslav Capek

09:30
Physical Bounds on Antennas in Complex Environments

Andrea Neto, Angelo Freni, and Nuria Llombart

10:00
The Observable Field: a Review

Anja Skrivervik, Marko Bosiljevac, Isabel Santos and Zvonimir Šipuš

10:30 Design of in-Body Antennas Based on Fundamental Radiation
Limitations

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Wednesday , 2nd October 2019 Hall B

Active Electromagnetic Structures (9:00 – 11:00)

Chairs: Silvio Hrabar and Ivan Bonić

Silvio Hrabar
9:00 Active Electromagnetic Structures – Past, Present, and Future
Invited introductory talk

Francesco Chiadini, Roberta De Simone, Vincenzo Fiumara and Antonio

9:20 Scaglione
Temperature Dependent Defect Modes at Terahertz Regime

Ivan Bonić and Silvio Hrabar

9:40 Dispersion Analysis of Active Artificial EM Structures using Method of
Complex Trajectory

Leo Vincelj, Silvio Hrabar and Igor Krois

10:00 Non-linear Model of Negative Impedance Converter for use in non-
Foster Circuitry

Ante Brizic, Silvio Hrabar, Dominik Zanic and Igor Krois

10:20 Investigation of Immittance Inverter based on Band-pass Non-Foster
Negative Capacitor

Aleksandar Kiricenko and Silvio Hrabar

10:40 Quadrature non-Foster-inspired Matching of Short Transmitting
Dipole: Basic Preliminary Experiments

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Wednesday , 2nd October 2019 Hall A

Biomedical and Electromagnetic Compatibility Issues (11:30 – 13:50)

Chairs: Masaharu Takahashi and Dragan Poljak

Artur de São José, Virginie Deniau, Úrsula Resende and Ricardo Adriano
11:30 Mitigating Intentional Electromagnetic Interferences over the GSM-R
System with Adaptive Filters

Dragan Poljak, Marin Galić and Lara Pajewski

11:50 Analytical Calculation of Integral Measures for Quantifying Human
Exposure to HF Signals with Continuous Spectra

Zeynep Macit, Cemanur Aydinalp, Ayse Buse Ozdabak Sert, Fatma Nese
Kok and Tuba Yilmaz
12:10 Microwave Dielectric Properties of Osteosarcoma Cell Line (SAOS-2)
Suspensions

Kazuyuki Saito, Masaharu Takahashi, Tomoaki Nagaoka and Soichi

Watanabe
12:30 SAR Evaluations of Phantom Surface Close to Wireless LAN Router
with Beam Steering Technique

Aly Marnach, Daniel Schmiech, Jonas Berg, Simon Mueller, Candido

Vieira and Andreas Diewald
12:50 Electromotive Dummy for Simulation of Breathing and Heart Beat
Physiology

Aly Marnach, Daniel Schmiech and Andreas Diewald

13:10 Illumination Coverage Measurement of an I/Q-Radar System for a
Baby Incubator

Antonio Šarolić and Anđela Matković

13:30 Effect of the Coaxial Dielectric Probe Diameter on Its Permittivity
Sensing Depth at 2 GHz – Simulation Study

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Wednesday , 2nd October 2019 Hall B

Reflectarrays and Metasurfaces (11:30 – 13:30)

Session organizers: Sandra Costanzo and Francesca Venneri
Chairs: Zvonimir Šipuš and Zoran Ereš

Jordan Budhu and Anthony Grbic

11:30
A Rigorous Approach to Designing Reflectarrays

Muhamamd Usman Afzal, Ali Lalbakhsh, Touseef Hayat and Karu

Esselle
11:50 Recent Progress on Development of Near-Field Structures for Radio-
Frequency Front-End Antennas

Tamami Maruyama, Qiang Chen and Noriharu Suematsu

12:10 Applied Reflectarray Based on Metasurface for Wireless Power
Transmission Efficiency

Dominik Barbarić, Marko Bosiljevac and Zvonimir Šipuš

12:30 Analysis of Cascaded Curved Metasurfaces with Spatially-Varying
Impedance Distribution

Damir Zidar and Silvio Hrabar

12:50 Circuit-Theory Interpretation of Space Harmonics Interaction in Glide-
Symmetry Structures

Zoran Ereš, Marko Bosiljevac and Zvonimir Šipuš

13:10 Realization of Gap-Waveguide Leaky Wave Antenna Using Low-Cost
Metallization Procedure

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Wednesday , 2nd October 2019 Hall A

Closing Ceremony (13:50 – 14:20)

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