Preliminary Program

24th International Conference

on Applied Electromagnetics
and Communications

27 – 29 September 2023
Dubrovnik, Croatia
 ICECom 2023 - Short Program

Wednesday, 27th September 2023

Hall A Hall B

09:00-09:15 Opening ceremony ––

09:10-09:55 Plenary session – Keynote lecture 1 ––

09:55-10:40 Plenary session – Keynote lecture 2

10:40-11:10 Coffee break

Special Session on Wearable and

11:10-12:30 Implantable Antennas and Sensors: New Communication Systems
Design Strategies and Challenges

12:30-14:30 Lunch break

Invited Special Session on Terahertz Special Session on Biomedical

14:30-16:30
Science and Applications Applications of EM Fields (EMFs)

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

Invited Special Session on Terahertz Computational and Numerical

17:00-19:00
Science and Applications Techniques

19:15-21:00 Welcome cocktail

 Thursday, 28th October 2023

Hall A Hall B

Special Session on Electromagnetic Invited Special Session on Terahertz

08:30-10:30
Technologies in Medicine Science and Applications

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Special Session on Near-Field Focused

Antennas and Metasurfaces Electromagnetic Compatibility,
11:00-12:20
Guided Waves and EMI
Session on Measurement Accuracy

13:00-19:00 Excursion

Friday, 29th October 2023

Hall A Hall B

Special Session on Physical Bounds of

09:00-11:00 Antennas, Stored Energy and Lossy Active Electromagnetic Structures
Media

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Remote Sensing and Local Positioning

11:30-13:30 Antenna Theory and Design History of Electroamgentism in
Croatia

13:30-13:45 Closing ceremony ––

 ICECom 2019 - Conference Program

Wednesday, 27th September

Hall A
2023

Opening Ceremony (09:00 – 09:10)

Wednesday, 27th September 2023 Hall A

Plenary Session (09:10– 10:40)

Anja K Skrivervik
09:10 Microwave cavities for dual resonance atomic clocks
Keynote lecture

Francesco D'Agostino
NF–FF transformation techniques using a minimum number of
09:55 NF data by means of the non-redundant sampling representations
of the Electromagnetic Fields
Keynote lecture
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 Hall A

Special Session on Wearable and Implantable Antennas and Sensors:

Design Strategies and Challenges
(11:10 – 12:30)
Organizer: Sandra Costanzo

Sandra Costanzo and Alexandra Flores

11:10 Implantable Antennas for Endoscopy Applications: Current Review
and Challenges

Mingxiang Gao, Cong Ding, Zvonimir Šipuš, Mahsa Shoaran and

Anja K Skrivervik
11:30 Characterization of a Miniature Broadband Antenna for an
Implantable Neuromodulation Device

Sandra Costanzo and Adil Qureshi

11:50 Minkowski- Based Miniaturized Planar Inverted-F Antenna
Configurations for Wearable Applications

Juraj Bartolić, Zvonimir Šipuš, Davor Bonefačić and Davorin Mikulić

12:10 Open Waveguide Bidirectional Antenna for Efficient Launching of

Creeping Waves for On-body Communication and Sensor Network
Applications
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 Hall B

New Communication Systems (11:10 – 12:30)

Ashish Sharma and Pranav Huilgol

11:10 Multiple Channel Network Scheme employing Hybrid FSO and
NB-PLC for smart city environment

Wei-Shiuan Huang, Chia-Wei Hsu, Feng-Chun Hsu and Shean-Jen

Chen
11:30 Model Predictive Control for Adaptive Optics System in Free-Space
Optical Communication

Trasma Yunita, Mohammad Ridwan Effendi, Rheyuniarto Sahlendar

Asthan and Achmad Munir
11:50 Performance Analysis of M-Ary PSK OWDM on Wireless
Communication Systems

Marko Šprem
12:10 An overview of WDM-PON activities at University of Zagreb
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 Hall A

Invited Special Session on Terahertz Science and Applications

(14:30-16:30)
Session organizer: Masayoshi Tonouchi

Tadao Nagatsuma, Hideyuki Ohtake , Kazutoshi Kato, Junji Yumoto,

14:30 and Hiroshi Ito
Photonics-empowered Terahertz Wireless Communications

Iwao Hosako
14:50
Applications of Ultrafast Terahertz Radio

Alexander Wolff, Lars Franke, Steffen Klingel, Janis Krieger, Lukas

Mueller, Ralf Stemler and Marco Rahm
15:10 Continuous Beam Steering in a Defined Plane with a Reconfigurable
Intelligent Surface at 31 GHz

Taiichi Otsuji, Akira Satou, Victor Ryzhii, Maxim Ryzhii, Vladimir Mitin
and Michael S. Shur
15:30 Physics of Graphene Dirac Plasmons and their Terahertz Device
Applications

Pavlo Sai, Maksym Dub, Vadym Korotyeyev, and Wojciech Knap

15:50
Terahertz Grating-Gate Plasmonic Crystals

Kodo Kawase
16:10
Advances in injection seeded THz parametric generator
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 Hall B

Special Session on Biomedical Applications of EM Fields

(14:30-16:30)
Session organizers: A. Šarolić, R. Conceição, M. O'Halloran, M. Cavagnaro

Alessia Cannatà , Atif Shahzad, Martin O'Halloran, Adnan Elahi,

Marco Pasian, Simona Di Meo, Giulia Matrone, and Bilal Amin
14:30 Numerical Assessment of Microwave Bone Imaging: Reconstruction
of Realistic Phantoms for Diagnosing Different Bone Diseases

Giulia Sacco and Maxim Zhadobov

14:50 Impact of the Near-Surface Body Model on the User Exposure in
mmWave 5G Bands

Niko Istuk, Hamza Benchakroun, Adnan Elahi, Martin O'Halloran, Rita Matta,
David Moreau, Rodney O'Connor, and Eoghan Dunne
15:10 Reducing Sensing Volume Confounding Effects in Conductivity
Measurements: The Use of a Miniaturised Four-Electrode Probe

Antonio Šarolić, Marin Perić, Darka Kulić and Damir Sapunar

15:30 Neuromodulation by Electromagnetic Field Exposure in the
Intermediate Frequency Range

Mirtill Rohonczi, Attila Makkos-Weisz, Endre Pál, Dávid Pintér, Márton

Kovács and Norbert Kovács
15:50 Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation can improve anxiety in
Parkinson’s disease: a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled
study

Mirtill Rohonczi, Attila Makkos-Weisz, Endre Pál, Dávid Pintér, Márton

Kovács and Norbert Kovács
16:10 Long-term effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in
Parkinson’s associated depression
Wednesday, 27th September
Hall A
2023
Invited Special Session on Terahertz Science and Applications
(17:00 -19:00)
Session organizer: Masayoshi Tonouchi

Omar Khatib, Yang Deng, Simiao Ren, Jordan Malof and Willie J
Padilla
17:00
Physics Informed Deep Learning of Terahertz Metamaterials

Benedikt Limabcher, Sebastian Schönhuber, Marie Ertl, Michael Jaidl,

Hermann Detz, Max Andrews and Karl Unterrainer
17:20
Quantum Cascade Random Lasers for on-chip Machine Learning

Masayoshi Tonouchi
17:40 Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy and Imaging for Semiconductor
Manufacturing Process Monitoring

Petr Kuzel, T. Troha, F. Klimovic, T. Ostatnický, F. Kadlec and H.

Nemec
18:00 Ultrafast long-distance expansion of electron-hole plasma in GaAs
probed by THz pulses

Djero Peeters, Stan ter Huurne, Niels van Hoof, Jacobus L.M. van
Mechelen, and Jaime Gómez Rivas
18:20
Double Near-field THz Probe Microscopy

Stephan Winnerl
18:40
Auger scattering in Landau-quantized graphene and HgCd
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 Hall B

Computational and Numerical Techniques (17:00 -19:00)

Gabriel Gaugain , Julien Modolo and Denys Nikolayev

17:00 Improving Precision of Computational Electromagnetics for

Transcranial Stimulation
Special Session on Biomedical Applications of EM Fields

Amedeo Capozzoli , Ilaria Catapano, Claudio Curcio, Giuseppe

D'Ambrosio, Giuseppe Esposito, Gianluca Gennarelli, Angelo Liseno,
17:20 Giovanni Ludeno, and Francesco Soldovieri
A Deep Learning Approach to Electromagnetic Inverse Source
Invited talk

Anna Šušnjara and Dragan Poljak

17:40 Impact of different voltage source models on antenna current and
input impedance within the boundary element method formalism

Dragan Poljak, Sinisa Antonijevic and Vicko Doric

18:00 Direct Time Domain Calculation of Near Field of Dipole Antenna in
the Presence of a Half-Space

Fedir Yevtushenko
18:20 Threshold Analysis for the E-Polarized Modes of Microsize Graphene
Strip Grating Laser

Dubravko Tomić and Zvonimir Šipuš

18:40 Application of the Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis for 1-D Periodic
Dielectric Structures with Glide Symmetry
Thursday, 28th October 2023 Hall A

Special Session on Electromagnetic Technologies in Medicine

(08:30 -10:30)

Session organizers: S. Costanzo, A. Fanti, M. B. Lodi and R. Scapaticci

Joo-Hiuk Son

08:30 Terahertz Radiation for Cancer Therapy?

Joint Special Session on Terahertz Science and Applications and on
Electromagnetic Technologies in Medicine

Hitoshi Tabata, Hinano Sugimoto and Yuki Hamada

Terahertz Plasmonics and Hyperspectral Imaging for Bio-Medical
08:50 Applications
Joint Special Session on Terahertz Science and Applications and on
Electromagnetic Technologies in Medicine

Sandra Costanzo, Alexandra Flores and Giovanni Buonanno

09:10 Machine Learning Architectures for Microwave Imaging with

Enhanced Reconstruction

Rosa Scapaticci, Roberta Palmeri, Klementina Vidjak, Sandra

Costanzo, Marta Cavagnaro and Lorenzo Crocco
09:30 Microwave Imaging as a means for Liver Ablation Monitoring:
a Proof-of-Concept Experiment

Matteo Bruno Lodi, Antonis Makridis, Konstantina Kazeli, Theodoros

Samaras, Makis Angelakeris, Giacomo Muntoni, Alessandro Fanti and
09:50 Giuseppe Mazzarella
A methodology for the measurement of the specific absorption rate
of magnetic scaffolds

Isabella Porcu, Giacomo Muntoni, Claudia Macciò, Matteo Bruno

10:10 Lodi, Alessandro Fanti and Giuseppe Mazzarella
Design of a Sierpinski Fractal Antenna for Breast Tumors Diagnosis
Thursday, 28th October 2023 Hall B

Invited Special Session on Terahertz Science and Applications

(09:10 – 10:30)
Session organizer: Masayoshi Tonouchi

Hiroaki Minamide
09:10 Advanced sub-terahertz-wave parametric oscillator with wide
tunability of 0.3 THz to 0.9 THz

Kosuke Murate, Sota Mine and François Blanchard

09:30
Terahertz parametric detection for broadband terahrtz pulse

Yutaka Kadoya, Shunya Takeyasu and Munehiro Nishida

09:50 Efficient extraction of terahertz wave totally reflected at
semiconductor surface by double metal gratings

Chiko Otani, Tomofumi Ikari and Yoshiaki Sasaki

10:10 Development of 300 GHz walk-through body scanner for security
gate inspections
Thursday, 28th October 2023 Hall A

Special Session on Near-Field Focused Antennas and Metasurfaces

Session on Measurement Accuracy
(11:00 – 12:20)
Session organizers: Sandra Costanzo and Giovanni Buonanno

Sandra Costanzo and Giovanni Ammendola

11:00 Analysis of Near-Field Bessel Beam Focused Arrays with Random
Perturbations for Biomedical Applications

Sandra Costanzo and Giovanni Buonanno

11:20 Statistical Tolerance Analysis of Biomedical Near-Field Focused
Antenna Arrays

Florindo Bevilacqua, Francesco D'Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara,

Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, and Massimo Migliozzi
11:40 3-D Probe Positioning Errors Correction in Plane-Polar Near-Field
Measurements

Radovan Zentner
12:00
Challenges of Isotropy in Standardized 3-Axes EMF measurements
Thursday, 28th October 2023 Hall B

Electromagnetic Compatibility, Guided Waves and EMI

(11:00 – 12:20)

Chia Yu Tsai, Shih-Yi Yuan, Wei-Sheng Liu, Liang-Yang Lin and

Yuan-Fu Ku
11:00 The development of Side-channel leakage platform on Hub-75 LED
matrix data transmission protocol

Scott W Haydon
11:20 Designing and understanding a PCB trace used to deliver EMI to a
CMOS microchip using a GTEM

Marco Simone, Matteo Bruno Lodi, Alessandro Fanti, Santi Concetto

11:40 Pavone, Gino Sorbello, and Giuseppe Mazzarella
Design of two in-line transitions for Q-band horn cluster

Mohammed S. H. Al Salameh
12:00 Analytical solutions for the electric field of high-voltage direct
current submarine cable
Friday, 29th October 2023 Hall A

Special Session on Physical Bounds of Antennas, Stored Energy

and Lossy Media
(09:00 – 11:00)
Session organizers: Anja Skrivervik

Mats Gustavsson
09:00 Spatial Degrees of Freedom for radiating systems

Jakub Liska, Lukas Jelinek and Miloslav Capek

09:20
Maximum Peak Radiation Intensity

Icaro Soares, Erdem Cil and Denys Nikolayev

09:40 Physical Insights on Wireless Powering of Deep-Body
Ultraminiature Bioelectronics

Adrian Fernandez Carnicero and Anja K Skrivervik

10:00 Electrical characterization of biological solutions for implantable
antenna design

Ahmet Bilir and Sema Dumanli

10:20 In-body Antenna Design for Wireless Hip Implants

Davorin Mikulić, Juraj Bartolić, Davor Bonefačić and Zvonimir Šipuš

10:40 Analytic approximation of on-body path loss for wearable
antennas
Friday, 29th October 2023 Hall B

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

Trasma Yunita, Chairunnisa Chairunnisa, Aloysius Adya Pramudita

and Achmad Munir
9:00 Inset-Fed Triangular Antenna Array with Switchable Circular
Polarization

Josip Lončar
9:20 Bandwidth and Stability of Reflection Amplifiers for Intelligent
Reflecting Surfaces

Silvio Hrabar
9:40 How to Accurately Predict Instability in non-Foster and Time-varying
Circuits?

Dominik Žanić and Silvio Hrabar

10:00 Dispersion and Stability Properties of Microwave Tunable Negative
Inductance in CMOS Technology

Boris Okorn and Silvio Hrabar

10:20 Stability Analysis of Active Impedance Inverter based on Loss-
compensated Passive Structure

Darin Nožina and Silvio Hrabar

10:40 A non-Foster Solution for Broadband Directive Radiation Pattern in
Magneto-electric and Huygens Antennas
Friday, 29th October 2023 Hall A

Antenna Theory and Design

(11:30 – 12:50)

Icaro V Soares, Ursula Resende and William Oliveira

11:30 Design of a Compact Line-of-Sight Rectenna for Wireless Power
Transfer Systems

Marco Simone, Matteo Bruno Lodi, Nicola Curreli, Santi Concetto

Pavone, Gino Sorbello, Alessandro Fanti, and Giuseppe Mazzarella
11:50
A Ka-band wideband antenna for Cubesat satellites

Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio, Francesco D'Agostino, Angelo

Liseno, and Luigi Pascarella
12:10
Optimized discretization of 1D radiating panels

Claudia Macciò, Matteo Bruno Lodi, Nicola Curreli, Andrea Melis,

Giacomo Muntoni, Maurizio Bozzi, Giuseppe Mazzarella, and
12:30 Alessandro Fanti
A 3D-Printed Wideband Sensor for Food Complex Permittivity
Estimation Based on Double Ridge Waveguide
Friday, 29th October 2023 Hall B

Remote Sensing and Local Positioning

History of Electroamgentism in Croatia
(11:30 – 13:30)

Filip Turčinović and Marko Bosiljevac

11:30 Impact of Ground Based SAR Parameters on Radar Data Based
Object Classification

Mihkel Tommingas
11:50 Estimating UWB Positioning Integrity Based on Ranging Residuals

Dewa Mahardika, Agus D Prasetyo, Effrina Yanti Hamid, Achmad

Munir
12:10 A Straightforward Processing Algorithm for WLAN-based Local
Positioning System

Mohammed S. H. Al Salameh
12:30
COMSOL solutions for reducing radar cross section of drones

12:50
History of Electroamgentism in Croatia

Friday, 29th October 2023 Hall A

Closing Ceremony (13:30 – 13:45)