List of completed STSM Missions

STSM November 2019 – September 2020

Due to the pandemic, only one STSM could take place in the period until September 2020:

Dr. Francisco Javier Rivero Campos, Politecnico di Torino, visiting Prof. Guido Valerio (Sorbonne Université), 01/02/2020 to 29/02/2020
Title: Computation of Periodic Green’s Functions in Higher-Symmetric Materials Using Method of Moments”.
Results of the STSM have been submitted as a conference paper to the SyMat convened session organized at EuCAP 2021 and were presented there.

STSM October 2020 – October 2021

Four STSM took place in the period between October 2020 and October 2021.

1. Dr. Mauro Ettorre (CNRS, France) visited Profs. Zvonimir Sipus and Marko Bosiljevac (University of Zagreb), 18/10/2020 to 23/10/2020.
Title: “Future communications with higher-symmetric engineered artificial materials”. The visit was aimed at starting a new collaboration for the analysis and design of wideband wide scan LP-CP polarizers over conformal surfaces using higher-symmetry concepts. Results of the STSM will be presented at SyMat scientific meeting planned in 2022.

2. Prof. Francisco Mesa (University of Seville, Spain) visited Prof. Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (KTH, Sweden), 3/05/2021 to 13/06/2021.
Title: “Use of higher symmetries in advanced communication systems”. The visit was aimed at the extension of the Multi-Modal Transfer-Matrix Method (MMTMM) to obtain the dispersion diagrams of 3-D periodic structures, possibly allowing for inhomogeneities of the input/output ports of the unit cells. Results of the STSM will be presented at SyMat scientific meeting planned in 2022.

3. Dr. Walter Fuscaldo (CNR, Italy) visited Dr. Mauro Ettorre (CNRS, France), 15/06/2021 to 04/07/2021.
Title: “Millimeter-wave generation of localized beams through higher-symmetric metasurfaces”. The visit was aimed at the use of glide-symmetric metasurfaces in 1-D radially periodic leaky-wave antennas at mm-waves and to explore applications of self-healing Bessel beams. Results of the STSM will be presented at SyMat scientific meeting planned in 2022.

4. Mr. Dayan Pérez Quintana (CNR, Italy) visited Prof. Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (KTH, Sweden), 01/09/2021 to 01/10/2021.
Title: “Design of antennas and metasurfaces using Glide Symmetry and Gap Waveguide technology”. The visit was aimed at the use of glide-symmetric metasurfaces for the feeding of geodesic lenses. Results of the STSM will be presented at SyMat scientific meeting planned in 2022.