Nominees of the EuCAP Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards

2022 EuCAP Best Paper Award Nominees: 

Best Electromagnetics Paper Award

• (1570771378) “Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces”, Qi Jian Lim (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), Charles Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Gabriele Gradoni (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Zhen Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 

• (1570771020) “Array Antenna Power Pattern Analysis Through Quantum Computing”, Luca Tosi and Nicola Anselmi (ELEDIA Research Center, Italy), Alessandro Polo (ELEDIA Research Center, University of Trento, Italy), Paolo Rocca (University of Trento & ELEDIA Research Center, Italy) 

• (1570771308) “Spatially-Discrete Traveling-Wave Modulation: A Higher-Order Space-Time Symmetry”, Cody Scarborough (University of Michigan, USA), Anthony Grbic (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

• (1570771132) “Ray-Field Scattered by Polygonal Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces”, Stefano Maci, Ernest Ofosu Addo, Matteo Albani and Enrica Martini (University of Siena, Italy)

• (1570770356) “Wideband Characterization of Holey Glide-Symmetric Parallel-Plate Waveguides”, Boris Fischer and Guido Valerio (Sorbonne Université, France)

Best Theory and Design Antenna Paper Award

• (1570769139) “Electrically Small Antenna with Embedded Operational Amplifier Circuit Surpasses the Passive Upper Bound of the Gain-Bandwidth Product”, Yaqing Yu, Ming-Chun Tang, Da Yi, Dingmou Hong and Shi Ting (Chongqing University, China), Richard Ziolkowski (University of Technology Sydney, Australia & University of Arizona, USA)

• (1570770585) “Higher-Symmetries for Broadband Reflecting Luneburg Lenses at Ka-Band”, Christos Bilitos (University of Rennes 1, France), Jorge Ruiz-García (Université de Rennes, France), Ronan Sauleau (University of Rennes 1, France), Enrica Martini and Stefano Maci (University of Siena, Italy), David González-Ovejero (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS, France)

• (1570770850) “Towards Holographic Antenna Systems for MIMO Radar and Communication Applications”, Thomas Frey (University Ulm - Institute of Microwave Engineering, Germany), Maximilian Döring (University Ulm, Germany), Christian Waldschmidt and Tobias Chaloun (University of Ulm, Germany)

• (1570771163) “Low-Profile and High-Gain Submm-Wave Lens Antenna for Compact Instruments”, Sven L van Berkel (NASA-JPL, Caltech, USA), Maria Alonso-delPino (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Cecile Jung-Kubiak (NASA-JPL, Caltech, USA); Goutam Chattopadhyay (NASA-JPL/Caltech, USA)

• (1570771202) “Core-Shell Leaky-Wave Lens Antenna for 150GHz Fly's Eye Communication Systems”, Nick van Rooijen, Maria Alonso-delPino, Marco Spirito and Nuria LLombart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Best Applied Technology Antenna Paper Award 

• (1570770251) “Transmit Lens Arrays for Broadband THz Power Distribution and Beam Steering”, Maria Alonso-delPino and Sjoerd Bosma (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Cecile Jung-Kubiak (NASA-JPL, Caltech, USA), Juan Bueno (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Goutam Chattopadhyay (NASA-JPL/Caltech, USA), Nuria LLombart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

• (1570770579) “Planar Glide-Symmetric Dielectric Half-Luneburg Lens at K/Ka-Band”, Oskar Zetterstrom and Pilar Castillo-Tapia (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Jose-Manuel Poyanco (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Nelson Fonseca (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Francisco Pizarro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile); Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• (1570770738) “RF Modeling and Measurements of a Reflectarray for Synthetic Aperture Radar for Earth Observations”, Niels Vesterdal, Min Zhou, Michael F. Palvig, Stig Sørensen and Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson (TICRA, Denmark), David Marote Alvarez (Airbus/CASA, Spain), Giovanni Toso (European Space Agency, ESA ESTEC, The Netherlands)

• (1570770751) “On the Demonstration of Dynamic Beam-Steering with a Scanning Lens Phased Array at W-Band”, Sjoerd Bosma, Nick van Rooijen, Maria Alonso-delPino, Marco Spirito and Nuria LLombart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

• (1570771016) “How to Transform an Aortic Valve Prostheses into an UHF Antenna for the RFID-Based Wireless Monitoring of the Cardiac Health”, Miriam Gagliardi, Cecilia Occhiuzzi and Roberto Verzicco (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), Gaetano Marrocco (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

Best Propagation Paper Award

• (1570770532) “Measurement Based Identification of MPCs in an Urban Drone-To-Drone Propagation Scenario”, Dennis Becker and Uwe-Carsten G. Fiebig (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany) 

• (1570771327) “A Portable Microwave Scanner for Brain Stroke Monitoring: Design, Implementation and Experimental Validation”, David O. Rodriguez-Duarte, Jorge A. Tobon Vasquez and Santiago de Luque Arias (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Rosa Scapaticci (CNR-National Research Council of Italy, Italy), Lorenzo Crocco (CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Italy), Francesca Vipiana (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) 

• (1570771283) "BepiColombo Mission to Mercury: Designing RadioMetOP Weather-Forecast Based Operations to Improve Satellite Data Throughput at Ka-Band”, Marianna Biscarini and Frank S. Marzano (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Paolo Antonelli (HIMET, Italy), Saverio Di Fabio and Livio Bernardini (CETEMPS, Italy), Paolo Scaccia (HIMET, Italy), Maria Montagna (SciSys @ ESA, Germany) 

• (1570770317) “A Learning-Based NLOS Mitigation Method for Single-Anchor SLAM”, Tianyu Wang, Yuxiao Li, Junchen Liu and Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China) 

• (1570770269) “Verification of THz Channel Sounder and Delay Estimation with Over-The-Air Multipath Artifact”, Diego Dupleich (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany), Sebastian Semper (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany), Mohanad Dawood Al-Dabbagh (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany), Alexander Ebert (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany), Thomas Kleine-Ostmann (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany), Reiner S. Thomä (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)

Best Measurement Paper Award

• (1570770320) “Fully Coherent UAV-Based Near-Field Measurement and Transformation of the S67-15m Ground Station Antenna at the German Space Operations Center in Weilheim”, Stefan Punzet (Technical University of Munich & Chair of High-Frequency Engineering (HFT), Germany), Fabian T. Faul and Thomas Mittereder (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Christian Oettl, Matthias Ganser and Martin Häusler (DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V., Germany), Thomas F. Eibert (Technical University of Munich (TUM) & Chair of High-Frequency Engineering (HFT), Germany) 

• (1570770365) “Initial Results on D Band Channel Measurements in LOS and NLOS Office Corridor Environment”, Joonas Kokkoniemi, Veikko Hovinen, Klaus Nevala and Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)

• (1570770627) “Measurement of Low Frequency Antennas in Indoor Reflective Environments with the Synthetic Probe Array Technique”, Ruben Tena Sanchez (Microwave Vision Group (MVG), Italy), Francesco Saccardi and Andrea Giacomini (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy), Maria Alberica Saporetti (Italian Space Agency, Italy), Paul Moseley (European Space Agency, Switzerland), Lars Foged (Microwave Vision Italy, Italy)

• (1570769660) “Analysis of Instantaneous and Maximal RF Exposure in 4G/5G Networks with Dynamic Spectrum Sharing”, Lisa-Marie Schilling, Christian Bornkessel and Matthias Hein (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany) 

• (1570771176) “Fast Spline-Based Antenna Measurements for Robotic Test Ranges via Pointwise Probe Correction”, Roland Moch and Dirk Heberling (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

2022 EuCAP Best Student Paper Award Nominees: 

• (1570769139) “Electrically Small Antenna with Embedded Operational Amplifier Circuit Surpasses the Passive Upper Bound of the Gain-Bandwidth Product” Yaqing Yu, Ming-Chun Tang, Da Yi, Dingmou Hong and Shi Ting (Chongqing University, China); Richard Ziolkowski (University of Technology Sydney, Australia & University of Arizona, USA)

• (1570770120) “Calibration of a 94-GHz Monopulse Feed Based on Hybrid Comparison of Its Experimental Patterns”  Marta Ferreras, Mariano Barba and Jesús Grajal (Information Processing and Telecommunications Center, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

• (1570770518) “A Broadband Potential-Based Boundary Element Method for Modeling Electromagnetic Scattering from Dielectrics and Conductors” Shashwat Sharma and Piero Triverio (University of Toronto, Canada)

• (1570770850) “Towards Holographic Antenna Systems for MIMO Radar and Communication Applications” Thomas Frey (University Ulm - Institute of Microwave Engineering, Germany); Maximilian Döring (University Ulm, Germany); Christian Waldschmidt and Tobias Chaloun (University of Ulm, Germany)

• (1570770356)  “Wideband Characterization of Holey Glide-Symmetric Parallel-Plate Waveguides” Boris Fischer and Guido Valerio (Sorbonne Université, France)