The first IHF Antenna Day Workshop was held on July 11, 2025.
An antenna, the interface between electronics and the wireless world, plays a crucial role for communication and sensing systems.
The IHF Antenna Day Workshop helps students to grasp the fundamental steps involved in antenna engineering. It provides hand-on experiences and includes:
- a very brief top-down introduction to antenna history and technology;
- design & simulation of antennas with commercial software (CST);
- S-parameter measurement with a Vector Network Analyzer (VNA);
- Radiation pattern measurement in an anechoic chamber.
Planar (and connectorized) monopole and patch antennas serve as examples (operation around 30 GHz).
Students do simulate these antennas, verify manufacturing tolerances using a 3D microscope, practice delicate connector assembly, do the S-parameter measurements and finally measure the radiation characteristics of the antennas.
In the future, the IHF Antenna Day Workshop shall take place annually, to provide motivated students with deeper insight into the world of antenna theory and practice.
