Short-term Course on Design and Applications of Metamaterial at IIT Kharagpur [Dec 11- 17]: Register by Dec 1

Registrations are open for Short-term Course on Design and Applications of Metamaterial on 11-17 December 2023. The last date of registration is 1 December.

Current research on microwave techniques and applications increasingly focus on novel and engineered materials to fulfill the stringent needs of modern communication. In this respect, metamaterials have played a significant and dominant role in size reduction and performance enhancement of microwave devices including both antennas and guided wave components.

Though the concept of opposing phase and group velocities in a periodic structure has been known to the microwave community, the application of the technology to the design of novel microwave devices has been relatively recent. In one domain, metamaterials have enabled us to very significantly enhance the extent of miniaturization of microwave antennas while maintaining or exceeding their efficiency to close to the physically attainable ‘Chu Limit’.

The course would focus on the techniques and concepts behind the significant size-reduction of such antennas for planar and non-planar structures. In addition, metamaterial-based designs have been used for the directivity enhancement of antennas using the mu-near-zero or epsilon-very-large effects. The magnetic resonator behavior under parallel incidence condition can be utilized to realize the enhanced gain characteristic.

However, from the perspective of miniaturized antenna with reduced superstrate height, the normal incidence condition is more attractive. Unit cells exhibiting electric resonance are particularly useful to achieve this goal. The course would as such focus on the design and characterization of such metamaterial topologies leading to the development of efficient directive antennas.

Teachers from Colleges / Institutions / Universities. Scientific Officers / Instructors / Technical Assistants /Research Scholars/Under Graduate and Post Graduate Students/ Participants from Industries.

The course fee can be paid online through IIT Kharagpur web-portal by following the steps given below ( candidates applying in a group can however pay their fees offline through demand draft drawn in favour of ‘CEP-STC, IIT Kharagpur’, payable at Kharagpur.)

Prof. Bratin Ghosh
Email: bghosh[at]ece.iitkgp.ac.in, pandaarabinda[at]gmail.com
Phone: +91-3222-283534
Mobile No. +91-9831064495/9635171122