Workshops and Short Courses

This short course will present the state-of-the-art in understanding RF power phenomena that detrimentally affect space, aircraft and terrestrial communications. Dramatic increase in communications capacity, bandwidth, number of carriers and antennas poses new challenges in handling the high RF power. These problems become ever more acute and critical for emerging and future RF systems. The short course addresses the following aspects: • Awareness of the diverse physical origins of RF power effects • Context of RF power impact on the communications devices • State-of-the-art in prediction (simulation), measurement and mitigation/correction of the high RF power effects • Standardization and specifications • Knowledge of existing means and actors in Europe Features of the RF power effects in the space, terrestrial and aircraft communications will be discussed. Main parts of the short course cover: • Multipactor theory and simulation methods, test and measurement methods • Secondary electron theory and measurement, surface conditions and conditioning • Corona theory and simulation methods, test and measurement methods • RF breakdown and plasma, avalanche, effect of pressure • Passive Intermodulation theory and simulation • Passive Intermodulation theory of distributed non-linearity, modeling and measurements • Standardization: present and future • Measurement means and simulation software Programme