New Frontiers in millimetre / sub-millimetre waves integrated dielectric focusing systems (NEWFOCUS)

19 Events in 2015:

1. [Short Visit] Feasibility study of milimetre/terahertz low-cost graphene metasurfaces and lensing devices
   Dates : 08 May 2015 for 10 days
   Grantee : Zoran Eres (HR)
   Host(s) : Eva Kovacevic (FR)
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2. [School] Antenna measurements at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths
   Dates and location : 04 - 08 May 2015, Espoo (Helsinki), Finland
   Convened by : Antti Räisänen (FI)
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3. [Short Visit] Optimizing the focusing properties of small antennas placed inside a highly dissipative multilayer medium
   Dates : 03 May 2015 for 7 days
   Grantee : Marko Bosiljevac (HR)
   Host(s) : Anja Skrivervik (CH)
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4. [Short Visit] Fabrication of a sub-mm THz metasurface lens based on an array of D-dot loop antennas
   Dates : 02 May 2015 for 14 days
   Grantee : Boris Okorn (HR)
   Host(s) : Eva Kovacevic (FR)
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5. [Short Visit] Characterization of a 4x4 Dielectric Rod Waveguide antennas array in the W band
   Dates : 01 May 2015 for 15 days
   Grantee : Alejandro Rivera-Lavado (ES)
   Host(s) : Antti Räisänen (FI)
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6. [Short Visit] Improved Design, Fabrication and Testing of Focusing Dual-Layer Pillbox Antennas
   Dates : 20 April 2015 for 3 days
   Grantee : Marco Pasian (IT)
   Host(s) : Mauro Ettorre (FR)
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7. [Short Visit] Transformation Optics for near Field Focussing
   Dates : 19 April 2015 for 15 days
   Grantee : Guido Valerio (FR)
   Host(s) : Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (SE)
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8. [Exchange Grant] Gradient Metasurfaces with Interwoven Patterns for Wave Shaping and Focusing Functionalities with Improved Bandwidth and Resolution Performance
   Dates : 18 April 2015 for 8 weeks
   Grantee : Andrea Vallecchi (IT)
   Host(s) : Alexander Schuchinsky (UK)
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9. [Exchange Grant] Transformation Optics for Enhancing Lens-Based Parallel-Plate Waveguide Beam Formers
   Dates : 23 March 2015 for 9 weeks
   Grantee : Cheikh Dieylar Diallo (FR)
   Host(s) : Oscar QUEVEDO-TERUEL (SE)
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10. [Short Visit] Experimental Validation of New Phaseless Radiating Systems Characterization Techniques Based on Indirect Holography at Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Bands
    Dates : 13 March 2015 for 14 days
    Grantee : Ana Arboleya (ES)
    Host(s) : Juha Ala-Laurinaho (FI)
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11. [Exchange Grant] Development of metasurface antennas for satellite applications working in multiple frequency bands.
    Dates : 25 February 2015 for 12 weeks
    Grantee : Amagoia Tellechea Pereda (ES)
    Host(s) : STEFANO MACI (IT)
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12. [Exchange Grant] Analytical study of focus wave modes through a bessel beam launcher at millimeter waves
    Dates : 19 February 2015 for 16 weeks
    Grantee : Walter Fuscaldo (IT)
    Host(s) : Mauro Ettorre (FR)
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13. [Short Visit] Focusing properties of elementary sources embedded in lossy multilayer spherical medium
    Dates : 16 February 2015 for 6 days
    Grantee : Zvonimir Sipus (HR)
    Host(s) : Anja Skrivervik (CH)
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14. [Short Visit] Fresnel zone plates and 3D Fresnel dielectric lenses for imaging applications
    Dates : 09 February 2015 for 15 days
    Grantee : Igor Minin (RU)
    Host(s) : Daniel Thouroude (FR)
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15. [Short Visit] Theoretical investigation on the focalization of implanted antennas
    Dates : 07 February 2015 for 13 days
    Grantee : Benjamin Fuchs (FR)
    Host(s) : Anja Skrivervik (CH)
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16. [Exchange Grant] Transformation Optics Lenses for Creating Extreme Angle Planar Arrays
    Dates : 06 February 2015 for 7 weeks
    Grantee : Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (SE)
    Host(s) : Zvonimir Sipus (HR)
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17. [Exchange Grant] Near-Field Focusing and Collimating over a Huge Bandwidth Using Continuous Transverse Stub Antenna Arrays
    Dates : 23 January 2015 for 21 weeks
    Grantee : Darwin Joel Blanco Montero (ES)
    Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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18. [Exchange Grant] RLSA Bessel Beam Launchers using inward Hantkel Aperture Distributions for Focussing and Colmating Applications
    Dates : 15 January 2015 for 21 weeks
    Grantee : Santi Concetto Pavone (IT)
    Host(s) : MAURO ETTORRE (FR)
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19. [Exchange Grant] Design and 3D printer realization of ultra-flat dielectric lens antennas for millimeter wave focusing systems
    Dates : 15 January 2015 for 21 weeks
    Grantee : Federico Puggelli (IT)
    Host(s) : Yiannis Vardaxoglou (UK)
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15 Events in 2014:

1. [Short Visit] Synthesis of array-based focusing systems for microwave imaging
   Dates : 05 October 2014 for 13 days
   Grantee : Marco Donald Miglore (IT)
   Host(s) : Benjamin Fuchs (FR)
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2. [Workshop] 8th Workshop on Integral Techniques for Electromagnetics (INTELECT'2014)
   Dates and location : 26 September 2014, Ovronnaz, Switzerland
   Convened by : Juan R Mosig (CH)
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3. [Exchange Grant] Design and integration of power-efficient components and new focusing elements for the THz-range
   Dates : 08 September 2014 for 12 weeks
   Grantee : Enrique Garcia (ES)
   Host(s) : IVAN CAMARA MAYORGA (DE)
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4. [Exchange Grant] Analysis and design of curved metasurface lenses
   Dates : 16 August 2014 for 24 weeks
   Grantee : Dario Bojanjac (HR)
   Host(s) : Anthony Grbic (US)
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5. [Exchange Grant] Transformation Optics and its Applicaton to produce Collimating Lenses for Beam-Foring Networks
   Dates : 01 July 2014 for 5 weeks
   Grantee : Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (SE)
   Host(s) : Guido Valerio (FR)
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6. [School] Mm-wave ANtenna Design And Technologies
   Dates and location : 19 - 23 May 2014, Rennes
   Convened by : Ala Sharaiha (FR)
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7. [School] Advanced Mathematics for Antenna Analysis
   Dates and location : 12 - 17 May 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia
   Convened by : Zvonimir Sipus (HR)
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8. [Short Visit] New steerable focusing systems based on reconfigurable metasurfaces.
   Dates : 11 May 2014 for 15 days
   Grantee : Francesco Caminita (IT)
   Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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9. [Exchange Grant] Homogenized representation of metamaterials based on full-wave analysis for millimeter and submillimeter wave focusing system design
   Dates : 05 May 2014 for 26 weeks
   Grantee : Valentina Sozio (IT)
   Host(s) : Christophe Craeye (BE)
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10. [Exchange Grant] Far-Field Shaping of Planar Leaky-Wane Lenses for Space Applications
    Dates : 14 April 2014 for 15 weeks
    Grantee : Francesco Scattone (FR)
    Host(s) : Nelson J.G. Fonseca (NL)
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11. [Exchange Grant] Controlling directivity and shaping radiation at millimeter and terahertz frequencies by using quasiplanar superstrates – front-ends with localized subwavelength resonances
    Dates : 07 April 2014 for 22 weeks
    Grantee : Andriy Serebryannikov (DE)
    Host(s) : Miguel Beruete (ES)
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12. [Exchange Grant] Focusing of Orbital-Momentum Collimated Beams Through the Synthesis of Low Profile Slotted Antennas
    Dates : 01 April 2014 for 12 weeks
    Grantee : Davide Comite (IT)
    Host(s) : Guido VALERIO (FR)
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13. [Exchange Grant] Integration of a photomixer to a dielectric rod waveguide antenna in an attempt to develop an effective, focusing ultra wideband (UWB) THz Source.
    Dates : 17 February 2014 for 24 weeks
    Grantee : Alejandro Rivera-Lavado (ES)
    Host(s) : Antti Räisänen (FI)
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14. [Exchange Grant] Frequency Independent Patterns From Multiple Shell Lenses Fed by Leaky Wave Feeders
    Dates : 20 January 2014 for 24 weeks
    Grantee : Ozan Yurduseven (NL)
    Host(s) : Jorge Costa (PT)
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15. [Exchange Grant] Near-Field focusing at millimeter waves by means of high-order leaky-wave modes
    Dates : 06 January 2014 for 8 weeks
    Grantee : Walter Fuscaldo (IT)
    Host(s) : Mauro Ettorre (FR)
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13 Events in 2013:

1. [Exchange Grant] RLSA with Broadband corporate feed for Near-Field focusing
   Dates : 15 November 2013 for 26 weeks
   Grantee : Josip Seljan (FR)
   Host(s) : Matteo Albani (IT)
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2. [Exchange Grant] Near-field focusing using a 2D leaky-wave antenna based on a sinusoidally modulated reactance surface
   Dates : 01 November 2013 for 17 weeks
   Grantee : Ioannis Iliopoulos (GR)
   Host(s) : Juan Ramon Mosig (CH)
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3. [Exchange Grant] Development of Physical Optics Tools for the Analysis and Design of Dielectric Lens Antennas Fed by an Arbitrary Field Distribution
   Dates : 01 November 2013 for 14 weeks
   Grantee : Giorgio Carluccio (IT)
   Host(s) : Andrea Neto (NL)
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4. [Exchange Grant] Design of Mm-wave lens for 60 GHz and 120 GHz oganic modules
   Dates : 20 October 2013 for 4 weeks
   Grantee : Aimeric Bisognin (FR)
   Host(s) : Jorge COSTA (PT)
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5. [Workshop] 7th Workshop on Integral Techniques for Electromagnetics (INTELECT'2013)
   Dates and location : 14 - 15 October 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia
   Convened by : Zvonimir Sipus (HR)
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6. [School] Frequency Domain Techniques for Antenna Analysis
   Dates and location : 16 - 20 September 2013, Florence
   Convened by : Angelo Freni (IT)
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7. [Exchange Grant] Integrated metamaterial subwavelength focusing systems for sensors application
   Dates : 15 July 2013 for 24 weeks
   Grantee : Youssef Trabelsi (TN)
   Host(s) : Johan Stiens (BE)
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8. [Short Visit] MANUFACTURING AND MEASUREMENTS OF MILLIMETER WAVE LENSES IN SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE
   Dates : 12 May 2013 for 7 days
   Grantee : Alejandro Martinez-Ros (ES)
   Host(s) : George Goussetis (UK)
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9. [Short Visit] Analysis of multilayer lenses with circular polarization properties
   Dates : 06 May 2013 for 14 days
   Grantee : Dario Bojanjac (HR)
   Host(s) : Stefano Maci (IT)
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10. [Exchange Grant] Irregular stacked hole arrays as promising millimeter- and terahertz-wave front-ends with resonance transmission and radiation regimes
    Dates : 08 April 2013 for 13 weeks
    Grantee : Andriy Serebryannikov (DE)
    Host(s) : Miguel Betuete (ES)
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11. [Exchange Grant] Electromagnetic properties of a thin dielectric disk sandwiched between two graphene covers with applications to tuneable THz filters
    Dates : 12 March 2013 for 24 weeks
    Grantee : Mykhaylo Balaban (UA)
    Host(s) : Trevor Benson (UK)
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12. [Exchange Grant] Focusing choke horn antenna for constant flux illumination of rectangular cells: application to bioelectromagnetic studies at 60 GHz
    Dates : 25 February 2013 for 9 weeks
    Grantee : Sergiy Steshenko (UA)
    Host(s) : Maxim Zhadobov (FR)
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13. [School] ESoA module on ANtenna Project management
    Dates and location : 04 - 08 February 2013, Lausanne
    Convened by : Anja Skrivervik (CH)
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21 Events in 2012:

1. [Exchange Grant] NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING SYSTEMS BASED ON LEAKY-WAVE MODELING
   Dates : 12 November 2012 for 4 weeks
   Grantee : Matteo Albani (IT)
   Host(s) : Ronan SAULEAU (FR)
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2. [Exchange Grant] Dual band focusing system based on metasurfaces
   Dates : 01 November 2012 for 3 weeks
   Grantee : Maciej Smierzchalski (FR)
   Host(s) : Stefano Maci (IT)
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3. [Short Visit] Accurate 3D modeling of high-Q dielectric resonators and scatterers with rotational symmetry
   Dates : 23 October 2012 for 4 days
   Grantee : Ana Vukovic (UK)
   Host(s) : Alex Nosich (UA)
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4. [Exchange Grant] STUDY OF 3D DOMES FOR MILLIMETER WAVE APPLICATIONS
   Dates : 15 October 2012 for 26 weeks
   Grantee : Nurhan Turker Tokan (NL)
   Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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5. [Short Visit] Development of advanced integral-equation techniques for modeling of dielectric and metallic scatterers of quasioptical size
   Dates : 14 October 2012 for 7 days
   Grantee : Alexander Nosich (UA)
   Host(s) : Melanie Lebental (FR)
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6. [Exchange Grant] Electromagnetic characterization of submillimiter wave focusing devices based on TiO2 microsphere metamaterials
   Dates : 01 September 2012 for 26 weeks
   Grantee : Sylvain Lannebere (FR)
   Host(s) : Matteo Albani (IT)
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7. [Workshop] Quasioptics: Beams, Scattering, Focusing, and Resonances
   Dates and location : 28 - 30 August 2012, MMET*12 Int’l Conference, Kharkiv, Ukraine
   Convened by : Ilya Sukharevsky (UA)
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8. [Short Visit] Complex Conical Beams in Reflector System Analysis
   Dates : 22 August 2012 for 15 days
   Grantee : Sinisa Skokic (HR)
   Host(s) : Mikhail Balaban (UA)
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9. [Short Visit] RF MEMS-controlled reconfigurable partially reflective surfaces
   Dates : 09 July 2012 for 7 days
   Grantee : Tomislav Debogovic (HR)
   Host(s) : Julien Perruisseau-Carrier (CH)
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10. [Short Visit] Nystrom-type methods in the modeling of quasioptical reflectors
    Dates : 01 July 2012 for 15 days
    Grantee : Alexander I. Nosich (UA)
    Host(s) : Juan Mosig (CH)
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11. [Short Visit] Analysis of oblique incidence on multilayer cylindrical lenses
    Dates : 23 June 2012 for 13 days
    Grantee : Dario Bojanjac (HR)
    Host(s) : Stefano Maci (IT)
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12. [Exchange Grant] RESONANCE EFFECTS IN THE OPTICAL AND TERAHERTZ ANTENNAS SHAPED AS FINITE COMB-LIKE GRATINGS OF NOBLE-METAL NANOSTRIPS
    Dates : 23 June 2012 for 12 weeks
    Grantee : Olga Shapoval (UA)
    Host(s) : Juan R. Mosig (CH)
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13. [School] MM-WAVE ANTENNA DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES
    Dates and location : 21 - 25 May 2012, Rennes in France
    Convened by : Ala Sharaiha (FR)
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14. [School] Advanced Mathematics for Antenna Analysis (ESoA course)
    Dates and location : 14 - 19 May 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia
    Convened by : Zvonimir Sipus (HR)
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15. [Exchange Grant] DEVELOPMENT OF NYSTROM-TYPE TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF 2-D DIELECTRIC RESONATORS AND SCATTERERS
    Dates : 01 April 2012 for 25 weeks
    Grantee : Elena (Olena on passport) Smotrova (UA)
    Host(s) : Melanie Lebental (FR)
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16. [Exchange Grant] Scattering of three-dimensional circular Gaussian beam by a double-periodic slab of isotropic or anisotropic material in quasi-static approximation
    Dates : 15 March 2012 for 25 weeks
    Grantee : Tatiana Zinenko (UA)
    Host(s) : Sergei Tretyakov (FI)
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17. [School] European School of Antennas - Course on Antennas for Space Applications
    Dates and location : 12 - 16 March 2012, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
    Convened by : Luca Salghetti Drioli (NL)
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18. [Exchange Grant] Analysis of focusing reflector systems based on complex conical beams
    Dates : 20 February 2012 for 4 weeks
    Grantee : Sinisa Skokic (HR)
    Host(s) : Stefano Maci (IT)
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19. [Exchange Grant] Development Iterative Physical Optics Tools for the Extreme Speed Analysis and Design Techniques for Elliptical Dielectric Lens Antennas
    Dates : 01 February 2012 for 26 weeks
    Grantee : Giorgio Carluccio (IT)
    Host(s) : Andrea Neto (NL)
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20. [Exchange Grant] Variable metasurface based lens antennas: numerical and experimental evaluation
    Dates : 23 January 2012 for 3 weeks
    Grantee : Marko Bosiljevac (HR)
    Host(s) : Stefano Maci (IT)
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21. [Exchange Grant] Integrated radiating focusing systems: full-wave modeling of SIW beamformers and antennas
    Dates : 01 January 2012 for 26 weeks
    Grantee : Massimiliano Casaletti (IT)
    Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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16 Events in 2011:

1. [School] ESoA course Reflector and Lens Antennas
   Dates and location : 05 - 09 December 2011, Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden
   Convened by : Per-Simon Kildal (SE)
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2. [Exchange Grant] Modeling of frequency-selective polarizing reflectors made of sub-wavelength wire grids for millimeter-wave and THz applications
   Dates : 03 December 2011 for 13 weeks
   Grantee : Volodymyr Byelobrov (UA)
   Host(s) : Trevor Benson (UK)
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3. [Exchange Grant] DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING OF MILLIMETER-WAVE LENSES IN SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE
   Dates : 01 December 2011 for 26 weeks
   Grantee : Alejandro Javier Martinez Ros (ES)
   Host(s) : George Goussetis (UK)
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4. [Exchange Grant] Investigation of 3-D rotationally symmetric metal and dielectric resonators
   Dates : 01 December 2011 for 13 weeks
   Grantee : Vitalii Bulygin (UA)
   Host(s) : Trevor Benson (UK)
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5. [Workshop] NEW FRONTIES IN TERAHERTZ TECHNIQUES
   Dates and location : 30 November 2011, Kharkiv, Ukraine
   Convened by : Mykhaylo Balaban (UA)
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6. [Short Visit] Nonlinear effects in the scattering of millimeter, sub-millimeter and terahertz waves by finite layered structures
   Dates : 19 November 2011 for 15 days
   Grantee : Oksana Shramkova (UK)
   Host(s) : Alexey Bulgakov (UA)
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7. [Short Visit] Analytical regularization and Nystrom-type methods in the modeling of dielectric lenses and resonators
   Dates : 06 November 2011 for 15 days
   Grantee : Alexander Nosich (UA)
   Host(s) : Melanie Lebental (FR)
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8. [Short Visit] Dynamic Control of Sub-wavelength Field Confinement Using a Time Varying Homogeneous Lens of Simple Shape
   Dates : 17 October 2011 for 15 days
   Grantee : Nataliya Sakhnenko (UA)
   Host(s) : Chipouline Arkadi (DE)
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9. [Exchange Grant] Analysis of 3-D axially symmetric two-reflector quasioptical antennas
   Dates : 01 September 2011 for 13 weeks
   Grantee : Vitaliy Bulygin (UA)
   Host(s) : Trevor Benson (UK)
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10. [Exchange Grant] Modeling of frequency-selective polarizing reflectors made of sub-wavelength wire grids for millimeter-wave and THz applications
    Dates : 22 July 2011 for 13 weeks
    Grantee : Volodymyr Byelobrov (UA)
    Host(s) : Trevor Beson (UK)
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11. [Exchange Grant] Integrated metamaterial-based focusing systems for antenna beamformers
    Dates : 06 June 2011 for 26 weeks
    Grantee : Erio Gandini (FR)
    Host(s) : Anthony Grbic (US)
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12. [Exchange Grant] Integrated focusing systems in SIW technology: full wave modeling and optimization
    Dates : 01 May 2011 for 25 weeks
    Grantee : Massimiliano Casaletti (IT)
    Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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13. [Short Visit] Mathematical and numerical modeling of dielectric lenses, resonators, and lasers using boundary integral equations and eigenvalue problems
    Dates : 10 April 2011 for 15 days
    Grantee : Alexander Nosich (UA)
    Host(s) : Giuseppe Schettini (IT)
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14. [Short Visit] Near field focusing and radar cross section for a finite paraboloidal screen
    Dates : 10 April 2011 for 8 days
    Grantee : Vitaliy Bulygin (UA)
    Host(s) : Giuseppe Schettini (IT)
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15. [Short Visit] Terahertz extraordinary transmission antennas
    Dates : 03 April 2011 for 14 days
    Grantee : Miguel Beruete (ES)
    Host(s) : Tahsin Akalin (FR)
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16. [Exchange Grant] The scattering and focusing of electromagnetic waves by a thin dielectric disk
    Dates : 01 March 2011 for 26 weeks
    Grantee : Mikhail Balaban (UA)
    Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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3 Events in 2010:

1. [Exchange Grant] New focusing devices based on periodic surfaces
   Dates : 04 October 2010 for 21 weeks
   Grantee : Marko Bosiljevac (HR)
   Host(s) : Stefano Maci (IT)
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2. [Exchange Grant] Resonances in the scattering and focusing of waves by periodically structured ensembles of metal and dielectric wires
   Dates : 05 September 2010 for 4 weeks
   Grantee : Denys Natarov (UA)
   Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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3. [Exchange Grant] Design of quasi-3D integrated lens antennas
   Dates : 01 September 2010 for 24 weeks
   Grantee : Artem Boryskin (UA)
   Host(s) : Ronan Sauleau (FR)
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