The overall objective of Flex5Gware is to deliver highly reconfigurable hardware (HW) platforms together with HW-agnostic software (SW) platforms targeting both network elements and devices and taking into account increased capacity, reduced energy footprint, as well as scalability and modularity, to enable a smooth transition from 4G mobile wireless systems to 5G.

The focus of LUNAR is on the optimization of the customers’ retail shopping experience. In addition, the project aims to give retailers detailed insights into customer behaviour by providing an accurate, cost-effective, scalable solution for real-time customer tracking, based on ultra wideband (UWB) technology.

The goal of this project is to construct new analysis and design methods that will enable our industrial partner, Melexis Technologies N.V., and its customers to design products that can consistently and cost-effectively meet the novel and growing range of field-coupled transient immunity requirements for automotive Integrated Circuits (IC), which are being specified by the car manufacturers.

The goal of these project is to develop advanced interconnect modelling tools to enable the design and verification of very high-speed (100GBit/s) interconnection links.

The members of the BESTCOM network perform research about « wired and wireless digital communication links and networks », and in particular the following areas: traffic modelling and analysis, communication channels modelling and shaping, optimized algorithm design for transmission, reception, resource allocation, buffering and scheduling.

The Action aims to address efficient Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) circuits, systems and strategies specially tailored for battery-less systems. Battery-free sensors, passive RFID, Near Field Communications (NFC) are all closely related concepts that make use of WPT and energy harvesting systems to remotely power up mobile devices or to remotely charge batteries, contributing to develop and foster the Internet of Things (IoT) evolution.

The ARMOURS project is committed to the development of novel technologies for the implementation of future multi-frequency PRS receivers, filling some of the technological gaps to enable affordable and robust solutions for future demanding applications relying on the continuous availability of the PRS service.

The PANAMA project brings together leading European partners from the semiconductor, test tools, electronic design automation and academic worlds to focus on future more efficient multi-band, multi-mode power amplifiers and transmitter systems.

This project aimed at the development of an integrated platform to measure material properties of absorbers, to post-process this measurement data taking into account Kramer-Kronig relations, to determine the scattering and transmission properties of planar layered stacks of these absorbers, to develop optimization techniques to design stacks of absorbers satisfying given scattering and transmission properties and to perform a sensitivity analysis of these designs based on measurement error estimations.

This project aimed the development of new analytical and numerical solution techniques of Maxwell's equations in the presence of materials with complex constitutive relations. On the one side fields in the microwave regime are derived in so-called bianisotropic media. On the other side quasi-static fields inside ferromagnetic materials with hysteretic properties described by the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equations.

The Department of Information Technology and the Textiles Department participated in the ProeTEX Integrated Project of the EU Sixth Framework Program, focusing on the development of intelligent suits for rescue workers. The research headed by prof. Rogier consists of the design of textile antennas for wireless communication of body and environment parameters from a rescue worker to a central command post.

This project focussed on efficient and accurate EM simulations for planar interconnect structures used in communication systems. The applications for the EM simulator technology range from MMIC, RFBoard, RFIC to RFModule applications, used for wireless or wireline applications. Two specific topics are addressed: (a) simulation of 3D effects, including general 3D finite thickness metallisation in a planar medium, finite dielectric structures and general 3D metallisation (e.g. bond wires) and (b) more efficient EM simulations for large and complex structures.

This project aimed at the development of mm-wave (30 - 300GHz) technology for the creation of an imaging system. The contribution of the Electromagnetics Group deals with the forward and inverse electromagnetic modelling of the system and its separate components.