Ihtesham Khan, along with Dr. Iñigo Ederra, attended the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-URSU Radio Science Meeting for the presentation of two accepted research papers. This year this important event was held in Italy, in the beautiful city of Florence, from 14 to 19 of July.

Ihtesham is a WIT young researchers who is doing the PhD in High-Gain Fabry Perot antennas for THz frequencies at the Antenna group of Upna, guided by the expertise of Dr. Iñigo Ederra.

This achievement of having two accepted papers on the IEEE AP-S/URSI 2024 reflects the satisfactory work done over this first year of Ihtesham's predoctoral WIT contract.

Let's know a bit more about the work presented in Florence:

• 'A Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna with a SiGe on-chip Feeder for submm-wave Applications': The use of a Fabry-Perot cavity is proposed to enhance the radiation features of a 130nm BiCMOS SiGe onchip antenna and reach higher directivities. Antennas in this technology aim at providing the necessary means of radiation for the next-generation sub-mm-wave silicon front-end-on-a chip devices, which provide seamless integration with the digital chain and minimize additional losses existing in system in-package configurations. The introduction of a Fabry-Perot cavity can allow these antennas to increase their directivity while reducing the necessary complexity of the arrays, overcoming the limitations of the current technology.
   
• 'A Wide Beamwidth Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna for Wide Beam Scanning Antenna Arrays': A simple and cost-effective configuration to broaden the beamwidths of the patch antenna has been studied. The proposed antenna has been fabricated and tested, verifying that measurements shows good agreement with the simulations. The proposed antenna can find its application for the increasing the scanning coverage of the patch antenna arrays.

Valuable and applicable work, to continue making good progress in the research related with Ihtesham's PhD. Congratulations to Ihtesham, Iñigo and the Antenna group!