2024 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO'2024)

Aug. 12 - 14 , 2024, Montreal, Canada.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM


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MONDAY, AUGUST 12


Time

Event
8:00am Registration Opens
8:15 am – 8:30 am Opening Remarks and Address from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) President, Prof. Maurizio Bozzi












8:30 am – 10:10 am

Session Mo-AM1

Focused Session: Computational Methods for Metasurface Design and Simulation

Chair: Puyan Mojabi (University of Manitoba, Canada)

8:30 am – 8:50 am

Radiation Pattern Tailoring Using Conformal Metasurface Radomes (Student Paper Competition)
Christopher J. M. Barker (University of Alberta, Canada),
Ashwin Iyer (University of Alberta, Canada)

8:50 am – 9:10 am

Recent Advances in the Modeling of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Mutual Coupling Effects and Multipath Propagation (Student Paper Competition)
Yuanzhi Liu (University of Toronto, Canada),
Costas Sarris (University of Toronto, Canada)

9:10 am – 9:30 am

A Robust Microwave Sensor Featuring a Perfect Metasurface Absorber
Nazli Kazemi (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada),
Mohammad Abdolrazzaghi (University of Toronto, Canada),
Petr Musilek (University of Alberta, Canada),
Elham Baladi (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)

9:30 am –9:50 am

Linear to Circular Polarization Converting Beamsteerable Metasurfaces
Mahboubeh Taraji (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada),
Marco A. Antoniades (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada),
Elham Baladi (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)

9:50 am – 10:10 am

Implicit IE-GSTC Metasurface Solver: Review and Recent Progress
Mario Phaneuf (University of Manitoba, Canada), Puyan Mojabi (University of Manitoba, Canada)

10:10 am – 10:30 am

Coffee Break















10:30 am – 11:50 am

Session Mo-AM2
Fast Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics

Chairs: Vladimir Okhmatovski (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Abdulkadir C. Yucel (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
Yang Liu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

10:30 am – 10:50 am

Faber Polynomial based Local Propagators for Laser Applications
Wladimir Plotnikov (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Dirk Schulz (TU Dortmund University, Germany)

10:50 am – 11:10 am

Preconditioned Parallel Locally Corrected Nyström Discretization of CFIE Accelerated by H-Matrix
Omid Babazadeh (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Vladimir Okhmatovski (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Ian Jeffrey (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Constantine Sideris (University of Southern California, USA),
Emrah Sever (Aselsan Inc., Turkey),
Jin Hu (University of Southern California, USA)

11:10 am – 11:30 am

Discontinuous Galerkin Time Domain Methods in Electromagnetics GPU-Accelerated Numerical Algorithms
Olivier Cotte (McGill University, Canada),
Dennis D Giannacopoulos (McGill University, Canada)

11:30 am – 11:50 pm

Antenna-Circuit Co-Simulation via Clustering Model Order Reduction
Jacob Martire (Uniersity of Ottawa, Canada),
Derek A McNamara (University of Ottawa, Canada),
Emad Gad (University of Ottawa, Canada)

11:50 am – 12:00 pm

Discussion Mo-AM Sessions and Conference Announcements

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Keynote: Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of 3-D Heterogeneously Integrated Systems
Dan Jiao (Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA)

2:00 pm – 3:40 pm

Session Mo-PM1

Focused Session: Commercial EM Simulation Tools

Chair: C. J. Reddy (Altair Engineering, USA)

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm

Efficient CAD of Large Rotational Symmetric Antennas with BOR FEM and Spherical Wave Expansion
Ralf Beyer (Mician GmbH, Germany),
Ralf Ihmels (Mician Inc., Germany)

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm

Conformal Field Injection for Accurate FDTD Simulation of Off-Grid Planar Transmission Line Structures
Andreas Lauer (IMST GmbH, Germany),
Thorsten Liebig (IMST GmbH, Germany),
David Schäfer (IMST GmbH, Germany),
Winfried Simon (IMST GmbH, Germany),
Andreas Wien (IMST GmbH, Germany)

2:40 pm – 3:00 pm

Recent Advances in Altair Feko
Shannon Mistry (Altair, USA),
C. J. Reddy (Altair, USA)

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm

Leveraging Cloud Computing & GPU Acceleration for High Fidelity Wireless Channel Modeling in Dynamic Virtual Terrestrial Environments
Laila Salman (Ansys Canada Ltd.)

3:20 pm – 3:40 pm

Recent Advances in Full-Wave Modelling of IC Packaging
Jonatan Aronsson (CEMWorks Inc., Canada)

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:20 pm

Session Mo-PM2

Optimization and Modeling Methods for Computer-aided Design

Chair: Qi-Jun (QJ) Zhang (Carleton University, Canada)

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm

A Review of Space Mapping and AI-Based Surrogate for Microwave Device Optimization
Yu Deng (Southern University of Science and Technology, China),
Qingsha S. Cheng (Southern University of Science and Technology, China),
Yu Kuang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

4:20 pm – 4:40 pm

High-order Stable Simulation of Nonlinear Circuits using Modified Inversion of the Laplace Transform (Student Paper Competition)
Bardia Bandali (University of Ottawa, Canada),
Emad Gad (University of Ottawa, Canada),
Michel Nakhla (Carleton University, Canada)

4:40 pm – 5:00 pm

Power-weighted Pretraining-based Feature Extraction for Model Adaptation of RF Power Amplifiers
Qing Luo (Southeast University, China),
Xiao-Wei Zhu (Southeast University, China)

5:20 pm – 5:30 pm

Discussion Tu-PM Sessions and Conference Announcements
(Conference Chairs)
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Reception
Hotel Germain Montreal (Pavillion Room)2050 Mansfield St., Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y9

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13


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8:30 am – 10:10 am
Session Tu-AM1

Focused Session: Bridging the Gaps between Electromagnetic Modeling and Material Measurements – Part I

Chairs: Malgorzata Celuch (QWED Sp. z o. o., Poland),
Kamel Haddadi (University of Lille, France)

8:30 am – 8:50 am
Reduction of Numerical Analysis Complexity of Structures Used for Material Characterization
Malgorzata Warecka (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland),
Rafal Lech (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland),
Piotr Kowalczyk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)

8:50 am – 9:10 am
Estimation of Electric Conductivity of Copper Foils Employing Full Wave Simulation Based on 3D FEM and Shape Deformation
Adam Lamecki (EM Invent sp. z o.o., Poland),
Lukasz Balewski (EM Invent sp. z o.o., Poland),
Michal Mrozowski (EM Invent sp. z.o.o, Poland)

9:10 am – 9:30 am
Modeling-Based Methodology for Electromagnetic Screening of Copper Foils for High-Frequency Applications
Malgorzata Celuch (QWED, Poland),
Thomas Devahif (Circuit Foil),
Tomasz Nalecz (QWED, Poland),
Janusz Rudnicki (QWED, Poland)

9:30 am –9:50 am
Development of LRRM and TRL Calibration Kits for On-Wafer Microwave Measurements at the Nanoscale
Daouda Seck (LNE),
Djamel Allal (LNE),
Kamel Haddadi (University of Lille, France)

9:50 am – 10:10 am
A Comparative Study of Deblurring Methods for Dielectric Resonator Scans of Material Surfaces (Student Paper Competition)
Justyna I. Koper (QWED Sp. Z o. o., Poland),
Małgorzata Celuch (QWED Sp. Z o.o., Poland),
Marzena Olszewska-Placha (QWED Sp. z o.o., Poland),
Przemysław Korpas (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

10:10 am – 10:30 am

Coffee Break

















10:30 am – 11:50 am
Session Tu-AM2

Focused Session: Bridging the Gaps between Electromagnetic Modeling and Material Measurements – Part II


Chairs: Malgorzata Celuch (QWED Sp. z o. o., Poland),
Kamel Haddadi (University of Lille, France)

10:30 am – 10:50 am
Comparison of the Transmission/Reflection Methods in Liquid Permittivity Measurements Supported by EM Simulations
Michał M. Kalisiak (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland),
Wojciech Wiatr (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland),
Arkadiusz Lewandowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland),
Łukasz Usydus (Central Office of Measures, Poland)

10:50 am – 11:10 am
Numerical Electromagnetic Modeling of a BCDR Test Fixture for Out of Plane Permittivity Measurements
Lukasz Nowicki (QWED Sp. z o. o., Poland),
Malgorzata Celuch (QWED Sp. z o. o., Poland),
Marzena Olszewska–Placha (QWED Sp. z o. o., Poland),
Wojciech Gwarek (QWED Sp. z o. o., Poland)

11:10 am – 11:30 am
Multipactor Modeling in 2D for Open Insight into the EM Behavior of Metalic Microwave Components
Malgorzata Celuch (QWED, Poland),
Thomas Devahif (Circuit Foil),
Tomasz Nalecz (QWED, Poland),
Janusz Rudnicki (QWED, Poland)

11:30 am – 11:50 pm
Evaluation of Discrepancies in Theoretical and Experimental RF Energy Harvesting Efficiency from Measured Diode Parameters
Xiaoqiang Gu (University of Bristol, UK),
Maninder Bir Singh Gulshan (McGill University, Canada);
Thomas Micallef (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada),
Roni Khazaka (McGill University, Canada),
Ke Wu (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)

11:50 am – 12:00 pm

Discussion Tu-AM Sessions and Conference Announcements (Conference Chairs)

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Keynote: A Journey of Discovery in Numerical Microwave Electromagnetics
Jim Rautio (Sonnet Software, USA)

2:00 pm – 3:40 pm
Session Tu-PM1
Advancements in Electromagnetic and/or Multiphysics Inverse Problems

Chair: Ian Jeffrey (University of Manitoba, Canada)

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Feature-based Magnetotelluric Inversion with the Variational Autoencoder Regularization
Hongyu Zhou (Tsinghua University, China),
Rui Guo (Tsinghua University, China),
Maokun Li (Tsinghua University, China),
Fan Yang (Tsinghua University, China),
Shenheng Xu (Tsinghua University, China)

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm
Minimizing Transceivers through ML-Driven Time-Domain Inversion
Ben J. Martin (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Ian Jeffrey (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Colin Gilmore (University of Manitoba, Canada)

2:40 pm – 3:00 pm
Prediction of Electromagnetic Scattering with a Small Dataset Based on Active Learning
De-Hua Kong (Peking University, China),
Wen-Chi Huang (Peking University, China),
Jia-Ning Cao (Peking University, China),
Wen-Wei Zhang (Peking University, China),
Chao-Fu Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore);
Ming-Yao Xia (Peking University, China)

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm
A Numerical Approach for Doppler Radars (Student Paper Competition)
Mohammad Marvasti (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada),
Halim Boutayeb (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)

3:20 pm – 3:40 pm
Multiphysics Design & Analysis of Silver-Based Low-Emissivity Coating Technology for Energy Saving Sustainable Windows Applications
Laila Salman (Ansys Canada Ltd.)

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:20 pm

Session Tu-PM2:

Advanced Methods for Antenna Analysis and Design
Chair: Zhizhang (David) Chen (Dalhousie University, Canada)

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm
Multiphysics Modeling on Photoconductive Antennas for Terahertz Applications
Boxun Yan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),
Pooja Bundel (City University of Hong Kong, China),
Chi-Hou Chan (City University of Hong Kong, China),
Mau-Chung Frank Chang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

4:20 pm – 4:40 pm
Capacity Based Design of Slot Array Antennas
Volodymyr Shyianov (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Bamelak H Tadele (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Vladimir Okhmatovski (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Faouzi Bellili (University of Manitoba, Canada),
Amine Mezghani (University of Manitoba, Canada)

4:40 pm – 5:00 pm
On The Circuit Modelling of Far-field Radiation
Zhen-yuan Zhang (McMaster University, Canada),
Natalia K. Nikolova (McMaster University, Canada),
Yang Jiang (Shenzhen University, China),
Ming Yu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

5:00 pm – 5:20 pm
Radar Antennas Employing a Modified Dielectric GRIN Luneburg Lens (Student Paper Competition)
Mohammad Omid Bagheri (University of Waterloo, Canada),
Erik Yann Harmgarth (University of Waterloo, Canada),
Henrik Ramberg (Fortify Co.),
Erwin Biebl (Technical University of Munich, Germany),
George Shaker (University of Waterloo, Canada)

5:20 pm – 5:30 pm

Discussion Mo-PM Sessions and Conference Announcements
7:00 pm Banquet

Hotel Le Germain Montreal (Pavillion Room)

2050 Mansfield St, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1Y9

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14


Time

Event

8:30 am – 9:20 am
IEEE MTT-S Speaker

Talking about Talking: Making your Verbal Presentations Memorable and Compelling


Erin Kiley (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)

9:20 am – 10:20 am
Keynote: Domain Decomposition Methodology for Solving Maxwell’s Equations at Scale


Zhen Peng (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

10:20 am – 10:40 am

Coffee Break

10:40 am – 12:40 pm
Session We-AM:

Advances in the Electromagnetic Modeling of Devices and Systems

Chair: Derek A. McNamara (University of Ottawa, Canada)

10:40 am – 11:00 am
On the Solution of the TD-EFIE Using a Problem-Independent Numerical Inverse Laplace Transformation Approach (Student Paper Competition)
Glenn Iwasa (University of Ottawa, Canada),
Emad Gad (University of Ottawa, Canada),
Derek A. McNamara (University of Ottawa, Canada)

11:00 am – 11:20 am
Comprehensive End-to-End Solution Workflow for Additively Manufactured High-Power Light Weight Waveguide Filter
Laila Salman (Ansys Canada Ltd.)

11:20 am – 11:40 am
Structured Inverse Eigenvalue Problems for Bandpass Microwave Filter Design
Adam Lamecki (EM Invent sp. z o.o., Poland),
Michal Mrozowski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland),
Roberto Gomez-Garcia (University of Alcala, Spain)

11:40 am –12:00 pm
Transfer Learning for Accelerating Microwave Filter Design (Student Paper Competition)
Olufemi Oluyemi (University of Regina, Canada),
Paul Laforge (University of Regina, Canada),
Abdul Bais (University of Regina, Canada)

12:00 pm – 12:20 pm
Numerical Solver for Characterization of Semiconductor Devices
Mario Kupresak (ETH Zurich, Switzerland),
Johannes Hoffmann (The Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS), Switzerland),
Jasmin Smajic (ETH Zurich, Switzerland),
Juerg Leuthold (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

12:20 pm – 12:40 pm
Addressing Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation Challenges for Silicon Interposers in 2.5D/3D IC Chip Design
Laila Salman (Ansys Canada Ltd.)

12:40 pm – 1:40 pm

Lunch

1:40 pm – 2:10 pm

Student Paper Competition Awards

2:10 pm – 2:30 pm

Closing Remarks and Announcements: Special Issues, NEMO 2025