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HEDoctoral network2023–2027

GENIUS · Glide-symmetric mEtamaterials for iNnovative radIo-frequency commUnication and Sensing (GENIUS)

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-02-01 → 2027-01-31
EU contribution
€1,525,928
Participants
7
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-ID

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Results in brief

Glide-symmetric mEtamaterials for iNnovative radIo-frequency commUnication and Sensing (GENIUS)

Glide-symmetric mEtamaterials for iNnovative radIo-frequency commUnication and Sensing (GENIUS) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network Industrial Doctorates (MSCA-DN-ID) funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme for research and innovation and by the UK Research and Innovation. It is led by top European actors of research and innovation in radio-frequency systems with applications to aerospace communications and automotive sensing. We aim at proposing novel scientific tools provided by glide-symmetric (GS) artificial materials. GS artificial materials (or metamaterials) feature a special symmetry inside their constitutive unit cells that gives them unique electromagnetic properties. The EU-UKRI-funded GENIUS project examines such metamaterials for use in radio-frequency systems with applications in aerospace communications and automotive sensing. Such materials allow propagation in an ultra-large bandwidth and offer strong isolation and high absorption features, which can be used in modern radio-frequency systems. The project trains six high-skilled doctoral researchers on the physical properties of complex electromagnetic systems and on the design of innovative devices using various modelling methods. Every doctoral project is co-supervised by both academic and industrial partners of the network. A complete doctoral training programme is offered to the recruited researchers with training events on metamaterial, antenna and radio-frequency design, electromagnetic modelling, and with courses in scientific and transverse skills to expose the researchers both to the academic and to the industrial sector.

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Project objective

GENIUS (Glide-symmetric mEtamaterials for iNnovative radIo-frequency commUnication and Sensing) is an Industrial Doctoral Programme led by top European actors of research and innovation in the field of radio-frequency (RF) systems with applications to aerospace communications and automotive sensing proposing novel scientific tools provided by glide-symmetric (GS) artificial materials (or metamaterials). It has recently been discovered that these metamaterials, characterized by a special symmetry inside their constitutive unit cells, possess marvelous electromagnetic (EM) properties (propagation in an ultra-large bandwidth, strong isolation and high absorption features) capable to address the open challenges of modern RF systems, motivated by the increasing demand of ubiquitous connectivity, and the growing automation of transports.GENIUS aims at training highly skilled and creative researchers capable to propose out-of-the-box solutions to industrial needs by means of their knowledge of physical properties of complex EM systems. The design of devices will be enabled by the development of suitable modelling methods (circuit-based, integral-equation-based, quasi-optical) shedding light on the properties of GS materials and providing fast and reliable data on their behaviour. The inter-sectoral character of the training reflects its inter-disciplinarity content: researchers will benefit of academic expertise in GS metamaterials, of the industrial knowledge of applicative needs and of fabrication and test facilities not commonly found at individual institutions.GENIUS will be the only international training program bringing together metamaterial physics and application-oriented RF design. Its researchers will benefit of a dense network of contacts with scientists acquired during network-wide training events suitably complementing the skills acquired through research, to improve their career prospects in the European and worldwide innovation sector.

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Participants

  • SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · ParisCoordinatorFrance
  • AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE LTD · StevenageUnited Kingdom
  • IMST GMBH · Kamp LintfortGermany
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • POLITECNICO DI TORINO · TorinoItaly
  • SINOWAVE AB · HOVASSweden
  • THALES · MEUDONFrance

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