TCAM Sponsors AMTA Student Day 2025

We are pleased to announce that IEEE AP-S TCAM is sponsoring the AMTA Student Day at the 2025 AMTA Symposium. This important educational initiative supports the next generation of antenna measurement professionals by providing students with valuable learning opportunities and networking experiences.

As part of this sponsorship, TCAM member Tian Hong Loh will be delivering a lecture at the Student Day event, sharing expertise and insights with attending students. This represents TCAM's continued commitment to education and professional development in the antenna measurements community.

For more information about AMTA Student Day, visit: https://2025.amta.org/student-day/

Biography: Professor Tian Hong Loh is a Principal Scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Science Area Leader for NPL’s Electromagnetic Technologies Group. He leads a team of scientists undertaking ground-breaking measurement science research in support of the emerging electromagnetic technologies developments. He has edited one book, holds seven patents, authored, and co-authored over 230 refereed publications. He is currently President of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) UK Board, Chair of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) Measurement Working Group, Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK, Representative of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) at the IEEE Future Networks Technical Community (FNTC), member of IEEE APS Standards Committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Antenna Measurements (TCAM) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and senior member of IEEE and Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA). His research interests include 5G/6G communications, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antennas, smart antennas, small antennas, metamaterials, body-centric communications, wireless sensor networks, electromagnetic compatibility, and computational electromagnetics.

Title: Trends and Advancements on Measurement Techniques for Emerging Wireless Technologies

Abstract:

The digital economy is essential for wealth creation and is increasingly underpinning all aspects of social and business activities. The demand for high-speed communication for a range of diverse applications has driven the global digital agenda to better exploit the emerging wireless technologies for fostering innovation and economic growth. A raft of emerging wireless technologies is being considered in a wide range of spectrum bands and the integration of satellites with 6G is increasingly important so to support a significantly increased user density and the ever-evolving global connectivity requirements. Antenna measurement plays a fundamental role in ensuring performance of these wireless technologies and is daily carried out all over the world for conformity assessment of products to safety standards. With the industrial adoption of complex new radio signals and multi-antenna technologies in the emerging wireless systems, several worldwide industries, research communities and standard bodies are now facing new measurement challenges on testing to verify products that meet the intended performance parameters demanded by diverse technological requirements. On behalf of IEEE APS TCAM, the scope of this talk for the Student Day at AMTA 2025 is to present a broad overview of the recent technical trends and advancements on measurement techniques adopted to investigate emerging wireless technologies relevant to the antenna measurement community and the relevant international R&D activities as well as the measurements capabilities at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) established under several UK and EU programmes. The topics covered include new radio multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) over-the-air (OTA) testing, massive MIMO, wide bandwidth sub-THz channel sounding and characterizations, mm-wave hybrid beamforming with large-scale phased arrays, reconfigurable intelligent surface, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), etc.