A small tribute to Prof. Pertti Vainikainen: A great antenna and propagation specialist

Author

Luxey, Cyril

Author_Institution

EpOC, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

224

Lastpage

228

Abstract

In addition to be a wonderful person, Prof. Pertti Vainikainen was a pioneer in various electromagnetic research domains like antenna for small terminals, MIMO and propagation. I had the chance to meet Pertti 10 years ago at ANTEM conference in Saint-Malo, France, and since then, I´ve been collaborating with him on various research topics. We first started working on small antennas for mobile terminals as well as MIMO techniques. Progressively, we found interesting to focus on the characterization of Mm-wave antennas. This paper describes how we initiated together this common research, why the vision of Pertti was pioneering in this field and the latest achievements from my group in this millimeter-wave characterization domain.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; biographies; electromagnetic wave propagation; millimetre wave antenna arrays; mobile antennas; ANTEM conference; France; MIMO; Prof. Pertti Vainikainen; Saint-Malo; millimeter-wave antennas; mobile terminals; propagation specialist; small antennas; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Arrays; Conferences; Europe; Three-dimensional displays; 3D radiation pattern measurements; Pertti Vainikianen; Probe-fed millimeter-wave antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901731

Filename

6901731