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Need for more research publications: NIT-T Director

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Workshop on special topics in microwaves concludes at the Institute

TIRUCHI: Informative sessions on periodic structures, milestones of planar transmission lines, smart antennas, biological effect of microwaves and computer-aided design of microwaves were part of a two-day workshop on ‘Special topics in Microwaves’ that concluded on Wednesday at the National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi.

Organised by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering under the TEQIP (Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme) Networking Scheme and coordinated by faculties S. Raghavan and Shriramkumar, the workshop was designed to benefit faculty of NITs and engineering colleges affiliated to the Anna University.

Inaugurating the conference, Arokiasamy Alphones, Professor, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, explained that the metamaterials (materials that have unusual properties like a negative refractive index) had different properties like nano materials.

He emphasised the importance of electromagnetics in the present day science of microwaves.

Presiding over, NIT-T Director M. Chidambaram urged the participants to bring out more research publications and devise methods to remove obsolescence in engineering education.

B.Venkataramani, Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT-T, offered felicitations at the inaugural.

Addressing the valedictory, Shyam Pattnaik, Professor, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, dwelt on cell phone usage to explain the effect of microwaves on human body.

Modern wireless communications hardware, explained Prof. Raghavan, was underpinned by radio frequency (RF) and microwave techniques.

Microwaves that were once used exclusively for military purposes, aerospace and radio astronomical applications, have now reached consumers in the forms of products like cell phone and microwave oven.

Wireless LAN, pagers, satellite television services, GPS, ultra wide band links, automobile anti-collision radar and radio frequency identification tags and biomedical applications constitute consumer-oriented microwave applications. Microwave technology was poised for a surge, he said.

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