Presentation of the Lab

The Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni) of the University of Florence was established in 1983 .

Its scientific and educational activities updated those of the former Istituto di Ingegneria Elettronica which was set up in 1971, year of foundation of the University of Florence School of Engineering.

The Department of Electronics and Telecommunications has inherited from the previous Istituto di Ingegneria Elettronica and has brought forth several research and technical activities in the fields of electronics theory and technology, applied electromagnetics, network theory and techniques, bioengineering, applied mathematics, measurement techniques, remote sensing, telecommunications and information theory. Several Ph. D. courses are being held in the frame of the existing research activities and laboratories. Ph.D. students are actively involved in research projects.

Research laboratories belong to the research group units of the Department, each unit typically comprising one or more professors, some research assistants and a technician. In addition to the basic research works of the unit, thesis and doctorate activities are fully integrated in the laboratory activities. Consulting activities for public and/or private companies are carried out based on the facilities of the various research laboratories.

The Computational Electromagnetics Lab (CEm Lab) was set-up in September 1992, when a new building was added to the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. Aims of this Research Group is to contribute to the development of academic and research activities in the field of microwave and millimeter-wave engineering (antennas, circuits and scattering problems), at the School of Engineering of the University of Florence.

The Computational Electromagnetics Lab cooperates in research with the Microwave Engineering Center for Space Applications (MECSA), a consortium of the research groups of the Polytechnic of Turin, the University of Ancona, the University of Bologna, the University of Florence, the University of Palermo, and the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".