Joint Technical Event from IEEE EMC Society German Chapter and Rohde & Schwarz

IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer, Term 2024-2025
Senior Director for Systems Developments and Project Implementations, Rohde & Schwarz

EMC-S Distinguished Lecture: How Close Can Far-Field Be? Getting the Best Out of Your Measurement Range

Trends in modern wireless communications, including the use of massive MIMO and millimeter wave frequencies, have supported an increased deployment of electrically large antennas. This created technical and economic challenges as many EMC, or regulatory tests require a far-field condition. This talk provides an overview of the recent findings in defining the shortest possible far-field test distance, depending on the size of the device under test, its operation frequency, the target metric, and the upper bound acceptable measurement deviation. Practical ways are also described to determine the maximum antenna aperture size that can be tested in the far-field at a given frequency and for a maximum error, in an existing chamber with a defined range length.

PhD student, Otto von Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany

Francesco Pio Cecca was born in Bernalda, Basilicata, Italy, in 2000. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electronics Engineering from the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, in 2022 and 2024 respectively. Since September 2024, through the MSCA NEPIT project, he is a PhD student at the Otto von Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany.

Managing Director, Silent Solutions GmbH

Lee Hill has over 35 years of experience in hardware troubleshooting and design reviews to solve & prevent elusive regulatory and functional electrical noise problems. He is Managing Director of Silent Solutions GmbH and currently lives in Munich. Lee is also Founding Partner of SILENT Solutions LLC - an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) & RF design, troubleshooting, and training firm established in 1992. Lee is a member of adjunct faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and an EMC instructor at University of Oxford (England), and a past chair of the IEEE EMC Society’s annual EMC Fundamentals program and Clayton R. Paul Global University. He earned his MSEE in electromagnetics from the Missouri University of Science and Technology EMC Laboratory, where he studied under Dr.’s Tom Van Doren, Todd Hubing, and James Drewniak. Lee speaks English, German, American Sign Language and high school Spanish.