dr. D. Blanco

Postdoc
Terahertz Sensing (THZ), Department of Microelectronics

Expertise: Leaky wave antennas, metasurfaces, phased arrays, polarizers and filters

Biography

Darwin Blanco received the Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, in 2009, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. (summa cum laude) degrees in multimedia and communications from the University Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

From 2015 to 2016, he was Postdoc at the University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France. He is currently postdoc in the Terahertz Sensing Group of Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. His current research interests include leaky wave antennas and metasurfaces to be used in applications for phased array antennas, polarizers and filters.

Publications

Dual-Band Submillimeter-Wave Leaky-Wave Lens Antenna for Heterodyne Cometary Mapping
Bosma, Sjoerd; van Berkel, Sven L.; Alonso-delPino, Maria; Blanco, Darwin; Jung-Kubiak, Cecile; Lin, Robert; Chattopadhyay, Goutam; Siles, Jose V.; Llombart, Nuria;
IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,
2024. Early access. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3510652
Synthesis of Dual-Band Leaky-Wave Antenna Feeds for Submillimeter-Wave Imaging
S. Bosma; M. Alonso-delPino; D. Blanco; S. L. van Berkel; C. JungKubiak; G. Chattopadhyay; J. V. Siles; N. Llombart;
In 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP),
Madrid, Spain, Mar. 27 - Apr. 1 2022.
Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna With In-Lens Polarizer for High-Speed Communications
Arias Campo, M.; G. Carluccio; D. Blanco; O. Litschke; S. Bruni; N. Llombart;
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
Volume 69, Issue 1, pp. 43-54, Jan. 2021 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3008638
Integrated Silicon Lens Antennas at Submillimeter-wave Frequencies
Alonso-delPino, Maria; Blanco, Darwin; Juan, Nuria Llombart;
In Fundamentals of Terahertz Devices and Applications,
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/9781119460749.ch2
On the Use of Fly’s Eye Lenses with Leaky-Wave Feeds for Wideband Communications
Arias Campo, M.; Blanco, D; Bruni, S.; Neto, A.; Llombart, N.;
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,,
Volume 68, Issue 4, pp. 2480-2493, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2952474
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Experimental Characterization of a Wideband G-Band Circularly Polarized Lens Antenna
Arias Campo, M.; Carluccio, G.; Blanco, D.; Litschke, O.; Bruni, S.; Llombart, N.;
In 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP),
Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020.
Wideband In-Lens Polarizer for Future High-Speed Wireless Communications
Arias Campo, M.; Blanco, D.; Carluccio,G.; Bruni, S.; Litschke, O. ; Llombart, N.;
In 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP),
Krakow, Poland, April 2019.
Dual-Band Leaky-Wave Lens Antenna for Submillimeter-Wave Heterodyne Instruments
S. Bosma; M. Alonso-delPino; D. Blanco; C. Jung-Kubiak; N. Llombart;
In 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW THz-2019),
Paris, France, Sep. 2019.
Scanning Lens Phased Array for Submillimeter Wavelengths
S. Bosma; M. Alonso-delPino; C. Jung-Kubiak; D. Blanco; N. Llombart;
In 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW THz-2019),
Paris, France, Sep. 2019.
Dual-Band Leaky-Wave Lens Antenna for Submillimeter-Wave Heterodyne Instruments
S. Bosma; M. Alonso-delPino; D. Blanco; J. V Siles; M. Choukroun; N. LLombart;
In 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation,
Krakow, Poland, 2019.
Fly's Eye Lens Phased Array for Submillimeter Wavelengths
S. Bosma; M. Alonso-delPino; D. Blanco; N. LLombart;
In 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation,
Krakow, Poland, 2019.
Low-Permittivity Elliptical Lens Fed by a Resonant Leaky-Wave Antenna for Wireless Communications
Blanco,D.; Arias Campo, M.; Llombart, N.;
In 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP),
London, United Kingdom, April 2018.
Low-Permittivity Elliptical Lens Fed by a Broadband Leaky-Wave Antenna for Communications Applications
Blanco, D.; Arias Campo, M.; Llombart, N.;
In IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APS),
Boston, USA, July 2018.
Broadband Low-Permittivity Elliptical Lens Fed by a Leaky-Wave Antenna for Communications Applications
Blanco, D.; Arias Campo, M.; Llombart, N.;
In 43rd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Teraherz Waves (IRMMW-THz),
Nagoya, Japan, September 2018.
Circularly Polarized Lens Antenna for Tbps Wireless Communications
Arias Campo, M.; Blanco, D.; Carluccio, G.; Litschke, O.; Bruni, S.; Llombart, N.;
In 48th European Microwave Conference (EuMC),
Madrid, Spain, September 2018.
Leaky-wave thinned phased array in PCB technology for telecommunication applications
D. Blanco; E. Rajo-Iglesias; A. Montesano; N. Llombart;
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
Volume 64, Issue 10, pp. 4288-4296, Oct 2016. 10.1109/TAP.2016.2597642.
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Directivity Enhancement and Spurious Radiation Suppression in Leaky-Wave Antennas Using Inductive Grid Metasurfaces
D. Blanco; E. Rajo-Iglesias; S. Maci; N. Llombart;
IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation,
Volume 63, Issue 3, pp. 891-900, March 2015.
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On the use of leaky wave phased arrays for the reduction of the grating lobe level
D. Blanco; N. Llombart; E. Rajo-Iglesias;
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
Volume 62, Issue 4, pp. 1789-1795, April 2014.
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Holographic Surface Leaky-Wave Lenses with Circularly-Polarized Focused Near-Fields. Part II: Experiments and Description of Frequency Steering of Focal Length
D. Blanco; J.L. Gomez-Tornero; E. Rajo-Iglesias; N. Llombart;
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
Volume 61, Issue 7, pp. 3486-3493, July 2013.
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Holographic Surface Leaky-Wave Lenses with Circularly-Polarized Focused Near-Fields. Part I: Concept, Design and Analysis Theory
J. L. Gomez-Tornero; D. Blanco; E. Rajo-Iglesias; N. Llombart;
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
Volume 61, Issue 7, pp. 3475-3485, July 2013.
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Near-field focusing with holographic two-dimensional tapered leaky-wave slot antennas
J. L. Gomez - Tornero; A. J. Martinez - Ros; N. Llombart; D. Blanco; E. Rajo - Iglesias;
In 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation,
March~26-30 2012.
Near and far-field focusing with holographic two-dimensional tapered leaky-wave spiral antennas
D. Blanco; E. Rajo - Iglesias; N. Llombart; J. L. Gomez - Tornero;
In IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium,
July 2012.
Leaky wave enhanced phased array for the reduction of the grating lobe level
N. Llombart; D. Blanco; E. Rajo - Iglesias; J. Campuzano; A. Montesano - Benito;
In IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium,
July 2012.

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Last updated: 28 Jan 2022

Darwin Blanco

Alumnus

Left in 2019
Now: Antenna Engineer at Ericsson