Agenda
ME colloquium
- Thursday, 23 May 2024
- 16:30-17:30
- EEMCS, Ampere
The THz Catastrophe
Andrea Neto
The THz Catastrophe:
Planck’s Law failure to explain thermal radiation experiments on Silicon Wafers, and the perfect match offered by the new classical theory based on Degrees of Freedom.
Abstract— The thermal energy radiated by silicon wafers is characterized experimentally in the mm and sub-mm wave ranges. The samples are heated and the energy they radiate thermally is captured by horn antennas and then detected. For moderate conductivities the measurements show a descending pattern as a function of the frequency which is not in line with expectations from Planck’s law. The Degrees of Freedom theory presented last year to this same audience provides a perfect, completely classical explanation for the results. Should these experiments have been available 120 years ago, the community of the time would probably have been concerned about avoiding the THz catastrophe, rather than the Ultraviolet catastrophe!
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- Wed, 18 Sep 2024
- 17:30
- Aula Senaatszaal
PhD Thesis Defence
Wietse Bouwmeester
Automotive Polarimetric Radar for Enhanced Road Surface Classification & Vulnerable Road User Identification
- Wed, 2 Oct 2024
- 17:30
- Aula Senaatszaal
PhD Thesis Defence
Sen Yuan
3D Motion-Based High-Resolution Imaging Techniques for Automotive Radar
- 21 -- 21 Oct 2024
- 17:30
- Senate Hall, Aula
PhD Thesis Defence
Riccardo Ozzola
Advanced Electromagnetic Modelling of the Next Generation (XG) Wireless Communication Systems
The project concerned the development of modeling techniques for different aspects of the next-generation communication systems.