EMC & RF Research Group

Research Area : Electromagnetic Compatibility & Radio Frequency

Responsible: Dr. Alessandro Tacchini

Address:

• Reggio Emilia Innovazione

    Via Sicilia, 31 - 42122 - Reggio Emilia - ITALY

    Ph.: +39 0522 922238 - Fax: +39 0522 513772

    Mobile: +39 335 8319965

• Faculty of Engineering - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    Laurea Magistralis in Mechatronic Engineering

    Course in Electromagnetic Compatibility and Laboratory

    Mobile: +39 335 8319965

Staff :

• Dr. Alessandro Tacchini
• Dr. Eng. Fabrizio Pancaldi
• Dr. Eng. Bruno Audone
• Eng. Daniel Grossi
 

Competences: 

• EMC problem solving for equipment and/or system improvement in compliance with technical requirements
• Complex EMC systems analysis
• Systems and apparatus test and validations
• Technical analysis
• 2D - 3D simulations

Main results:

• Monitoring system and sensors for electrical global diagnosis i
• Regulation platform

Main instruments

• EMC anechoic chamber for test up to 25GHz
• EMI receivers
• Rod, loop, biconic, log, bilog and horn antennas
• E-filed and H-field sensors
• Signal generators
• Amplifiers
• Probe

Activities ongoing:

• Supporting the product developping in some fileds
• Markets accessibilty procedures
• Environmental monitoring systems for electrosmog impact
• Theorical studies of shielding degradation
• Impact of electronic and TLC systems in vehicles
• EMC test in large industrial apparatus
• Aging degradation in EMC systems

Technical-scientific collaborations

• Collaboration with Dipartment of Science and Methods of Engineering, UNIMORE
• Collaboration with some Spin-off
• Collaboration with HTN (High Technology Network) Emilia Romagna region
• Collaboration with some industries for particular research program

Last publications

The rationale to define when EMC antenna shall be clibrated
A. Tacchini, B. Audone, D. Grossi
2011 IEEE EMC Internationa Sympsium
Long Beach / Los Angeles (USA), 14 -19 August 2011

Monitoring of shielding effectiveness degradation
B. Audone, A. Tacchini, A. Maggiali
2010 Europe – International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
Wroclaw (Poland), 13 – 17 September 2010

Radiated emission testing - In-situ measurements on large machines
A. Tacchini
2010 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (APEMC 2010)
Beijing (China), 12 – 16 April 2010

Hybrid architectures for EMC mitigation of switching audio amplifier
A. Tacchini, I. Montanari, A. Bellini, G. Franceschini, V. Boccedi, E. Lorenzani
2009 EMC Europe workshop – Materials in EMC applications
Athens (Greece), 11 – 12 June 2009

Impact of thermal stress on the characteristics of conducted emissions
A.Tacchini, I. Montanari, M. Maini
2008 IEEE international symposium on electromagnetic compatibility
Detroit (USA), 18 – 22 August 2008

Aging effect on electromagnetic signature of electronic devices
I.Montanari, A. Tacchini
EMC ‘2007 – VII international symposium and exhibition on electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic ecology
St. Petersburg (Russia), 26 -29  June 2007