19 - 24 April, 2026
Dublin, Ireland
EuCAP26 is the 20th edition of EuCAP and to mark this occasion we are hosting a Scientific Workshop which will review the origins and evolution of our conference as well as looking forward to the future. As part of this workshop we shall look back at how the field of antennas and propagation has evolved since 2006 by tracking the papers that have won the prestigious EuCAP Best Paper awards that are bestowed each year. We would like this to be a communal celebration and so we are seeking your help! Below you will find details (and a copy) of the papers that have won the various best paper awards at each edition of EuCAP since 2006. We would love to get your feedback as to which paper made the biggest impact on you, perhaps because it helped you out in your PhD studies, gave you a new perspective on a topic, explained a difficult concept really clearly, or simply because you were impressed with the innovation displayed. We will include the best comments in our workshop! The precise categories for the best paper awards have evolved over the years. To keep things consistent and to facilitate the workshop structure we have listed the previous best papers under the headings EM / Antenna, Applied Antennas, Measurements, Propagation and Student paper. Previous best papers have been allocated to the category which best matches their award.
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Approaching Fundamental Limits on Bandwidth-To-Thickness Ratio for Electrically Thin Absorbers Through Dispersion Engineering
Pardha Sourya Nayani, Morteza Moradi and Younes Radi (Syracuse University, USA)
Applied Antennas
Prototype of a 64-Element Phased Array Transmitter with Wide Axial Ratio Bandwidth and Beam-Width
Mei Qian (South China University of Technology, China); Hao Jiang (South China University of Technology & School of Electronic and Information Engineering, China)
Propagation
Experimental Validation of Scalable Electromagnetically-Modeled RIS Through Ray Tracing and Indoor Measurement
Le Hao (Technische Universität Wien, Austria); Sravan Kumar Reddy Vuyyuru and Sergei Tretyakov (Aalto University, Finland); Risto Valkonen (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland)
Student
Silicon-Micromachined High-Gain Multi-Beam Beam-Steering THz Graded-Index Lens Antenna Enabled by a Passive Beamforming Interposer
Alireza Madannejad, Mohammad Mehrabi Gohari and Joachim Oberhammer (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
19. EuCAP 2025 - Stockholm, Sweden
Measurements
Ultrawideband Millimeterwave Robotic Antenna Measurements Enabled by FMCW Radar Sensors
Kristof Dausien and Tobias Körner (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany); Christian Schulz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Nils Pohl (Ruhr-University Bochum & Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Ilona Rolfes and Jan Barowski (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
A Differential Series-Fed Dipole Array for D-Band Sensing in Wafer Level Package Technology
Martijn de Kok, Paola Andrea Escobari Vargas and Elmine Meyer (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Friedrich Mueller and Tanja Braun (Fraunhofer IZM, Germany); Ad Reniers and Ulf Johannsen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Rigorous Susceptibility-Based Design of Generalized Huygens' Metasurface Radomes
Amit Shaham (Technion, Israel), Ariel Epstein, (Technion, Israel)
Applied Antennas
Characterization of a D-Band Active Transmitarray System for Efficient Point-To-Point Links
Francesco Foglia Manzillo (CEA-LETI, France); Jose Luis Gonzalez Jimenez (Université Grenoble-Alpes/CEA-LETI, France); Abdelaziz Hamani (CEA, France); Alexandre Siligaris (CEA-LETI, Minatec, France); Antonio Clemente (CEA-LETI, France)
Propagation
Advanced Microwave Radiometry: Refining Sun-Tracking Technique for Atmospheric Attenuation Retrieval and Sun Brightness Temperature Estimation
Giovanni Stazi and Marianna Biscarini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Luca Milani (European Space Agency, Germany); George Brost (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
18. EuCAP 2024 - Glasgow, UK
Measurements
Quantification and Correction of Signal Averaging with On-The-Fly Sampling in Near-Field Antenna Measurements
Olav Breinbjerg (ElMaReCo, Denmark)
Student
A Completely Overlapped Ku- and Ka-Band Dual-Polarized Phased Array for Simultaneous Terrestrial and Satellite Communications
Bumhyun Kim and Wonbin Hong (Pohang University of Science and Technology POSTECH, Korea (South)
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
A Classical Electromagnetic Model for Thermal Emission from Ohmic Materials
Andrea Neto (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Applied Antennas
3D-Printed D-Band Lens Antenna with Gratings Matching Layer for Sensing Applications
Marta Arias Campo, Wolfgang Wischmann, Peter Uhlig, Oliver Litschke and Simona Bruni (IMST GmbH, Germany)
Propagation
Modelling the Drone-to-Drone Communications Channel for Urban Environments
Dennis Becker, Uwe-Carsten G. Fiebig and Lukas Marcel Schalk (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Measurements
Multi-Probe Array Design for Partially-Coherent Phase Retrieval in Near-Field Measurements
Jonas Kornprobst, Alexander Paulus, Josef Knapp and Thomas F. Eibert (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Student
Nonlinear FDTD Simulation of Optical Thin Films with Intensity-Dependent Drude-Lorentz Parameters
Joao Guilherme Nizer Rahmeier, Tom Smy and Shulabh Gupta (Carleton University, Canada)
17. EuCAP 2023 - Florence, Italy
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Qi Jian Lim, Charles Ross, Gabriele Gradoni, Zhen Peng
Applied Antennas
Planar Glide-Symmetric Dielectric Half-Luneburg Lens at K/Ka-Band
Oskar Zetterstrom and Pilar Castillo-Tapia, Jose-Manuel Poyanco, Nelson Fonseca, Francisco Pizarro, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel
Propagation
Measurement Based Identification of MPCs in an Urban Drone-To-Drone Propagation Scenario
Dennis Becker and Uwe-Carsten G. Fiebig
Student
Wideband Characterization of Holey Glide-Symmetric Parallel-Plate Waveguides
Boris Fischer and Guido Valerio
Student
A Broadband Potential-Based Boundary Element Method for Modeling Electromagnetic Scattering from Dielectrics and Conductors
Shashwat Sharma, Piero Triverio and Edward S Rogers
16. EuCAP 2022 - Madrid, Spain
Measurements
Fully Coherent UAV-Based Near-Field Measurement and Transformation of the S67-15m Ground Station Antenna at the German Space Operations Center in Weilheim
Stefan Punzet, Fabian T. Faul and Thomas Mittereder, Christian Oettl, Matthias Ganser and Martin Häusler, Thomas F. Eibert
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Reflecting Luneburg Lens: Analytical Solution and Applications
J. Ruiz-García, E. Martini, C. Della Giovampaola, D. González-Ovejero and S. Maci
Applied Antennas
Low-Profile CTS Array in PCB Technology for K/Ka-Band Applications
M. Del Mastro, A. Mahmoud, T. Potelon, R. Sauleau, G. Quagliaro and M. Ettorre
Propagation
Bayesian Approaches to Multipath-Enhanced Device-Free Localization
M. Schmidhammer, B. Siebler, C. Gentner, S. Sand, and U.-C. Fiebig
15. EuCAP 2021 - Virtual Conference
Student
The Interpath Relation for Spatially-Discrete Traveling-Wave Modulated Structures
C. Scarborough and A. Grbic
Measurements
Preliminary Assesment of Millimeter Wave Plane Wave Generator for 5G Device Testing
F. Scattone, D. Sekuljica, A. Giacomini, F. Saccardi, A. Scannavini, E. Kaverine, S. Anwar, N. Gross, P. Iversen and L. J. Foged
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Elliptical Glide-Symmetric Holey Metasurfaces for Wideband Anisotropy
A. Alex-Amor, F. Ghasemifard, G.Valerio, P. Padilla, J. M. Fernandez-Gonzalez and O. Quevedo-Teruel
Applied Antennas
A Compact Mass-producible E-band Bandpass Filter Based on Multi-layer Waveguide Technology
A. Vosoogh, A. AlgabaBrazalez, Y. Li and Z. Simon He
Propagation
The MEKaP Project: Measuring Tropospheric Impairments at Ka Bandwidth MEO Satellites
L. Luini, C. Riva, A. Panzeri, A. Rocha, S. Mota, F. Marzano, A. Marziani, M. Biscarini, F. Consalvi, V. Schena and A. Martellucci
Measurements
Suppressing Undesired Echoes by Sparsity Based Time Gating of Reconstructed Sources
J. Knapp, J. Kornprobst, T.F. Eibert
Student
Metal Stamped Antenna-in-Package for Millimeter-wave Large-scale Phased-array Applications Using Multiphysics Analysis
J. Park and W. Hong
14. EuCAP 2020 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Analysis of Curved Metasurfaces with Spatially-Varying Impedance Distribution
Z. Sipus, D. Barbaric and M. Bosiljevac
Applied Antennas
Electronically-Steerable Transmitarray Antennas for Ka-Band
A. Clemente, L. D. Palma, F. Diaby, L. Dussopt, K. Pham and R. Sauleau
Propagation
Investigation on Stationarity of V2V Channels in a Highway Scenario
D. Czaniera, M. Käske, G. Sommerkorn, C. Schneider, R. S. Thomä, G. Del Galdo and M. Boban
Measurements
Monostatic RCS Prediction from Irregularly Distributed Near-Field Samples Using PlaneWave Field Synthesis
O. Neitz and T. F. Eibert
Student
Full-Wave Synthesis of Modulated Metasurface Antennas
M. Bodehou, C. Craeye, E. Martini and I. Huynen
13. EuCAP 2019 - Kraków, Poland
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Design criteria of X-wave launchers for millimeter-wave applications
W. Fuscaldo, D. Comite, A. Galli, S. Concetto Pavone, M. Albani and G. Valerio
Applied Antennas
Millimetre-wave FMCW MIMO radar system development using broadband SIW antennas
C. Alistarh, P. H. Re, T. Ströeber, S. Rotenberg, S. K. Podilchak, C. Mateo-Segura,Y. Pailhas, G. Goussetis, Y. Petillot, J. Thompson and J. Lee
Propagation
Measurements and model for the satellite-to-aircraft channel in L-band
T. Jost, W. Wang, M. Schwinzerl, F. Perez-Fontan, M. Schonhuber and N. Floury
Measurements
3.5-THz Quantum-Cascade Laser Emission from Dual Diagonal Feedhorns
B. Ellison, O. Auriacombe, T. Rawlings, N. Brewster, M. Oldfield, L. Li, E. Saenz, A. Valavanis, Y. Han, E. Linfield and A. Davies
Student
Accurate determination of radiation patterns from near-field measurements in highly reflective environments
J. Knapp and T. F. Eibert
12. EuCAP 2018 - London, UK
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Analysis of Artificial Dielectrics Composed of Non-Aligned Layers
D. Cavallo and C. Felita
Applied Antennas
Shared aperture metasurface antennas for multibeam patterns
D. Gonzalez-Ovejero, G. Minatti, E. Martini, G. Chattopadhyay and S. Maci
Propagation
Investigations on fading scaling with bandwidth and directivity at 60 GHz
D. Dupleich, N. Iqbal, C. Schneider, S. Haefner, R. Müller, S. Skoblikov, J. Luo and R. S. Thomä
Student
Wireless Monitoring of Breath by Means of a Graphene Oxide-based Radiofrequency Identification Wearable Sensor
M. C. Caccami, M. Y. S. Mulla, C. Di Natale and G. Marrocco
Student
Multi-frequency power angular spectrum comparison for an indoor environment
U. T. Virk, S. L. H. Nguyen and K. Haneda
11. EuCAP 2017 - Paris, France
Measurements
Design and calibration of a double-directional 60 GHz channel sounder for multipath component tracking
R. Sun, P. Papazian, J. Senic, Y. Lo, J.-K. Choi, K. A. Remley and C. Gentile
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Large Format Arrays of Antenna Coupled Kinetic Inductance Detectors for THz Astronomy
J. Baselmans, J. Bueno, O. Yurduseven, N. Llombart, S. Yates, A. Baryshev, A. Endo, D. Thoen and A. Neto
Applied Antennas
Hematologic characterization and 3D imaging of red blood cells using a Compressive Nanoantenna and ML-FMA modeling
H. Gómez-Sousa, Ó. Rubiños-López and J. Á. Martínez-Lorenzo
Propagation
Modelling the impact of offshore wind farms on safety radars onboard Oil and Gas platforms
L. Danoon, W. Al-Mashhadani and A. Brown
Measurements
Accuracy evaluation for antenna measurements at mm-wave frequencies
L. Boehm, F. Boegelsack, M. Hitzler, S. Wiehler and C. Waldschmidt
Student
Systematic approach for electrically tuning N-port antenna system based on characteristic modes
M. Bouezzeddine and W. L. Schroeder
10. EuCAP 2016 - Davos, Switzerland
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Intersymbol interference analysis of a 60 GHz-band compact range wireless access system
M. Zhang, K. Araki, J. Hirokawa and M. Ando
Applied Antennas
Multistatic nearfield imaging radar for portal security systems using a high gain toroidal reflector antenna
C. M. Rappaport and B. Gonzalez-Valdes
Propagation
Joint effects of clouds and rain on Ka-band earth observation data downlink systems
L. Luini and C. Capsoni
Measurements
DTU-ESA millimeter-wave VAlidation STandard antenna (mm-VAST) - detailed design
O. S. Kim, S. Pivnenko, O. Breinbjerg, R. Jørgensen, N. V. Larsen, K. Branner, P. Berring,
C. M. Markussen and M. Paquay
Student
Analysis of electrically large antennas using fast Physical Optics
O. Borries, H. Viskum, P. Meincke, E. Jørgensen, P. C. Hansen and C. H. Schmidt
9. EuCAP 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Closed-form expressions of local effective bianisotropic constitutive parameters for reciprocal metamaterials
V. Sozio, A. Vallecchi, M. Albani and F. Capolino
Applied Antennas
On design of differentially driven on-chip antennas with harmonic filtering for silicon integrated mm-wave and THz N-push oscillators
J. Grzyb, Y. Zhao, R. A. Hadi and U. Pfeiffer
Propagation
A Compressed Sensing-based imaging system
Y. Álvarez-López, Y. Rodríguez-Vaqueiro, B. González-Valdés, J. Á. Martínez-Lorenzo, F. Las-Heras and C. M. Rappaport
Measurements
Increased dynamic range for RFID EM-field measurements
S. Capdevila, J. Romeu, L. Jofre and J. Bolomey
Student
Novel dual-band single circular polarization antenna feeding network for satellite communications
C. A. Leal-Sevillano, J. A. Ruiz-Cruz, J. R. Montejo-Garai and J. M. Rebollar
8. EuCAP 2014 - Hague, Netherlands
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Convex optimization for analysis of small antennas
M. Gustafsson
Applied Antennas
Bifocal Reflector antenna system for radar imaging at 300 GHz
A. García-Pino, B. Gonzalez-Valdes, B. Mencia-Oliva, J. G. de la Fuente, O. R. López and J. L. B. Sanmartín
Propagation
Dynamics of spatial degrees-of-freedom in MIMO mobile channels
K. Haneda, A. Khatun, V. Kolmonen and J. Salmi
Measurements
Micromachined near-field millimeter-wave medical sensor for skin cancer diagnosis
F. Töpfer, S. Dudorov, D. Dancila, R. Augustine, X. Hu, A. Rydberg, L. Emtestam, L. Tenerz and J. Oberhammer
Student
Dielectric lens fed by coherent connected-slot array as wideband reflector feed
Ozan Yurduseven, D. Cavallo, A. Neto
7. EuCAP 2013 - Gothenburg, Sweden
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Efficiently illuminated broadside-directed 1D and 2D tapered Fabry-Perot leaky-wave antennas
M. García-Vigueras, P. DeLara-Guarch, J. L. Gómez-Tornero, R. Guzmán-Quirós and G. Goussetis
Applied Antennas
Compact antenna for microsatellite using folded shorted patches and an integrated feeding network
S. K. Podilchak, M. Caillet, Y. Antar and L. Chu
Propagation
Directional channel characteristics in elevation and azimuth at an urban macrocell base station
J. Medbo, H. Asplund, J. Berg and N. Jalden
Measurements
Motion compensation and efficient array design for TDMA FMCW MIMO radar systems
C. M. Schmid, R. Feger, C. Pfeffer and A. Stelzer
Student
Experimental characterization of the RFID STENTag for passive vascular monitoring
C. Occhiuzzi and G. Marrocco
6. EuCAP 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Planar antennas based on surface-to-leaky wave transformation
G. Minatti, M. Casaletti, F. Caminita, P. De Vita and S. Maci
Applied Antennas
A compact dual-polarized wideband patch antenna array for the unlicensed 60 GHz band
F. Wollenschläger, R. Stephan, L. Xia, J. Muller, R. Muller, A.P.G. Ariza, R. S. Thoma and
M. A. Hein
Propagation
Estimation of 2x2 MIMO Capacity with Dual Polarized Antennas Under Received Power Imbalance Through Propagation Measurements
S. Nanba, Y. Hirota and Y. Kishi
Measurements
Microwave Non-Destructive evaluation of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures
G. Roqueta, L. Jofre and M. Feng
Student
Single layer anisotropic impedance surface for linear to circular polarization conversion in Reflect mode
E. Doumanis, G. Goussetis, J. Gómez-Tornero, R. Cahill and V. Fusco
5. EuCAP 2011 - Rome, Italy
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Trade-offs in multi-element receiving antennas with superconducting feed lines
A. Iacono, T. J. Coenen, D. J. Bekers, A. Neto and G. Gerini
Applied Antennas
Distributed Antenna Tuning Unit Using a Frequency Reconfigurable PIXEL-Antenna
A. Grau Besoli and F. De Flaviis
Propagation
An experiment and preliminary results for narrow-and wideband land mobile satellite propagation at K-band
M. Schönhuber, F. Teschl, V. Hovinen, J. Kyröläinen, F. Pérez-Fontán and R. PrietoCerdeira
Measurements
Optical Measurement of Millimeter-Wave Antenna for Imaging Concealed Cracks on Concrete Surface
H. Togo, S. Mochizuki, S. Oka, I. Toyoda, N. Kukutsu and Y. Cadeau
Student
Active antenna oscillator systems in substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology
F. Giuppi, A. Georgiadis, M. Bozzi, A. Collado and L. Perregrini
4. EuCAP 2010 - Barcelona, Spain
Applied Antennas
Low cost, short lead-time feed chain components for multi-beam antennas
P. Booth,M. Skeen and S. Stirland
3. EuCAP 2009 - Berlin, Germany
Measurements
Scaled radar cross section measurements with terahertz-spectroscopy up to 800 GHz
C. Jansen, N. Krumbholz, R. Geise, A. Enders and M. Koch
Electromagnetics / Antenna Theory
Near-Singular and Near-Hypersingular Surface Integral Evaluation by an Adaptive Singularity Cancellation Technique
Ismatullah and T. F. Eibert
Applied Antennas
Frequency-Selective Wallpaper for Reducing Interference While Increasing MIMO Capacity in Indoor Environments
J. Rodriguez, M. Gustafsson, F. Tufvesson, A. Karlsson and L. Juan-Llacer
Propagation
Channel Capacity Evaluation of UMTS Multi-Antenna Systems in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
A. Diallo, C. Luxey, P. Le Thuc, R. Staraj, G. Kossiavas, P. Suvikunnas, M. Mustonen, C. Icheln and P. Vainikainen
Propagation
Modelling Radiowave Propagation through Vegetation media: a comparison between RET and dRET models
T. R. Fernandes, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, M. O. Al-Nuaimi and J. H. Richter
2. EuCAP 2007 - Edinburgh, UK
Student
On the Influence of Incomplete Data Models on Estimated Angular Distributions in Channel Characterisation
M. Landmann, W. Kotterman and R. S. Thoma
Student
A New Low-Profile Wide-Scan Phased Array for UWB Applications
D. Tallini, A. Galli, M. Ciattaglia, L. Infante, A. De Luca and M. Cicolani
1. EuCAP 2006 - Nice, France
Propagation
Distributed scattering in radio channels and its contribution to MIMO channel capacity
A. Richter, J. Salmi and V. Koivunen