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Facing the challenges of our time

CSEM develops innovative wireless, sensing and high-frequency technologies that require reliable experimental characterisation from RF frequencies up to the sub-THz range. The objective of this internship is to develop, assemble and validate measurement benches for RF components, antennas, materials and advanced electromagnetic structures. The work will combine hands-on laboratory activities, RF instrumentation, calibration, measurement automation, data processing and comparison with electromagnetic simulations

Your responsibilities

• The student will first become familiar with the available RF, mmWave and sub-THz instrumentation, laboratory safety rules, calibration methods and existing measurement facilities
• After this initial training phase, the student will contribute to several of the following activities:
• Develop and align free-space a sub-THz measurement setup for the characterisation of materials and metasurfaces
• Design and assemble an RF measurement bench for active RF components
• Contribute to antenna characterisation activities
• Automate instrument control, data acquisition, processing and report generation
• Assess measurement repeatability and uncertainty, compare experimental results with electromagnetic simulations, and document the developed setups and procedures

Currently enrolled in a Bachelor or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications, microwave engineering, applied physics or a related field