Antonio González López, awarded for his TFG in the V Premis Enginy de les Telecomunicacions organized by COITTCV/AVITT.
“The real prize is the recognition that this award brings for all the sacrifice I have made not only during the last year, but throughout the entire degree,” Antonio González López acknowledges. This young engineer has studied the Degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering at the Gandia Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and its Final Degree Project (TFG) has been awarded in the category of Telecommunication Systems at the V Telecommunications Engineering Awards.
An antenna that boosts the development of 6G communications
The work, entitled “Antenna with Multipolarization for Sixth Generation Networks with Sum and Difference Diagrams Based on Metasurfaces for Advanced Communication Systems”, highlights the development of a pioneering prototype in the field of next-generation communications. The project has been carried out at the Antennas and Propagation Lab (APL), which is part of the iTEAM of the UPV, under the direction of Miguel Ferrando Rocher and José Ignacio Herranz Herruzo.
The designed antenna is “compact and low-profile that uses metasurfaces (Gap Waveguide) the technology allows operating with high efficiency and without losses, a key aspect for the deployment of future communication networks such as 6G“. Its most innovative contribution is the ability to generate six radiation diagrams simultaneously this makes it possible to localize the origin of signals with a outstanding precision. This feature makes the prototype a promising tool “to enhance radar, autonomous navigation and advanced communication systems in sectors such as aerospace, maritime and defense”.
Innovation and technical quality
The jury of the call for the V Premis Enginy de les Telecomunicacions has valued especially the innovation and the technical quality and the formatting and writing. The company has also been significantly influenced by the grade obtained in its defense a 10-Honors Graduate and the recent publication of an article related to the project in the XL URSI National Symposium.
These awards are granted by the Official College/Valencian Association of Technical Telecommunication Engineers, COITTCV/AVITT, the awards are given for the quality of the work of recent graduates. Also “creativity, innovation, technology and, in short, the technical quality of the work presented” in each edition.
These awards were open to all graduates in Telecommunication Engineering of the Valencian Community, presenting one award for each mention of the degree: Telecommunication Systems, Sound and Image, Telematics and Electronic Systems.
After receiving the prize of 300 euros and the corresponding diploma, Antonio recalls that he chose to study at the Gandia Campus “because it offered me the opportunity to study Telecommunications Engineering in a familiar and welcoming environment” and assures that here “a community is formed that is practically an interdisciplinary family”. Currently, Antonio continues his education, this time at the València campus of the UPV where he is studying the Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering.