One of the most popular attractions, as always, is the workshop where visitors can build a small multiband antenna for mobile devices. This year, researchers from the department are adding an exciting new feature. Come and try it out!
The mysteriously named "EZO Corner" will present experiments in which, as their creators put it, "physics collapses like a house of cards." At another station, you’ll be able to tune a radio via an optical fiber using a laser beam.
Researchers from the Department of Electromagnetic Field will also introduce their hyperthermia laboratory. You can test your soldering skills at a station where you’ll be tasked with soldering a matching circuit made of several SMD components onto a printed circuit board with an antenna. You’ll immediately test your success using a NanoVNA.
Another laboratory will focus on "at-home" measurement of RF parameters using instruments you can easily build yourself — or may already have somewhere. You’ll also receive useful tips for DIY electronics projects, for example in antenna matching measurements, RF power and field intensity measurements, and oscilloscope circuit measurements.
You’ll put your patience and physics knowledge to the test by building a spectrum analyzer. And you might even take home a camera accessory capable of capturing part of the infrared spectrum!
And of course, there will be something good to eat and drink as well.
