KEYNOTE: Computational Electromagnetics and a Facilitator of Microwave Creativity and Industrial Innovation

Within the first year of our commercial activity, my team had the pleasure of serving a leading radioastronomy laboratory and a popular manufacturer of domestic microwave ovens. Since some of those early simulation benchmarks, though challenging at the time, are no longer confidential, they will be recalled in this talk to demonstrate the appealing outreach and use of Computational Electromagnetics (CEM). This talk will give a snapshot of such selected methods and algorithms, from the viewpoint of their industrial applications. Examples will be given from low microwave to terahertz bands, and from radar technology to biosensors, illustrating how the use of CEM tools facilitates industrial innovation in areas of interest to the IMS attendees. Concluding examples of this talk will pertain to the insightful use of CEM tools for the purpose of understanding and suppressing spurious modes in different microwave devices, from door chokes blocking leakage from domestic ovens to the recently invented Q-Choked resonators for broad-band material measurements.