Prof. Oscar Quevedo-Teruel
KTH — Project leader, expert on RT & PO
MoAna Project
Modeling & Testing Infrastructure for High-Efficiency 6G Antennas
About the project
MoAna (Modelling the Testing Infrastructure for Highly Efficient 6G Antennas) develops a fast, reverberation-chamber-based testing environment and a Ray-Tracing and Physical-Optics (RT-PO) simulation tool to accelerate over-the-air testing of integrated 6G antenna systems by more than 100 times. The aim is to enable fast validation and configuration of active antenna arrays where PA loading and mutual coupling strongly impact system efficiency.
The project combines modeling (KTH), chamber prototyping and test facilities (Antennex), and RF/microwave application insight with in-kind hardware support (Ampleon).
Project type: Research & Innovation
Orientation: 6G base-station testing (FR3 and beyond)
Partners: KTH, Antennex (NL), Ampleon (NL)
Goals & Deliverables
- Produce an open-source Python RT-PO simulator for reverberation chambers able to compute S-parameters in seconds.
- Develop and demonstrate a proof-of-concept reverberation chamber prototype at Antennex to validate the models with an Ampleon antenna module.
- Disseminate results: 1 conference paper and 2 open-access journal papers; public GitHub repository; workshop at KTH.
Project team
Prof. Francisco Mesa
KTH — Affiliated professor, expert on RT & PO
Dr. Mingzheng Chen
KTH — Post-doc, dissemination lead
Riccardo Musso
KTH — PhD student, RT-PO development
Simon Leisenger
KTH — MSc student, code support
Dr. Anouk Hubrechsen
Antennex — Industry lead, expert on RCs
Marjolijn Kleijer
Antennex — Measurements in RCs
Prof. Bart Smolders
Antennex / TU/e — Program line leader, connections to Dutch 6G centers
Dr. Pilar Castillo-Tapia
TU/e — Post-doc, connections to Dutch 6G centers
Dr. Fred van Rijs
Ampleon — Engineering fellow, provides test hardware
Publications
To be updated.
Workshops
To be updated.