2nd Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO 2014)

Abstract

It was an honor and a great pleasure for all those involved in its organization to welcome the participants to the ‘‘Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean’’ (RADIO 2014) international conference that was held from 7th to 10th April 2014 at the Sugar Beach Resort, Wolmar, Flic–en–Flac, Mauritius. RADIO 2014 is the second of a series of conferences organized in the Indian Ocean region. The aim of the conference is to discuss recent developments, theories and practical applications covering the whole scope of radio–frequency engineering, including radio waves, antennas, propagation, and electromagnetic compatibility. The RADIO international conference emerged following discussions with engineers and scientists from the countries of the Indian Ocean as well as from other parts of the world and a need was felt for the organization of such an event in this region. Following numerous requests, the Island of Mauritius, worldwide known for its white sandy beaches and pleasant tropical atmosphere, was again chosen for the organization of the 2nd RADIO international conference.The conference was organized by the Radio Society, Mauritius and the Local Organizing Committee consisted of scientists from SUPELEC, France, the University of Mauritius, and the University of Technology, Mauritius. We would like to take the opportunity to thank all people, institutions and companies that made the event such a success. We are grateful to our gold sponsors CST and FEKO as well as URSI for their generous support which enabled us to partially support one PhD student and two scientists to attend the conference. We would also like to thank IEEE–APS and URSI for providing technical co–sponsorship.More than hundred and thirty abstracts were submitted to the conference. They were peer–reviewed by an international scientific committee and, based on the reviews, either accepted, eventually after revision, or rejected. RADIO 2014 brought together participants from twenty countries spanning five continents: Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, India, Italy, Mauritius, Poland, Reunion Island, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and USA. The conference featured eleven oral sessions and one poster session on state–of–the–art research themes. Three internationally recognized scientists delivered keynote speeches during the conference. Prizes for the first and second Best Student Papers were awarded during the closing ceremony.Following the call for the extended contributions for publication as a volume in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), both on–line and in print, we received thirty–two full papers. All submitted contributions were then peer–reviewed, revised whenever necessary, and accepted or rejected based on the recommendations of the reviewers of the editorial board. At the end of the procedure, twenty–five of them have been accepted for publication in this volume.