During the whole project the four areas, “Concept”, “Virtual Networking”, “Strategy” and “Dissemination and Exploitation” have been identified and realized (the first yearhas been mainly devoted to the “Concept” and the “Virtual Networking” areas, the second to “Strategy ” and “Dissemination and Exploitation” activities)
CONCEPT
The concept area has been divided in 3 WPs:
• Extreme Scale Electromagnetic Interactions (EXEMI-WP1)
NTX systems enabling or improving the performance of electromagnetic (EM) systems over the whole frequency spectrum through wave-matter interaction at nanoscale level.
• Metatronics (MTX-WP2)
Generation of space-time varying, controllable nano-structured, new materials exhibiting unusual EM macroscopic properties and functionalities.
• Surfacetronics (SFX-WP3)
Conception, analysis and realization of reconfigurable, sensorial, adaptive and cognitive interface for sensing, communications, radar, and cloaking.
STRATEGY
The Strategy WPs are divided in “Position Paper” (WP4) and “Strategic Research Agenda and Road Map” (WP5).
The relevant deliverables have been uploaded in the Funding&Tenders Portal.
The following objectives have been identified and realized:
• Structure, content and expected impact of the position paper,
• Impact on the Industrial Leadership and Societal Challenges areas of H2020;
• Design a methodology to work efficiently toward gathering and collecting the inputs.
• The SWOT methodologyhas been identified to face each activity areas
VIRTUAL NETWORKING
During the first year of the NTX project, the activities on WP7 have been focused on:
• Analysis of the expected services of the Virtual Networking;
• Definition of the Data Management for the project;
• Deployment and starting the use the Virtual Networking.
During the second year the Virtual Research Centre was implemented and linked to our website (www.nanoarchitectronics.eu)
DISSEMINATION
During the whole project the activities have been focused on:
• Workshops
1. One workshop held in Paris, April 21, for people interested in NTX;
2. publicity to NTX within EOSAM 2018, Delft, 8 - 12 October 2018, and to 3rd ERP 3D Nanomanufacturing Dissemination Workshop, Delft, November 2017;
3. one workshop organised inside EuCAP 2018, London, 9-13 April 2018;
4. a Joint NTX-FORESEEN Workshop organised in London, QMUL College, May 4, 2017;
5. NTX participated to the Industry Day at Thales Research and Technology, July 2nd, 2018, PalaiseauParis TRT building;
6. another workshop was organised within the METAMATERIALS 2018, Espoo, Finland, 27-30 August 2018,
7. one workshop organised within NanoScience and Nanotechnology 2018, Frascati, 18-20 December 2018
• Exhibition
An exhibition stall was organized at the SPIE Photonics Europe conference (Strasbourg, France, April 2018)
• Participation to a Conference:
Presentation of a paper in the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting;
• Schools for PhD students:
Three schools for PhD have been organized:
1. “Metasurface and Metratronics” University of Siena, Siena, Italy, 25-29 September 2017;
2. EM Material and Surfaces for Novel wave phenomena” Univ. of RomaTre, Rome, Italy, 18-22 December 2017;
3. “Extreme Scale Electromagnetic Interaction (EXEMI) school, ESPCI, Paris, France, 19-21 November 2018
