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Francisco Pizarro Torres

Profesor Auxiliar

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Antennas and Microwave topologies, Metamaterials, 3D-printing, Plasma/Electromagnetic Wave interaction

Educación

  •  Doctorado en Electromagnetismo y sistemas de alta frecuencia, Ingeniería de Plasmas (doble especialidad), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE) Toulouse. Francia, 2014
  •  M.Sc en Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones, Politecnico di Torino. Italia, 2009
  •  Licenciatura en ciencias de la ingeniería, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO. Chile, 2010
  •  Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO. Chile, 2010

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asociado / Lecturer Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2014 - 2016

  •   Profesor Auxiliar / Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2016 - 2022

  •   Profesor Adjunto / Associate professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2022 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Part-time lecturer

    Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

    Francia

    2010 - 2013

  •   Intern on research project

    Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

    Francia

    2010 - 2010

Formación de Capital Humano


Graduated Ph.D students:
- Jose Manuel Poyanco, Innovative 3D-Printed Designs for Millimeter-Wave Lenses and Meta-Lens Antennas (co-advised with prof. E. Rajo-Iglesias UC3M, Madrid, Spain), Presented: 14 Feb. 2024.

Post-doc Mentoring:
- Yair Zárate, ONRG project
- Patricio Jaque, FONDEF project

Graduated Master students:
- Matías Cuevas: "Parametric Study of a Fully 3D-Printed Dielectric Resonator Antenna Loaded with a Metallic Cap", 2021
- Rolando Salazar: "Assessment of 3D-printed Waveguides Using Conductive Filaments and a Chloroform-based Smoothing Process", 2021
- Pablo Stuardo: "Fully 3D-printed spring metasurface loaded with dielectric substrate", 2022
- Tomás Lira: "3D-printed Spiral Leaky Wave Antenna with Circular Polarization", 2023
- Javier Castro: "On the use of low-cost metallic filaments for the implementation of millimeter wave antennas", 2023
- Kevin Pulgar: "Dielectric Split-pin Unit Cell for Gradient Index Lenses Implementation by Using 3D-Printing", 2024

Graduated Bachelor students:
- Marcelo Barrientos, Electronic Engineer, 2024
- Brian Andrade, Electronic Engineer, 2024
- Nicolás Huentecura, Electronic Engineer, 2024
- Jose Alvarez, Electronic Engineer, 2024
- Andrea Avila: Electronic Engineer, 2023
- Germán Montenegro: Electronic Engineer, 2023
- Joaquin Figueroa: Electronic Engineer, 2023
- Sebastian Rodriguez: Electronic Engineer, 2023
- Diego Henriquez: Electronic Engineer, 2022
- Barbara Galleguillos: Electronic Engineer, 2022
- Manuel Díaz: Electronic Engineer, 2022
- Jorge Muñoz: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Nicolas Duarte: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Francisco Torres: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Nelson Castro: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Alejandro Godoy: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Kevin Pulgar: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Sebastián Díaz: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Tomas Lira: Electronic Engineer, 2021
- Jose-Manuel Poyanco: Electronic Engineer, 2020
- Pablo Stuardo: Electronic Engineer, 2020
- Alicia Rojas: Electronic Engineer, 2018
- Juan Vecchiola: Electronic Engineer, 2018
- Miguel Rojas: Electronic Engineer, 2019
- Rolando Salazar: Electronic Engineer, 2019
- Matías Cuevas: Electronic Engineer, 2019
- Diego Farías: Electronic Engineer, 2019
- Carlos Valderrama: Electronic Engineer, 2017
- Miguel Angel Arellano: Electronic Engineer, 2017
- Cristian Tapia: Electronic Engineer, 2017
- José Meza: Electronic Engineer, 2017
- Jorge Rodríguez: Electronic Engineer, 2016
- Fabian Alvarado: Electronic Engineer, 2016
- Javier Flores: Electronic Engineer, 2016
Leandro Aroca: Electronic Engineer, 2016
- David Rodríguez: Electronic Engineer, 2016


Difusión y Transferencia


Patents
J. Castro, M. Valdivia, M. Sottovia, F. Pizarro, D. Vasquez “Una composición de resina fotocurable para impresión 3D”, num. 202400855, Chile (PAF)
Invited Speaker:
- 3rd Australian Beyond 5G Connectivity Summit, October 17-18 2024, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Talk:” 3D Printed Antennas for Space Communications”
- Simposio, Electromagnetismo Aplicado (Applied Electromagnetics) March 6 2024, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería en Lima, Perú. Talk: “On the use of 3D printing for antenna applications in millimeter waves - how cost-effective can it be?”
- AP-S Bogotá WorkShop, Bogota, Colombia, Sept 01, 2023. Talk: “On the use of 3D-printing for antenna applications in millimeter waves”


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Beca Santander Jóvenes Investigadores

    Fundación Banco Santander

    Chile, 2018

    Pasantía de investigación en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

  •   Matsumae International Foundation Fellowship

    Matsumae International Foundation

    Japón, 2020

    Pasantía de investigación en proyecto "Uso de plasma como metamateriales", Universidad de la Prefectura de Shiga, Japón.

  •   Visiting Professor

    University of Shiga Prefecture

    Japón, 2022

    Visiting Professor, University of the Shiga Prefecture, August 2022 - March 2023 ; November 2023 - March 2024


 

Article (35)

3-D-Printed High-Gain Multisection DRA With Symmetric Radiation Pattern
3-D-Printed Integrated GRIN LensPolarizer Using Anisotropic Materials
An Ultra-Wideband Dual Polarization Antenna Array for the Detection and Localization of Bright Fast Radio Transients in the Milky Way
Bioinspired Ultrahigh Frequency Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High-Voltage Equipment
Modeling and Testing Superconducting Artificial CPW Lines Suitable for Parametric Amplification
On the Use of Low-Cost Metallic Filaments for the Implementation of Millimeter Wave Antennas
3-D-Printed Spiral Leaky Wave Antenna With Circular Polarization
3D-printed low-cost choke corrugated Gaussian profile horn antenna for Ka-band
Circular polarized 3D-printed cylindrical DRA using parasitic dielectric helix
High-Frequency Parametric Study of Electroplated Conductive Filaments in 3D Printed Microwave Topologies
Optimization of Antenna Performance for Global 21 cm Observations and Verification Using Scaled Copies
Assessment of 3D-printed waveguides using conductive filaments and a chloroform-based smoothing process
Cost-effective wideband dielectric planar lens antenna for millimeter wave applications
Fully 3D-printed spring metasurface loaded with dielectric substrate
High gain low profile horn array with circular polarization using a 3D printed anisotropic dielectric composite material at 38 GHz
A Mode-Suppressing Metasurface for Large-Width MMICs Suitable for Tightly Packaged Millimeter and Submillimeter Heterodyne Receivers
Evaluation of inverted microstrip gap waveguide bandpass filters for Ka-band
Parametric Study of a Fully 3D-Printed Dielectric Resonator Antenna Loaded With a Metallic Cap
Potential Use of Cold Plasma Discharges for Frequency Reconfigurability in a Sievenpiper Mushroom Metasurface
Sensitivity analysis of rectangular waveguides with different anisotropic surface impedance boundaries using modal extended theory
Two-Dimensional Glide-Symmetric Dielectric Structures for Planar Graded-Index Lens Antennas
Wideband hyperbolic flat lens in the Ka-band based on 3D-printing and transformation optics
3D-Printed Sievenpiper Metasurface Using Conductive Filaments
3D-Printing for Transformation Optics in Electromagnetic High-Frequency Lens Applications
Comparison study of 4x4 Butler matrices in microstrip technologies for Ka-band
Considerations of impedance sensitivity and losses in designing inverted microstrip gap waveguides
Experimental Study of the Transfer Function of Replicas of Pinnae of Individuals Manufactured with Alginate
Analysis of Periodic Structures Made of Pins Inside a Parallel Plate Waveguide
Parametric Study of 3D Additive Printing Parameters Using Conductive Filaments on Microwave Topologies
Particle Swarm Optimization for the Fusion of Thermal and Visible Descriptors in Face Recognition Systems
Antena impresa invertida reconfigurable en frecuencia a base de una microdescarga de plasma
Low insertion loss microplasma-based limiter integrated into a microstrip bandpass filter
Plasma microdischarge as power-induced limiter element in microstrip devices
Non-thermal plasma potentialities for microwave device reconfigurability
Theoretical and Numerical Study of a Plasma-Based Frequency Tunable Microstrip Antenna

BookSection (1)

Photon Propagation Through Dispersive Media

ConferencePaper (59)

3D-Printed Circular Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna with Enhanced Axial Ratio Bandwidth Using Anisotropic Material
3D-printed Flat Dielectric Lenses Using Split-pin Unit Cell
Design and Characterization of Different Unit Cells for the Implementation of 3D-printed Lenses
Design of Modulated Dielectric Leaky-Wave Antennas for Efficient Bessel-Beam Synthesis
Half-mode Groove Gap Waveguide 3dB coupler for W-Band
S. Zuleta, Y. Zarate, F. Pizarro
Superconducting Glide-Symmetric Bifilar Transmission Lines for Tunable Stop-Band and Filtering Applications
Waveguide Twist for ALMA 6 Band with Glyde-Symmetry Metasurface
“A Conditional Generative Algorithm for Periodic Metasurface Absorber in mm-Wave
“Monolithic Radome with Circular Polarization for Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array
“On the Suitability of Superconducting Artificial Transmission Lines for Parametric Amplification above 100 GHz
“Parametric Study of Inverted Microstrip Gap Waveguide Passband Ring Resonator Filters
“Protection de circuits microondes par décharge plasma Protection of microwave circuits by plasma discharge
3D-printed Dielectric Resonator Antennas with Circular Polarization Using Parasitic Helix and Twist Structure
3D-printed Multi-Section Dielectric Resonator Antenna With Symmetric Radiation Pattern
Cicularly-Polarized Lens Antenna Based on the Use of 3D-Printed Anisotropic Dielectrics
Circular Polarized 3D-printed Enclosed Twist Dielectric Resonator Antenna
Gap Waveguide Cruciform Couplers Nolen Matrix for Multi Beam Antenna at 38 GHz
Gap Waveguide Nolen Matrix for Multi Beam Antenna at 38 GHz
“Dielectric Bull-Eye Leaky Wave Antenna with Broadside Radiation Pattern
“Ka-Band Planar Dielectric GRIN Lens Antenna with Circular Polarization
“On the use of low-cost metallic filaments for the fabrication of millimeter wave antennas
38 GHz Low-Profile Transverse Horn Array Antenna with a 3D Printed Anisotropic Dielectric Polarizer
3D Printed Anisotropic Dielectric Polarizer for 38 GHz Low Profile Horn Antenna Array
3D-printed circular polarized cylindrical DRA using parasitic dielectric helix
3D-Printed Dielectric Leaky-Wave Bull-Eye Antenna
3D-Printed Half-Maxwell Fish-Eye Dielectric Lens Antenna with Integrated DRA Feed
3D-printed topologies for microwave and millimeter wave applications
DRA with symmetrical radiation pattern as Half Maxwell Fish-Eye dielectric lens antenna feed,
Ka-Band Cost-Effective 3D Printed Lens Antenna Designs
Multi-beam array of low profile horns fed with groove gap waveguide technology
“Planar Glide-Symmetric Dielectric Half-Luneburg Len sat K/Ka-Band
3D printed flat lens antennas for Ka band
Cost effective wideband Ka flat lens antenna
Design of Inverted Microstrip Gap-Waveguide Filters in the Ka-Band
“3D-printed graded index half-Maxwell lens with integrated DRA feeding
3D-printed Wideband Hyperbolic Lens Antenna for Ka-band
Considerations in Designing Inverted Microstrip Gap Waveguide Components
Design of a 3D-printed lens for Ka-Band
Suppressing cavity resonances in high-frequency amplifiers with metamaterial structures
“Comparativa de prestaciones en el diseño de componentes en banda Ka en tecnología microstrip combinada con gap waveguide
Design and Implementation of Antennas Using 3D Printing Technique with Conductive Filament
EIElectroAR: Realidad aumentada en aula como herramienta de aprendizaje en cursos de electromagnetismo
A RMLSA Algorithm for Translucent Elastic-Optical Networks
A RMLSA Algorithm for Wide-Area Flex-Optical Networks
Impacto del uso de un Laboratorio de Mediciones sobre el Aprendizaje en Comunicaciones Óptica
Dual-band textile patch antenna for GSM-WiFi bands using EVA-foam as substrate
Antenne imprimée reconfigurable en fréquence par décharge plasma
Micro-décharge plasma comme élément limiteur de puissance dans des dispositifs micro-ondes en technologie circuit imprimé
Plasma microdischarge as power-induced limiter element in microstrip devices
Plasma Properties to Make Microwave Devices Reconfigurable
Antena Impresa Invertida Reconfigurable en Frecuencia a Base de una Microdescarga de Plasma
Caractérisation Expérimentale de l’Interaction entre une Onde Electromagnétique RF et une Micro-Décharge Plasma
Experimental study of RF/microplasma interaction using an inverted microstrip line
Potentialités des Plasmas Froids pour la Reconfigurabilité de Dispositifs Micro-Ondes
Evaluation of microplasma discharges as active components for reconfigurable antennas
Caractérisation RF Large Bande d’une Micro-Décharge Plasma
Concept d’Antenne Filtrante pour des Applications GNSS
Wideband Characterization of Micro-Discharge Plasma Parameters

Proyecto (17)

Strengthening and disseminating the astronomical instrumentation made in Chile: organizing the 35th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology.
Metasurperficies y circuitos para Radio Astronomía: creando y consolidando actividades a nivel internacional
Novel 3D-printed lens antennas for satellite applications
Development of composite materials based on polymers with metallic/ceramic particles for the fabrication of antennas using 3D-printing
Dielectric 3D-printing for millimeter wave (mmWave) topologies
Equipo para fabricación 3D de metamateriales electromagnéticos en onda milimétrica para aplicaciones de comunicaciones aeroespaciales y terrestre
3D Printing for 6G and 5G
Study, design and integration of electromagnetic metasurfaces for mmWave and sub-mmWave applications
SpaceWave3D: research group on 3D-printing for aerospace and high-frequency applications
Impresión 3D aditiva de estructuras periódicas de simetrías superiores para antenas y circuitos microondas para la nueva generación de telecomunicaciones: fortalecimoento en investigación y docencia entre KTH y EIE-PUCV
Fortalecimiento en investigación y docencia en la temática de diseño de topologías de alta frecuencia con técnicas de impresión en 3D, entre la EIE-PUCV y DTSC-UC3M
Implementation of Reconfigurable Plasma-Based RF Devices for Medium and High Power Densities
Sistema de geolocalización portable basado en tecnología electrotextil, y monitoreo de adultos mayores con demencia
ENVIROTRACKER=> Sistema electrónico remoto de Monitoreo Ambiental en Tiempo Real para el estudio del cambio climático basado en un biosensor bacteriano altamente sensible
Modelado estadístico, basado en datos empíricos, de los efectos de la dinámica oscilatoria de edificios sobre comunicaciones 5G
DI Iniciación -
LIC=> listen_identify_count Conteo Remoto de Polilla Lobesia Botrana
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Marcos Diaz

Asociate Professor

DPTO. INGENIERÍA ELÉCTRICA

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Esteban Vera

Associate Professor

School of Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile

103
Francisco Pizarro

Profesor Auxiliar

Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

Valparaiso, Chile

2
Gabriel Hermosilla

PROFESOR AUXILIAR

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

Valparaíso, Chile

2
Sebastian Fingerhuth

Profesor (Jornada Completa)

Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

2
Mauricio Rodríguez

Profesor Asociado

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Daniel Yunge

Profesor jerarquizado

Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Ariel Leiva

Secretario Académico

Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

2
Eva Rajo

Professor

Signal Theory and Communications

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Leganés, España

1
David Monasterio

Ingeniero en Jeje del Laboratorio de Ondas Milimétricas

Astronomía

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Diego Gallardo

Ingeniero eléctrico

Departamento de Astronomía

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile