EMC'14/Tokyo, Co-sponsored by Asia
Pacific EMC (APEMC)
By Masao Taki, EMC’14/Tokyo Symposium Chair
IEEE EMC
Magazine, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 95- 99, 2014
The 2014 International Symposium on
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC'14/Tokyo) was held at Hitotsubashi Hall (National
Center of Sciences), Chiyoda, Tokyo, from May 12 to 16, 2014. EMC'14/Tokyo is
the 7th International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility organized by
the IEICE Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility Japan (EMCJ),
sponsored by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers,
Communications Society (IEICE-CS). This EMC Symposium series has been held
every five years since 1984. The first series was held in Tokyo, becoming the
first IEEE EMC Symposium to be held outside the USA, sharing sponsorship with
IECE (currently IEICE). EMC'14/Tokyo was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-S) and the Technical Committee on
EMC of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ). It was also held
in collaboration with 15 national and international organizations related to
academic and standardization activities on electromagnetic compatibility.
In total, 510 people, including 18 invited
attendees, 54 students, and 21 accompanying people, from 26 countries attended
the Symposium. Attendees consisted of 339 people from Japan and 171 people from
overseas. The technical program of EMC’14/Tokyo included regular sessions,
organized sessions, workshops, and tutorial sessions. A total of 246 papers
were presented: 125 from Japan and 121 from outside Japan. We note that
approximately half the presented papers were from overseas.
The Symposium started on Monday, May 12 with a
technical tour to Tokyo Skytree joined by more than 40 participants. After
listening to lectures about broadcasting transmission systems and lightning observation
equipment, we went 450 meters up the tower and enjoyed a great view of the
Tokyo metropolitan area from the Tembo Galleria. The participants also looked
around Asakusa and Sensoji Temple, where they experienced the traditional
culture of Tokyo.
The technical sessions including the Plenary
Session and Keynote Session were scheduled from May 13 to 16. The Symposium
covered all aspects of EMC technology. Fusion of energy and information in
systems have enabled remarkable recent technologies such as “Smart Communities”.
Wireless power transfer is about to be introduced to people’s daily lives. The
Symposium addressed these emerging technologies as well as the conventional
issues of EMC including compatibility of man-made systems and countermeasures to
the threats to our lifeline systems caused by natural sources of disturbance.
For the regular sessions, 172 papers were
submitted from 24 countries, and 117 were accepted. For the organized sessions,
101 original papers were accepted. Therefore, the proceedings of EMC’14/ Tokyo
included 218 original papers in 28 regular sessions and 17 organized sessions.
These papers and 28 additional presentations in workshops and tutorial sessions
were presented in four parallel sessions.
Specific topics in EMC’14/Tokyo were Biological Effect and Safety
(16.5 % of regular sessions and organized sessions papers) and PCB and Device
Level EMC (15.6 %), though EMI/ EMC Measurement Technology (17.0 %) covered the largest portion
of the topics. In particular, IC and chip level EMC issues have become a focus
of research. “Power System EMC” was another important topic due to the increase
in papers related to Wireless Power Transfer.
In the evening of May 13, the Welcome Party was held at
Hitotsubashi Hall. More than 350 participants gathered and enjoyed food, drink,
and conversation with their friends and colleagues. The social highlight of
EMC'14/Tokyo was the Banquet and the Award Ceremony held on Thursday evening at
Josui Kaikan, which about 220 participants
attended. The banquet began with Kagami-Biraki, a traditional Japanese ceremony
in which the lid of a sake barrel is broken open by mallets. We also saw an exciting
and fantastic Wadaiko (Japanese drum) performance given by Mugen, a Wadaiko
group. At the Award Ceremony, which was held during the banquet, the winners
were commended for their outstanding achievements.
The following awardees were selected by the Award Program Committee.
Risaburo Sato Award
“Forward Wave Analysis for EMC Power Supply Design above 1 GHz”
by Umberto Paoletti, Yasumaro Komiya, Takashi Suga, and Hideki Osaka.
Excellent Paper Awards
1) “Relationship Between Spatial-Averaged SAR and Temperature Elevation
in Human Head Models from 1-10 GHz” by Akimasa
Hirata, Shunya Ohta, Ilkka Laakso, and Osamu Fujiwara.
2) “Electromagnetic Radiated Emissions from a Wireless Power Transfer
System using a Resonant Magnetic Field Coupling” by Sunkyu Kong, Jonghoon Kim,
Bumhee Bae, Jonghoon J. Kim, Sukjin Kim, and Joungho Kim.
3) “Power and Ground Phase Relation in LSI Power Distribution Network
at Common-mode Noise Reduction” by Takuro Murakami, Masaaki Maeda, Yuichi
Mabuchi, Tohlu Matsushima, Takashi Hisakado, and Osami Wada.
4) “The Advantages of Spatial Domain Probe Compensation
Technique in EMC Near-Field Measurements” by Martin Schmidt and Manfred Albach.
Furthermore, five young authors (all under 33 years of age) were
selected as the winners of the Young Researcher Award, and two
student authors were selected as the winners of the IEEE EMC Society
Japan and Sendai Chapter Student Awards.
EMC’14/Tokyo was a truly successful event. We owe much of this
success to all those involved in the Symposium. The steering committee thanks
all participants, committee members, secretaries, and staff members for their
hard work and contributions to the Symposium. Many thanks to all the technical and
financial sponsors.
Finally, this report was written with input from the
EMC'14/Tokyo Vice Chair Osami Wada, the EMC'14/Tokyo Steering Committee Assistant
Secretary Yukihisa Suzuki, and the EMC'14/Tokyo Steering Committee Members
Takashi Harada and Yoshitaka Toyota.
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