The EMC Lab boasts a wide selection of instrumentation and software tools for basic and applied EMC research, acquired over the years and constantly increased and/or updated to the state of the art. The laboratory is aimed at supporting research activities in the EMC sector, with particular emphasis on:

• Development of innovative measurement methods and/or test procedures overcoming the mere requirements of current Standards, specifically in the automotive, aerospace and railway sectors;
• Electromagnetic characterization of devices, equipment and systems, at the frequencies of interest for EMC, for the identification of suitable models accounting for parasitic effects;
• Characterization of interconnections (for instance, multiwire lines and cables) with specific reference to the propagation of conducted electromagnetic interference.

Some experimental activities recently carried out in this lab include:

• The characterization of bulk current injection (BCI) probes, and the experimental validation of innovative BCI-based radiated-susceptibility tests in the frequency range 10 kHz – 400 MHz, for the automotive and aerospace sectors;
• The design, development and validation of innovative measurement chains for radiated emissions of high-speed trains, in the frequency range 9 kHz – 1 GHz, conforming to (and extending) requirements of standard IEC 62236;
• In the aerospace sector, the experimental characterization of dc/dc converters and wiring harness used in satellite power buses for the identification and validation of prediction models of conducted emissions, in the frequency range 100 kHz – 100 MHz;
• The analysis of human exposure to electric and magnetic fields for workers involved in arc-welding processes (standard EN 50444), through electromagnetic simulation of complex 3D body models, and the experimental characterization of industrial welding equipment.