EMC-ESD Lunch Session

On Wednesday, December 13, from 12:30 to 1:30, Davy Pissoort from KU Leuven will give an online lunch session about the latest developments in international standards around “shielding effectiveness”. You can register as a member for the lunch session by sending an email to info@emc-esd.nl, after which you will receive the Microsoft Teams link shortly.

An electromagnetic shielding material is any material used to make shielding enclosures, usually to shield electronic components, circuits, and systems from incoming electromagnetic fields, and to reduce the emission of electromagnetic waves from a circuit or system. For most applications, the choice of material for designing and manufacturing the enclosure is based on the characterization of planar samples of the material. Several techniques are available to measure the shielding properties of materials. The recently published “IEEE P2715 Guide for the Characterization of the Shielding Effectiveness of Planar Materials” provides guidance on the use of recognized techniques for measuring the shielding effectiveness of planar materials. The guide describes the characteristics and limitations of generally accepted techniques for characterizing the shielding effectiveness of planar materials and provides a basis for comparing the techniques. This presentation introduces the IEEE 2715 standard and summarizes the currently available methods for measuring the shielding provided by a planar material. In addition, the presentation provides an introduction to the IEEE 2716 standard, which proposes and compares techniques to determine the electromagnetic shielding of so-called Board Level Shields.

Biography Davy Pissoort:
Davy Pissoort received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2005. He then worked as an R&D Engineer at Agilent Technologies (now Keysight Technologies) in Ghent, Belgium. Since 2009, he is a professor at KU Leuven Brugge Campus, where he heads the Mechatronics Group. His current research interests include EMI risk management, shielding effectiveness characterization, and safety assurance of interconnected autonomous systems. He is currently a board member of the IEEE EMC Society and recently also chaired the IEEE EMC Society Benelux Chapter.