Joint Chapter of the Communications, APS, and MTT Societies (JCAM)
Dr. Hans Schantz, JCAM Chair

Dr. Hans Schantz, Chief Scientist of The Q-Track Corporation, presented a noon lecture on “Near-Field Technology: An Emerging RF Discipline” for the JCAM Fall meeting . Cosponsored by the Huntsville GOLD chapter and the Joint Chapter of the Communications, APS, and MTT Societies (JCAM).
Hans explained and surveyed the emerging RF discipline of near-field technology. He defined the “near field” concept, and summarized the history of near-field technology from Faraday until the present day. He focused on recent near-field technology advances for applications like Near Field Communications (NFC), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS). He also discussed extending propagation laws and antenna gains to the near-field regime.

Dr. Hans Schantz is Founder, Chairman, and CTO of the Q-Track Corporation (www.q-track.com), a start-up company pioneering a narrowband, low-frequency, low-cost, high-accuracy positioning technology called "Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging." Dr Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from University of Texas at Austin.

His work experience includes IBM, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Ohio State University ElectroScience Lab. In 1999, he joined Time Domain Corporation in Huntsville as an Antenna Engineer. His pioneering work in ultrawideband (UWB) antennas led to over a dozen patents. He authored The Art and Science of UWB Antennas (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2005). Dr Schantz is an IEEE Senior Member, and chairs the Huntsville JCAM Chapter.

See you at our next meeting !!

Dr. Hans Schantz, Chief Scientist, The Q-Track Corporation
IEEE Huntsville JCAM Chair
(256) 489-0075
h.schantz@q-track.com