Prof. Raphael Kastner's Students Supervised

Ph.D. Students

• Yigal Twig. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, June 1996. Thesis Title: Solving electromagnetic scattering problems usign spatial modular methods.
• Ronen Holtzman. Beginning: 1998. Has graduated, June 2001. Thesis Title: The Green's Function Method (GFM) for the analysis of complex electromagnetic problems.
• Bezalel Finkelstein. Beginning: October 2003. Passed preliminary exam: November 2005.

M.Sc. Students

• Yehezkel Kitenfloyn. Beginning: 1989. Has Graduated, January 1992. Thesis Title: Design of a two dimensional slot antenna array.
• Roni Shani. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, October 1992. Project Title: Synthesis of a circular array with directional radiating elements.
• Eran Reuveni. Beginning: 1989. Has graduated, January 1993. Project Title: Performance study of an adaptive array for a GPS receiver system.
• Eli Aloni. Beginning: 1991. Has graduated, 1993. Thesis Title: Low profile, wideband, plarization diversified printed array elements.
• Pesach Magar. Beginning: 1992. Has graduated, 1993. Project Title: Short pulse propagation analysis in a moving FDTD frame.
• Rami Drori. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, 1994. Thesis Title: Analysis of planar problems with an efficient aperture formulation.
• Nathan Ostrovsky. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, 1994. Project Title: Coupling analysis of a complex containing many antennas.
• Eyal Bachar. Beginning 1991. Has graduated, 1994. Project Title: Superabsorption - a method to improve absorbing boundary conditions.
• Bezalel Finkelstein. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, February 1996. Thesis Title: Fast spectral algorithms for the analysis of planar scatterers with dense sampling.
• Ran Vellingstein. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, 1995. Project title: Phased array with microstip feeding network.
• Haim Friedlander. Beginning: 1991. Has graduated, 1995. Project Title: Evaluation of traveling wave modes on a cylinder.
• Gabriela Noham. Beginning: 1990. Has graduated, February 1996. Thesis Title: Moment Method matrix thinning for efficient solution of scattering problems.
• Aharon Blank. Beginning: 1994. Has graduated, May 1997. Thesis Title: Emission-absorption of microwave radiation using the paramagnetic resonance method.
• Amir Shlivinski (co-advisor: Prof. Ehud Heyman). Beginning: 1994. Has graduated, May 1997. Thesis Title: Antenna characterization in the time domain.
• Yuval Pemper (co-advisor: Prof. Ehud Heyman). Beginning: 1994. Has graduated, November 1997. Thesis Title: Hybrid ray- FDTD moving window solution for long range modeling of space-time wavepackets.
• Shai Malik Thesis title: Discrete Trans-Impedance/Admittance and Their Application to FDTD Grid Truncation. Has graduated, August 1998.
• Ronen Holtzman - transferred to the direct track toward Ph.D., March 1998.
• Asher Peled. Thesis title: Analysis of Disk-Type Microstrip Antenna of a Circularly Polarized Conical Beam of a Single Disk Antenna and A Concentric Ring Array. Has Graduated, December 1998.
• Yoel Pasvolski (co-advisor: Prof. Ehud Heyman). Thesis title: Electromagnetic analysis of an antenna buried in a composite environment. Has graduated, February 1999.
• Itzhak Ronen Hagay. Project title: FDTD analysis of a 1--50 impedance transformer over the 500 MHz -- 2 GHz frequency range. Has graduated, March 2000.
• Yossi Yannay. Thesis title: Constructing perfect FDTD Absorbing Boundary Conditions using ghost points. Has graduated, December 2000.
• Ofer Sabban. Project title: Development of a wideband smart antenna for a cellular channel. Has graduated, June 2001.
• Motti Zelig (with Prof. E. Heyman). Thesis title: Classification of Electromagnetic Targets by Polarimetric NBW SAR Methods. Has graduated, August 2001.
• Uri Shemer (with Dr. Amir Boag). Thesis titile: Fast Global Radiation Boundary Conditions based on Non-Uniform Grid Approach. Has graduated, March 2004.
• Sharon Malevski (with Prof. Ehud Heyman). Thesis title: The use of diakoptics in finite difference time domain as generalized boundary conditions. Has graduated, May 2005.
• Oren Harpaz. Project title: Numerical Verification of the Spectral Domain Discrete Green's Functions. Has graduated, November 2005.
• Shachar Aviv. Project title: Internal Antenna Design and Analysis: Two Coupled IF-Antenna. Has graduated, December 2005.
• Hezi Lila (with Prof. B. Z. Steinberg). Project title: Wideband 6 Elements Antenna Array Design. Has graduated, February 2006.
• Eliav Alfia (with Prof. B. Z. Steinberg). Project title: Wideband Feeding Network for a 6 Elements Antenna Array. Has graduated, February 2006.
• Ori Sappir. Thesis title: Antenna with Distinct Polarization for Cellular and WLAN Applications. Has graduated, March 2006.
• Nimrod Rospsha. Thesis title: Combinatorics-Based Closed Form Discrete Time Domain Green's Function. Has graduated, May 2006. Recipient of the 2006 Intel Student Award.
• Ygal Levy (with Dr. Kh, Garb). Thesis title: A Folded Shorted Stub Filter. Has graduated, Dec. 2008.
• Moshik Cohen. Thesis title: Time Domain Analysis and Optimization of Ultra Wideband Antennas. Recipient of the 2007 Intel Student Award. Has graduated, June 2009
• Gregory Shimonov (with Dr. Kh. Garb). Thesis title: Waveguide E-Plane Filters and Diplexers Investigation and Design. Has graduated, Nov. 2009.
• Roee Geva. Thesis title: Time Domain Short Pulse Antennas.
• Shay Gazouly.
• Ilay Levy.
• Ofer Markish.
• Michael Kreitzer.

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