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ABOUT THE BOOK
This volume from the “Micro and Nanoengineering” series (edited by the
Publishing House of the Romanian Academy) includes the papers which
have been presented at the 7h “MEMSWAVE” workshop, organized by
University of Perugia, in the frame of the “AMICOM” Network of
Excellence financed by the EC.
The papers are focused on emerging MEMS technologies for RF and
millimeter wave circuits. MEMS technologies are now one the most
exciting and promising solution to manufacture high performance
millimeter wave circuits to be used in the emerging wireless
communication systems.
This volume is addressed to all interested people from universities,
research institutes or companies working in microwaves, millimeter
waves, and MEMS. It will be distributed to the university libraries.
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
Roberto Sorrentino Professor at University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
is President of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). He is
working on various subjects but mainly in the field of numerical
methods and CAD techniques for passive microwave structures, the
analysis and design of microwave and millimeter-wave circuits. He is
the coordinator of the Network of Excellence "AMICOM"
Alexandru Müller senior research scientist at the National Institute
for Research and Development in Microtechnologies (IMT Bucharest),
Romania, coordinator of the “MEMSWAVE” European Project (1998 – 2001),
nominated between the ten finalists in the competition for the
Descartes Prize 2002, coordinator of the Romanian team in the AMICOM
FP6 Network of Excellence.
Dan Dascalu member of the Romanian Academy (of Sciences), is
professor of Electronic Engineering at the “Politechnica” University,
Bucharest, Romania, and General Manager of the National Institute for
Research and Development in Microtechnologies (IMT Bucharest),
Romania.
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FOREWORD
Wireless communication at radio, microwave and millimetre wave
frequencies is continuing to show explosive growth in consumer
applications. Examples include wireless personal (hand-held)
communication systems such as mobile phones, wireless local area
networks (WLAN), satellite communications, automotive radar and
millimetre wave, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM)
applications. In addition to the ever higher data rates, future
advanced communication systems will require increased functionality,
and low weight, volume, power consumption and noise. Today it is
mandatory to realize high frequency receivers featuring very low noise
behaviour. However, this demand conflicts with the requirements to
increase the operating frequency, to decrease the power consumption
and to boost the number of users.The RF Chip has to work nicely
anywhere anytime and has to be as cheap as possible. The task of the
system designers is to identify the technology that will meet all the
requirements:
A lot of effort has been put into RF-MEMS technologies during the past
ten years. A broad range of components and subsystems have been
demonstrated, with functions and performances that are significantly
improved over conventional microwave and millimetre (mm)-wave
technologies.
To realize the RF microsystem concept, research and collaboration in
many different fields including; fabrication technology, material
science, electromagnetism, micromechanics, thermal and electrical
modelling, characterization, packaging and reliability. is required
The main scope of the MEMSWAVE workshop is to bring together
scientists from different universities, research institutes, and
industrial companies interested in the development of the RF-MEMS
field and to create a forum for the knowledge exchange between the
RF-MEMS players. The workshop is now technically sponsored by the
European Microwave Association (EuMA)
The MEMSWAVE workshop was generated by the European project
“Micromachined Circuites for Microwave and Millimeter Wave
Applications” <<MEMSWAVE>> (1998-2001) coordinated by IMT-Bucharest.
The project was nominated between the ten finalists (from 108
participants) to the Descartes Prize 2002.
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