Electromagnetic fields from low frequency to millimeter wave are presenting lots of interests for biomedical applications. Among them is emerging the possibility to non-invasively investigate the living at various levels from tissue/organ to cellular, with the objective to early diagnose diseases and improve the efficiency of prognostic and therapies. This workshop will consequently address the...

The demand for ever higher data rates is driving research for broadband wireless communications to data rates of 100 Gbit/s and beyond. This workshop presents research work on 100 Gbit/s wireless communications that uses carrier frequencies beyond 200 GHz with bandwidths of 20 GHz or more and moderate spectral efficiencies. Various wireless system and component design aspects are covered includ...

This short course will present the state-of-the-art in understanding RF power phenomena that detrimentally affect space, aircraft and terrestrial communications. Dramatic increase in communications capacity, bandwidth, number of carriers and antennas poses new challenges in handling the high RF power. These problems become ever more acute and critical for emerging and future RF systems. The sho...

THz technology development is a vibrant scientific field with new discoveries and techniques being utilized to advance the Stateof-the-Art. While novel material systems such as grapheme have shown promise in the THz range, fully functional systems in the THz range are also becoming more common. This workshop will bring together experts from various academic, national labs and commercial enterpr...

This workshop will cover SiGe HBT technologies as well as SiGe enabled mm-wave and THz applications. In fact, nowadays SiGe technologies have passed the 600 GHz barrier in terms of maximum oscillation frequency and the 700 GHz barrier is foreseen to fall in 2015. Intrinsic advantages of SiGe HBTs such as co-integration with CMOS permit to design compact, reliable and cost efficient systems for ...

The goal of this tutorial is to present our original methodology of Full Software Radio system design. The diversity of communication standards implies the use of multi-band and multi-mode radios. That is why Full Software Radio proposes to challenge a new way of integrating RF circuits and systems by tackling the main issue: transceiving concurrently any RF signal within a very wide band of in...

Filters and multiplexers are key building blocks in science, navigation, and earth observation and telecommunication applications. Satellite systems are in constant evolution to answer to new and changing needs in terms of throughput, coverage, flexibility, RF performances ... The following bullet points offer an overview of some of the different approaches to respond to the new system requirem...

This workshop focuses on recent advances and challenges associated to the realization of high performance reconfigurable microwave filters. This is an exciting and very challenging topic that is evolving from basic frequency tuneable structures to highly reconfigurable devices capable of keeping a competitive EM performance compared to their fixed counterparts. The first part of the workshop wi...

Millimeter-waves (mm-wave) are seen as key technology enablers for future 5G wireless mobile networks in order to take advantage of the wide spectrum bands available from 18 GHz up to 95 GHz and even beyond to provide multi-Gbps broadband access to mobile users and high-capacity wireless backhaul links between access points/base-stations. This application field is very active throughout the wor...

With the increased usage of satellite communication systems, high efficiency and high output power amplifiers have also been required for satellite transponders and will be demanded in the future. In this context, solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) based on GaN technology is considered a promising optimum solution to replace the actual travelling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) which needs extremel...