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Upcoming Course

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NanoMEMS Research, LLC Presents

MEMS in RF and Microwave Electronics

Date: Monday-Wednesday, April 16-18, 2007

Location: 4000 Barranca Pkwy, Suite 250, Irvine, CA 92604

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Course Summary: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) applications in RF and microwave electronics are on the verge of revolutionizing wireless communications. In particular, RF MEMS promises to endow wireless

handsets, base stations and satellites with the key properties of low-power consumption and reconfigurability, which in turn will enable superior functionality and performance. In this course, a comprehensive exposition of the state-of-the-art in MEMS technology applied to RF devices, circuits and systems is given. The topics to be presented include: RF MEMS fabrication technology, MEMS Actuators, Passive devices (Transmission Lines, Capacitors, Inductors, Switches, Varactors, Resonators), Circuits (Filters, Oscillators, Phase Shifters, Couplers), Systems (Transceivers, etc.)

Who Should Attend: Students, engineers, designers, manufacturers, marketing and business development managers, and executives currently involved in the study, development, or manufacturing of wireless systems for both commercial and defense markets.

Course Objectives: This course in aims at getting interested parties informed on:
•    RF MEMS fabrication processes, devices, circuits, systems, packaging, reliability and CAD
•    How to apply RF MEMS technology to create superior wireless systems
•    How to evaluate competing RF MEMS devices and technologies in light of your capabilities, applications and    budget.
•    How to identify opportunities for RF MEMS insertion in wireless applications


Course Schedule-Day 1

8:30 AM -10:00 AM Overview of RF MEMS Technology and Applications by Dr. H.J De Los Santos
Course overview, including RF MEMS technology fundamentals and pitfalls, and its salient applications in RF/microwave such as devices (switches, varactors, resonators), circuits (filters, VCOs and phase shifters), and systems (phased array antennas).

10:30 AM-12:00 Noon RF Passives I by Dr. H.J. De Los Santos
Transmission Lines. Capacitors, Inductors

1:00 PM-2:30 PM RF Passives II by Dr. H.J. De Los Santos
MEM Switches. Varactors

3:00 PM-5:00 PM MEMS Actuators by  Dr. H.J. De Los Santos and Dr. J. Qiu

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Course Schedule-Day 2

8:30 AM-10:00 AM / 10:30 AM-12:00 Noon RF MEMS Fabrication Technology  by Dr. J. Qiu and Dr. J. DeNatale
RF MEMS materials and fabrication techniques. Review of established fabrication processes and their device applications. Micromachined and movable MEMS devices. Power handling issues. MEMS-CMOS integration.

1:00 PM-2:30 PM RF MEMS Phase Shifters  by Dr. H.J. De Los Santos
Key RF MEMS phase shifter topologies (1-100GHz) and attributes. State-of-the-art RF MEMS phase-shifter implementations. Comparison of RF MEMS-based phase shifters and competing technologies.

3:00 PM-5:00 PM RF MEMS-Based Resonators, Filters and Oscillators by Dr. T. Xu
Electrostatically-actuated MEM resonator  physics. Key performance parameters (stability, power
handling capacity, intrinsic noise). Case studies.

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Course Schedule-Day 3

8:30 AM-10:00 AM FBAR Resonators and Applications by Prof. E.S. Kim
FBAR physics and fabrication technology. FBAR filters. FBAR oscillators.

10:30 AM-12:00 PM RF MEMS Packaging by Dr. S. Cunningham
Packaging and sealing techniques. RF feedthrough design. Package characterization (e.g., hermeticity).

1:00 PM-2:30 PM RF MEMS Reliability by Dr. S. Cunningham
Main RF MEMS switch failure modes. Analysis methodologies.

3:00 PM-5:00 PM RF MEMS-Based Architectures & Front-Ends by Dr. Art Morris, III
State-of-the-art transceiver architectures (TAs). Future RF MEMS-based TA concepts. Potential applicability of RF MEMS to enable MIMO, antenna diversity and SOC.

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Dr. Shawn Cunningham, wiSPRY, Inc
Dr. Cunnungham is presently Director of MEMS Engineering and Co-Founder of Wispry, which is a provider of RF MEMS products for wireless communications. Prior to founding Wispry, Shawn was the Colorado Springs Design Center Manager for Coventor. In this capacity, he assisted customers in the optical, telecommunications, and automotive industries with MEMS design, development, process development, and Manufacturing Partner management for the following applications: A 32 x 1 optical shutter array for optical CDMA communication systems, an 8 x 8 DC microrelay array for wired communication systems, passive RF devices including RF switches, varactors, inductors, and other devices for wireless communication and other applications.

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Dr. Héctor J. De Los Santos, NanoMEMS Research, LLC
Dr. De Los Santos received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1989. He is President and CTO of NanoMEMS Research, LLC, Irvine, CA, a company engaged in Nanoelectromechanical Quantum Circuits and Systems and RF MEMS (NanoMEMS) research, consulting, and education, where he focuses on discovering fundamentally new devices, circuits and design techniques to implement NanoMEMS Systems-on-Chip. Prior to founding NanoMEMS in 2002, he spent two years as Principal Scientist at Coventor, Inc., Irvine, CA, where he led Coventor’s intellectual property R&D effort, with activities including the conception, modeling, and design of novel RF MEMS devices. From 1989 to 2000, he was employed at Hughes Space and Communications Company, Los Angeles, CA, where he served as Director of the Future Enabling Technologies IR&D Program. Under this program he pursued research in the areas of RF MEMS, Quantum Functional Devices and Circuits, and Photonic Bandgap Devices and Circuits. Dr. De Los Santos holds 16 US patents, and is author of bestseller textbooks, including Introduction to Microelectromechanical (MEM) Microwave Systems (1999), now in Artech House' IPF® (In-Print-Forever®) series, and RF MEMS Circuit Design for Wireless Communications (2001). His most recent book, Principles and Applications of NanoMEMS Physics, was published by Springer in 2005. From 2001-2003 he lectured worldwide as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He has been recently elected an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society. He serves regularly as a reviewer for several technical journals, including, JMEMS, T-ED, T-MTT, and T-NANO, and funding agencies, in particular, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Science Foundation. He is member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Jeffrey F. DeNatale, Teledyne Scientific, LLC
Dr. DeNatale is Manager, MEMS Department, Teledyne Scientific and Imaging.He received the B.S. (Highest Honors, Department Citation), M.S., Ph.D. (Materials Science and Engineering), University of California, Davis. Since joining TS&I (formerly Rockwell Science Center) in 1986, Dr. DeNatale has been involved with a broad spectrum of advanced R&D programs, including advanced optical thin film materials, polycrystalline diamond thin films, high temperature superconductors, and nonlinear optical thin film materials. Since 1997, he has led the MEMS group at Teledyne Scientific, directing a broad range of device activities for Government and commercial customers. These include projects in RF MEMS, industrial microsensors, optical MEMS, microassembly technologies, micro thermal management devices, and high-performance microfabricated frequency standards. Dr. DeNatale holds 10 US patents (16 pending) and has co-authored over 100 publications.

Prof.  Eun Sok Kim, University of Southern California
Dr. Kim is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982, 1987, and 1990, respectively. Before he joined the University of Southern California in Fall 1999, he worked at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and NCR Corp., San Diego, CA as a faculty member and a design engineer, respectively. His research interests are in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology and its applications to various interdisciplinary systems. His current research projects are to develop the following systems and devices: (1) film bulk acoustic-wave resonators for high-frequency (> GHz) filter and oscillator applications, (2) microfluidic systems using self-focusing acoustic transducers, (3) piezoelectrically actuated microcantilevers for optical and RF applications, (4) MEMS inertial sensors, and (5) hearing/listening aid systems based MEMS microphone and microspeaker.

Dr. Arthur S. Morris, III, wiSPRY, Inc.
Dr. Morris has been a scientist/engineer focused on physical electronics and electromagnetic fields for over 20 years. He began his career working on high power traveling wave tubes, where he pushed these technologies to unprecedented power densities and frequencies. He pursued his Ph.D. under Dr. Robert Trew at NCSU investigating the limits of heterojunction bipolar transistors. Art then led an independent consultant business for three years on electron devices, wireless systems, and high voltage instrumentation. One client, Raychem(now Tyco), hired him to develop state-of-the-art broadband components and to build a business around supplying high quality devices at very low cost. Art left Raychem to join Microcosm Technologies, now Coventor, to lead a team driving the transition of MEMS and microsystems from the laboratory into products for RF and optical applications. He is now CTO and VP Engineering at wiSpry developing high-value RF products utilizing MEMS and microstructures. Art is a Senior Member of the IEEE, member of APS, SPIE, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and is an adjunct professor at NCSU.

Dr. Jin Qiu, wiSPRY, Inc.
Dr. Qiu is an engineer with WiSpry Inc. developing RF MEMS. Previously, he was with Tyco Electronics working on modeling, packaging, and qualification of power semiconductor devices including polymer-silicon hybrids. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2003, with thesis work on the design and fabrication of a bistable micro relay. He also received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University in 1997. He holds one issued patent and two others pending. He has served as reviewer for four Journals including JMEMS and Journal of Mechanical Design. He has published eight papers.

Dr. Tao Xu, Physical Optics Corporation
Dr. Xu is a research scientist at Physical Optics Corporation, a high-tech research firm working on the U.S. government and military projects. He has over 15 years experience on MEMS design and fabrication and worked for several well-known universities. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Chongqing University, China in 1989, 1994, and 1997, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and a development engineer in the Integrated Nanosystem Research Facility in the University of California, Irvine. He has served as a reviewer for several journals including JMEMS, Photonics Technology Letters, and Sensors and Actuators. He also served as a session chair at the international conference, IEEE Sensors. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has over 30 publications.

For more information, please send e-mail to: info@nanomems-research.com

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Past Offerings of this Course

MEMS in RF and Microwave Electronics

1-3 May, 2006 (Boston, MA)
11-13 April, 2005 (Leuven, Belgium)


PLEASE, JOIN US ON 16-18 April, 2007 ! ! !

Representative List of Company Affiliations and Countries of Origin of Past Attendees

AFFILIATIONS
Intel
IBM
BD Medical
Analog Devices
Tyco Electronics
Ericsson
VTT
SINTEF


COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN
Israel
Spain
Sweden
Finland
Ireland
Norway
Belgium
France
Slovakia
USA

The course feedback has been excellent, here is what one of our attendees had to say:
"I learned a lot from the course," E.M. , Applications Engineer, Analog Devices, Inc.

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