Slow-wave concepts & circuits in RF and mm-waves
NRF KIC Sponsored Presentation by Philippe Ferrari
The talk will concern recent developments based on slow-wave transmission lines, in PCB and silicon technologies (CMOS or BiCMOS), from RF to mm-waves. After a brief description of current and future applications in RF & mm-waves, challenges in the design of RF & mm-wave passive circuits will be discussed. Then slow-wave concept will be described. It opens the way for the design of small size and high-electrical performance circuits. Three topologies of slow-wave transmission lines will be detailed: S-CPW (for Slow-wave CPW), S-µstrip (for Slow-wave µstrip lines) and SW-SIW (for Slow-wave Substrate Integrated Waveguides). Finally, several circuits built with this kind of transmission lines will be presented: power dividers, filters, couplers, phase shifters, VCOs and power amplifiers.
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- Date: 09 Feb 2017
- Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- All times are (UTC+02:00) Pretoria
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- 6th Floor
- Upper Campus, UCT
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- South Africa
- Building: George Menzies Building
- Room Number: Old John Martin Room
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- Co-sponsored by NRF KIC
- Starts 29 January 2017 12:00 AM
- Ends 09 February 2017 10:00 AM
- All times are (UTC+02:00) Pretoria
- No Admission Charge
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Philippe Ferrari
Biography:
Philippe Ferrari received the Ph. D. degree from the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble” (INPG), France, in 1992, with honors.
In 1992, he joined the laboratory of microwaves and characterization of the University of Savoy, France, as an assistant Professor in electrical engineering, and was involved in the development of RF characterization techniques. From 1998 to 2004, he was the head of the laboratory project on nonlinear transmission lines and tunable devices. Since 2004, he is a professor at the University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France (http://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr).
His main research interest concerns tunable and miniaturized devices, such as filters, phase shifters, matching networks, couplers, power dividers and VCOs. These devices are developed in many technologies, PCB, CMOS/BiCMOS, and nanowires, at RF and mm-wave frequencies. He has worked towards the development of slow-wave CPW, called S-CPW, and developed new topologies of slow-wave transmission lines, based on microstrip lines and SIWs, named S-µstrip (for slow-wave µstrip lines), and SW-SIW (for slow-wave SIWs), respectively.
He is author or co-author of more than 170 papers published in international journals or conferences, and co-holder of six patents.
He is an IEEE senior member, a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (EuMA). From 2007 to 2015, he was a TPC member of the French microwave Conference. From 2010 to 2015, he was a TPC member of the European Microwave Conference.
From 2009 to 2015, he was the head of the RF and mm-wave (RFM) group in the IMEP-LAHC laboratory (http://imep-lahc.grenoble-inp.fr/). RFM group is composed of 22 permanent staff (associate and full professors) and 25 to 30 PhD students.
Philippe Ferrari
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