Welcome to MEMSWAVE 2005

Welcome to MEMSWAVE 2005
to be held at the
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
June 23 - 24, 2005

Regular paper submission to MEMSWAVE 2005 is now closed !

Call for "work in progress" and "late news" abstracts:
The poster session of MEMSWAVE will run special parallel poster presentations with works in progress and late news. 1-page abstracts in the conference format but limited to 1 page should be sent by email directly to: memswave@epfl.ch . The deadline for receiving this type of abstracts is May 10th. The abstracts will be reproduced as received in the MEMSWAVE proceedings. Authors will be notified by May 13 on the acceptance.
further information: latecall_memswave_2005.pdf

Recently MEMS technologies have emerged in various applications in the fields of telecommunications, medicine, biotechnology, automotive and ambient intelligence. It is foreseen that the next generation of the communication systems will have to exhibit ultimate performance in terms of frequency range, noise and linearity characteristic as well as cost and weight. New technologies to support technical challenges for beyond 3G will probably need to consider hardware that merges microelectronics with mechanics and optics. Multi-band and multi-standard issues are the origins of strong requirements in terms of new reconfigurable architectures (smartly minimizing the hardware by providing it with the ability to adapt and reconfigure). In order to provide reconfigurable RF systems and integrated circuits with ultra-low power consumption traditional microelectronic circuits will need to be combined with Radio-frequency Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (RF MEMS) as key enabling technology. RF MEMS is also expected to support wide-band and ultra-wide-band applications in new receiver and transceiver architectures for future mobile communications systems.

The migration to novel solutions involving MEMS components and/or circuits embedded within conventional electronic components and/or circuits has become necessary. In this context, one trend today is to design systems for operation at millimetre waves frequency. As a result, a considerable amount of research effort is focused in this direction in order to anticipate the requirements for future communication systems. This topic merits an international scientific event organized in Europe aimed at gathering technologists, scientists and researchers to exchange their most advanced results, conduct fruitful discussions and initiate collaborations.The first two MEMSWAVE workshops were held in Sinaia ( Romania , 2000 and 2001) and the following ones in Heraklion ( Greece , 2002), Toulouse ( France , 2003) and Uppsala ( Sweden , 2004). The 2005 MEMSWAVE workshop in conjunction with the EU RF-MEMS cluster meeting will be held at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), from the 23rd to 24th of June 2005.The EU RF MEMS cluster meeting will be organized as satellite event of MEMSWAVE 2005 on the 22nd of June 2005 and on the 21st of June EPFL will host project meetings in FP6.MEMSWAVE 2005 is supported by the Network of Excellence on "Advanced MEMS For RF and Millimeter Wave Communications" (AMICOM) financed under the FP6 running and by IST WIDE-RF project.
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