Conference Programme Europe’S Premier Microwave, Rf, Wireless and Radar Event

SIX DAYS

THREE CONFERENCES

THREE FORUMS

ONE EXHIBITION

EUROPEAN MICROWAVE WEEK 2020 JAARBEURS CONVENTION CENTRE UTRECHT – THE NETHERLANDS 10 – 15 JANUARY 2021

10-15 JANUARY 2021

EUROPEAN MICROWAVE WEEK 2020

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

EUROPE’S PREMIER MICROWAVE, RF, WIRELESS AND RADAR EVENT

THE ART OF MICROWAVES

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SPONSORS

WELCOME MESSAGES

The European Microwave Week 2020 organisers would like to thank the following companies for their help and valued support throughout this year’s event.

Welcome to the 23^rdEuropean Microwave Week

The Corona virus has swept across the globe. We have managed to move the European Microwave Week from September 2020 to January 2021, be- cause we so much value that real-life, person-to-person interaction. Register and visit!

“If you work in this ﬁeld – you can pack your week with relevant insights and new developments.”

EuMIC, EuMC, EuRAD. The European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, the European Microwave Conference and the European Radar Conference together form the scientiﬁc heart of the Microwave Week. Keynote speakers from around the globe to inspire our audience, semiconductors that literally work up to a THz, dedicated sessions on Teaching Microwave Engineering, a Focus Day on (Active) Array Antennas, there is just too much to name it all here. Female talent can meet their peers and get together during the Women-in-Microwaves event. EuMC, the oldest of the conferences involved, will be celebrating its 50^thanniversary, which is the reason for the golden crown over this year’s logo.

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Meet. This week is where the entire community meets. Meet, to interface with all the relevant industries at the largest microwave and radar tradeshow - this tradeshow alone is more than worth a visit! Stop by the EuMA booth and become a member. That is the ﬁrst step to get involved in volunteering: Do so for a few years and suddenly realise that you actually know all the famous names in microwaves and radar. Meet, to learn before things even get published. Meet old friends to catch up, meet to make new friends that last a lifetime.

“Be part of the European Microwave Week, that will be remembered as the ﬁrst big Microwave Conference after Corona.”

Welcome! We are excited to host the European Microwave Week in The Netherlands, the country where it all started in 1998, when three conferences merged into the ‘Microwave Week’. This turned out to be a strategic and very successful move: 22 years later this week has grown into the biggest event of its kind in Europe. To me, the week can be summarised in four words: Learn, meet, enjoy and explore!
Enjoy. This week’s venue maximally facilitates learning and meeting. Utrecht is a historic place that welcomes visitors warmly. Enjoy its canals, churches, modern and ancient art, and over 3000 years of history. Enjoy its famous music scene, century-old restaurants, bars and nightlife. Enjoy the Railway museum where we will host a splendid dinner amidst historic trains. Enjoy the pub crawl and dancing festivities organised by us for you in the heart of the city. Both the conference venue and city centre are within ﬁve minutes walking from the railway station, so be prepared to combine work and fun!

“We invite you to immerse yourself in the culture, art and history of
Utrecht.”

Explore! Browse through this programme to learn about the student activities (including a drone-detecting challenge: build a team, receive hardware and demonstrate your performance on-site), the different fora (the Defence, Security and Space Forum on Space Situational Awareness, the Automotive Forum, this year particularly on waveforms and AI in automotive radar, and the new 5G Forum that bridges the gap between business and technology), a workshop on Quantum Computing for Electronic Engineers, and there is something on 5G at virtually every time-slot. This week is so packed with science and fun, that you’ll regret going home when the week is over!
Learn. This week represents the stateof-the-art in RF, microwaves and radar. Academia and industry present well over 400 scientific talks. Although this is more than any individual can absorb, it guarantees that – if you work in this field – you can pack your week with relevant insights and new developments. Short courses will get you up to speed for new topics, workshops will bring you all the new developments for those already working in the field. Exchange ideas with colleagues from academia and industry. Stay skilled in a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate.

“With over 400 scientiﬁc papers, around 30 workshops and short courses this will more than satisfy your scientiﬁc thirst.”

FRANK·VAN·VLIET

General Chair

BART·NAUWELAERS

General Co-Chair

TNO, The Netherlands &

KU Leuven, Belgium

University of Twente, The Netherlands

WELCOME MESSAGES

Welcome from the President of the European Microwave Association
Welcome to the 15^thEuropean Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference

On behalf of the European Microwave Association (EuMA), I warmly welcome you to the 23^rdedition of the European Microwave Week in Utrecht! EuMA stands up for our microwave and RF community. We promote our microwave discipline wherever we can. We foster networking between scientists, engineers, decision makers and end-users. We pursue this in various ways. The European Microwave Week (EuMW) is our main asset and key event to do so. but for those who aren’t yet: We offer a membership to all working in the field of microwaves. If you are not a EuMA member yet, I encourage you to join. As member, you will enjoy reduced fees for attending the Week and other EuMA-sponsored conferences and workshops as well as the IEEE IMS and the APMC. You’ll also have access to an archive of publications and the online version of the International Journal on Microwave and Wireless Technologies.
Operational Officer; to Laura ANITORI Workshops and Short Courses Chair; to Ioan LAGER, Treasurer; as well as to Wim VAN CAPPELLEN and Dominique SCHREURS, EuMC Chair and TPC Chair; to François DEBORGIES and Domine LEENAERTS, EuMIC Chair and TPC Chair; and to Mayazzurra RUGGIANO and Jacco DE WIT, EuRAD Chair and TPC Chair - just to name a few on behalf of the entire team. Thank you!
It is with immense pride that we would like to welcome you all to Utrecht, The Netherlands, for the 15^thEuropean Microwave Integrated Circuits (EuMIC 2020) Conference. For once, the Conference will not happen in autumn but will be held on Monday the 11^thand Tuesday the 12^thof January 2021. Since we do not change a winning team, the EuMIC conference has been jointly organised by the GAAS® Association and EuMA, as ever since 2006. The city of Utrecht is very pleased to host the gathering of microwave experts and IC designers from all over the world.
The EuMIC “raison d’être” is to provide a unique forum where both seasoned experts and new comers can exchange, learn, disseminate on any topic which relates to high frequency integrated circuits. Indeed, there is no proper design of an MMIC or RFIC without state of the art models, no good device without clever semiconductor engineering, no way to meet stringent requirements without bright and fresh ideas and no chance to convince a customer without sound measurements!
Seeds of University College London will present the recent developments in Photonic Integrated Circuits for Microwave Applications.

This year, the EuMIC Closing Session will start with the celebration of our best contributors. Indeed the EuMIC Prize for the best-contributed paper and the EuMIC Young Engineer Prize will be awarded by the EuMIC Prize Committee. Three GAAS® Association PhD student fellowships will also be awarded. This session will be concluded by two application-oriented presentations. Igor Tasevski, Vice President & Head of Product Development Unit Radio at Ericsson will explore Radio ICs for future wireless networks while Ville Kangas, Arctic Weather Satellite Project Manager at the European Space Agency will look at MetOp Second Generation mmWave Instruments and Technologies.
The European Microwave Week is back again in The Netherlands after the successful events in 1998, 2004, 2008 and in 2012. All members of the team have been working hard to set up an outstanding technical and scientific programme for you and I am sure they will make your stay in Utrecht exciting, enjoyable, and a rewarding experience of Dutch hospitality. I congratulate the team with a lot of very nice innovations like the Chinese Call for Papers.
EuMA is continuously improving itself to support our microwave community as good as possible. We recently released a 22 pages White Paper “For a Strong & Competitive European Wireless Technologies Ecosystem”. This paper substantiates the strategic importance of wireless technologies for the 4^thEuropean Industrial Revolution and the digital European society. A free download is available at our website: www.eumwa.org.
The European Microwave Week (EuMW) is the premier microwave conference and exhibition event in Europe. The success of the EuMW is also a result of the collaboration with the IEEE MTT Society (technical co-sponsor of the Week) and the GAAS Association (co-sponsor of EuMIC). But the Week is not only conferences, the Exhibition organised by our long-standing partner Horizon House / Microwave Journal forms an integral part of it.
If you intend to be there already on Sunday and can refrain from enjoying Utrecht during the day, do register for one or more of the very good Workshops and Short Course. Monday is a busy day with a large offering: beyond the Opening Session, there will be nine regular sessions and the traditional EuMIC Get-together to conclude the day. On Tuesday, which hosts the Opening of the EuMW 2020, EuMIC offers two regular sessions, one joint session with EuMC, the Foundry Panel Session, the interactive Poster Session that will be preceded by a one-minute pitch for all presenters, and the Closing Session.
This conference would not be without the efforts of the numerous authors trying to disseminate their work, and the dedication of the panel of reviewers and TPC members to spend their free time making the best selection in order to provide the most attractive programme. No one would imagine a major Conference without Workshops and Short Courses for which the organisers strive to gather key experts to cover the latest developments. We also have to acknowledge the previous EuMIC teams who did not spare their time to provide precious support. Finally, we would also like to thank all the people who never come under the spotlight though helping tremendously to make this Conference possible.
We have done all we could do to make this Conference a reality but only you, the attendees, can turn EuMIC 2020 into a success. The EuMIC team is looking forward to meet you: Hartelijk Welkom in Utrecht!
EuMA actively supports education and offers to young researchers each year a number of scholarships at selected European industries and research institutes. The deadline of the next call is 28 November 2020. If you want to be a host for the 2021 edition please contact the EuMA Innovation Team at innovationteam@ eumwa.org.
I would like to cordially invite you to the EuMW 2020. Come to the wonderful city of Utrecht. Join us at EuMW 2020 and discover information you won’t get anywhere else. Take the opportunity to meet and talk to colleagues and friends from all over the world you don’t see every day. I hope to see you in Utrecht! And most of all: Get involved in our community!
As everybody knows, preparing and hosting the EuMW is a major effort, from paper submission and review to on-site organisation at the venue, and this is accomplished by a team of volunteers year by year. Therefore, my special and sincere thanks go to Frank VAN VLIET and Bart NAUWE- LAERS, 2020 General Chair and Vicechair; to Alex YAROVOY, General TPC Chair; to Marcel VAN DER GRAAF,
The EuMIC Opening Session will feature two distinguished invited speakers. Prof. John D. Cressler of Georgia Tech will break the mold by looking at SiGe Technology in Ways That Were

Never Envisioned, while Prof. Alwyn

Most of you are familiar with EuMA,