SIX DAYS THREE CONFERENCES ONE EXHIBITION EUROPEAN MICROWAVE WEEK 2017 NÜRNBERG CONVENTION CENTER, NUREMBERG, GERMANY 8TH - 13TH OCTOBER 2017 EUROPEAN MICROWAVE WEEK 2017 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME EUROPE’S PREMIER MICROWAVE, RF, WIRELESS AND RADAR EVENT © N ü rn b e rg M e s s e REGISTER ONLINE AT: www.eumweek.com Organised by: Official Publication: Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: Supported by: Supported by: Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: Co-sponsored by: ® SPONSORS European Microwave Week 2017 Sponsors The organisers would like to thank the following companies for their help and valued support throughout this year’s event: Platinum Sponsor 2 www.eumweek.com CONTENT Sponsors Inside Front Cover Welcome Messages 4 EuMW 2017 Special Issue 10 Prizes and Awards 12 Conference Committees 14 General Information 18 Special Conference Events 20 Conference Registration Information 21 Partner Programme 30 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Monday 9th October 32 Tuesday 10th October 38 Wednesday 11th October 46 Thursday 12th October 58 Friday 13th October 66 Hotel Booking Form Centre Pages Workshops & Short Courses 70 Exhibitor Workshops & Seminars 100 Conference Sessions Matrix Pages 105 Nürnberg Convention Center Floor Plan 112 Exhibitor List Back Cover European Microwave Week Future Events EuMW 2018 - Madrid EuMW 2019 - Paris Details in this booklet were correct at the time of going to press. They are subject to change. For up-to-date information visit our website: www.eumweek.com www.eumweek.com 3 WELCOME MESSAGES Welcome to the 20th European Microwave Week Welcome to Nuremberg, the medieval city at the heart of Franconia achievements in radar remote sensing, while Gerald Braun from in Northern Bavaria! It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the German Aerospace Center, Germany, will familiarise us with space 20th European Microwave Week (EuMW) to be held at the Nürnberg surveillance and tracking. Ludger Verweyen from Infineon, Germany, Convention Center (NCC) from Sunday 8th to Friday 13th October will address the consumer and industrial applications of radar systems 2017. After four years and the very successful editions in Rome (2014), at the EuRAD Closing Session. The EuMW will close with a panel of Paris (2015), and London (2016) the EuMW returns to Nuremberg. eminent specialists who will debate ‘Fully automated driving. Enabled This conference event, which was started by the European Microwave by microwaves. What else?’ Association (EuMA) in 1998, is comprised of the 47th European Microwave Conference (EuMC) to be held from 8th to 12th October, the This year’s EuMW introduces Session Keynotes as a new format to European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), which boost industrial participation and intensify the interaction between will take place from 8th to 10th October, and the European Radar industry and academia. For this, internationally recognised experts from Conference (EuRAD), which will run from 11th to 13th October. The industry will open selected sessions with presentations on challenges three conferences are accompanied by the traditional three-day trade and state-of-the-art achievements in their field. show on microwaves and RF, which attracts about 300 exhibitors and The traditional Women in Microwave Engineering (WiM) event, is the largest of its kind in Europe. co-sponsored by the IEEE MTT-Society, includes a visit to the Based on the invaluable commitment of some 450 reviewers, the ‘Rundfunkmuseum Fürth’, which demonstrates the historical role 100 members of the Technical Programme Committee constituted played by the Nuremberg metropolitan area in the RF industry. This an excellent programme comprising more than 500 presentations. year, the WiM attendees will have the opportunity to interact with high- This includes the contributions to three Focused Sessions devoted school girls who are invited to participate in a MINT event (German to conformal antennas for defence, security, and space applications, acronym for STEM). to advanced materials, and to the latest developments in vacuum The EuMW 2017 will host several events especially for the younger electronics. The programme also includes six Special Sessions, four of generation. This includes the very stimulating and successful Student which highlight the research activities in Central Europe, in the Asia Challenge, which will have the same format as in previous years. The Pacific Region, and in Latin America. Another one presents the latest Student Design Competition comprises two tasks to be prepared in research on stochastic approaches in Electromagnetic Compatibility advance. As a novelty, it will also feature a design task to be carried out (EMC). In the sixth Special Session representatives from US, European, on-site. This will happen in the form of a hands-on design experience and German agencies promote international funding opportunities. event. The latter is also part of the Student and the Doctoral School, The regular programme, which is organised in 85 oral and six interactive which both start with a high-level 2-day lecture programme. The Career sessions, is complemented by 38 Workshops and five Short Courses Platform, finally, will continue the successful format of previous years. covering most relevant topics ranging from Millimetre-Wave Circuits The ‘Week’ wouldn’t be the ‘Week’ without its traditional social events. to 5G, from Power Amplifiers to Automotive Radar, and from Phased These include Monday’s EuMIC Get-Together, Tuesday’s Welcome Arrays to Satellite Communications. Reception sponsored by Keysight Technologies, and the EuRAD lunch This year’s Defence, Security and Space Forum (DSS), a well-established on Friday. In addition, the Free State of Bavaria is pleased to host a and highly appreciated event at the EuMW, is devoted to ‘The Internet of reception on Wednesday at the ‘Kaiserburg’, the imperial castle of Space – Technologies and Applications’. Its organisers have succeeded Nuremberg. in attracting high-level speakers to discuss the latest developments of Hopefully, the week’s programme will let you enjoy Europe’s PRIME what is sometimes also coined ‘New Space’ or ‘Open Space’, and to EVENT in 2017 and will give you plenty of opportunities to satisfy your explore the impact on ‘Old Space’. professional curiosity, thus making 2017 a truly PRIME YEAR in your Internationally renowned speakers will discuss latest trends and calendar. Yet, don’t forget to explore Nuremberg with its rich cultural developments in their keynotes at the conferences’ Plenary Sessions. past and also its more recent landmarks reminding us where last At the Opening Session of the EuMW Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, CTO century’s historical events that shook the world started. of the Deutsche Telekom, will outline the prospects of 5G and the Internet of Things while Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Infineon, will address the challenges associated with designing smart sensors. The EuMIC opens with presentations by Tom Lee from Stanford University, CA/ USA, on RF CMOS-based MMICs and by Lars-Erik Wernersson from Lund University, Sweden, on III-V MOSFET devices. Josef Hausner from Intel Mobile Communications, Germany, has accepted the invitation to close the EuMIC with a review on the state of the art of wireless applications. The EuRAD Opening, which is held in conjunction with the DSS, is devoted to radar applications in space. Paul Rosen from Arne Jacob, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA/USA, will highlight the latest General Chairman 4 www.eumweek.com Promoting European Microwaves Archiving through the Editing the Organising the Knowledge Centre International Journal European of Microwave and Microwave Week Records papers written Wireless Technologies by the best international Europe’s Premier Microwave, scientists in our secure RF, Wireless and Radar database. The Journal solicits original and review papers. Event. Conferences are set to be cutting edge and 19,000 papers Impact factor groundbreaking. Download as many as Free e-access you want at no extra cost Future events 8 issues / year 2018 Madrid 2019 Paris 2020 Utrecht 2021 Rome www.eumweek.com EuMA, the European Microwave Association® is an international non-profi t organisation with a scientifi c, educational and technical purpose, under Belgian law. For more information and contact, visit : www.eumwa.org Join the EuMA Community WELCOME MESSAGES Welcome from the President of the European Microwave Association Welcome to Nuremberg on behalf of the European Microwave As everybody knows, preparing and hosting the EuMW is a Association (EuMA)! EuMA is the organisation behind the major effort, from paper submission and review to the on-site European Microwave Week, our mission is to promote microwaves organisation at the venue, and this is accomplished by a team of in Europe and to foster networking between microwave scientists volunteers year by year. Therefore, my special and sincere thanks and engineers in Europe. We are pursuing this in various ways but go to Arne Jacob, 2017 General Chair, to Thomas Zwick, General our key event is the European Microwave Week. TPC Chair, and to Rolf Jakoby, Treasurer, to Matthias Hein and Ilona Rolfes, EuMC Chair and TPC Chair, to Ingmar Kallfass and Georg For those who are not familiar with EuMA: We are open to Böck, EuMIC Chair and TPC Chair, and to Martin Vossiek and Nils membership for all working in the field of microwaves, particularly Pohl, EuRAD Chair and TPC Chair - just to name a few on behalf from Europe, but also from around the world. The General of the entire team.