17th International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Technical Exhibition on EMC RF/Microwave Measurements & Instrumentation AADDVVAANNCCEEDD PPRROOGGRRAAMM Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Center 27 February œ 3 March 2006, Singapore www.emc-zurich.org ORGANISERS: Institution of EMC Engineers, Singapore Singapore Cooperating Organizations/Technical Co-sponsorship: ($$$, 33 /2∞µÆ®∑∂π¨"Ø®∑ª¨π($$4* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. President‘s Letter 2. Symposium Committee Technical Program Committee International Advisory Committee EMC-Zurich Singapore Committee 3. Symposium Highlights 4. General Information 4.1 Registration 4.2 Symposium Registration Form 4.3 About Singapore 4.4 Optional Local Tours 4.5 Internet Cafe 4.6 Message Centre Information 5. Technical Program 5.1 Workshop Program 5.2 Description of Workshop Program 5.3 Technical Sessions 5.4 Topical Meetings 6. Exhibits (To be added) 6.1 Exhibitor List 6.2 Exhibitor Description 6.3 Exhibitor Floor Plan 7. Exhibition Registration Form President‘s Letter Photo of President It is my great pleasure to invite you to the 17th International Zurich Symposium and Technical Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC- Zurich 2006), which will be held from 27 February to 3 March 2006 in Singapore. The EMC-Zurich, which dates back to 1975, is a premier international event in the field of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). Significantly, the EMC Zurich will for the first time take place outside Europe, and Singapore has been proudly selected to host the EMC Zurich 2006. The EMC Zurich 2006 in Singapore will follow EMC Zurich‘s excellent tradition and offer you a variety of exceptional programs. It will provide you with a superior platform to showcase your cutting edge research, accomplishments and products, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research and industry users in the areas of EMC, RF/Microwave engineering and wireless communications. The symposium itself will address diverse topics by a variety of invited speakers from all over the world. Besides the stimulating Topical Meetings, Workshops, Tutorials and parallel sessions designed both for academia and industry alike, specially tailored sessions--EMC in Asia, biomedical EM, Automotive EMC, and Wireless communication EMC will be conducted on a large number of interesting EMC topics by acknowledged specialists. The EMC Zurich 2006 in Singapore will also feature a 3-day International Exhibition on the state-of-the-art EMC and RF/Microwave Measurements and Instrumentation. It will provide an excellent opportunity for your company to showcase your equipments, software or services. Particularly, in conjunction with this symposium, IEEE EMC Society will also hold its international EMC chapter Chairs retreat meeting, and USA NARTE EMC Certification Examination. Your presence and contributions to the EMC Zurich 2006 in Singapore will make it an exciting and fruitful event. You will certainly benefit from the exceptional programs we provide, and the networking and quality time you spend with your peers. I look forward to welcoming you at the EMC Zurich 2006 in Singapore! EMC-Zurich Singapore 2006 Committees General Chair Ruediger Vahldieck, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Symposium President Er-Ping Li, IHPC, Singapore Technical Program Committee(TPC) Chair: Todd Hubing, University of Missouri-Rolla,USA Co-Chair: Jian-Guo Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore TC-Chairs: Flavio Canavero, Italy Michael Marcus, France Xiang Cui, China Mark Montrose,USA James Drewniak, USA M. Okoniewski, Canada Jin-Liang He, China Jean-Philippe Parmantier ,France W.J.R. Hoefer, Canada William Radasky, USA M. Ianoz , Switzerland F. Rachidi, Switzerland Elya Joffe, Israel A Ruehli, IBM, USA Youji Kotsuka , Japan V.A. Rakov, USA Joungho Kim, Korea Franz Schlagenhaufer, Australia Wee-Jin Koh, Singapore Robert Weigel, Germany Frank Leverink, Netherlands P. Wilson , USA Peter Leung, Hong Kong, China Le-Wei Li, Singapore TPC Committee Members Zhi-Ning Chen, Singapore Robert Olsen, USA Jun-Wei Lu, Australia Zhongxiang Shen, Singapore Mohd Zarar Modh Jenu, Malaysia International Advisory Committee Andreas Cangellaris, USA K. M. Luk, Hong Kong, China De-Gui Chen, China Shuichi Nitta, Japan Christos Christopoulos, UK Dong Chul Park, Korea Andy Drozd, USA S. T. Peng, Taiwan,China Say-Wei Foo, President of IES, Joong Geun Rhee, Korea Singapore Ruey-Beei Wu, Taiwan,China You-Gang Gao, China Takeo Yoshino, Japan Mook-Seng Leong, Singapore Local Management Committee Chair: Kye-Yak See, Nanyang Technological University Co-Chair: Ban-Leong Ooi, National University of Singapore Wee-Sing Chow,CET Kang-Seng Seow, IES Khai-Loon Poon, Schaffner Joseph Soh, Rohde&Schwarz Timothy Foo, Ngee Ann Poly Mark Tan,IHPC Jun-Hong Deng, PSB Roger Tay, Motorola Hooi-Been Lim, IHPC Poh Heng Yap,IHPC Yi-Long Lu, NTU Wei-Liang Yuan Koen Mouthaan, NUS 6ighlights of Symposium Program for EMC-Zurich in Singapore 2006 Comprehensive Scopes Taking place for the first time outside Europe in Singapore 27 February to 3 March 2006, EMC-Zurich in Singapore 2006, as one of the top and largest international events in Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), will offer you a rich scientific program of highest quality with invited speakers from all over the world , and will provide the superior platform to meet the top international experts, learn, exchange and showcase your cutting edge research, accomplishments and products, to identify new issues, and to shape your future directions for research and industry development in the areas of EMC, micro/nano- electronics, RF/microwave engineering, biomedical engineering and wireless communications. Selected papers shall be published at IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. The authors who attend the meeting to present their papers are eligible to submit the extension papers (maximum 6 pages) for publication in the IEEE Transactions on EMC. Do note that the normal review process applies. All accepted regular symposium papers shall be electronically published in IEEE Xplore (EI Index). The EMC-Zurich in Singapore program comprises Keynote Speech, Workshops and Tutorials, Topical Meetings, Technical paper presentations, Special sessions, Open Forum and Technical Exhibitions on the latest EMC research results and products… Tutorials and W orkshops Over 15 tutorials and workshops will be conducted by over 30 International renown specialists from Monday, 27 to Tuesday, 28 February 2006 including the following fields; • Printed Circuit Board EMC Design • Fundamental concepts of EMC and • Semiconductor device EMC design related printed circuits board • EMC modeling and simulation • Signal integrity • EMC design, shielding • Lightning protection • Transportation EMC • EMC aspects of lightning • System level EMC • Naval EMC Engineering Topical Meetings and Special Sessions The symposium, in particular, shall concurrently hold 4 Topical Meetings and 2 Special Sessions to present the specific subjects that promise the foremost and latest development in EMC on: Topical Meetings on: • Biomedical Electromagnetics • Topical Meeting on Automotive EMC • Wireless communication EMC • EMC in military and defence Special Session on: • EMC in Asia • Semiconductor device EMC modeling and designs Special Events The Symposium Co-locating and Co-hosting of the • NARTE EMC Certificate Examination will be conducted its 1st Asia Examination in Conjunction with the EMC-Zurich symposium on 3 March 2006 at Suntec City. The delegate can register the examination on-site. 17th International Zurich Symposium on EMC, Singapore 2006 5 • IEEE EMC Society will hold its international EMC chapter Chairmen(invited over 50 chapter Chairmen from over 30 countries) meeting in Singapore in conjunction with this symposium on 28 Feb. 2006 at Suntec City. Free Entry to Trade Visitors Technical Exhibition Only - Register Now! Log on to http://www.emc-zurich.org/mmi/Exhibition.html EXHIBITION œ MARCH 1 TO 3, 2006 @ SINGAPORE SUNTEC LEVEL 3 CONCOURSE The Exhibition on EMC and RF/Microwave Measurements & Instrumentation will remain a key feature of this international event and is co-located with the symposium from 1 to 3 March at the Singapore Convention and Exhibition Center. The EMC Zurich will provide an excellent opportunity for you to explore the current state-of-the-art of software or services related to microwave, millimeter-wave, RF and wireless communications and finally, electromagnetic compatibility. Register for Exhibition, please logon http://www.emc-zurich.org/, Email info@emc- zurich.org or Tel: (65) 6466 5775 your booth purchase enquiries. Registration Advance Registration: All attendees are required to register, including authors, workshop/tutorial instructors and exhibitors. For paper authors, inclusion of your final paper in the conference proceedings require at least one of the authors on your author list must be registered on or before 19 December 2005. Early bird for other delegates is on or before 20 January 2006. To register for the symposium, please go on-line for registration. Those who made on-line registration can collect the official conference badges from the on-site registration desks when arrive at the conference site. On-line registration http://www.EMC-zurich.org Deadline for Paper author Registration : on or before 19 December 2005. Early bird for other attendee registration: on or before 19 January 2006. Package-A: Full registration, 5-day registrants are entitled to the symposium proceedings (CD ROM),