RF-MEMS Technology for High-Performance Passives (Second Edition)
Description
The world of 5G is posing unprecedented challenges in terms of performance and requirements that hardware-software (HW-SW) infrastructure has to ensure, while even more stringent specifications are envisioned for the upcoming era of 6G and future networks. The focus of this book develops around HW, and in particular on low-complexity components for Radio Frequency (RF) applications. To this end, Microsystem (MEMS) technology for RF passive components, known as RF-MEMS, is employed, discussing its potentialities in the application frame of 5G.
The approach adopted is practical, and significant part of the content can be directly used by scientists involved in the field, to put their hand on actual design, optimization and development of innovative RF passive components in MEMS technology for 5G and beyond applications.
This update (which includes a review of the main approaches to the modelling and simulations of MEMS and RF-MEMS devices) is timely and will find a wider readership as it crosses into the translational aspects of applied research in the subject. It is essential reading for both academic and industrial researchers and engineers.
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Jacopo Iannacci is an expert in Microsystem Technologies (MEMS) for diverse applications. He received the MSc Degree in Electronic Engineering (2003) and the PhD in Information Technology (2007) from the ARCES Research Center at the University of Bologna, Italy, and worked as Visiting Researcher (2005-2006) at the DIMES Technology Center of the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, on the development of packaging and integration solutions for RF-MEMS devices. He authored and co-authored numerous scientific contributions for international journals and conference proceedings, as well as books and several book chapters in the field of MEMS and RF-MEMS technology. In 2007 he joined the Research Staff of the Center for Sensors and Devices (SD) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, Italy. Since then he focuses on (compact) modelling, design, optimization, integration, packaging and testing for reliability of MEMS/RF-MEMS devices and networks for Sensors/Actuators, Energy Harvesting and Telecommunication systems and applications
Content
Introduction
Preface
1 Introduction to MEMS and RF-MEMS: From the early days of microsystems to modern RF-MEMS passives
2 Expectations versus actual market of RF-MEMS: Analysis and explanation of a repeatedly fluctuating scenario
3 The future 5th generation (5G) of mobile networks: Challenges and opportunities of an impelling scenario with an outlook on the future 6G
4 RF-MEMS passives for 5G applications: Case studies and design examples
5 A comprehensive approach to the compact multi-physical modelling and simulation of RF-MEMS
Appendix A Moving MEMS: Dynamics down in the micro-world
Appendix B How to setup, configure and exploit the MEMS behavioural models software library
