European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC) 2012

Once per year, the microwave and RF integrated circuit community gathers in Europe. They gather to get informed on the worldwide results of last year’s research and development. They gather to learn parts of the trade they did not yet master. They gather to see their students perform on stage or at the side of their posters. They gather to hear from their peers what cannot be presented yet but what will be highlights for next year. They gather to meet colleagues from industry and academia that have over time evolved into good friends, with whom they would like to have a good time. Once per year, the microwave and RF integrated circuit community gathers in Europe, and in 2012 that will be in Amsterdam.

The 7th European Microwave Integrated Circuits (EuMIC) Conference will be held on 29 and 30 October 2012 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as part of the European Microwave Week. Albeit the 7th conference under this name, it is actually the twentieth microwave IC conference, as it is rooted in a series of conferences that started in 1990 under the umbrella of the GaAs Association. The conference has proven to contribute greatly to the success of the European Microwave Week, and will continue to be the largest event in Europe related to RF microelectronics.

Next to the longstanding strengths in microwave models, technologies, devices and applications, this year’s conference is particularly soliciting papers in several areas. In the microwave modelling area, topics with special attention are complex and multidomain modelling and measurement set-ups. In the technology area, papers on wide-bandgap devices and technologies, as well as on NEMS and space-aspects of IC technologies are specifically solicited. In the circuit design and applications track, millimeterwave and THz devices and circuits, mixed-signal, tuneable and reconfigurable IC’s as well as integrated receivers and transmitters are in the spotlight.

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