"Integrated LTCC/MEMS Circuits for Small-Size, Light-Weight and Power-Efficient Intelligent RF Front-Ends"

“用于小尺寸、轻重量和高能效智能射频前端的集成 LTCC/MEMS 电路”

• 批准号: 217357-2012
• 负责人: Kouki, Ammar
• 金额: $ 3.06万
• 依托单位: École de technologie supérieure
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=637605
• 关键词: Integrated; LTCC; MEMS; Circuits; Small

In recent years, École de technolgie supérieure (ÉTS), with support from Economic Development Canada, invested significant amounts of money to build and equip two co-located clean room facilities that house a Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics (LTCC) fabrication process, in one, and a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication process, in the other. The LTCC facility, a first of its kind in Canada, includes a world class industrial grade fabrication chain while the MEMS facility houses state of the art microsystems fabrication equipment. LTCC allows the fabrication of circuits in a 3-dimensional fashion such that circuits can be made smaller and lighter. MEMS on the other hand can make circuits reconfigurable such that one circuit can serve multiple frequencies and multiple standards thus reducing the number or components needed in wireless terminals such as a smart phone. The present proposal aims at carrying out research using these facilities to develop new innovative radiofrequency circuits and devices commonly used in wireless and satellite communications. By combining LTCC and MEMS, we plan to develop new smarter, smaller, lighter weight and more power efficient circuits that can drive down cost while offering more performance. The personnel who will be trained under this program will be called upon to meet this objective by making a number of scientific and technological advancements and by developing a wide range of new skills in the design, fabrication and testing of these new circuits. A number of Canadian companies, federal laboratories and universities have expressed great interest in ÉTS's new facilities. The results of the proposed research program will help advance the existing prototyping processes techniques and develop new ones. This will in turn help meet industrial needs and will make collaborations with them easier and substantially more productive.

近年来，随着加拿大经济发展的加拿大经济发展，ÉcoledeTechnolgiesupérieure（éts）向ILD投入了大量资金，并为两个共同定位的室客房房间设施设施，可容纳一个低温辅助陶瓷（LTCC）发烧过程，另一个LTCC工业级制造链中的微型机械系统（MEMS）制造过程，而男士设施则可以使Art Microsystems Sate Mems Mems设备。 E电路可重新配置，使一个电路可以提供频率和多重标准，例如智能手机等无线的组件将LTCC和MEMS组合在一起，较小，更轻巧，更多的电路，而欧洲矿石绩效则将召集来实现这一目标。新巡回赛的新技能对Éts的新设施表达了极大的兴趣。具有更大的生产力。