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Microwave Materials for Convenience, Safety, and Health
Materials Research Bulletin 96 (2017) 53
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Microwave Materials for Convenience, Safety, and Health
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Microwave materials play a key role in modern society, finding applications in terrestrial and satellite communications and environmental monitoring, GPS, the Internet of Things, Internet radio, and DBS TV. In particular, low-loss dielectric oxide ceramics have revolutionized the microwave wireless communication industry by reducing the size and cost of filter, oscillator, and antenna components; and the demand for materials with low sintering temperatures has increased in order to both save energy (and money) as well as to be compatible with polymers and silver-based electrodes. Fifth generation (5G) mobile networks represent the next major phase of mobile telecommunication standards, and they will need to meet the needs of these new applications. It has been estimated that the revenue for mobile network operators from interconnected devices in the segments of automotive, health, utilities, and consumer electronics will be $1.3 trillion by 2020. To address the challenge presented by the worldwide data volume in mobile communication systems doubling nearly every year, higher frequency bands will be used for which broadband and multiband equipment is required. In order to meet the specifications of future systems, new designs and microwave components will be required; and new technologies have particularly pushed the demand for low-loss dielectric materials, tunable dielectrics, microwave ferrites, and EMI shielding materials. The MMA conference series was inaugurated in Bled, Slovenia in 2000, and has since been convened in eight different countries on three continents. In 2016 the conference was hosted in Seoul, Korea, and provided a forum to continue the initiative and momentum of the earlier meetings, to strengthen global research activities related to microwave dielectrics and applications, and to exchange and share the latest developments in the science and technologies of microwave materials and passive devices. The theme of this year’s conference was “Smart Life with Convenience, Safety and Health,” although a diverse range of topics was covered, including:
• Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Materials: • •
chemistry, physics, and structural determination of dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, ferromagnetic, multiferroic, and/or composite materials and tunable compositions with advantageous properties for microwave applications like LANs/PANs with non-condense high data transfer systems and radar for anti-collision systems Applications and Passive Components: passive components and materials for near-field, satellite, and millimeter-wave communications as well as terahertz applications for convenience, microwave sensing for automotive safety applications, and electronic materials for medical and health applications Functional Advances in Microwave Dielectrics:
modeling, evaluation methods, nano structures and preparation methods, LTCC materials and composites, SAW and BAW filters, applications of resonant coupling such as for temperature sensors or wireless power transfer, electromagnetic wave absorbers, extreme transparency in ceramics using isotropic microwave dielectrics, metamaterials and photonics There were 72 participants from 12 countries, and the meeting comprised 49 presentations (including 4 plenaries, 26 invited talks, and 19 contributed presentations) as well as 33 posters. While 71% of presentations were from groups based in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan), 23% were from European groups (Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal), and 6% were from the USA. The meeting was generously supported by LG Display, LG Innotek, Amotech, Winner Technology, RN2 Technologies, Daejoo Electronic Materials, Dong-il Shimadzu Corp., Murata, Walsin Technology Korea, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government. It was endorsed by the American Ceramic Society, the Ceramic Society of Japan, and the Korean Ceramic Society. R. Ubic, E.S. Kim, H. Jantunen, M.T. Sebastian
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2017.09.046
0025-5408/ © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Materials Research Bulletin journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/matresbu
Microwave Materials for Convenience, Safety, and Health
MARK
Microwave materials play a key role in modern society, finding applications in terrestrial and satellite communications and environmental monitoring, GPS, the Internet of Things, Internet radio, and DBS TV. In particular, low-loss dielectric oxide ceramics have revolutionized the microwave wireless communication industry by reducing the size and cost of filter, oscillator, and antenna components; and the demand for materials with low sintering temperatures has increased in order to both save energy (and money) as well as to be compatible with polymers and silver-based electrodes. Fifth generation (5G) mobile networks represent the next major phase of mobile telecommunication standards, and they will need to meet the needs of these new applications. It has been estimated that the revenue for mobile network operators from interconnected devices in the segments of automotive, health, utilities, and consumer electronics will be $1.3 trillion by 2020. To address the challenge presented by the worldwide data volume in mobile communication systems doubling nearly every year, higher frequency bands will be used for which broadband and multiband equipment is required. In order to meet the specifications of future systems, new designs and microwave components will be required; and new technologies have particularly pushed the demand for low-loss dielectric materials, tunable dielectrics, microwave ferrites, and EMI shielding materials. The MMA conference series was inaugurated in Bled, Slovenia in 2000, and has since been convened in eight different countries on three continents. In 2016 the conference was hosted in Seoul, Korea, and provided a forum to continue the initiative and momentum of the earlier meetings, to strengthen global research activities related to microwave dielectrics and applications, and to exchange and share the latest developments in the science and technologies of microwave materials and passive devices. The theme of this year’s conference was “Smart Life with Convenience, Safety and Health,” although a diverse range of topics was covered, including:
• Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Materials: • •
chemistry, physics, and structural determination of dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, ferromagnetic, multiferroic, and/or composite materials and tunable compositions with advantageous properties for microwave applications like LANs/PANs with non-condense high data transfer systems and radar for anti-collision systems Applications and Passive Components: passive components and materials for near-field, satellite, and millimeter-wave communications as well as terahertz applications for convenience, microwave sensing for automotive safety applications, and electronic materials for medical and health applications Functional Advances in Microwave Dielectrics:
modeling, evaluation methods, nano structures and preparation methods, LTCC materials and composites, SAW and BAW filters, applications of resonant coupling such as for temperature sensors or wireless power transfer, electromagnetic wave absorbers, extreme transparency in ceramics using isotropic microwave dielectrics, metamaterials and photonics There were 72 participants from 12 countries, and the meeting comprised 49 presentations (including 4 plenaries, 26 invited talks, and 19 contributed presentations) as well as 33 posters. While 71% of presentations were from groups based in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan), 23% were from European groups (Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal), and 6% were from the USA. The meeting was generously supported by LG Display, LG Innotek, Amotech, Winner Technology, RN2 Technologies, Daejoo Electronic Materials, Dong-il Shimadzu Corp., Murata, Walsin Technology Korea, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government. It was endorsed by the American Ceramic Society, the Ceramic Society of Japan, and the Korean Ceramic Society. R. Ubic, E.S. Kim, H. Jantunen, M.T. Sebastian
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2017.09.046
0025-5408/ © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.