European Centre of Excellence in
Microwave, Millimetre Wave and Optical Devices, based on
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems for
Advanced Communication Systems and Sensors

Upgrade of Research Equipment

We intend to upgrade and or to purchase the following equipments:

Status - general view summer 2009
upgrade the 1-65 GHz set-up for on wafer characterization up to 110 GHz  (topics A1, A2);
to purchase a frequency synthesiser up to 65GHz for testing the receivers and circuits for identification applications in the millimetre wave range (MMID) were amplitude modulation is necessary (topics A1, A2);
to purchase a near field scanning optical microscope for quantitative evaluation of surfaces in the 1-10 nm range (with a particular emphasis on understanding organic multicomponent films -research topics B1) and nanostructures (topic B2) and to image the complex optical field distribution on the surface of sub-100 nm sized metal particles excited into plasmon  nanodevices (research topic B2);
to purchase an Au plating facility to be used for electro-deposition on semiconductor materials (topics A1-A3, B1);