Mission

RF Microtech is a service company developing custom products for industries and system integrators. We cover all areas of RF and microwave technology, and offer innovative solutions for the most demanding applications.

We support projects at different levels:

  • Simulation and Technical Consultancy
  • System and Sub-system Design
  • Prototyping and Low-volume Manufacturing
  • RF Testing and Characterization

A spin-off of the University of Perugia participated by FBK-irst (www.fbk.eu), one of the most advanced RF-MEMS foundry in Europe. RF Microtech is a follow up of the last ten years of leading research activities carried out by the group of Professor Roberto Sorrentino in the area of microwave circuit design and antennas, with an outstanding expertise in RF/microwave technologies from waveguide to MICs, including innovative technologies such as LTCC and RF-MEMS.

 

RF Microtech RF Microtech provides consultancy and custom design and fabrication

 

  • RF MEMS devices and MEMS-based tuneable circuits
  • Electronically scanning/reconfigurable array antennas (slotted waveguide, printed arrays)
  • Beam scanning, beam shaping and interference nulling algorithms (real-time)
  • CAD for the design of waveguide structures (antennas, filters, BFN’s)
  • Microwave Sensors for industrial applications (moisture, density, weight)
  • Active and passive microwave components: filters, diplexers, couplers, BFN’s, LNA’s

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Partners

 

Roberto Sorrentino

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Paola Farinelli

Luca Marcaccioli

 

Background

 

The Microwave Engineering Laboratory (www.mel.diei.unipg.it) of the Dept. of Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of Perugia, headed by Professor Roberto Sorrentino, has been involved since more than 20 years in the development of numerical methods and CAD techniques for the analysis and design of microwave and millimetre-wave circuits both in conventional (waveguide) and integrated technologies (hybrid and monolithic) including antennas and antenna arrays. Various numerical techniques have been developed both in time and frequency domains, such as modal techniques, transverse resonance analysis, Finite Difference Time Domain method, integral equation method, hybrid methods, etc. Electromagnetic simulators, based on the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method, Mode matching technique and MoM, have been developed over the years for the analysis of EM structures both in time and frequency domains, for both linear and nonlinear circuits. Design tools for the analysis and design of scanning active antenna arrays have been developed. Specific algorithms have also been developed for real time beam shaping and adaptive nulling, suited for reconfigurable and smart antenna systems.

Since 2000 the Perugia research group has been strongly involved in the modelling, simulation and design of RF MEMS circuits and components. Specifically for RF MEMS, Perugia has been working on the development of rigorous electromagnetic models for the accurate characterisation of RF MEMS structures taking into account large scale integration elements (vias, impedance and geometry transitions, interconnects), 3-D proximity effects and packaging effects. Other topics under development are the analysis of the influence of package materials and fabrication techniques on RF performance and the study the influence of bond wires, epoxy and solder joints.

Perugia has been involved in several international projects on RF-MEMS. Here we mention the most recent ones:

  • Feasibility study and design of a receiving/transmitting phased array antenna at Ka-band funded by Alenia Spazio S.p.A.;
  • Feasibility study of a surveillance radar based on a large active phased array funded by FIAR S.p.A.;
  • Design of phase shifter, beam forming and control networks for a 2-D beam steering phased array at C-bandfunded by Marconi Selenia Comunications S.p.A.
  • Microwave electrostatic micro-machined devices for on-board applications, European Space Agency;
  • Advanced MEMS for RF and Millimeter wave Communications (AMICOM), Network of Excellence funded by FP6;
  • Study, design and manufacturing of RF MEMS devices and packages on ceramic substrates with Thales Alenia Space, Italy, European Space Agency;
  • Design and manufacturing of a 20GHz 5bit packaged MEMS phase shifter for satellite communication, funded by Selex-Comm;
  • Very Large Order Switch Matrices using MEMS Technology, European Space Agency;
  • High Reliability MEMS Redundancy Switch, European Space Agency,
  • Zero- and First-level Packaging of RF-MEMS (MEMSPACK), led by IMEC (Belgium), FP7.
  • MEMS & Liquid Crystal based’ Agile Reflectarray Antennas for Security & COMmunication (ARASCOM), led by Thale Alenia Space, FP7.
  • SAET: Satellite Access for European Trains, funded by the European Space Agency;
  • MEMS for microwave IC’s, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education,
  • Feasibility study for a payload operating at Q/V band”, Italian Space Agency;
  • SAR Multibeam for second-generation COSMO-SKYMED satellite, Italian Space Agency;
  • 2-D Electronic beam steering phased array at C-band for point-multi point communications, funded by Selex-Comm, Italy.

 

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