ABSTRACT: Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology is the most promising candidate for the implementation of mm-wave circuits and systems for the next decade. Based on dielectric substrates with top and bottom metal layers perforated with metalized holes, SIW structures offer a compact, low loss, flexible, and cost-effective solution for integrating active circuits, passive components, and radiating elements on the same substrate. This seminar will give an overview of the current status and future trends of academic and industrial research on SIW technology. The historical development of SIW components and circuits is briefly outlined, and the current research topics are discussed: they include the development of numerical techniques for the modeling and design of SIW components, the investigation of novel compact and broadband interconnects, the determination of design solutions for loss minimization. The future research trends are also discussed: they mainly aim at the implementation of SIW components at higher frequency (60-90 GHz) and the integration of complete Systems-on-Substrate (SoS).
SPEAKER: Maurizio Bozzi was born in Voghera, Italy, in 1971. He received the Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2000. Since 2002, he has been an Assistant Professor in electromagnetics at the Department of Electronics of the University of Pavia, where he teaches the courses of “Numerical Techniques for Electromagnetics” and of “Computational Electromagnetics and Photonics”. He held research positions in various European and American universities: at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (December 1996 to September 1997), at the Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (October 2001 to January 2002) and at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada (November to December 2002, June to July 2004, June to July 2005, June to August 2006, June to August 2007). His main research activities concern the development of numerical methods for the electromagnetic modeling of microwave and millimeter-wave components (frequency selective surfaces, reflectarrays, electromagnetic bandgap structures, substrate integrated waveguides, waveguide components, and microwave printed and integrated circuits). Prof. Bozzi received the Best Young Scientist Paper Award at the XXVII General Assembly of URSI (International Union of Radio Science) in 2002 and the MECSA Prize for the best paper presented by a young researcher at the Italian Conference on Electromagnetics (XIII RINEM) in 2000. Prof. Bozzi authored the Encyclopedia Chapter “Periodic Structures” in the Wiley Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering (2005) and co-edited the book “Periodic Structures” (2006). Moreover, he authored more than 45 journal papers and more than 130 conference papers.
