Loukas Michalas
Loukas Michalas received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece. Presently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the IESL-FORTH, Greece while recently he has been elected assistant professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace (to be appointed). Previously he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece, at IMM-CNR-Rome, Italy and at the University of Southampton, UK. Over the years Loukas also collaborated via short placements (1-2 months) as visiting researcher with the Keysight Labs, Linz, Austria, with IEMN-CNRS, Lille, France, with RF Microtech, Perugia, Italy and with Imperial College London, UK. His major research activity is presently focusing on involving machine learning techniques in the development and reliability study of RF nanoelectronics devices and RF MEMS. Parallel research interests include metal-oxide based memristors, thin film semiconductor devices and microwave microscopy. In 2021 Loukas was awarded the competitive Individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship grant, whilst presently he is the Principal Investigator (on behalf of FORTH) in AIMS5.0, a project focuses on using Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing. Apart from research Loukas also enjoys being involved in science outreach activities.
This is a MEMS world
Developments in the telecommunication systems are significantly relying on electronic components capable to address functionalities related to the corresponding signals. Radio Frequency Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (RF MEMS) were introduced more than two decades ago and due to their exceptional ensemble of features they immediately attracted significant attention across the RF community. Nowadays, owing to their unique ability to satisfy the needs of the emerging RF technologies (such as of the 5G), a novel perspective has been offered for RF MEMS and this revived the research attention around the field. Current topics of interest include RF applications operating under high RF-power levels and/or at the higher micro- or at the millimeter wave frequency bands. This talk aspires to present the fundamental operation principles of capacitive bridge type RF MEMS switches, and to summarize in brief the relevant presenter’s work with emphasis given on recent implementations related high power capacitive RF MEMS switches.
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