Final Report Summary - MULTIWAVES (Multiband Electronically Reconfigurable Microwave Devices and Antennas for a New Generation of Wireless Systems)
Objective:
To expand the capacity of the participating institutions to progress in research, to communicate across disciplines, and to create a critical mass of researchers and knowledge needed for important scientific breakthroughs.
Tools:
- A cohesive research- and education-oriented network in the interdisciplinary fields of advanced technologies, artificial EM materials, complex geometries, and application-oriented design.
- A coordinated multiannual joint research programme between European and non-European research institutions.
Research challenge:
Wireless communications are omnipresent, yet frequencies are scarce.
Research approach:
Exploit complementarities and synergies between various technologies: conventional, ferroelectric, superconducting, fractal, metamaterial.
Expected results:
Three main types of microwave devices redesigned for small size, improved functionality and multiband operation: filters, antennas, and couplers and shifters.
Impact on ERA:
- Transfer of specific knowledge into Europe
- Reduction of fragmentation of research
- Inter- and intra-country cooperation
- Systematic and frequent reformulation of the problems
- Cohesive experimental and theoretical approach
Impact on the society as large:
- Experience of excellence
- Reward for complementarity
- Potential creation of new employments
- Inter-cultural exchange
- Gender balance
To expand the capacity of the participating institutions to progress in research, to communicate across disciplines, and to create a critical mass of researchers and knowledge needed for important scientific breakthroughs.
Tools:
- A cohesive research- and education-oriented network in the interdisciplinary fields of advanced technologies, artificial EM materials, complex geometries, and application-oriented design.
- A coordinated multiannual joint research programme between European and non-European research institutions.
Research challenge:
Wireless communications are omnipresent, yet frequencies are scarce.
Research approach:
Exploit complementarities and synergies between various technologies: conventional, ferroelectric, superconducting, fractal, metamaterial.
Expected results:
Three main types of microwave devices redesigned for small size, improved functionality and multiband operation: filters, antennas, and couplers and shifters.
Impact on ERA:
- Transfer of specific knowledge into Europe
- Reduction of fragmentation of research
- Inter- and intra-country cooperation
- Systematic and frequent reformulation of the problems
- Cohesive experimental and theoretical approach
Impact on the society as large:
- Experience of excellence
- Reward for complementarity
- Potential creation of new employments
- Inter-cultural exchange
- Gender balance
