Univ.-Prof Dipl.-Ing. Dr. WOLFGANG BÖSCH, MBA
Univ.-Prof Dipl.-Ing. Dr. WOLFGANG BÖSCH, MBA

Keynote Title: “The future is wireless”

Abstract:
Whether smart homes or smart grids, whether healthcare, autonomous driving or space travel, 500 billion devices are expected to be connected to the internet and to communicate wirelessly by 2030. The global transmission data rates are still growing exponentially. For a secure and robust data transmission, ever more transmit and receive capabilities need to be installed in a limited space with reduced power consumption, quite often multiple radios in the same communication device. This leads to requirements for higher frequency of operation, higher integration and a necessary miniaturization of all electronic components. This talk will first address the application space of 5G and the resulting technological challenges specifically for future microwave front-end devices. The optimum semiconductor mix and the predicted market growth will briefly be presented, followed by some examples of emerging front-end technologies to address the forthcoming challenges. Specifically, the size and the performance of passive components plays an important role. Individual passive components often have to perform several functions simultaneously, such as antennas with integrated filtering function (so-called “filtennas”). Some examples of innovative antenna and filter design will be presented. The utilisation of metamaterials is another good example how complex functionality of components can be implemented by innovative designs. However new integration technologies demand new characterisation and measurement methodologies. A novel approach towards a measurement calibration that offers error estimation will be briefly discussed. Selected examples in the area of an optimized front-end amplifier design and heterogeneous integration by embedding of GaN devices will finalise the talk.

Wolfgang Bösch (Fellow, IEEE, IET) received his Dipl.Ing. degree from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1985, his Ph.D. degree from the Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 1988, and his M.B.A. degree from the School of Management, University of Bradford, U.K., in 2004. In 2010, he joined Graz University of Technology to establish a new Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering. The research areas cover the characterization and design of microwave components, wave propagation, RFID, communication and radar systems. In the last 9 years, he also has been the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering, which currently incorporates 13 Institutes and 20 full professors covering the areas of energy generation and distribution, electronics, and information engineering. He is responsible for the strategic development, the budget, and the personnel of the Faculty. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Advanced Digital Institute, Shipley, U.K., he was the Director of Business and Technology Integration for RFMD, U.K., and for almost ten years, he was with Filtronic plc, U.K., as the CTO of Filtronic Integrated Products and the Director of the Global Technology Group. Before joining Filtronic, he held positions with the European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands, working on amplifier linearization techniques, with MPR-Teltech, Burnaby, BC, Canada, working on MMIC technology projects, and with the Corporate Research and Development Group of M/A-COM, Boston, MA, USA, where he worked on advanced topologies for high-efficiency power amplifiers. He was with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (now Hensoldt), Ulm, Germany, for four years, working on T/R modules for airborne radar. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. He published more than 200 papers and holds 4 patents.

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