5G ongoing deployment requires totally new solutions for cellular communication. With the advent of new communication protocols (such as new radio), technologies and products have been developed to meet the more demanding requirements of electronics for 5G base stations, smartphones and other connected devices. In response to energy consumption, reliability and bandwidth capability challenges, as well as performance and integration trade-offs, Soitec has developed current and new generations of engineered substrates such as RF-SOI, FD-SOI, Piezoelectric-On-Insulator (POI) and Epi GaN.
Participants to this interactive webinar will gain an understanding of how the use of new materials allows designers to integrate diverse functions such as switches, power amplifiers and antenna tuners, while providing excellent RF isolation, good insertion loss and better signal integrity at a competitive cost compared to traditional technologies.
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Speakers
Bernard Aspar
Senior Executive Vice President
Soitec
Bernard Aspar is Senior Executive Vice President of Soitec. He leads the whole company’s business organizations as Head of the Global Business Units since 2018, after holding different positions such as General Manager of Communications and Power BU and other Business Units within Soitec.
Before joining Soitec in 2006, Bernard founded in 2003 and successfully led a CEA-Leti spin-off company, Tracit technologies, which was acquired by Soitec.Previously, he worked 10 years at CEA-Leti where he spearheaded the development of Smart Cut™ technology and ran a film and circuit transfer lab.
He holds engineering and PhD degrees in materials sciences from the University of Montpellier, France. He has been honored with several French & International awards, has filed more than 80 patents and co-authored more than 100 scientific articles.
Jean-Marc Le Meil
General Manager of RF-SOI Business Unit
Soitec
Jean-Marc Le Meil is General Manager of RF-SOI Business Unit at Soitec.
He has 30 years of experience in Semiconductor companies. Before joining Soitec, he held different engineering positions at Atmel and Cypress semiconductors.
He received his MS degree in Material sciences from Engineering University of Nantes, France.
Michael Reiha
General Manager of FD-SOI Business Unit
Soitec
Michael Reiha is General Manager of FD-SOI Business Unit at Soitec, based in Singapore.
Before joining Soitec in 2019, he was an RFIC designer at Fujitsu Semiconductor (2010-2012), designing early LTE-Advanced RFIC blocks, and held various roles at Nokia from Head of Tunable RF Business Unit to Head of RFIC R&D (2013-2019).
He received theB.A.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada), the M.Sc. degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the Ph.D. title from TU Delft in the Netherlands, respectively.
His interests include Broadband and High-Speed IC design, in addition to SOI-based circuit techniques and evangelizing FD-SOI technology.
Marianne Germain
General Manager of EpiGaN Business Unit
Soitec
Marianne Germain is General Manager of EpiGaN Business Unit at Soitec.
In May 2010, she co-founded and acted as CEO of EpiGaN, a clean-tech spin-off manufacturing GaN epiwafers for electronics applications, that was acquired by Soitec in May 2019. Previously, she held different positions on GaN technology at imec (2001), an international microelectronic research center (Belgium) and III-V systems group (2004).
Marianne holds an MSc. degree in microelectronics and a Ph.D. from the University of Liege (1999) and has authored and co-authored more than 100 international communications. She co-holds several patents in the field of GaN material and devices.
Christophe Didier
General Manager of Filter Business Unit
Soitec
Christophe Didier is General Manager of Filter Business Unit at Soitec.
He holds over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He first joined Soitec in 2010 as a Marketing Manager. Prior to Soitec, he held several positions from field application engineer, design center manager, program manager and product/customer marketing manager on ASIC and FPGA products at LSI Logic, Altera and eSilicon in Silicon Valley.
He received a degree in Electronic Engineering from ESIEE in Paris and an executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid (Spain).
