TC-16 Starts Transmission
Craig Gaw, RF & Wireless Technical Committee Chair, created the beginning of a new CPMT TC team with his rough draft of the area of interest and a handful of volunteers.
Immediate actions underway are:
1. Finalize Areas of Interest Statement (packaging, thermal management, manufacture….)
2. Identify and recruit more engineers to the team.
3. Establish at TC-16 committee for the 50th ECTC in order to have a session for RF & Wireless. Also solicit and review papers for several RF & Wireless conferences.
4. Get a web site up and running

Areas of Interest:
The design, development, and technology of RF & Wireless components, devices, circuitry and systems.
· Technology of packaging active/passive hybrid and integrated RF and wireless components.
· Electrical and physical design; reliability, performance and characterization.
· Reliability, reliability physics, failure analysis, degradation models, thermal analysis, simulation, modeling, characterization and prediction, assembly techniques, low noise issues.
· Materials (reliability without hermeticity, adhesives, ceramics, plastics, glasses, metals, solders, films, encapsulants, sealants, molding compounds, etc.)
· Processing (bonding, brazing, welding, soldering, sealing, molding, flip-chip, chip-on-board, etc.)
· Devices and Components ( RF and wireless modules, amplifiers, transmitters, receivers, MMICs, FETs, HEMTs, HBTs, MEMs, connectors, passive components, etc.)
· Systems and Manufacturing (components, design, assembly, reliability, automation)

Current active members on the Committee:

Craig Gaw (Chair), Dietrich Riemer (Boeing), Thomas Wiegele (Motorola), Alexander Dabek (Siemens AG), Patric Heide (Siemens AG), David Palmer (Sandia Labs), Joseph Mantz (AT&T Wireless).

This is a great chance to start your career-enriching volunteer activities with CPMT. Please contact Craig Gaw with your particular interest:
email: avfd40@email.mot.com
fax: 1 602 413 3481
phone: 1 602 413 5920