April 15, 2010

METRO IMAPS is pleased to offer:

A Full Day Presentation on:

RF/Microwave Hybrids: Basics, Materials and Processes
Course Leader: Richard Brown, Richard Brown Associates

Course Description:
In recent years, the demands for high frequency systems and products have been growing at a rapid pace. Coupled with the continuing development of monolithic integrated circuits, MMICs, are new materials and process refinement of hybrids. As a result, system and product designers are faced with the choice between hybrids and MMICs; i.e., complete system on a chip vs. hybrids with discrete devices, or more often, somewhere in-between.

This course will begin with a short, non-mathematical review of high frequency basics. Next a comparison of MMICs and hybrids is presented. The transmission line as the basic circuit component of RF and microwave hybrids will be reviewed. Hybrid “waveguide” structures will be compared as they relate to transmission line properties. The basic materials (conductors, dielectrics and substrates) and their properties will be introduced. Their effect on impedance, circuit properties and performance will be discussed. Processing technologies suitable for RF/microwave hybrids will be reviewed. Selected packaging protocols, such as vias and bonding wires, will be discussed in light of their influence on RF/microwave performance. At the completion of this course, attendees will have a better understanding of many of the critical materials and processing factors affecting high frequency circuit performance.

Who Should Attend?
Any industry professionals who want to better appreciate the critical materials, process interactions and variables affecting high frequency hybrid manufacturing. Supervisors, engineers and technicians involved in product development, design and manufacture are encouraged to attend.

Richard Brown is a technical and engineering consultant in hybrids, with more than 30 years experience, encompassing thin and thick film, electroplating and substrate technologies. He began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories. After joining RCA Solid State in 1968, he transferred in 1979 to the RCA Microwave Technology Center in Princeton. In 1991, Mr. Brown joined an Alcoa Electronic Packaging technology team as program manager to implement thin film on high temperature co-fired ceramic for MCMs.

He has published extensively, authoring a chapter on Thin Film for Microwave Hybrids in “Handbook of Thin Film Technology,” McGraw-Hill, NY, 1998, A. Elshabini-Riad, Ed., and most recently RF/Microwave Hybrids; Basics, Materials and Processes, Kluwer Academic Press, 2003. In 1995, ISHM awarded him the prestigious John A. Wagnon, Jr. Technical Achievement Award.

Course fee: 500.00 IMAPS Member 600.00 Non Member

Includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch. Also included is admission to the METRO Chapter Vendor Night and Cocktail Reception immediately following

Group discounts are available

Contact Steve Lehnert Phone (650) 644-5218 or (631) 379-8239

Email slehnert@imaps.org to register

Time: 8:00 AM-4:30 PM

Registration and Continental Breakfast start at 7:30 AM

Location: Holiday Inn Ronkonkoma

                 3845 Veterans Highway

                 Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

                 Ph: 631-585-9500