Dear friends and colleagues,

It is my privilege to welcome you to the 21st IEEE Israel AP/MTT and AES Chapters Symposium that will take place in Tel-Aviv, May 15th, 2007.

Last year’s very successful symposium, with approximately 400 participants from many companies, posed a challenge to organize an even greater event. This year’s event promises inspiration and enhanced quality alongside a professional Microwave exhibition.

The 2007 program offers a very impressive list of speakers, including expert R&D engineers, top scientists and managers. Up-to-date and fascinating topics will be presented to enrich the microwave, antenna, wireless communication and radar communities with knowledge, ideas, applications and challenges.

New this year! A Radars Session is joining the very popular and well established Microwaves and Antennas program. Prof. Nadav Levanon, Tel Aviv University and chairman of the IEEE S-AES chapter, organizes this session. The Radars Session will provide a particular interest to an audience of engineers and decision makers from the radar and electronic systems community by presenting system aspects and innovations in this field.

The symposium includes five sessions:
• Opening (plenary)
• Microwaves, Antennas, Radars and RFICs (simultaneously).

Keynote Speaker Dr. Barry Perlman will be talking about technology developments for the US Army CERDEC (Communications Electronics R&D Center), and include a comparison with commercial development. Dr. Perlman will also highlight some advanced work with DARPA that follows what they did under the MIMIC/MAFET programs such as the TEAM (technology for efficient agile Microsystems) Program, e.g., Systems on a Chip , for C4ISR applications.
Dr. Perlman is an Associate Director responsible for Advanced Technology, High Performance Computing (HPC) and DARPA Programs, CERDEC Headquarters, US Army RDECOM.

Invited Speaker Dr. Dhrubes Biswas will give perspectives and directions on growth of semiconductors fab industry in India vis-a-vis technology realities and design space of RFIC/mixed signal analog semiconductors.
Dr. Biswas is the Chief Technology Officer of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, INDIA. He received his M.S and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Illinois, USA.

The Microwaves, Antennas, Radars and RFIC Sessions, held simultaneously, will offer over thirty additional speakers and topics.

The exhibition will be organized alongside the symposium halls. Companies and agencies will present CAD tools, test equipment, RF, MW and MMW components and modules for electronic systems applications.

I wish to thank the authors and all the people and organizations that have supported our work.
Special thanks to the symposium’s main sponsor, Agilent Technologies, and to the
co-sponsors EYAL Microwave, ORBIT/FR, Herley General Microwave Israel, Ultram Technologies and Summit Electronics, for their support and generous sponsorship.

As in previous years, this Symposium will be a valuable, enriching and fun event, and an excellent opportunity to meet and socialize with colleagues.

Shmuel Auster, Symposium Chairman
IEEE S-AP/MTT Joint Chapter Chairman, Israel Section
auster@ieee.org