Shmuel Auster
Conference Chairman
 
Barry Perlman
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chairman

Dear friends and colleagues,

It is our privilege and a real honor to welcome you to the 1st International IEEE Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems (IEEE COMCAS 2008), which will be held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 13th and 14th, 2008. This 2 day international IEEE Conference will be an expanded, multidisciplinary and complementary version of our traditional and very successful IEEE Israel AP/MTT & AES Chapters Symposium.

Last year’s very successful 21st IEEE AP/MTT&AES Chapters Symposium, which attracted over 500 participants from many companies and R&D institutions, inspired the organizers to take on the challenge of organizing an even greater event. The COMCAS 2008 event promises inspiration and enhanced quality, complemented with a professional exhibition.

The 2008 program will offer a very impressive list of speakers, including expert R&D engineers, top scientists and managers from the US, Europe, Far East (Taiwan) and Israel.

Keynote speakers will be Prof. Linda Katehi, Provost, University of Illinois, USA, and Raviv Melamed, General Manager, Mobile Wireless Group, Intel Corporation. Greatly enriching the microwave, antenna, communication, EMC, solid-state circuits (RFIC) and electronic systems communities with knowledge, ideas, applications and challenges, the program will include presentations of up-to-date and fascinating topics. Our ultimate goal is to create a very diverse and multidisciplinary Conference where engineers and scientists from various complementary disciplines can meet and discuss subjects of common interest. The emphasis will be on applications-oriented research and development, from antennas, devices and components to systems and software. This combination of technical areas should make for a very robust and interesting 2-day meeting. The organizers are confident that you will enjoy it!

New this year! Additional IEEE societies are joining our two days international Conference. The ComSoc, EMC and SSC are joining the very popular and well established Microwaves (MTT), Antennas (AP), and Radars (AES) program. These will provide interests to an audience of engineers and decision makers from the technology, communication, radar and electronic systems communities by presenting technology, circuits, system aspects and innovations in these fields. Papers will be presented on a variety of subjects, including: RFICs, Low Power Solid State Circuits, Microwave Plasmonics, Novel Antennas and Spectrum Data Base Issues, Phased Arrays, Communications Networking, C3/C4 modeling and simulation, & analysis (MS&A), RF Propagation to MMW Wavelengths, High Power Amplifiers, Advanced Devices for Communications, RF Filters, Modeling for EMC, MEMs, Ultra-wide Band Technology, Vacuum Electronics, Metrology and Parameter Extraction, Space-time Adaptive Processing, Cognitive Radios/Radar and Spectral Processing. These are just a few examples of what is planned.

The exhibition will be organized alongside the Conference halls, with a generous number of companies and agencies presenting CAD tools, test equipment, RF, MW and MMW components and modules for electronic systems applications.

We wish to thank the authors and all the people and organizations that have supported our work.

Special thanks to the Conference’s main sponsors, Agilent Technologies, Intel Corp., and to the co-sponsors Herley General Microwave Israel, EYAL Microwave, WIN Semiconductors Corp (Starlight), MTI, RDT, ORBIT/FR, TE (M/A-COM), STG, Interlligent, CST and the Microwave Journal (media sponsor) for their support and generous sponsorship.

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

Shmuel Auster, Conference Chairman

Barry Perlman, Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chairman