WG 6: Materials for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Chairperson: Victor Acinas (AMAT) & Cecile Autret (Univ. Tours)

Scope and objective of this WG

Piezoelectric materials facilitate energy conversion from mechanical to electrical and vice versa. Thanks to the new technologies, enabling integration, they can be active as relatively small structures or parts of more complex systems, thus extending the frequency range in which they operate into high MHz range and the complex functionality, acting both as sensors, transducers and transmitters among other bringing close self-supported remote sensing systems for medical, safety and other applications.

Metamaterials are micro- and nanostructured artificial electromagnetic materials which offer an opportunity to realize electromagnetic material properties not available in nature, such as negative parameters, paramteres near zero, extreme chirality, and so on. They are rapidly maturing and become increasingly employed for the design of electronic and optical components, integrated circuits and functional devices. They will have ubiquitous applications ranging from the high speed computer chips to optical communications devices, high resolution imaging and biomedical sensors. Specialised electromagnetic materials will provide the necessary functionality for electronic devices and constitute the physical layer of the technologies dealing with electromagnetic signals in radio engineering, nanotechnologies, security, safety, and biology.

WG6 Scope:

Target/market groups

• Health (diagnostics, monitoring)
• Transportation (safety, efficiency, reduction of pollution)
• ICT (integrated components)
• Energy (energy harvesting, energy conversion & management)
• Environment & Security (detectors, sensors, NDE)

The core group

• The Piezoinstitute
  Centre of expertise and resources in piezoelectric materials and devices http://www.piezoinstitute.com
• Metamorphose-vi
  Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials. METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL; http://www.metamorphose-vi.org
• KMM-VIN
  European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials AISBL http://www.kmm-vin.eu