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Emmanouil (Manos) M. Tentzeris

RF antenna design, MEMs, RF/Wireless 3D Integration and Packaging

Using ceramics (low-temperature co-fired ceramic) and organic (liquid crystal polymer) materials, Dr. Emmanouil Tentzeris and his Adaptive Techniques for Hybrid Electromagnetic Numerical Applications (ATHENA) group of 15 researchers are investigating 3D integration up to the millimeter frequency range for telecommunication, sensor and WLAN applications. Reconfigurable, ultra-wideband and multi-band miniaturized antennas are another important aspect of the team's work. The team has also developed antennas for RFID applications with an efficiency of nearly 60 percent, three times the current state-of-the-art.

An associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tentzeris has become one of the leading young research experts in the fields of antenna design and verification technology. His expertise encompasses electromagnetic simulation, package optimization and MEMS modeling. Tentzeris is a member of the Electromagnetics Technical Interest Group.

His other research activities involve real-time multi-resolution (wavelet-based) algorithms for the system-level analysis, design and optimization of wireless modules and front-ends; novel RF packaging techniques such as optimized flip-chips and embedded passives; RF MEMs such as inductors and switches; antenna integration and miniaturization techniques; and adaptive transient analysis of active circuits.

At Georgia Tech, he serves as the associate director for RF research in the National Science Foundation-sponsored Microsystems Packaging Research Center, the RF Alliance Leader, leader of the RFID activities in GEDC and head of the ATHENA Research Group. He has established academic programs in adaptive numerical electromagnetics, RF and wireless applications, and RF MEMS modeling.

Associate editor of IEEE Transactions in Advanced Packaging and IBC's International Educator of the Year honoree for 2004, Tentzeris also authored or co-authored seven books and 20 journal articles last year. He received one patent, and conducted 54 conference presentations.

Tentzeris graduated from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, and performed graduate work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a master's and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science.

Phone: 404-385-0378
Fax: 404-894-4641
E-mail: emmanouil.tentzeris@ece.gatech.edu
More information: http://faculty.ece.gatech.edu/emmanouil.tentzeris