IMAGINE

"An Innovative, Ultra Low Cost, High Performance, Monolithic Millimeter Wave Imager Module to Increase the Safety of European Citizens"

Coordinatore	Gestion Avanzada de Tecnologias Electronicas GATE S.A.    more  Organization address city: MADRID postcode: 28006 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Francisco Cognome: Perez-Villacastin Email: send email Telefono: +34 915159416 Fax: +34 918827892
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Sito del progetto	http://www.acreo.se/projects/imagine
Totale costo	1˙498˙485 €
EC contributo	1˙122˙161 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2008-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-01-01   -   2012-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Gestion Avanzada de Tecnologias Electronicas GATE S.A.  Organization address city: MADRID postcode: 28006 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Francisco Cognome: Perez-Villacastin Email: send email Telefono: +34 915159416 Fax: +34 918827892	ES (MADRID)	coordinator	434˙701.10
2	Dyconex AG  Organization address address: Grindelstrasse 40 city: Bassersdorf postcode: 8303 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Jeannine Cognome: Roth Email: send email Telefono: +41 432 661207 Fax: +41 432 661101	CH (Bassersdorf)	participant	262˙748.54
3	MMIC Solutions Ltd  Organization address address: "Hudson House, Albany St 8" city: Edinburgh postcode: EH1 3QB contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Douglas Cognome: Dundonald Email: send email Telefono: +44 1531 651230 Fax: +44 1531 651236	UK (Edinburgh)	participant	189˙375.83
4	TECS -TECHNOLOGICAL CONSULTING SERVICES  Organization address address: VIA ARDITO DESIO 60 city: ROMA postcode: 131 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Sergio Cognome: Masullo Email: send email Telefono: 390673000000	IT (ROMA)	participant	96˙419.74
5	RHE MICROSYSTEMS GMBH  Organization address address: HEIDESTRASSE 70 city: RADEBERG postcode: 1454 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Michael Cognome: Janke Email: send email Telefono: +49 3528 4199 16 Fax: +49 3528 419999	DE (RADEBERG)	participant	62˙002.50
6	ROGERS BVBA  Organization address address: Afrikalaan 188 city: GENT postcode: 9000 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: John Cognome: Hendricks Email: send email Telefono: +32 92 353310 Fax: +32 92 353310	BE (GENT)	participant	55˙940.00
7	ACREO SWEDISH ICT AB  Organization address address: ELECTRUM 236 city: KISTA postcode: 16440 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Duncan Cognome: Platt Email: send email Telefono: +46 86327854 Fax: +46 11 202501	SE (KISTA)	participant	9˙900.00
8	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE postcode: OX25 5PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: John Cognome: Danvers Email: send email Telefono: +447920 563825 Fax: +441664 501589	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	5˙599.04
9	OMMIC SAS  Organization address address: CHEMIN DU MOULIN 2 city: LIMEIL BREVANNES postcode: 94453 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Hassan Cognome: Maher Email: send email Telefono: +33 145 106834 Fax: +33 145 106953	FR (LIMEIL BREVANNES)	participant	5˙475.00
10	CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB  Organization address address: - city: GOETEBORG postcode: 41296 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Ingrid Cognome: Collin Email: send email Telefono: +46 317 721 601 Fax: +46 317 728 498	SE (GOETEBORG)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Protecting its citizens from terrorism remains a high priority for the EC. Current SOA security procedures for air travel have significantly improved airport security. The need is now to protect the softer, unprotected areas such as mass transportation systems and hubs which are being targeted with devastating effect (London, Madrid). They are largely unprotected since current security systems are too expensive and too slow. Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative new security screening technology that can provide a low cost, rapid ‘walk-by’ screening at normal flow rates. Whilst millimetre-wave (mm-wave) technology is the leading technology, cost is a barrier. The critical part of mm-wave systems is the detector module, at a cost of €1125 per pixel, the imager module accounts for 60% of the overall system cost. At present this high cost is due to the cost of semiconductor material and the cost of assembly and tuning to overcome resonance effects.

This proposal will develop an innovative solution to reduce mm-wave module cost down to €150. This is clearly ambitious, but with the innovations below we are confident we can be successful:

a) Integrating the LNA & detector stages onto a single semiconductor wafer b) Developing GaAs semiconductor wafer using mHEMPT epi-layer instead of pHEMT c) Integrating a novel antenna and waveguide into a low cost, injection moulded liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate.

This is an extremely challenging project requiring significant scientific knowledge generation and technology development. As an SME we do not have all the in house skills to develop this solution alone and the skills gaps are provided by our RTD performers. Without the research for SME initiative we would not have the financial resources to engage this leading European expertise. The US currently dominates the growing imaging market ($49m, predicted to grow by 1800% in 5 years) which we aim to access for Europe with this project.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

As the EU prioritises the protection of its citizens from terrorist threats, it has funded research into a low-cost scanning technology. The scanner would be used at small transport hubs such as train stations.