Professor Albert J.P Theuwissen; Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and Harvest Imaging, Belgium is the instructor for this advanced course in image sensors and digital cameras, focusing on hands-on evaluation and measurements of existing image sensors and cameras.

This training is the very first one of its kind and offers the participants the opportunity to work in the classroom with existing cameras and do the evaluation of the devices themselves. Laptops, cameras, lightsources, power supplies, test charts and other equipment needed will be provided. The amount of participants in the class room is limited to allow an optimal interaction between trainer and trainees. The theoretical background of the measurements will be explained first.

Dr. Jeffrey Gambino, ON Semiconductor, United States, is teaching this advanced 5-day course, which will provide an high-level overview of the entire fabrication process of modern Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits.

This course includes all the key materials involved and the process areas utilized in device manufacturing. The course is addressed to a broad audience and is not intended as a research review, although it will be taught at a high level and in many areas will require familiarity with the subject matter.

Professor Albert J.P Theuwissen, Harvest Imaging, Belgium, is the instructor for this 4-days course in how to get familiar with Solid-State Imaging and relevant related topics. 

If "A picture tells more than a thousand words", then imaging was and still is the language of the future. In today's emerging markets of electronic equipment, imaging plays a very important role. The art of imaging and image processing is working its way into the automotive scenes, wearables, IoT, AR/VR and taking on environmental challenges. Solid-state image sensors are present in diverse professional application areas.

The major objective of this course is to make the participants familiar with solid-state imaging and the relevant related topics. It will give an in-depth view of the possibilities and limitations of the Image Capturing Technology of today and tomorrow.

Dr. Farzad Parsaie, founder of SAND Microsystems GmbH, Switzerland is teaching this 2-day course in Optical Sensors.

Optical Sensors have got a broad range of applications from automotive sensing for autonomous driving (AD) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to many other areas such as industrial sensing and scanning, gas sensing, 3D Imaging. Optical sensors are also used in robots, drones, medicine, aerospace and for optical communication systems. Many test and measurement systems include optical sensors to get higher accuracy.

This course deals with optical sensors that need to be very sensitive and/or high-speed. It starts from the physics of optical detectors and properties of light to the interaction between photons with the semiconductor material. It handles important items like noise, sensitivity and switching speed by analyzing major factors determining them. In the second part different topologies for electronic interfacing and signal conditioning to the Analog/Time to Digital Conversion (ADC/TDC) will be introduced and covered. Challenges and suitable Technologies for integration in Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) will be introduced to reduce size and cost.

Mr. Geoff Varrall, Executive Director of RTT Programmes, UK, is teaching this 5-day course.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the system and service aspects of low and high-count LEO, MEO and GSO satellite constellations but also studies the integration of 5G and 6G networks (non-terrestrial network integration including sub orbital and aerospace) and RF and optical integration.

In 2018, the average payload for a rocket was of the order of 5 metric tons. By 2023 that had increased to more than fifty tons (typically 100 to 150 tons) with visibility of payloads per launch scaling to 500 tons on top of a 5000 metric ton rocket. The construction of the International Space Station (450 tons) required 50 journeys into space. We now have visibility to launching a platform of similar size and weight on a single rocket.

This is transforming the economics of delivering RF and optical hardware into LEO, MEO and GSO orbit, in particular, enabling the LEO market to scale from 500 to 5000 satellites with the potential to increase to 50,000 or more over the next five years. LEO satellites are getting bigger (2000 rather than 200 kilogrammes) which means that they can support multiple payloads including RF and optical communications, RGB and multi/ hyper spectral imaging, RF trilateration and Synthetic Aperture Radar. The satellites by default collect large amounts of data directly useful to space science and research.

The technology economics of satellite are therefore undergoing profound transformation. In parallel telecommunication engineers and regulators need to understand the interference and competition policy dynamics of these new multi orbit constellations and to be up to date on how optical cross links and optical space to ground and ground to space links are changing the architecture, functionality and performance of space and terrestrial networks and potentially resolving emerging space based and space to earth and earth to space RF interference issues. If you are interested in any of the above, this course is for you.

Professor Albert J.P Theuwissen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and Harvest Imaging, Belgium is the instructor for this 3-days course in how to get familiar with Solid-State Imaging and relevant related topics. 

If "A picture tells more than a thousand words", then imaging was and still is the language of the future. In today's emerging markets of electronic equipment, imaging plays a very important role. The art of imaging and image processing is working its way into the automotive scenes, wearables, IoT, AR/VR and taking on environmental challenges. Solid-state image sensors are present in diverse professional application areas.

The major objective of this course is to make the participants familiar with solid-state imaging and the relevant related topics. It will give an in-depth view of the possibilities and limitations of the Image Capturing Technology of today and tomorrow.

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For best training experience, we recommend the adjoining 2-day course #020 Advanced Course on Image Sensor Technology, also taught by Professor Theuwissen.
If booking both these courses in the same week, the total course fee will be EUR 3540 pp (Early Bird) or EUR 3935 pp (Regular fee) 

Dr. Sorin Fericean is the instructor for this 5-day course on how to get familiar and experienced with the extremely large types and versions of sensors for industrial applications.

He is a new instructor of the CEI-Europe and is a professional expert on the subject of design and manufacturing of electronic sensors and ASIC designing, testing, and release for such products. After more than 25 years with one of the 10 global players on the field of industrial sensors – Balluff GmbH Company, Germany – he is currently as a freelancer in his consulting office FerSensC / Leonberg, Germany, carrying out sensor design projects and consulting.