Horizon 2020 • SMM • Materials

MMAMA — Microwave Microscopy for Advanced & Efficient Materials Analysis and Production

Development of Scanning Microwave Microscopy (SMM) with high spatial electrical resolution and wide bandwidth, new calibration routines, extended measurement conditions, and a shared open modelling platform.

Program: H2020 NMBP-07-2017 Grant: No. 761036 Duration: Nov 1, 2017 – Oct 31, 2020

CORDIS record Project website

CoordinatorIEMN, University of Lille / CNRS (France)

PartnersMETAS (CH), QWED (PL), Materia Nova (BE), ETH Zürich (CH), Keysight Technologies GmbH (AT), Dracula Technologies (FR), Adamant Composites (GR), Ayming (FR).

ObjectivesAdvance SMM hardware & SOPs; establish 3D EM models/modules and open tools; validate with reference materials; demonstrate multi-scale imaging in off-line and pilot in-line scenarios; enable standardization and open access.

Source: CORDIS fact sheet & official flyer.

Description & Scope

MMAMA created a GHz measurement & modelling platform linking nanoscale SMM with dielectric resonators and physics-based EM solvers. The platform supports traceable, faster, and more flexible characterization of advanced materials for coatings, photovoltaics, and semiconductor circuits.

Open Platform — Tools

Project Flyers

Events & Workshops

Oct 28, 2020 — Online MMAMA Online Workshop: Electrical Material Parameters & Impedance Measurement Techniques — programme (PDF)
Oct 5–7, 2020 — Warsaw, PL MMAMA Workshop @ Microwave & Radar Week (MIKON 2020)
2019–2020 Project-end workshop & dissemination activities (Valence, EuMW/IMS side events).

Articles, Presentations & Posters

Open platform GUI for comparative FDTD and FEM computation of material microwave measurement scenarios — CEFC 2020 (accepted), Pisa.
Open access CAD, EM tools, and examples for teaching microwaves — MIKON 2020 (accepted), Warsaw.
MMAMA-Modeller: concept & examples — project Open Platform page.
MMAMA brochure (IMS 2018); MMAMA brochure (IMS 2019).
H2020: Microwave Microscopy for Advanced and Efficient Materials Analysis and Production — MIKON 2020 Workshop overview (PDF).
D7.8 Technical Workshop Summary (programme, talks, abstracts).
Accurate analysis of whispering gallery modes in dielectric resonators with BoR FDTD — MIKON 2018.
Flexible Electromagnetic Modeling of SMM Setups with FE and FDTD Methods — NEMO 2019, Cambridge.
Time‑domain coupled full Maxwell & drift‑diffusion solver for SMM of semiconductors — PIERS 2019 (Zenodo record).
Overview of Scanning Microwave Microscopy — tutorial slides (Keysight/MMAMA).
Electromagnetic & semiconductor modeling of SMM setups — submitted to IEEE JMMCT (2020).
Continuum modelling with QuickWave software — user cases of MMAMA & NanoBat — eSSENCE‑EMMC Meeting, Uppsala (2020).

Legacy & related: project-end page, online workshop page, and Innovation Radar entry.

Project-end page (QWED) Online workshop page (QWED) Innovation Radar: SPDR + FieldFox kit

Acknowledgment

This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 761036.

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