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Wallonia ELectronics & COmmunications MEasurements (WELCOME)

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Picture credits : Yvan Flamant

Technical and scientific expertise

  • Service and expertise in electromagnetic characterisation of materials, devices, sensors, circuits, systems
  • Access to characterisation infrastructure/equipment rental with training (if required)
  • Measurement campaign performed by UCLouvain staff/PCB assembly and prototyping
  • Technical advice and consultancy, training of industry R&D engineers

Main equipment

  • Anechoic chamber: 0.4 - 40 GHz and 60-90 GHz
  • Vector network analysers (VNA), including a wide band (900 Hz-130 GHz)
  • Low frequency noise measurement bench (1/f and RTN)
  • 300mm probe station
  • Cryogenic measurement bench (4 Kelvin)
  • 16 GHz real-time oscilloscope
  • RAMAN spectrometer
  • Semiconductor analysers

Find all the equipment on the WELCOME platform in a catalogue and via a virtual tour.

Applications

Multiparametric characterisation of:

  • materials
  • components
  • sensors
  • antennas
  • circuits
  • electronic and communication systems

Services available to

  • UCLouvain students and researchers
  • Non-UCLouvain parties

Testimonial

May 2022 - M. Mostafa Emam, Incize founder and CEO, talks in a video about his collaboration with the WELCOME platform.

  • 5 September 2024
    Booking and managing equipment: a new tool for platforms
    At the initiative of the Science and Technology Sector (SST), a new tool for managing and booking technology platform equipment has been developed with the Outsystems application.
  • 19 July 2023
    Minister Willy Borsus and the Deputies of the Province of Walloon Brabant visit the WINFAB and WELCOME platforms
    The Minister and the Provincial Deputies were able to assess the first effects of the Plan de relance, as well as those of the Province's impetus credits for platforms allocated as part of the BW2030 strategy.