III-V HETEROSTRUCTURE MICROELECTRONICS FOR ELECTRONIC AND OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS IN EUROPE

Communication and Information are key words in todays society. Increas ing amounts of data to transfer and process and consumer's mobility ar e other characteristics of the current evolution. To answer this deman d, more efficient technologies are required, allowing higher bit rates and flexible access. Si and III-V microelectronic technologies are de veloping together in a complementary way to face this evolution. In th is article, various application areas developing in Europe and requiri ng high-speed (Chit s(-1)) or microwave transmission and/or processing are reviewed. A few examples of devices and circuits, designed in our laboratory for some of them, are also given as illustrations. (C) 199 7 Elsevier Science Ltd.