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Hello and welcome.

I'm Peter Balland from Technicont and today we revisit the Serena project.

This is a European project which deals with developing new technologies in the antenna domain.

And this has to be done because as our mobile data needs grow, the ways that the signals are transmitted has to keep up.

Project partners are using gallium nitride in conjunction with silicone to help enable a new kind of beam steering antenna.

This means actually pointing an antenna signal exactly where it's needed and when it's needed, with no moving parts.

Serena aims to develop an architecture which is small and cost efficient with robust thermal management schemes.

Today we welcome Cedric Clareche. He joins us remotely from just outside Paris, France, from the offices of

Omec. They're a developer of technology in the area of chip design and manufacturing.

Omec is a partner in Serena.

Welcome, Cedric, and thanks for agreeing to talk with us today.

Yeah, thank you very much.

We'll talk about some of the finer points of Serena later in the program, but let's start

off with a little project introduction.

What can you tell us?

Well, Serena is an H-2020 project that started the first January 2018.

We've been associated a budget of a 4 million euro, dispatched through

nine partners. So we've got partners from Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden. So truly

an international project as far as Europe goes. Sure the European project, yeah.

And Serena, if you, if anyone spent some time looking at the website for Serena, they would

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