Robert Aigner, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Technology Platforms R&D
Qorvo, Inc.

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“The Unsung Heroes of 5G: Acoustic RF-Filters”

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Biography: Robert Aigner received his Ph.D. degree from Munich Technical University in 1996 for research on micromachined chemical sensors. He was a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley Sensors and Actuators Center BSAC in 1996 where he worked on inertial sensors. He joined the MEMS research group at Siemens in 1997. Between 1999 and 2005 he was director of a MEMS R&D department at Infineon Technologies and worked on a variety of MEMS devices including Automotive MEMS and RF-MEMS. The team he built and directed became pioneers in commercializing Bulk-Acoustic-Wave (BAW) technology. In 2006 he joined TriQuint in Apopka/Florida to establish BAW. TriQuint merged into Qorvo in early 2015. As head of R&D for acoustic filter technology at Qorvo his focus was on driving technology innovations in BAW and SAW. Robert Aigner now is a Senior Fellow engaging in the exploration of future technologies. He has served in several European committees for Microsystem Technology and was nominated as MEMS-expert for European Commission. He participated in the technical program committee of IEEE UFFC and serves as reviewer for JMEMS, Applied Physics Letters and other journals. He has more than 120 patents in the field of BAW, SAW and MEMS granted on his name. He has published more than 130 articles and contributed chapters to four textbooks.