RFID based on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices (RFID Smart Labels USA 2007)

Thoronics is a "design house" for SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) devices. The design capabilities include: custom design of SAW based RFID Tags, SAW bandpass filters, delay lines and resonators. For the design task, Thoronics has developed their own in-house SAW design tools used for product development. As a company we provide consulting, carry out feasibility studies, do research and project management and as a main activity take on professional SAW product development for the marketplace. We offer support in manufacturing of SAW devices and have established contacts with various SAW wafer fabs. Together with our partners we can provide a complete custom designed SAW-RFID tag system including a reader. The innovative design approach requires a close collaboration with customers and end-users. Thoronics (www.thoronics.com) is currently going through a major expansion of their activity and therefore continuously looks for new partners.

Thor Thorvaldsson is the founder and owner of Thoronics Ltd. in Switzerland, a company which develops SAW devices for customers worldwide and offers design services, consulting and manufacturing of SAW devices. Thor has more than 25 years of experience in the development of SAW devices. He held positions at the companies Ascom, Advanced SAW Products, Temex-SAW and was the R&D manager for SAW at Micronas. His area of concentration is the development of software tools for the design of SAW devices. Currently the focus is on the development of SAW RFID tags and systems. Thor received the Doctor of Technical Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland where he was the Group Leader of the SAW group. The activities at ETH lead to the first commercial SAW activities in Switzerland in 1992. Thor was a Visiting Scientist at Siemens SAW-Group (now Epcos AG), Münich in Germany, Visiting Scholar at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and a Post-doctorate Research Associate at the University of Central Florida, USA. His 14 years industrial experience includes SAW product development, managing of design teams and business