The HOMEMADE project falls directly into the scope of the HORIZON EUROPE policy: "To reduce the dependence on
critical technologies and capabilities from outside Europe for future space applications". We target a fast growing market
which integrates communication satellites in 5G networks that will reduce digital divide by meeting latent demand
for digital broadband. The project aims at developing a truly new Surface Acoustic Wave(SAW) filter technology not
yet available to space industry. This innovation based on Piezo-On-Insulator (POI) wafers already produced for Smart
phone industry is not accessible to space industry due to market size and its own high reliability specificities. Compared
to existing technologies, POI-based SAW filters enable high integration, temperature stability, thermal management,
low insertion loss and high rejection with various bandwidths in L- and S-band frequencies, replacing leaky waves on
usual piezoelectric substrates by real guided waves on Silicon-based wafers. This project will deliver, as first pillar,
POI-based SAW filters for space industry up to a TRL7 addressing all volume demands, in line with Geosynchronous
Earth Orbiting satellites to Low Earth Orbiting satellite constellations. The supply chain for key items such as POI wafer
supply, to front-end and back-end process is based in Europe. The high demand of innovation yielding reduced mass
in satellites especially for new growing markets within a limited access time, has pushed to develop in HOMEMADE
a second pillar that will deliver disruptive POI based SAW filters able to compete with bulky mechanical filters. The
value chain includes European supplier of specific acoustic passive SOITEC-Besançon as part of the SOITEC group with space
integrator and technology supplier TAS, UCL and SME INC both world leaders in the field POI based material and
device optimization, and finally ALT European centre of excellence for space reliability of high complexity active and
passive components.