Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina (IMBIH),

Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina (IMBIH) is responsible for establishing the metrology system, developing and maintaining National standards at the highest level, as well as realizing and disseminating base SI units in Bosnia and Herzegovina and ensuring the traceability of the national standards to the SI units. IMBIH provides traceable calibration services to the industry, calibration laboratories and other interested parties, collaborates in research and development metrology projects with academia and research institutions at the national or international level, organizing metrology knowledge transfer trainings and workshops etc.

The following laboratories exist within the Institute: laboratory for electrical quantities and time and frequency, laboratory for mass, laboratory for chemistry, laboratory for pressure and vacuum, laboratory for volume, the laboratory for density and viscosity, the laboratory for temperature and humidity, secondary standard dosimetry laboratory etc.

IMBIH has mostly published calibration and measurement capabilities (CMCs) in the KCDB of the International Bureau of Measures and Weights (BIPM) for the mentioned specific metrology fields. IMBIH participated in various joint research projects in the frame of European Metrology Research and Innovation Programme (EMRP/EMPIR) within specified fields: industry, energy, environment, health, Research Potential etc. These projects have an increased focus within EMPIR on innovation activities to target the needs of industry and accelerate the uptake of research outputs.

  • IMBIH will use environmental chamber to electrically test the performance of PCBs before and after they have been subjected to a range of different environmental tests. For measuring S-parameters, IMBIH will use Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). VNA will be borrowed from the project consortium. A statistical analysis will be made in order to establish figures of merit for both age testing and in operando testing.
  • The performance of the PCBs will be statistically analysed so that general observations can be made about performance under realistic operating conditions. This analysis will define post-processing methods that will accurately extract the information of interest in a time-efficient manner.

IMBIH will bring expertise in environmental age testing of PCBs and environmental in-operando testing of PCBs under different conditions such as thermal cycling, thermal shock, and iso-thermal aging, low and high relative humidity (RH), and, at various levels of controlled condensation using the environmental chamber. IMBIH will use an environmental chamber to electrically test the performance of PCBs before and after they have been subjected to a range of different environmental tests. For measuring S-parameters, IMBIH will use Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). VNA will be borrowed from the project consortium. Statistical analysis will be made in order to establish figures of merit for both age testing and in-operando testing. The performance of the PCBs will be statistically analyzed so that general observations can be made about performance under realistic operating conditions. This analysis will define post-processing methods that will accurately extract the information of interest in a time-efficient manner

The IMBIH’s experts contributing to this project will be Mr Osman Šibonjić and Mr Sani Šarčević.

Osman Šibonjić is joined IMBIH in 2007. He received M.Sc.E.E.in University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department for Control and Electronics in 2010. He is working in IMBIH’s Time and Frequency laboratory and his main focus of interest is national time scale generation, dissemination of time and frequency, calibrations, uncertainty calculations, etc. He is author or co-author in several peer-reviewed national and international publications. He is a representative of IMBIH in Technical Committee for Time and Frequency (TC-TF) in EURAMET. He is involved in future development of HF metrology area in IMBIH.

Sani Šarčević works in the Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 as permanent staff of Time and Frequency lab. He graduated on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo, Department for telecommunication. The area of his responsibility includes national time scale generation and system maintenance, time scale steering and comparison, ensuring traceability and dissemination, calibrations and uncertainty calculations. He participated in several international metrology R&D projects, and as coauthor in a couple of international peer-reviewed publications. He is involved in future development of HF metrology area in IMBIH.