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QUB High Frequency Electronics Research Group. ECIT - SPACE TECHNOLOGY. Professor Vincent Fusco FREng, IEEE Fellow Director of High Frequency Electronics Laboratories. Overview September 2004. The High Frequency Electronics Research Cluster - Mission Statement: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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OverviewSeptember 2004
ECIT - SPACE TECHNOLOGY
QUB High Frequency Electronics Research Group
Professor Vincent FuscoFREng, IEEE FellowDirector of High FrequencyElectronics Laboratories
• The High Frequency Electronics Research Cluster
- Mission Statement: To develop state of the art microwave through sub-millimetre wave technology and
techniques for application in electronic systems
Largest HFE group in the UK
- Personnel Academics 6 ft, 1 pt world class researcher, 1 visiting professor10 Post Doc, including 3 Marie Curie Fellows, 1 RAEng/EPSRC Fellow2 Senior Engineers17 PhDs1 Technician5 visiting graduate researchers
Software•ADS•HFSS•CST•OEM FSS and nonlinear analysis•NEC
Main Facilities
Primary Hardware• 10m Far Field Antenna Anechoic Chamber• 2mx2m NSI near Field Chamber • Reverberation Chamber• On-Wafer CW Probing to 110 GHz• Free Space quasi-optical measurement to 850GHz• Wire Bonding and hybrid fabrication
MEMS Fabrication and Modelling
NovelMEMS
FSS and Artificial EM Media
Advanced linear /non-linearEM
simulation
Transceiver/ Antenna Technology
Microwave MM/SUB MM-Wave Systems
Tight integration with UK Space catapult centreand CEOI
Related HF/Industry Collaborations
Space Related Academic Collaborators
Recent World Space Firsts Include:
• 2012 Worlds first mobile Sat Comm terminal based on self steering technology
• 2010 World lowest insertion loss sub-mm wave FSS
• 2008 Theory and experimental mapping of distributed PIM
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Distance from the line input x (cm)
Simulation
Near-field probing
Advanced PIMs and multipactor Characterisation and Analysis
Liquid Crystal Characterisation
Biasingconnection
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Material EM Characterisation
Cu trace
Fibre bundles
PTFE ~ 50µm
GRANT TITLE
EPSRC EP/J013897/1 ´THE FLISH´ Flat Satellite Dish
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ‘Innovative reconfigurable antenna systems based on Liquid Crystals - contract Number A0/1 – 6419/10/NL/JD
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ‘quasi-optical filter for Post EPS mission’ - contract Number A0/1 – 6419/10/NL/JD
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ‘Innovative low –loss FSS structures’- contract Number A0/1-4850/05/NL/JA
CEOI/NERC/ASTRIUM PhD Studentship ’Electronically scanned Rotman Lens with Liquid Crystal phase shifters- contract NE/H527740
CEOI ‘Frequency Selective Surface Filter Technology for Submillimetre Wave and THz Radiometers’ – seedcorn contract
InvestNI ‘Advanced Wavefront Control Electronic Phase Technology’ POC 135
ASTRIUM FEASIBILITY STUDY U40/4500132681-1
ESA - SELF FOCUSING RETRO-REFLECTIVE Tx/R/x ANTENNAS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL APPLICATIONS
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) CONTRACT NO 22938/09/NL/JA
Global Invacom PhD Studentship Satellite Multiband Feed structures
GRANT TITLE
ROYAL SOCIETY INTER JOINT PROJECT - NOVEL NANOSTRUCTURE MATERIALS
EP/C00065X/01 “Mechanisms of Passive Intermodulation and means for mitigation on printed and layered transmission lines ”
RAEng/EPSRC “Distributed Passive Intermodulation Phenomena in Microwave Circuits”
DSTL UK/FR PHD “Nonreciprocal metamaterials for high impedance surfaces and conformal antenna applications
ECONAM-FP7-NMP-2007 “Electromagnetic Characterization of Nanostructured Materials”
DEPT OF THE NAVY (US) Office Of Naval Research Global “METAMATERIALS”
Example Space Relevant Grants
Advanced Steered and Self Steered Antenna Design
Millimetre Wave MMIC Technology SiGe/GaAS
MMIC DEVICES FORCommunications/Telemetry/Radar/Imaging
Broadband polarisers (C-band to submm-waves)
Ultra-thin Artificial Magnetic Surface Radar Absorber
Flat optics
Tunable NLC FSS/PolarisersInterwoven spiral arrays /p~40
Voltage controlled surface
Metamaterials and metasurfaces for conformal, tunable, and frequency and polarisation sensitive devices
Surface integrated waveguide technology
Filter technology
Multipaction-free VHF/UHF helical resonator filters
E-plane and ridge waveguide low/band-pass filters
Facility Tour
• Demonstrations
- Retrodirective Self Steering Antenna - Reconfigurable Liquid Crystal Based Antenna - Frequency Selective and Anisotropic Surfaces (FSS)
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