Acquisition of Instrumentation for High Speed and MillimeterWave Measurements

小行星9413774 密西西比大学电气工程系建议提供资金，以提高1988年在国家科学基金会的帮助下获得的Hewlett Packard HP 8510 B网络分析仪系统的能力。 拟议的系统改进包括基本网络分析仪升级、合成信号源和相关毫米波设备、TDR/数字示波器和材料测量仪器。 升级的功能和新设备提供了更快的测量仪器的处理。 升级后的数据，这是需要进一步提高质量和能力的研究和研究培训电磁皮秒时间测量和毫米频率测量高达100 GHz。 这种仪器是需要拟议和正在进行的活动，涉及高速和毫米波电路。 该网络分析仪系统和TDR/数字示波器将用于与窄带器件测量和确定材料电性能的测量相关的三个主要研究项目。 这些类型测量的制造商规范要求合成源最小化由“FMing”或“jitter”引起的测量误差。 这些项目旨在开发1）毫米波频率的新型介质天线， 2)研究降低高速集成电路和微波/毫米波集成电路的串扰; 3）用于测量频率高达100 GHz的先进材料特性。 根据过去对当前NSF和USAF赠款的研究，结果表明，继续研究将导致一类新的低损耗，高效率，介质天线，可用于微波和毫米波频率，这在未来的通信和信息系统中非常重要。 此外，最近陆军研究办公室拨款的初步结果表明，所提出的在耦合传输线之间的区域的沉积或掺杂的方法可以减少6到12分贝之间的互连上的耦合或串扰。 此外，磁性分离系统和美国塑料理事会正在考虑赞助研究使用由密西西比大学提出的方法，用于调查废物分类材料和使用微波/毫米波频率检测液体和固体中的杂质。 还在继续研究使用高频测量技术表征先进复合材料和聚合物的电性能，这种技术适用于现代商业和军事产品的制造。 目前，HP 8510 B网络分析仪每年为10名教师、20名研究生和30名高年级本科生提供服务。 学生将被要求参加微波/毫米波测量的相关课程，以教育具有深入测量经验的新一代工程师。 这些课程的培训将涵盖微波/毫米波设计、高频微波/毫米波测量、天线和散射测量以及材料特性测量。 增强型HP 8510 C及其相关仪器将开启我们电磁研究小组高性能网络分析仪和高速测量的新十年，因为它是微波/毫米波测量卓越的新标准。 我们的HP 8510 B网络分析仪增加的仪器将在性能，便利性和测量质量方面提供显着提高，学生和教师在电磁学的拟议和未来的研究项目。 这一点，我们的电磁组的研究质量将大大提高和扩大，增加了这种升级的仪器，应服务于我们的测量需求过去的未来十年。

9413774 Smith The Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi proposes the award of funds to enhance the capability of a Hewlett Packard HP8510B Network Analyzer System that was acquired in 1988 with assistance form the National Science Foundation. The proposed system improvement includes a basic network analyzer upgrade, synthesized signal sources and related millimeter wave equipment, a TDR/digital oscilloscope, and materials measurement instrumentation. The upgraded features and new equipment provide for much faster processing of measured instrumentation. The upgraded data, which are needed to further enhance the quality and capability of research and research training in elctromagnetics for picosecond time measurements and millimeter frequency measurement up to 100 Ghz. This instrumentation is required for proposed and ongoing activities involving high speed and millimeter wave circuits. This network analyzer system and TDR/digital oscilloscope are to be used for three major research projects that are related to the measurement of narrow band devices and the measurement to determine electrical properties of materials. The manufacturer's specification for these type measurements require synthesized sources to minimize measurement errors caused by "FMing" or "jitter". These projects are directed towards development 1) of a new class of dielectric antennas at millimeter wave frequencies, 2) of an investigation of crosstalk reduction on high speed ICs and microwave/millimeter wave ICs, and 3) for the measurement of advanced materials properties for frequencies up to 100 GHz. Based on past research on current NSF and USAF grants, results indicate that continued research will lead to a new class of low-loss, high-efficiency, dielectric antennas that are usable at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies, which are of importance in future communications and information systems. Also, preliminary result on a recent Army Research office grant indicate tha t the proposed method of deposition or doping of region between coupled transmission lines can reduce coupling or crosstalk on interconnections between 6 to 12 db. In addition, Magnetic Separation 'Systems and the American Plastics Council is considering sponsorship of research on the use of methods proposed by The University of Mississippi for the investigation of materials for waste sorting and for sensing for impurities in liquid and solids using microwave/millimeter wave frequencies. Research is also continuing on the characterization of the electrical properties of advanced composite materials and polymers using high frequency measurement as applied to modern day usage for manufacturing of commercial and military products. Currently, the HP8510B network analyzer is used to serve a group consisting of 10 faculty members, 20- graduate students, and 30 senior undergraduate students per year. Students will be required to take relevant courses on microwave/millimeter wave measurement s to educate a new generation of engineers having in-depth measurement experiences. Training in these courses will cover microwave/millimeter wave design, HF microwave/millimeter wave measurement, antennas and scattering measurements , and material properties measurements. The enhanced HP8510C and its associated instrumentation will open a new decade of high performance network analyzer and high speed measurements by our electromagnetic research group, because it is the new standard for excellence in microwave/millimeter wave measurements. This added instrumentation for our HP8510B network analyzer will provide significant increases in performance, convenience , and quality of measurements made by students and faculty in the proposed and future research projects in electromagnetics. This, the quality of research of our electromagnetic group will be will be substantially improved and broadened with the addition of this upgraded instrumentation that should serve our measurement needs past the next decade.