Miniaturised active radio frequency metamaterial circuits - MACRAME

DFG-RFBR联合研究计划Macrame的目的是发明、研究和建立传统方法所缺乏的射频电路和系统的新设计指南。该项目致力于利用有源正(常规)和负(非福斯特)电容和电感元件对一维超材料进行开创性的概念、理论和实验研究。基于这种方法，将设计和实现由分布式放大和选择元件组成的新型小型多频带或超宽带滤波器和振荡器。由于它们的活动特性，这些设备还可以被设计成电子可调或可重新配置的。实现这些特性填补了当前电路技术中的一个空白。应用是多方面的，涉及未来无线系统在移动和卫星通信、生物医学诊断、传感、自动化和安全问题上的应用。MACRAME符合德意志联邦共和国和俄罗斯联邦政府之间的研究合作。有了Macrame，伊尔梅瑙和圣彼得堡的两所大学希望在一致进行的双边资助研究的基础上，加强富有成效的合作，塔洛尔大学将重点放在相互补充的专业领域，部分由ETU的俄德工程学院负责。我们期望通过科学家的交流、知识和思想的传播产生显著的协同效应，从而提高出版物的质量和国际声誉。

The aim of the joint DFG-RFBR research proposal MACRAME is to invent, investigate, and establish new design guidelines for RF circuits and systems that are lacking in conventional approaches. The project isdevoted to pioneering conceptual, theoretical, and experimental research on one-dimensional metamaterials employing active positive (conventional) as well as negative (non-Foster) capacitive and inductive constituents.Based on such an approach, novel miniature multi-band or ultra-wideband filters and oscillators composed of distributed amplifying and selective elements shall be devised and implemented. Due to their active nature, these devices can in addition be designed electronically tuneable orreconfigurable. Achieving these properties fills a gap in present circuit technology. Applications are manifold and concern future wireless system applications in mobile and satellite communications, biomedical diagnostics, sensing, automation, and security issues.MACRAME complies with the research cooperation between the Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Russian Federation. With MACRAME, the two universities in Ilmenau and St. Petersburg wish to intensify their fruitful co-operation on the basis of a coherently conducted bilaterally funded research, taylored to the complementary areas of expertise and partly covered by the Russian-German Engineering Faculty at ETU. We expect significant synergy effects through exchange of scientists, dissemination of knowledge and ideas, leading to enhanced quality publications and international reputation.