SYnthesizing 3D METAmaterials for RF, microwave and THz applications (SYMETA)

合成用于射频、微波和太赫兹应用的 3D 元材料 (SYMETA)

• 批准号: EP/N010493/1
• 负责人: William Whittow
• 金额: $ 511.31万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN010493%2F1
• 关键词: SYnthesizing; 3D; METAmaterials; RF; microwave

The outcomes of SYnthesizing 3D METAmaterials for RF, Microwave and THz Applications (SYMETA) have the potential for significant academic, economic, societal and environmental impacts. To achieve these outcomes SYMETA will bring together leading expertise in engineering, physics and materials science from five institutions: Loughborough University, University of Exeter, University of Sheffield, Oxford University and Queen Mary, University of London together with twelve industrial partners from a range of sectors including defence and electronics manufacture. The Grand Challenge will be led by Loughborough University. SYMETA responds to Grand Challenge 3: Engineering across length scales, from atoms to applications. This Challenge area requires researchers to consider design across the scales for both products and systems looking at new approaches to bridge the meso-scale (intermediate-scale) gap and taking into consideration that many engineering systems are dynamic. SYMETA's grand vision is to deliver a palette of novel, multi-functional 3D metamaterials (synthetic composite materials with structure that exhibit properties not usually found in natural materials) using emerging additive manufacturing (AM), with the potential to support a single 'design-build' process. Our goal, to compile a palette of meta-atoms (the basic building blocks of metamaterials) and then to organise these inclusions systematically to give the desired bulk properties, opens up a plethora of new structures. This will not only improve existing applications but inspire new applications by breaking down barriers to innovation.Introducing these novel structures into the complex world of electronic design will offer a radical new way of designing and manufacturing electronics. The metamaterials will be developed to give end-users the electromagnetic responses they require, for a wide range of communication, electronics, energy and defence applications. The meta-atoms comprising the metamaterial will be micro-scale, i.e. small in comparison to the wavelength of operation, and fabricated from a range of new and existing raw materials, including the incorporation of dielectric, metallic and magnetic components. They will facilitate complex multi-component systems, incorporating elements such as inductors, capacitors, and resistors through to transmission lines and matching circuits and filters, to be created in hybrid and multi system AM - reducing waste, cost and timescales.The SYMETA project has three overarching research goals:1. To synthesize a palette of 3D meta-atoms using suitable materials.2. To construct designer-specified 3D arrangements of meta-atoms using process efficient AM to create metamaterials3. To build demonstrators for applications at RF, microwave and THz frequency ranges.Supplementing these research goals SYMETA will:4. Build a cohort of new knowledge by bringing together multi-disciplinary expertise from a number of institutions and companies and share this knowledge across academic networks. 5. Engage industry, sector relevant professional bodies and the wider academic community to ensure that the potential of this research is recognised and realised. To translate and condense the exciting science to key messages and outcomes and to communicate these to the public to boost the public understanding of science. The likely impacts of the SYMETA are manifold. It has the potential to transform manufacturing processes and to significantly shorten the time it takes for innovative new technologies to reach consumers whilst reducing waste and removing some of the more harmful processes associated with the manufacturing such as the use of harsh chemicals. This is transformation science, which could place the UK at the leading edge of engineering innovation stimulating economic growth and opening up huge potential for innovation in many sectors from consumer electronics through to defence and space.

合成用于射频、微波和太赫兹应用的3D超材料（SYMETA）的成果具有重大的学术、经济、社会和环境影响的潜力。为了实现这些成果，SYMETA将汇集来自拉夫堡大学、埃克塞特大学、谢菲尔德大学、牛津大学和伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院等五所大学在工程、物理和材料科学方面的领先专业知识，以及来自国防和电子制造等一系列领域的12个工业合作伙伴。大挑战将由拉夫堡大学领导。SYMETA响应大挑战3：跨越长度尺度的工程，从原子到应用。这一挑战领域要求研究人员考虑产品和系统的跨尺度设计，寻找弥合中尺度差距的新方法，并考虑到许多工程系统是动态的。SYMETA的宏伟愿景是利用新兴的增材制造（AM）技术，提供一系列新颖、多功能的3D超材料（具有天然材料中不常见的结构特性的合成复合材料），并有可能支持单一的“设计-建造”过程。我们的目标是编译一个元原子的调色板（超材料的基本构建块），然后系统地组织这些包含物，以获得所需的体积特性，从而开辟了大量的新结构。这不仅可以改善现有的应用程序，还可以通过打破创新的障碍来激发新的应用程序。将这些新颖的结构引入复杂的电子设计世界，将为设计和制造电子产品提供一种全新的方式。这些超材料将被开发出来，为最终用户提供他们所需的电磁响应，用于广泛的通信、电子、能源和国防应用。构成超材料的元原子将是微尺度的，即与操作波长相比较小，并由一系列新的和现有的原材料制成，包括介电，金属和磁性成分的结合。它们将促进复杂的多组件系统，将电感、电容器和电阻等元件与传输线、匹配电路和滤波器结合起来，在混合和多系统AM中创建，从而减少浪费、成本和时间尺度。SYMETA项目有三个主要的研究目标：1。使用合适的材料合成三维元原子调色板。利用高效增材制造制造超材料，构建设计师指定的元原子三维排列。在射频，微波和太赫兹频率范围内建立应用演示。为了补充这些研究目标，SYMETA将：通过汇集来自多个机构和公司的多学科专业知识，建立新知识队列，并在学术网络中分享这些知识。5. 与行业、相关专业团体和更广泛的学术团体合作，确保这项研究的潜力得到认可和实现。将激动人心的科学转化为关键信息和成果，并将其传达给公众，以促进公众对科学的理解。SYMETA可能产生的影响是多方面的。它有可能改变制造过程，并大大缩短创新新技术到达消费者所需的时间，同时减少浪费并消除与制造相关的一些更有害的过程，例如使用刺激性化学品。这是一门转型科学，它可以使英国在工程创新方面处于领先地位，刺激经济增长，并在从消费电子到国防和太空的许多领域开辟巨大的创新潜力。

项目成果

Composite materials for microwave devices using additive manufacturing

使用增材制造的微波设备复合材料

• DOI: 10.1049/el.2016.0078
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Electronics Letters
• 影响因子: 1.1
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Reduction of Orbital Angular Momentum Radio Beam Divergence Using a 3D Printed Planar Graded Index Lenses

• DOI: 10.1049/cp.2018.0442
• 发表时间: 2018
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3D-printed lens antenna

3D打印透镜天线

• DOI: 10.1109/apusncursinrsm.2017.8072046
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Arya R

3D-printed millimeter wave lens antenna

3D打印毫米波透镜天线

• DOI: 10.1109/gsmm.2017.7970303
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Arya R

Mimicking glide symmetry dispersion with coupled slot metasurfaces

• DOI: 10.1063/1.5000222
• 发表时间: 2017-09-18
• 期刊: APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Camacho, Miguel;Mitchell-Thomas, Rhiannon C.;Quevedo-Teruel, Oscar
• 通讯作者: Quevedo-Teruel, Oscar