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THz Antenna Fabrication and Measurement Facilities (TERRA)

太赫兹天线制造和测量设施 (TERRA)

基本信息

批准号：
EP/S010009/1
负责人：
Y Hao
金额：
$ 157.08万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS010009%2F1
关键词：
THz Antenna Fabrication Measurement Facilities

项目摘要

This Strategic Equipment proposal aims to facilitate an integrated "digital" manufacturing and characterisation capability in the UK for a wide range of THz antennas and passive components, which, in turn, will accelerate the impact of our THz research and serve both S&T communities in the UK to align with the EPSRC priority area of "21st Century Products", especially for Metamaterials and Manufacturing with reduced materials pallet. We aim to achieve this by combining a state of the art millimetrewave spherical near-field antenna measurement system with a state-of-the-art sub-micron resolution 3D printer to provide rapid prototype fabrication and test of antennas and devices up to 500GHz. This will be installed within the already extensively equipped Antenna Measurement Laboratory (AML) at Queen Mary and will form the Thz antEnna fabRication and measuRement fAcilities (TERRA).TERRA consists of three key items of equipment, firstly the NSI compact antenna multi-test system operating at frequencies up to 500 GHz, will be the first of its kind in the UK for THz antenna measurement and will serve to enhance our world-leading AML test facilities at RF/Microwave and THz frequencies. Secondly a pair of 140-220 GHz THz transmit/receive modules, which will fill the frequency band gap in our current Keysight vector network analyser (value £420k), giving us overall test capability from 10 MHz to 325 GHz (extendable to 500 GHz in the future). The final key component of TERRA is the Nanoscribe 3D laser lithography system that provides a fast and powerful platform for micro and nanofabrication, at the highest resolution commercially available with a writing area of up to (100 x 100)mm and 3mm height.For future THz antennas, agile beam steering will be a frequent requirement (not least for 5G millimetrewave antennas) and the requested NSI system is the ONLY system that can characterise such antennas at the prototype stage prior to the expensive and time consuming packaging process. Such capability can rapidly reduce development time and cost-to-market of new millimetrewave antennas and so will be of major impact to UK universities and industry.TERRA will be housed in the AML and the existing full-time Manager will administrate usage, supervision, advertising, future training and maintenance. To extract the maximum capability from TERRA, we will create a new full-time TSO (technical support officer Grade 4) post (supervised by the AML Manager). To maximise the external use of TERRA, we will register TERRA equipments as Small Research Facility (SRF) allowing academic users to incorporate hire costs into new research proposals. For industrial access, the priority will be given to our EPSRC collaborative partners, mainly QinetiQ, Catapult, DSTL, NPL, Leonardo, ESA, Huawei and Airbus as well as the SME's we support. QinetiQ have already offered an iCASE PhD studentship to TERRA to help fully exploit the capability offered by the facility. It is envisaged that by the end of year 2 there will be a (50/30/20)% split between QMUL, external RCUK funded academic partners and industry respectively.The emergence of new technologies such as 5G and future generations of wireless communications means that UK industry needs facilities such as TERRA to support this important sector of the UK economy, the application of radio alone contributes in excess of £13 billion to UK GDP and supports more than 400,000 jobs. The changing nature of the science and technology base, e.g. materials by design, additive manufacturing and industry 4.0 etc. means that facilities accessible to UK industry and academia, such as TERRA, will provide vital training to a new generation of engineers needed to be skilled in the technologies of tomorrow, not the past. UK Industry will need these new skills, both to survive and increase productivity post-Brexit.

该战略设备提案旨在促进英国广泛的THz天线和无源元件的集成“数字”制造和表征能力，这反过来将加速我们的THz研究的影响，并为英国的两个科技界提供服务，以符合EPSRC的“21世纪世纪产品”优先领域，特别是超材料和制造业减少材料托盘。我们的目标是通过将最先进的毫米波球形近场天线测量系统与最先进的亚微米分辨率3D打印机相结合来实现这一目标，以提供高达500 GHz的天线和设备的快速原型制造和测试。这将安装在已经装备齐全的玛丽皇后区天线测量实验室（AML）内，并将形成太赫兹天线制造和测量设施（TERRA）。TERRA由三个关键设备组成，首先是在高达500 GHz频率下工作的NSI紧凑型天线多测试系统，这将是英国第一个用于THz天线测量的同类产品，并将有助于增强我们在RF/微波和THz频率方面的世界领先的AML测试设施。其次是一对140-220 GHz THz发射/接收模块，这将填补我们目前是德科技矢量网络分析仪（价值420 k英镑）的频带空白，使我们具有从10 MHz到325 GHz（未来可扩展到500 GHz）的整体测试能力。TERRA的最后一个关键组件是Nanoscribe 3D激光光刻系统，该系统为微米和纳米加工提供了一个快速而强大的平台，具有最高的市售分辨率，（100 x 100）mm和3 mm高。对于未来的THz天线，灵活的波束控制将是一个经常的要求（尤其是5G毫米波天线）所要求的NSI系统是唯一的系统，可以在原型阶段，在昂贵和耗时的包装过程。这种能力可以迅速减少新毫米波天线的开发时间和市场成本，因此将对英国大学和行业产生重大影响。TERRA将被安置在AML中，现有的全职经理将管理使用，监督，广告，未来的培训和维护。为尽量发挥TERRA的功能，我们会增设一个全职的技术支援主任（四级技术支援主任）职位（由反清洗黑钱经理督导）。为了最大限度地扩大TERRA的外部使用，我们将把TERRA设备注册为小型研究设施（SRF），允许学术用户将租用费用纳入新的研究提案。对于工业接入，优先考虑我们的EPSRC合作伙伴，主要是QinetiQ，Catapult，DSTL，NPL，列奥纳多，ESA，华为和空客以及我们支持的中小企业。QinetiQ已经向TERRA提供了iCASE博士生奖学金，以帮助充分利用该设施提供的能力。预计到第二年年底，QMUL、外部RCUK资助的学术合作伙伴和行业分别占（50/30/20）%。5G和未来几代无线通信等新技术的出现意味着英国工业需要TERRA等设施来支持英国经济的这一重要部门，仅无线电的应用就为英国GDP贡献了超过130亿英镑，并支持了超过40万个就业岗位。科学和技术基础不断变化的性质，例如材料设计，增材制造和工业4.0等，意味着英国工业和学术界可以使用的设施，如TERRA，将为新一代工程师提供重要的培训，这些工程师需要掌握明天的技术，而不是过去的技术。英国工业将需要这些新技能，以在英国退欧后生存并提高生产力。