Millimetre wave micromachined devices for communications and radar

用于通信和雷达的毫米波微机械设备

• 批准号: EP/D059933/1
• 负责人: Michael Lancaster
• 金额: $ 106.64万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD059933%2F1
• 关键词: Millimetre; wave; micromachined; devices; communications

Communications has recently seen a surge in popularity with the vast increase in mobile phone usage. Both the phones and the infrastructure, which allows them to communicate, requires electronic components of extremely high performance which are very small in size. This proposal aims at making new miniaturised electronic components. The components of interest operate at very high frequencies (greater than 1GHz) in the microwave frequency regime. It is possible to build new miniature components because of two relatively new manufacturing processes being developed at Birmingham University. The manufacturing processes have the ability to machine materials to an incredible accuracy to produce very small, very precise shapes. These shapes are designed to perform the electronic signal processing function in the new devices. The machining is not by mechanical means but by chemical etching and the materials to be machined are silicon and an epoxy resin. Clearly with this new material a great deal of effort is required on the design of the new microwave circuits as well as continued development of the micromachining process. The outcome of the project will therefore be new processes to make the components as well as some components themselves. Although mobile communications was mentioned above as an example of where the components could be used, there are many more uses of the new components. Communications at extremely high frequencies (up to and above 100GHz) and radar systems are excellent examples of potential uses.

随着移动的电话使用的大量增加，通信最近受到了广泛的欢迎。电话和使其能够通信的基础设施都需要尺寸非常小的极高性能的电子元件。该提案旨在制造新的封装电子元件。感兴趣的组件在微波频率范围内以非常高的频率（大于1GHz）工作。由于伯明翰大学正在开发两种相对较新的制造工艺，因此有可能制造新的微型部件。制造过程能够将材料加工到令人难以置信的精度，以生产非常小，非常精确的形状。这些形状被设计为在新设备中执行电子信号处理功能。加工不是通过机械手段而是通过化学蚀刻，并且待加工的材料是硅和环氧树脂。显然，这种新材料需要大量的努力来设计新的微波电路以及继续开发微机械加工工艺。因此，该项目的成果将是制造组件以及某些组件本身的新工艺。尽管上面提到了移动的通信作为可以使用这些组件的示例，但是存在新组件的更多用途。极高频率（高达100 GHz以上）的通信和雷达系统是潜在用途的绝佳示例。

项目成果

Coupling matrix synthesis of cross-coupled microwave filters using a hybrid optimisation algorithm

• DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2008.0145
• 发表时间: 2009-08
• 期刊: Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: G. Nicholson;M. Lancaster

Micromachined rectangular coaxial line to ridge waveguide transition

微机械矩形同轴线到脊波导的过渡

• DOI: 10.1109/wamicon.2009.5207269
• 发表时间: 2009
• 作者: Murad N

Design and realisation of low loss air-filled rectangular coaxial cable with bent quarter-wavelength supporting stubs

四分之一波长弯曲支撑头低损耗充气矩形同轴电缆的设计与实现

• DOI: 10.1002/mop.23377
• 发表时间: 2008
• 期刊: Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
• 影响因子: 1.5
• 作者: Ke M

Analytic sensitivity calculations of poles and zeros of general Chebyshev filtering functions for microwave coupled resonators

微波耦合谐振器通用切比雪夫滤波函数极点和零点的解析灵敏度计算

• DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2009.0079
• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
• 作者: Jayyousi A

Micromachined millimeter-wave Butler matrix with a patch antenna array

带有贴片天线阵列的微机械毫米波巴特勒矩阵

• DOI: 10.1109/mms.2009.5409809
• 发表时间: 2009
• 作者: Murad N