Guest Editorial: Microwave Components and Antennas based on advanced manufacturing techniques
2017; Institution of Engineering and Technology; Volume: 11; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1049/iet-map.2017.1007
ISSN1751-8733
Tópico(s)Antenna Design and Analysis
ResumoIET Microwaves, Antennas & PropagationVolume 11, Issue 14 p. 1919-1920 Special Issue: Microwave Components and Antennas Based on Advanced Manufacturing TechniquesFree Access Guest Editorial: Microwave Components and Antennas based on advanced manufacturing techniques First published: 01 November 2017 https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2017.1007Citations: 1AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat New manufacturing methods, materials and processes are important enablers of innovative solutions and often deliver competitive advantages. Emerging additive manufacturing alias rapid prototyping and 3D printing techniques are maturing rapidly and whereas a few years ago this new way of manufacturing was more of a hype than reality and limited to a narrow application range, today even hardware for space application has been produced and embarked on commercial satellites. As documented in ‘3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing State of the Industry’ [[1]], the cumulative market revenues in this sector is growing exponentially and penetrating virtually all imaginable application domains. In parallel subtractive manufacturing processes are advancing and hybrid manufacturing processes diversifying. This allows RF, microwave and mm-wave components, circuits and assemblies to be designed in novel ways by taking advantage of many benefits, such as new geometrical freedoms, often resulting in lower cost and higher integration density. In this special issue, a snapshot of the state of the art of advanced manufacturing techniques for microwave components, antennas and assemblies are collected. We are proud to have been able to extend the reach beyond the academic world with the contributions from a number of companies willing to share work undertaken. The papers document recent advancement and innovations covering a wide frequency range and a wide range of manufacturing technologies as specified in the call for papers: Powder bed fusion (e.g. selective laser melting, electron beam melting) Material jetting and extrusion (e.g. inkjet-, aerosol printing, fused deposition modelling etc) Vat photopolymerization (e.g. stereolithography) Advanced thick and thin-film processes We hope readers of this special issue will find this collection of recent work inspiring and stimulating and trigger many more contributions in the coming years. Guest Editor Biographies Christoph Ernst Christoph Ernst bas born 1968 in Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1996, and the PhD. degree. from the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, University of Leeds, U.K. in 2001. He then worked in the terrestrial telecommunication industry in the USA, before he joined 2005 the European Space Agency (ESA) in ESTEC in the Netherlands as Member of Staff. At ESA he has been working as Microwave Engineer and since 2012 as Payload Engineer. In 2009 he pioneered using additive manufacturing for RF hardware in ESA. Since 2016 he is responsible for the preparation of the yearly ARTES Advanced Technology workplan covering space-based and ground-based telecommunication technology developments and system demonstrations. His field of interest is novel techniques, technologies, and the design of microwave products for satellite-based systems. Petronilo Martin-Iglesias Petronilo Martin-Iglesias was born in Caceres, Spain, 1980. He received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 2002 and the M.S. degree from The University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., in 2012. He has been working in industry for over ten years as a Microwave Engineer involved with active (high-power amplifiers for radar applications) and passive (filters, multiplexers, couplers, etc.) RF hardware design, including two years as a Radar System Engineer with Indra Sistemas, ISDEFE S.A., and Thales Alenia Space Spain. Since summer 2012, he has been involved with research and development and project support activities related with RF passive hardware developments for the European Space Agency. His research interests are filter synthesis theory, electromagnetic (EM) design and high-power prediction, as well as advanced manufacturing techniques for RF passive hardware. Olivier Vendier Olivier Vendier was born 1969 in France. Olivier Vendier earned his engineering degree in Applied Physics at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Toulouse 1993. In 1993 he also received a MS degree in solid state physics from Institut National Polytechnique. (Toulouse). In 1997 he received a PhD in Electrical Engineering with a major in optoelectronics applied to RF. During this period he was research assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA. In 1997 he became research engineer at Alcatel Espace, then member of the microwave product line team in Thales Alenia Space. Since 2014 he is head of the microwave packaging group. His research interests include advanced passives and packaging technologies for space application up to Q/V bands. Acknowledgments We would like to thank all the authors who submitted their work to this Special Issue and the reviewers for their time and efforts. We would also like to thank the IET Editorial Office for their help and support that made this Special Issue possible. References [1]Wohlers, T., Caffrey, T.: ‘ Wohlers report – 3D printing and additive manufacturing state of the industry’, 2016 Citing Literature Volume11, Issue14November 2017Pages 1919-1920 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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