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Millimetre-Wave Users Group Meeting - 11 November 2008

The agenda and presentations from the fourth Millimetre-Wave Users Group Meeting held on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Didcot, can be found below. Please click on the relevant links to view downloads (available where Permission to Publish has been granted).

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Speaker

 
10:00 SESSION I
 
Welcome and introductions

 

Measurements above 100 GHz - which way do we go?

Richard Collier, University of Cambridge
     
    Latest developments with a W-band gyro-BWO Adrian Cross and Wenlong He, University of Strathclyde
 
Dimensional measurements of waveguide apertures used above 100 GHz Alan Wilson, NPL
         
11:30 SESSION II
   

 

Calibrated WR5 and WR3 measurements in the Presence of Waveguide Irregularities

 L B Lok, K Elgaid, University of Glasgow, and
S Singh, Agilent Technologies
 
 300 GHz waveguide filter and power splitter Mike Lancaster, University of Birmingham
 

 

 Establishing specification frequencies for metallic rectangular waveguide at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths

Nick Ridler, NPL
         

12:30

 Lunch

 
 
13:30 SESSION III
 
   Near-Field Microwave to THz microscopy: instruments, applications, and calibration challenges Roger Stancliff, Agilent Technologies
 

 

 Progress Reports:
 
  • IEEE standard for rectangular waveguides and flanges for rectangular waveguides for use at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths

  • Rectangular waveguide comparison exercise of reflection and transmission measurements: 110 GHz to 170 GHz

Nick Ridler, NPL


Martin Salter, NPL
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - facilities visit
   

15:20

SESSION IV

 
       
    Quasi-optical measurements of magnetic materials at frequencies up to 630 GHz Bin Yang, Queen Mary, University of London
   
Sub-millimetre-wave calibration, modelling, and on-wafer measurement of passive components on GaAs substrates L Aghamoradi, L B Lok and K Elgaid, University of Glasgow
     
    Recent advances in RF probing Gavin Fisher, Cascade Microtech
 
Meeting summary and future meetings
 

16:30

Meeting close

 


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