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.

这项战略设备的建议旨在促进英国的整体“数字”制造和表征能力，用于广泛的THZ天线和被动组件，这反过来又可以加快我们THZ研究的影响，并为英国的S＆T社区提供服务，以与EPSRC优先级的“ 21st Century Products”与“ 21st Century Presters”的PRODERTERS PARTALL PARTALL PARTARTERS PRODERTIRED和MANUFACTIRATER PARTARTERS PRODERTIRNING pARTARTIRED和INSTURATURATS PARTARTIRENT PRODERTIRNING PARTARTERS PRODERTIRNING。我们的目的是通过结合最先进的亚微米分辨率3D打印机的最先进的球形近场天线测量系统来实现这一目标，从而提供快速的原型制造以及最高500GHz的天线和设备的测试。这将安装在玛丽皇后在已经具有广泛装备的天线测量实验室（AML）中，并将形成Thz天线的制造和测量促进性（Terra）（Terra）。Terra由三个关键设备组成，首先是NSI紧凑型天线多检验系统，最多是500 ghz的类款，它将在公共服务中，并将其供应量为500 niber and thz the the Will Will will Will Will thers in Uker，它将在UK中使用，这是一个持续的公共设备。我们在RF/Microwave和THZ频率的世界领先的AML测试设施。其次，一对140-220 GHz THZ发射/接收模块，这将填充我们当前的Keysight Vector网络分析仪（价值420k）中的频段间隙，从而使我们的总测试能力从10 MHz到325 GHz（将来可扩展到500 GHz）。 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 frequently required (not least for 5G millimetrewave antennas) and the requested NSI system is the ONLY system that can characterize在昂贵且耗时的包装过程之前，这种天线处于原型阶段。这种能力可以迅速减少开发时间和新的毫米型天线的成本成本，因此对英国大学和行业会产生重大影响。为了从Terra提取最大能力，我们将创建一个新的全职TSO（技术支持官4年级）帖子（由AML经理监督）。为了最大程度地利用Terra的外部使用，我们将将Terra设备注册为小型研究设施（SRF），使学术用户可以将租赁成本纳入新的研究建议中。对于工业访问，将优先考虑我们的EPSRC合作伙伴，主要是Qinetiq，Catapult，DSTL，NPL，Leonardo，ESA，Huawei和Airbus以及SME我们的支持。 Qinetiq已经为Terra提供了ICase PhD学生资格，以帮助探索该设施提供的能力。可以预见的是，到第二年底，Qmul，外部RCUK资助的学术合作伙伴和行业之间将有一个（50/30/20/20）％的分歧。5G和子孙后代的新技术的出现意味着英国行业沟通意味着英国行业需要的设施，例如Terra，以支持英国经济的销售，而超过13百万亿英镑的企业，这是为了支持英国的超过13亿英镑。科学和技术基础的不断变化，例如设计，添加剂制造和工业4.0等的材料意味着，英国行业和学术界可以使用Terra的设施将为新一代工程师提供重要的培训，需要在明天的技术中熟练而不是过去。英国行业将需要这些新技能，以生存和提高脱欧后生产力。