New Design and Manufacture Technologies for High-Performance Millimetre-Wave and Terahertz Waveguide Devices for Space and Terrestrial Communications

用于空间和地面通信的高性能毫米波和太赫兹波导器件的新设计和制造技术

• 批准号: EP/Y016580/1
• 负责人: Jingyu Lin
• 金额: $ 23.84万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY016580%2F1
• 关键词: New; Design; Manufacture; Technologies; Performance

This project aims to explore novel design methodologies and implementation techniques for high-performance mm-wave and terahertz waveguide devices for space and terrestrial applications in the next generation 5G/6G communications. Microwave filter design has become an establish art. However, as frequency goes higher into millimetre-wave and terahertz regime, filter design faces a whole new set of challenges from improving the insertion loss, to reducing the dimensional sensitivity and therefore increasing the manufacture yield. This not only challenges microwave designer but also the manufacture techniques. To meet the demands of future space and satellite communications for 5G, 6G and beyond, which will feature millimeter-wave and terahertz regions, there is a need for a general and novel design methodology to synthesize and manufacture the waveguide filters and filtering components by exploring new and advanced machining techniques. The goal is to achieve filters with high unloaded quality factor, low insertion loss, high selectivity, low sensitivity, low geometrical complexity, high power handling capacity, and high fabrication tolerance. First, a newand general methodology for synthesizing inline elliptic-function filters using a modular approach based on novel resonator sections will be presented. Then, Novel solutions with new topologies and resonator structures will be proposed and experimentally verified to demonstrate low-loss and desensitization to manufacture tolerance in the modeling and implementation step. Finally, based on the methodology and strategy, fabrication and demonstration of the waveguide components using advanced 3-D printing and micromachining techniques will be completed, by a Design-for-Manufacture (DFM) approach.

该项目旨在探索针对下一代5G/6G通信中空间和地面应用的高性能MM波和Terahertz波导设备的新型设计方法和实施技术。微波炉设计已成为建立艺术。但是，随着频率进入毫米波和Terahertz制度，Filter Design面临着一系列全新的挑战，即改善插入损失，到降低尺寸灵敏度并因此增加制造产量。这不仅挑战了微波设计师，还挑战了制造技术。为了满足将未来空间和卫星通信对5G，6G及以后的卫星通信的需求，这些需求将以毫米波和Terahertz区域为特色，需要采用一般和新颖的设计方法来合成和制造波导过滤器并通过探索新的和先进的加工技术来合成和制造组件。目的是实现具有高卸载质量因子，低插入损失，高选择性，低灵敏度，低几何复杂性，高功率处理能力和高制造耐受性的过滤器。首先，将提出一种基于新的谐振部分的模块化方法合成内联椭圆功能过滤器的新通用方法。然后，将提出具有新拓扑结构和谐振器结构的新颖解决方案，并通过实验验证，以证明在建模和实现步骤中制造耐受性的低损失和脱敏。最后，将通过高级3-D打印和微加工技术的方法和策略，制造和演示，通过设计制造（DFM）方法来完成。