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.

该项目旨在探索用于下一代 5G/6G 通信中空间和地面应用的高性能毫米波和太赫兹波导器件的新颖设计方法和实现技术。微波滤波器设计已成为一门既定的艺术。然而，随着频率进入毫米波和太赫兹范围，滤波器设计面临着一系列全新的挑战，从改善插入损耗到降低尺寸敏感性，从而提高制造良率。这不仅对微波设计人员提出了挑战，而且对制造技术也提出了挑战。为了满足未来以毫米波和太赫兹区域为特征的5G、6G及更远空间和卫星通信的需求，需要一种通用且新颖的设计方法来通过探索来合成和制造波导滤波器和滤波组件。新的和先进的加工技术。目标是实现具有高空载品质因数、低插入损耗、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公差的滤波器。首先，将提出一种使用基于新型谐振器部分的模块化方法来合成内联椭圆函数滤波器的新的通用方法。然后，将提出具有新拓扑和谐振器结构的新颖解决方案并进行实验验证，以证明建模和实施步骤中的低损耗和对制造公差的脱敏。最后，基于该方法和策略，将通过可制造设计 (DFM) 方法，使用先进的 3D 打印和微加工技术完成波导组件的制造和演示。