Análisis y Diseño Automatizado de Nuevos Componentes Pasivos en Tecnologías Guiada y Micro-Electro-Mecánica con Materiales Dieléctricos y Periódicos mediante Técnicas Híbridas

Título del proyecto: Análisis y Diseño Automatizado de Nuevos Componentes Pasivos en Tecnologías Guiada y Micro-Electro-Mecánica con Materiales Dieléctricos y Periódicos mediante Técnicas Híbridas
Entidad financiadora: CICYT (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología)
Ref. TEC2004-04313-C02-01
Entidades participantes: Grupo de Aplicaciones de Microondas (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), Grupo de Semiconductores y Fibras Ópticas (Universidad de Valencia), Grupo de Electromagnetismo aplicado a las Telecomunicaciones (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena)
Duración: 13/12/2004 – 12/12/2007
Investigador responsable: Dr. Vicente E. Boria Esbert (Coordinador)
Número de investigadores participantes: 10 (Subproyecto Grupo de Aplicaciones de Microondas), 20 (Proyecto)

Abstract: New telecommunication services, such as broadband personal communications, multimedia applications, electronic commerce, fast Internet access and satellite navigation, will be supported through a new generation of radio communication systems with high frequency carriers (up to 100 GHz), large bandwidths and high power levels. The architecture of these systems, such as wireless distribution systems, mobile broadband systems and satellite systems, is composed of several basic building blocks implemented through the use of a wide variety of passive devices (e.g. antennas, filters and impedance matching networks, multiplexers, forming networks, probes and transitions), whose operation at the higher microwave and millimetre-wave bands involves new scientific, technological and industrial challenges. As a consequence of the information provided by the most important national (Alcatel Espacio and RYMSA) and European (Thales, Tesat-Spacecom and Com Dev) companies of the microwave sector, who actively support this research project, the following advanced passive components required in the future wireless systems will be investigated: e.g. passive waveguide devices with dielectric resonators, frequency selective surfaces, multi-layered printed circuits with vertical interconnections, transitions, leaky-wave antennas and multi-function Micro-Electro-Mechanical Structures (MEMS) with novel periodic Electromagnetic Bandgap materials (EBGs). In order to design such components, commercial simulators available in the research groups, or those to be acquired within this project, will be used. Furthermore, new software tools with additional capabilities (i.e. efficiency, accuracy and flexibility, novel materials, losses modelling, non linear effects caused by high power and automated synthesis) will also be developed by the concerned groups for such design purposes. Breadboards and practical demonstrators of the novel designed components will be manufactured and measured in the research groups microwave laboratories. In this context, together with the help and support of the European Space Agency (ESA), one of such experimental laboratories will be updated with measurement capabilities of non linear effects (multipactor, corona and passive intermodulation) related to high power applications. The highly scientific and technological contents of this project will also allow to prepare highly qualified personnel for the high frequency communications industry.