The AMPERE Newsletter appears quarterly and covers short topical articles written by experts in the field. Typically it also includes a profile, conference reports, advertisements, a calendar of events and news items on various aspects of radio frequency and microwave energy usage in the ISM frequency band, covering topics broadly from 1 MHz to 30 GHz, although higher frequencies have also been covered. It also highlights on promising new research developments to emanate from academe and industry.

Issue 77.

Editorial

The President Professor Cristina Leonelli has kindly invited Antonio Diaferia, Managing Director of EMitech, srl in Italy, to introduce their MISYA system, which was originally applied in the disinfestation of pest control but latterly has been applied to sterilization and drying processes.
I am also delighted to welcome Dr Yuriy Zadyraka of Advanced Microwave Technologies Ltd based in Scotland who describes their efforts to introducing novel systems for heating liquids on san industrial scale using microwave energy.
The Afterthought piece concentrates on RF plasmas..

AC(Ricky) Metaxas
EUGStJohn’sCollege
CambridgeUK