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 24 APRIL 2000

Issue 24, published in April 2000, contains the following articles and reports.

Material Processing with Microwaves at Bayreuth by Prof. M. Willert-Porada, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
More millennium statements from members.
Formation of a New Company Cober Electronics, Inc. of Norwalk, CT USA and Muegge Electronic GMBH of Reichelsheim, Germany are please to announce the formation of a new company, Cober Muegge LLC, to serve the industrial microwave heating markets.
Statistics on the 7th International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Heating held in Valencia, Sept 1999.
News & Events

Editor's Comments

This issue introduces the young group at the University of Bayreuth, headed by Professor Monika Willert-Porada. In a brief article she describes the origins of her interest in microwave energy first at the University of Dortmund and now at the University of Bayreuth. Incidentally Professor Willert-Porada is in charge of the organisation of the 8th International AMPERE conference on microwave and high frequency heating to be held at Bayreuth during 3 to 6 September 2001.

Professor Elias de Los Reyes and his group conducted a very focused survey following the AMPERE conference at Valencia. This issue has extracted some interesting replies which will be taken on board when subsequent conferences are being set up. Many thanks to all those members who completed their forms.

More members and colleagues provided millennium statements ion this issue.

The AMPERE meeting on Microwave Chemistry at Antibes is fast approaching and Professor Albert Gourdenne is working feverishly behind the scenes to finalise the programme and get the papers in. Let us all support him by attending the conference and taking part in what will be proved to be a very successful conference on microwaves allied to chemistry.

Editor, Ricky Metaxas, EUG, University of Cambridge, April 2000.

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