The AMPERE Newsletter

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 35 DECEMBER 2002 Issue 35, published in December 2002, contains the following articles and reports. Editor's Comment. The Genesis of a New Group at Carthagene. Constant Voltage R.F. Waveguide Dryer. Case Study no.2: Microwave Pre-Heating Epoxy Resin Saves $865,000 per Year. News and Events.

.Editor's Comments

I am delighted that David Sánchez-Hernández from the Electromagnetism and Microwave Engineering Research Group (GIMRE) at the Technical University of Carthagene in Spain has accepted my invitation to describe his activities culminating in the formation of a new School of Telecommunications which now forms part of the Technical University at Carthagene. David left the group in Valencia headed by Professor Elias de los Reyes in 1998 when he was invited to set up the new school at Carthagene. I am pleased to see that within the new school research in microwaves plays a prominent part.

This issue contains another article from Spain written by Nico van Dijk who heads Design Andalucia s.l., a company promoting the use of rf and microwaves for various applications. Nico describes a dryer for RF applications using a novel waveguide arrangement which appears on page 3. Many thanks to Nico for sending me this article.

The second report from John Bows on another CASE STUDY appears on page 5. I am extremely grateful to John for putting these industrial case studies together as I am sure they serve to remind us that the cost involved in setting up a new system is as important as getting the technology right in the first place.

As we have described in the previous issue, the AMPERE Data Bank and Subscriptions has moved to Loughborough University where indeed the 9th in the series of AMPERE conferences will be held in September 2003. The conference website will be accessible from early January where full details on the conference can be found. Finally, I am now based at St John’s where my details are:

St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP,
England, UK tel: +44 1223 338646,
e-mail: acm33@cam.ac.uk

Ricky Metaxas
St John's College
University of Cambridge

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 34, October 2002 , Issue 33, June 2002 , Issue 32, March 2002 , Issue 31, December 2001 , Issue 30, October 2001 , Issue 29, June 2001 , Issue 28, April 2001 , Issue 27, January 2001 , Issue 26, October 2000 , Issue 25, July 2000 , Issue 24, April 2000.