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 40 Issue 40, published in March 2004, contains the following articles and reports. Editor's Comment. Case Study 5: Development of a 5.8 GHz Dummy Load 10th International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Heating News and Events

Editor's Comments

In this issue John Bows introduces another case study involving the design of waveguide components, specifically, that of a dummy load rated at 700 W and to cover the ISM frequency band centred at 5.8 GHz. Some of the details for this case study were supplied by John Gerling at GAE, USA and Vadim Yakovlev at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA.

The 10th AMPERE conference will be held at Modena, Italy, during 13-15 September 2005, preceded by a short course on 12 September. The usual mix of industrial and academic contributions are envisaged as well as thematic keynote addresses by well-known personalities in our field. Profess’a Leonelli kindly supplied us with a leaflet announcing this important venue which appears on page 3.

As it is seen from the News and Events section the RF and microwave heating sector is enjoying a revival with major venues being held in America, Japan and Europe during this current year. This is extremely healthy for our topic areas and what is more it may lead to new industrial applications.

I had hoped to include a draft of the accounts in this issue. However, the newly appointed auditors suggested that we ought to produce accounts for the Association from the last accounts dated July 2001 presented to the membership at the Bayreuth conference up to incorporation day and then from that date to 31 July 2003 which is to be submitted to Company House in the UK. Such accounts will take longer to produce and will be presented to the membership at a later date.

Ricky Metaxas
St John's College
Cambridge CB2 1TP, England, UK

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 39, October 2003 , Issue 38, October 2003 , Issue 37, June 2003 , Issue 36, March 2003 , Issue 35, December 2002 , 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.