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 41 Issue 41, published in June 2004, contains the following articles and reports. Editor's Comment. Developments of Switch-Mode Power Supplies at ALTER Back to the Future in Manchester AMPERE Committee plans next conference News and Events

Editor's Comments

In this issue I am delighted to welcome two articles from colleagues who have been involved with microwave heating for a number of years.

In the first article Marco Garuti introduces the strides that ALTER have made in the design and manufacture of switch mode power supplies for microwave heating and allied technologies.

In the second article Richard Day traces the development of microwave heating at UMIST with particular reference to manufacturing methods, their structure property relationships and the processes which occur under this technology.

The AMPERE Committee has recently met in Bologna and Modena to discuss the organization for the 10th AMPERE conference which will be held at Modena, Italy, during 13-15 September 2005. This conference is 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.

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

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 40, March 2004 , 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.