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 48 Issue 48, published in March 2006, contains the following articles and reports. Editorial. Taking over the Electroheat Torch from Professor Michel Machiels at Leuven. ITACA, Spain’s Answer to Technology Transfer. M.Sc. and Pg.Dip. Courses in High Power RF Science and Engineering: Graduation of its First Students. News and Events.

Editor's Comment

It is very gratifying to learn that the Interuniversity ELECTRABEL Chair of Electroheat at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Leuven will
continue after the retirement of Prof. Michel Machiels. As the new incumbent to that Chair, Prof. Koen Van Reussel explains in the lead article the excellent work that has been carried out over many years, first by Prof. Pietermaat and Mr Stefens, then continued with Prof. Van Dommelen and latterly Prof. Machiels. I am sure the AMPERE membership would like me to wish to Prof. Van Reusel every success in the future. We also wish Prof. Michel Machiels a happy retirement.

Technology transfer is a very important part of our AMPERE community because unless our new ideas and processes are accepted in the industrial sector, this technology will remain a niche one. It is therefore very satisfying to see the formation of ITACA, described eloquently by Prof. Felipe L. Peñaranda-Foix of the University of Valencia, whose main purpose is to liaise with other researchers and industrialists to introduce new areas into the industrial sector.

Finally, the AMPERE Committee of management wishes to remind all those that have not renewed their subscription to please do so as we need your cooperation
and valuable input to our operations. In order to do that visit our website or contact June Lennie at Loughborough University who will once again send you a form to
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Ricky Metaxas
St John's College
Cambridge CB2 1TP, England, UK

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 47, December 2005 , Issue 46, October 2005 , Issue 45, June 2005 , Issue 44, March 2005 , Issue 43, December 2004 , Issue 42, October 2004 , Issue 41, June 2004 , 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.