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 49 Issue 49, published in May 2006, contains the following articles and reports. Editorial. Recent Advances in Measuring Dielectric Properties. Microwave Research for the Food Industry at SIK. A Brief Report of the INDO-US Workshop on Microwave Technology for Materials Processing. News and Events.

Editor's Comment

In this article I am delighted to welcome an article from Shelley Begley at Agilent Technologies whom I met at the Modena short course. I am sure readers will be very interested to find out about the range of probes they have designed for dielectric material measurements.

SIK has been associated with microwave heating for a very long time. In fact Thomas Ohlsson was one of the three founding Executives of AMPERE along with Serge Lefeuvre and myself. The AMPERE organisation was formally announced at Göteborg in 1993 where SIK staged the biennial microwave and high frequency conferences now embraced under AMPERE. In his brief article Thomas takes us through the number of projects which SIK is currently involved with.

The Indo-US Workshop held at Mumbai, India, in February this year is summarised by Dinesh Agrawal of Pennsylvania State University for the Newsletter. This was hailed as a great success not least for the great enthusiasm shown by the local audience for our topic.

Finally, the AMPERE Committee of Management wishes to remind all those that have not renewed your 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 complete.

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

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 48, March 2006 , 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.