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Millimetre-wave Integrated Diode and Amplifier Sources
Start date:2010-05-01
End date:2013-04-30
Project Acronym:MIDAS
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Tony |
Polaris House North Star Avenue SWINDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH WEST (UK) AVON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WILTSHIRE Wiltshire |
| Tel:+44-123-5446732 | |
| Fax:+44-123-5445660 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.scitech.ac.uk | Organization Type:Research |
Description
Objective:
The MIDAS project will redress the technology imbalance between the EU and the US in a most significant area of European technology non-dependence, affecting the scientific and commercial exploitation of the sub-millimetre region of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Within MIDAS, critical Schottky varactor diodes and the simulation tools for fabricating and designing state-of-the-art sub-millimetre wave components and sources will be developed. Using these, a demonstrator terahertz source will be fabricated, with the aim of generating levels of RF power previously unavailable within Europe.
A small team of complementary expertise has been chosen to undertake the programme, combining world class researchers in the respective fields of circuit simulation, design and fabrication, with the leading SME in Europe supplying terahertz components to the space and commercial arenas. European amplifier technology, combined with optimised Schottky varactors fabricated on diamond substrates, will demonstrate a novel, generic, terahertz source technology, enabling planned sub-millimetre wave space science and Earth observation instrumentation to use wholly European technology.
The ability for Europe to exploit the terahertz spectrum, which is recognised to be of key scientific and commercial importance, will be significantly enhanced.
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General information:
Project Details
Start date:2010-05-01
End date:2013-04-30
Duration:36 months
Project Reference:242334
Project cost:1309593 EURO
Project Funding:940000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-SPACE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Space technologies
Contract type:Collaborative project (generic)
URL:http://www.stfc.ac.uk/RALSpace/Areas+of+expertise/Technology/Millimetre+and+terahertz+instrumentation/Projects/26678.aspx
Subject index:Space & satellite research, Other Technology
Results for this Project
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Gonzalo |
AVENIDA RAMIRO DE MAEZTU 28040 MADRID ESPAÑA Region:COMUNIDAD DE MADRID |
| Tel:+34-913366048 | |
| Fax:+34-913365974 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
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| Organization name:OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Laurent |
Avenue de l'Observatoire PARIS FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Paris |
| Tel:+33-140512104 | |
| Fax:+33-140512207 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.obspm.fr | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:RPG RADIOMETER PHYSICS GMBH | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Thomas |
BIRKENMAARSTRASSE MECKENHEIM DEUTSCHLAND Region:RHEINLAND-PFALZ RHEINHESSEN-PFALZ Bad Dürkheim |
| Tel:+49-22259998122 | |
| Fax:+49-22259998199 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.radiometer-physics.de | Organization Type: |
Record control number:94374
