Reference projects and items of MilliLab

Reference projects list

• Submillimetre wave antenna testing using a hologram CATR (ESA 1998- ).
• Development of back- and front-end modules for Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) (1998- ).
• MMIC's for receiver arrays (ESA 1998- ).
• Critical technologies for millimetre wave radiometric receivers (ESA 1998- )
• Participation in "MM and SubMM wave open structure integrated receiver front-end technology development", ESTEC/contract no. 11806/96/NL/CN.
• Participation in "Submillimetre integrated SIS imaging receiver technologies (SISIRT)", ESTEC/contract no. 11653/95/NL/PB.
• 119-GHz receiver (cooled to 100 K) for the Swedish Odin-satellite, with a planar diode Schottky mixer and a temperature compensated ring-filter (1994- ).
• Hologram compact antenna test range for the tests of the Odin-satellite 1.1 m antenna at 119 GHz (1994 - ).
• Radio wave propagation modelling and radio channel simulated up to 60 GHz for mobile applications. Research work is continuing intensively in this area (1989- ).
• Study of mm-wave antenna testing techniques (ESA 1995 - 96).
• Preparation of millimetre and sub-millimetre wave technology activities (ESA 1995).
• Low noise 60-GHz HEMT MIC-amplifier (ESA 1991 - 94).
• A new structure for a cavity stabilised oscillator using active dipole antennas (1994).
• Design and construction of a low noise 22-GHz HEMT VLBI-receiver for the Russian Radioastron satellite (1988 - 93).
• 110-GHz ground-based cryogenic (20 K) radiometer with a Schottky mixer for monitoring the ozone line. Complex quasi-optics for the calibration (1989 - 92).
• Study of testing and calibration, and test feedhorn breadboarding for 2nd generation Meteosat-satellite (ESA 1989 - 90).
• Study of submillimeter frequency multipliers in the program "Development of critical detection technologies for spaceborne submillimetre heterodyne receivers" (ESA 1988 - 89).
• 75...115-GHz cryogenic (20 K) Schottky receiver for a 14-m telescope (1981 - 83).
• Space qualification of flight hardware.
• Corrugated horn design, manufacturing, and accurate phase pattern and phase centre measurements.
• Derivation of the theory on non-paraxial Gaussian beams.
• Near-field beam probing of a Gaussian beam inside a quasi-optical system.