Expression of Interest: The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx)

Trabajo presentado al 29th Meeting of the LSC Scientific Committee, celebrado online del 30 de noviembre al 1 de diciembre de 2021.Peer reviewe

Low loss microstrip transmission-lines using cyclic olefin copolymer COC-substrate for sub-THz and THz applications

International audienceWe describe low loss microstrip transmission line with compact coplanar waveguide transitions for sub-terahertz application. The conducting transmission line is fabricated on the surface of a thin cyclic olefin copolymer dielectric layer. A vector network analyzer (VNA) has been used to obtain the transmission parameters and to validate our simulation result

Synthesis of passive terahertz devices in coplanar technology

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Metal 3D printing for RF/microwave high-frequency parts

Space Systems have been historically characterised by high performance, high reliability and high cost. Every new generation of space systems tends to improve performance, keep as much as possible reliability, speeding the lead time and lower the cost. Aggressive approach is nowadays followed by some of the players of the new space ecosystem where, for instance, reliability can be relaxed thanks for the in-orbit redundancy or robustness to failures by having a constellation with a high number of satellites. This push towards the technology and system limit requires to investigate new methods for the manufacturing of RF/Microwave parts. RF devices such as those based on waveguide structures, benefit from an additive manufacturing approach in terms of radio frequency (RF) performance and compactness. However each manufacturing approach comes with specific features and limitations which need to be well understood and, in some cases, even taking advantage of them. This paper provides a short review of some of the RF/Microwave parts already manufactured using this technology. The paper will focus mainly on metal 3D printing parts since this technology is, at the moment, well accepted by the space community