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8 of the TESLA Early Stage Researchers have been awarded PhDs by June 23 – CONGRATULATIONS . 6 more are on track to complete their PhDs in the next year. These researchers have completed 34 secondments at 9 companies / research institutes and at 5 TESLA beneficiaries and all have received a comprehensive training programme covering both technical and soft skills. To date 27 articles have been published in journals with other journal articles in the pipeline. There have been 30 publications in conference proceedings/ workshops. TESLA has collaborated widely with industry, with other EU projects, ESA funded project and 3 patent applications have been made. The TESLA research has not only been shared with an academic audience but also with a wide public audience through family workshops, open days, radio interviews, a play , social media posts and general news articles.

Best Student Microwave Paper Award

ESR 9 , Armin Karimi, studying at KTH Royal Institute of Technology won the Best Student Microwave Paper Award at the Swedish Microwave Day 2023 with the paper titled Silicon Micromachined THz Radar Frontend

Launch of the Spanish Space Agency

February 23, the Microwave Components Group at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) supported the candidacy of the city of Estella as the headquarters of the Spanish Space Agency. Being amongst the largest European space economies, Spain didn’t have its own Space Agency until recently, when this anomaly has been solved.

The Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque also attended the event along with regional government authorities. The event consisted of a set of short presentations from the different space actors in Navarra (among them and, prominently, UPNA and its Microwave Components Group) and a showroom where Prof. Laso presented prototypes from the Microwave Components Group, including TESLA students’ latest results. Link in Spanish http://www.unavarra.es/research-institutes/tablon+de+anuncios?contentId=273677

Doctoral Examination of Luke Robins

On Monday, February 13, 2023, the doctoral examination of Luke Robins took place at the Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering (IHF) at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). According to the regulations of TU Graz, this final examination in the doctoral studies consisted of two parts, a presentation by Luke Robins on his doctoral thesis entitled: “Additive manufacturing of ceramic-based dielectrics for resonators, waveguides, and RF filters” and an oral examination on the subject area of the thesis by the board of examiners. The doctoral examination was followed by an overall assessment which revealed that Luke Robins passed with distinction and obtained the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences – Congratulations!

Student Paper Competition IEEE Radio & wireless week

Congratulations to Chad Bartlett, TESLA Early Stage researcher from Kiel University (CAU), who came first place in the student paper competition held as part of the 2023 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium held in Las Vegas in January 2 for the paper :

C. Bartlett and M. Höft, The Anglet: An E/H-plane Bent, 90-Degree Twisted, TE₁₀₁/TM₁₁₀-Mode Singlet Building Block.

As a winner, Chad can now submit an article into the IEEE microwave magazine.

Innovation Triangle Initiative

The aim of the Innovation Triangle Initiative was to train the TESLA Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in creative problem solving and innovative thinking, expose all ESRs to industry driven R&D processes through action learning, and find innovative solutions to R&D challenges within the network. As part of this initiative, each ESR highlighted any progress with further exploitation of their research work ( eg patents, industry collaboration, potential for future commercialisation etc). These highlights were assessed by Professor Laso and 6 ESRS were shortlisted for the highest technology transfer potential. From these , ESR 6 – Chad Bartlett from Kiel University (CAU) was awarded the prize for the most successful TESLA triangle – CONGRATULATIONS Chad. Innovation triangle shortlisted summary reports

TESLA ESR 10 Secondment To CAU

Luke Robins (ESR10) completed his third secondment of the project in early 2022 working with Chad Bartlett (ESR6) and Abdulrahman Widaa (ESR7) . Read more

MULTI-FUNCTION MULTI-BAND RECONFIGURABLE HIGH-Q FILTERS - Talk by Prof Mansour 13th June 22

Together with IEEE MTT/AP Spain Chapter, TESLA hosted Prof. Raafat Mansour from University of Waterloo, Canada to give a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer talk on “MULTI-FUNCTION MULTI-BAND RECONFIGURABLE HIGH-Q FILTERS”. In his presentation, Prof. Mansour addressed existing tuning technologies, providing a comparison between piezoelectric, Semiconductor, MEMS and PCM tuning elements in terms of linearity, insertion loss, suitability for use at millimeter-wave frequencies and ease of integration with high-Q filters.

IMS conference Denver June 22

The TESLA project showcased some project results at the IMS conference in Denver. There was a booth displaying information on the project . More information on the TESLA booth can be found under outreach.

CAU University Open Day 28th June 22

On the 28th June 22,an open day took place at the Faculty of Engineering of CAU to encourage German school kids to study Engineering https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/detailansicht/news/096-tf-tag. About 250 kids took the opportunity to visit the labs .The chair of microwave engineering also highlighted the aims of the TESLA project. Approximately 15 students took part in a filter tuning event run by TESLA representatives .

Non-destructive testing

International Microwave Filter Workshop Perugia Nov 21

Enrique Lopez Oliver (UNIPG) and El Mehdi Messaoudi (UPV) receiving 2nd best student paper and 2nd best paper of IMFW held in Perugia Nov 21.

Interview by Chad Bartlett

Interview by Chad Bartlett, an early stage research working on the TESLA project and based at Kiel University, in Electronic Letters titled ‘The upcoming challenges posed by fields such as automotive radar, constellation communication, and deepspace exploration will require bold new methods’. Read full interview at https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1049/ell2.12137

Updates on EO!

Launching the Innovation Triangles Initiative

Destination Space

EO!

TESLA ESR Representative

TESLA ESR Induction

TESLA Secondment ESR 11 to Joanneum Research

TESLA Secondment ESR 10 to LITHOZ

TESLA Secondment ESR 1 to TESAT

Welcome to the World of Work!

MTT-Sat Challenge

The MTT-Sat Challenge is a worldwide competition for teams of undergraduate and graduate students to design and build radio frequency (RF) and microwave hardware for small satellites. The most promising designs will undergo space environmental qualification testing and will be incorporated in a cubesat, which will be launched into orbit (in case MTT-Sat Challenge secures enough funding and a participation in cubesat projects).
The TESLA network are delighted to hear about this exciting initiative and hope to take part and contribute ideas.