Day 1- Tuesday 2 April 

Newton 1 + Newton 2

09:00

09:25

Welcome

Piero Angeletti (European Space Agency)

Session 1 - Passive Technology I

09:25

09:50

Invited Talk: RF MEMS switches for Radar applications

Afshin Ziaei (Thales Research & Technology France)

09:50

10:10

Design of High-Performance Microwave and Millimeter-Band Radial Power Combiners Based on the TE01-Circular Waveguide Mode

José Ramón Montejo-Garai (Universidad Politécnica De  Madrid)

10:10

10:30

Ultra-Wideband Bandpass filter on new Multilayer PCB Technology using Solder Mask

Julien Haumant (Elliptika)

10:30

10:50

Compact On-board L-band Dielectric-loaded Diplexers for High-power Applications

Luca Pelliccia (RF Microtech Srl)

10:50

11:10

Linear Phase, High Power Filter for Navigation Augmentation Payloads

Paul Booth (Airbus Defence and Space)

11:10

11:40

Coffee Break

Session 2 - Passive Techniology II

11:40

12:00

Miniature Air-Filled SIR Coaxial Resonators filter made by 3D printing SLA

Alexander Manchec (Elliptika)

12:00

12:20

Footprint Reduction in Evanescent Waveguide Filters Using 3D Shaping Techniques

Alejandro Pons-Abenza (Technical University of Cartagena)

12:20

12:40

Direct Band-Pass Filters Design based on a Quasi-Analytical Method

Petronilo Martin-Iglesias (European Space Agency)

12:40

13:00

The Butler Matrix: a More than Ever Versatile Component for Satellite and 5G Applications

Marco Lisi (European Space Agency)

13:00

14:00

Lunch

Session 3 - Passive Technology III

14:00

14:25

New Method for Accurate Transmission Line Characterization on Low-Loss Silicon Substrate at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies

Lucas Nyssens (Uclouvain)

14:25

14:45

Germanium Telluride Phase-Change RF switches for space applications

Bruno Reig (Cea-Leti)

14:45

15:05

Development of 4.2 GHz Bulk Acoustic Wave filters using a Surface Mounted Resonator structure for Space applications

Alexandre Clairet (Frec|n|sys)

15:05

15:25

Development of temperature-stable RF filters on composite substrates based on a single crystal LiTaO3 layer on Silicon

Thomas Baron (Frec|n|sys)

15:25

15:55

Coffee Break

Session 4 - Passive Technology IV

15:55

16:20

Invited Talk: Microwave Plasma as power-induced limiter in microwave devices

Kamel Frigui (University of Limoges)

16:20

16:40

Low-loss RF power combiners using rectangular air-coaxial structures

Avinash Sharma (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

16:40

17:00

Multipactor Analysis considering Chirp Signals excitation

Petronilo Martin-Iglesias (European Space Agency)

17:00

17:15

Sponsor Presentation: High Performance Filters for Space in the Smallest Space

Luca Pelliccia (RF Microtech)

17:30

19:00

Welcome Cocktail

Day 2 - Wednesday 3 April

Newton 1 + Newton 2

Session 5 - RF Systems and Components

09:00

09:25

Invited Talk: After EDRS-A, EDRS-C on its way

Nicolas Le Gallou (European Space Agency))

09:25

09:45

KALOS and DEVAQ projects aimed at the development of innovative Ka to V band components for V/K forward and Ka/Q return repeaters

Francesco Vitulli (Thales Alenia Space)

09:45

10:05

Detection of THz waveforms with the photomixing approach

Florin Lucian Constantin (CNRS)

10:05

10:25

Latest Digital-to-Analog Converter development at Teledyne e2v: 12-bit 8 GSps DAC enabling signal generation up to the K-band

Romain Pilard (Teledyne E2v)

10:25

10:45

Low Phase Noise Dual Redundant Master Local Oscillator Technology Operating in 3 GHz to 13 GHz

Damian Trofimowicz (Spaceforest)

10:45

11:00

Sponsor Presentation: Ways to Space – SpaceForest success story in cooperation with ESA

Jerzy Michalski (SpaceForest)

11:00

11:15

Coffee Break

Session 6 - Time and Frequency Devices

11:15

11:35

An Adaptable, Low Phase Noise Space Qualified Voltage Controlled Oscillator Design Using Discrete Components

Justin Dennison (John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab)

11:35

11:55

mTS - miniature Timing Source

Christian Schori (Orolia Switzerland)

11:55

12:15

Rubidium Pulsed Optically Pumped Clock for Space Industry

Jacopo Belfi (Leonardo)

12:15

12:35

Continuously tunable microwave frequency generation source based-on photonics techniques. Monolithic integration versus Hybrid integration

Alberto Zarzuelo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

12:35

13:00

Sponsor Presentation: Active Phased Antenna Arrays in Highly Flexible and Modular Telecommunication Payloads and Upcoming Test Challenges

Yvonne Weitsch (Rohde&Schwarz)

13:00

14:00

Lunch

Session 7 - Advanced Manufacturing Techniques

14:00

14:25

Invited Talk: Biomass Payload and P-band RF technologies

Florence Hélière (European Space Agency)

14:25

14:45

Ultralight Wide-band Double Ridged Horn Antenna Using Additive Technologies

Hassan Bouazzaoui (Elliptika)

14:45

15:05

Additive manufacturing of high permittivity ceramic-based RF filters

Dominik Brouczek (Lithoz)

15:05

15:25

Low-secondary electron emission under electron bombardment from nanostructured surfaces of microwave devices to avoid multipactor.

Isabel Montero (CSIC)

15:25

15:55

Coffee Break

Session 8 - Modelling and Systems

15:55

16:15

European Schottky Technology for MM&Sub-MM wave Receiver and Transceiver Systems.

Matthias Hoefle (ACST)

16:15

16:35

System-level analysis and modeling of RF and MW circuits exhibiting non linearity and multiscale time constants

Wissam Saabe (Amcad Engineering)

16:35

16:55

Optimising DVB-S2(X) links in nonlinear environments

Mengwei Sun (Heriot-Wyatt University)

16:55

17:20

Sponsor Presentation: Discovering 5G New Radio communication beams with Anritsu MS2090A analyzer

Ferdinand Gerhardes (Anritsu)

17:20

17:45

Sponsor Presentation: RF Power amplifier testing under wideband signals within a vector network analyzer environment

Jean-Pierre Teyssier (Keysight)

18:00

18:15

Pick-up for conference dinner

19:00

22:00

Conference dinner

Day 3 - Thursday 4 April

Newton 1 + Newton 2

Session 9 - High Power Amplification

09:00

09:25

Invited Talk: Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier – development to meet future needs  for Satellite applications

Ernst Bosch (Thales Deutschland)

09:25

09:45

A W-band TWT for Satellite Communications

Craig Robertson (University of Strathclyde)

09:45

10:05

A wideband, large orbit, mm-wave, gyrotron travelling wave amplifier

Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde)

10:05

10:25

On the use of a class-G modulator for continuous envelope tracking

Sophie Paul (Ferdinand Braun Institute)

10:25

10:45

RF Power Characterization Method for Overmoded Waveguides

Andreas Schlaich (Airbus Defence and Space)

10:45

11:15

Coffee Break

Session 10 - MMIC Techniques

11:15

11:40

Invited Talk: Overview of existing GaN Technologies and Recent MMIC Results for Space Applications

Stéphane Piotrowicz (III-V lab)

11:40

12:00

Single chip transmitter with integrated upconverter and PLL for Ku-band M2M applications

Maurice van Wanum (TNO)

12:00

12:20

Development of a V-band MMIC chip-set for Inter-Satellite Links

Patrick Longhi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

12:20

12:40

Behavioral modeling and digital predistortion of K-band GaN MMIC Doherty amplifier

Adrian Kotelba (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland)

12:40

13:00

Design of Ka-band multifunction MMIC for SATCOM applications

Anaël Lohou (Zodiac Data Systems)

13:00

14:00

Lunch

Session 11 - Test and Measurement

14:25

14:45

Measurement and modeling of passive intermodulation in isolators and circulators

Jacques Sombrin (Tesa Laboratory)

14:45

15:05

Measurements versus simulations of the non-linear behaviour a 170 W Ka band TWT with real telecommunication signals

Jerome Puech (CNES)

15:05

15:25

Advanced secondary emission measurements of microwave components.

Isabel Montero (CSIC)

15:25

15:45

Coherent tracking error characterization in microwave transponders

George Slade (Orban Microwave Products)

15:45

16:00

Closing