for new concepts and markets in microwave theory and techniques!
The RAMPAnT Workshop presents an overview of current and emerging microwave energy applications in science and industry. It also exposes the MTT community to the recent advancements in electromagnetic modelling techniques relevant to high-power microwave processes, computer-aided optimisation of microwave heating systems, experimental studies in material processing, imaging and measurements for high-power microwave scenarios, and developments of new industrial microwave technologies.
Contemporary applications of microwave power span an increasing number of research and industrial sectors. Beyond widely known microwave heating and thawing of food products, they include sintering of particulate materials, powder metallurgy and metal casting, microwave plasma generation and acceleration of chemical reactions, manufacturing of nanomaterials, processing of biocompatible alloys, and surface coating of polymers. All of the quoted topics are represented in the Workshop programme.
While, on the fundamental level, microwave power applications deal with the same electromagnetic laws as conventional telecommunications, the multidisciplinary field of high power engineering has been historically staying somewhat aside the developments in the "traditional" electromagnetics. As a consequence, this field remains beyond the main scope of interests of the IEEE MTT Society. The RAMPAnT Workshop aims to bring the communities of "classical" and "high power" microwave theory and techniques closer to each other with the hope to initiate information exchange and to identify the areas of common concerns that could be jointly addressed by the experts of both parties.