The principal aim of this PhD paper was the application of the new concepts and ideas of Photonic Crystals and Photonic Bandgap (PBG) to microwave and millimetric circuits and, more concretely, to microstrip circuits which is the most common technology in current use in flat microwave circuits.

Thus, for this thesis, the techniques for optimising the functioning of PBG structures in microstrip technology were studied and the various practical applications of these devices were analysed. For

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a mysterious place. Its thick atmosphere is rich in organic compounds. Some of them would be signs of life if they were on our planet. How do they form on Titan? Will they help us to discover how life began on Earth?

ESA’s Huygens probe, arriving at Titan in 2005, will help find answers. Here on Earth, ground-based telescopes are playing their part also. They will help scientists to decide how and where precisely Huygens will land. What will it be –

Designers at Staffordshire University have come up with a solutions package with the potential to make life a lot easier for everyone.

The University’s Centre for Rehabilitation Robotics has spent more than a year involved in PACKAGE, a £1.5 million European Commission project concerned with making small changes to consumer packaging in a bid to improve “openability”

Now after rigorous trials carried out throughout Europe, the Centre are hoping that the world’s bigg

The way antibiotic resistance spreads and possible problems from genes transferring have been identified by researchers from the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, in new evidence about the way genes pass from one bacterium to another. The research is presented today, Monday 7 April 2003, by Dr Karen Scott at the Society for General Microbiology’s Annual Meeting in Edinburgh.

“We all have a huge number of different bacteria in our guts,” says Dr Scott of the Rowett Research Institute, “a

A joint study between St Mary’s Hospital, the Paterson Institute, Christie Hospital, The University of Manchester, Guys Hospital in London, and Cambridge University researching breast cancer has found that women with defects in certain genes have a higher chance of developing breast cancer when they are young than previous estimates. The report calls for more family history information to be taken from young women with breast cancer.

Breast cancer affects one woman in 10 to 12 in the UK, a

Das Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnologie IPT stellt auf der HANNOVER MESSE 2003 vom 7. bis 12. April 2003 ein neues Verfahren zum Präzisionsblankpressen optischer Komponenten aus anorganischen Gläsern vor. Auf einem Gemeinschaftsstand mit der IVAM NRW e. V. (Interessengemeinschaft zur Verbreitung von Anwendungen der Mikrostrukturtechniken) zeigt das Fraunhofer IPT in Halle 6, Stand C22, verschiedene strukturierte Glasoptiken, die mit der Abformtechnologie am Institut hergestellt wurden.