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Space Passive Component Days

2nd SPCD - International Symposium

12 - 14 October 2016

ESA/ESTEC

Wednesday 12 October 2016

 New Developments Part 1

Chairpersons : Tomas Zednicek – EPCI & Denis Lacombe – ESA

 SAFECAP : Ionic Liquid Supercapacitor

                    CB Buffry

                    HUTCHINSON RESEARCH CENTER, France

 

 Silicon Capacitors - Development and Space Pre-Evaluation

                     J. Sanchez del Rio Saez¹, E.Cordero Cordero¹, D. Lopez Lopez¹, Mr Lengignon², Dr L. Farhat³

                        ¹Alter Technology, Spain ²IPDIA,, France ³ESA - European Space Agency/Product Assurance & Safety Department,, Netherlands

 Polymer Tantalum Capacitors for Advanced High Reliability Applications

                    JP Petrzilek, MU Uher, MB Biler

         AVX Czech Republic s.r.o., Czech Republic

 Evaluation of a new ceramic dielectric for both low and high voltage applications

          H.M LAVILLE, PS ESCURE

          EXXELIA TECHNOLOGY, France

          New Developments Part 2

Chairpersons:  Andreas Billstrom  -  RUAG & Léo Farhat - ESA
 

 Low-loss millimeter-wave self-biased circulators : materials, design and characterization

          VL Laur¹, RL Lebourgeois², EL Laroche³, JLM Mattei¹, PQ Queffelec¹, JPG Ganne², GM Martin³

¹Lab-STICC / UBO, France ²Thales Research & Technology,, France ³Chelton Telecom & Microwave trading as Cobham Microwave,, France

  Surface mountable compact Ka-band filter in multilayer micromachining technology

            P. Farinelli

           RF Microtech, Italy

Nanoprocessing and micromachining technologies of GaN/Si for sensors and filters operating at frequencies above 5 GHz

A. Muller¹, G. Konstantinidis², S. Iordanescu¹, A. Stavrinidis², A. Stefanescu¹, I. Giangu¹, A. Dinescu¹, T. Kostopoulos²

               ¹IMT - Bucharest, Romania ²FORTH-IESL-MRG Heraklion,, Greece

New Developments Part 3

Chairpersons:  Andreas Billstrom – RUAG & Léo Farhat – ESA
 

 Connector Press-Fit Technology for space-flight applications

          JBS Sauveplane¹, GCM Mindreci², DM Morilla³

                  ¹CNES, France ²POSITRONIC,, France ³ALTER Technology,, Spain

Multi-modular power and RF miniature connectors

          NK Kellett¹, GR Rouchaud²

¹Axon' Cable Ltd, United Kingdom ²Axon' Cable SAS,, France

 

Thursday 13 October 2016
 

Materials and Processes

Chairpersons:  Laurence Cosqueric – ADS & Jean-Paul Bussenot- CNES

Passive component embedding in printed circuit boards for space applications

          MC Cauwe¹, BVDC Vandecasteele¹, GS Schmid², CG Galler², JDH De Hert³, SDC De Cuyper³

          ¹Imec, Belgium ²AT&S,, Austria ³QinetiQ Space,, Belgium
 

Highest capacitance at higher voltages: Pushing the limits of tantalum high voltage capacitors

   M. Hagymási

          H.C. Starck, Germany

 Printed heaters for non-planar space applications

 D. Godlinski¹, R. Dr. Schlitt²

                       ¹Fraunhofer IFAM, Germany ²OHB System AG,, Germany

 Minibend CTR - Phase Invariant Cable Assemblies

          Hasteen Jobalia

          HUBER+SUHNER Astrolab, United States of America

Recent Developments in Coaxial Interconnection Cable Materials to Minimize Temperature Induced Phase Errors

David Slack
Times microwave, United States of America

Application, Trends & Needs
Chairpersons: Andreas Billstrom - RUAG &  Jean-Baptiste Sauveplane – CNES

 Improving overall RF system performance by using coaxial splitters, combiners and couplers with integral isolators

             S. Liller

             Airbus, United Kingdom

Improving Signal Integrity performance in high speed integrateds circuit packages with application of coaxial wire-bonding technology

            B.R. Rosenberger

           Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik, Germany

           Spring probe contact solutions for solderless interconnections (Interposers)

           CM Carlson

           Smiths Connectors, France

            Why and how to use tantalum capacitors in satellites secondary DC Bus?

           ME EVRARD¹, BR mr RONSE²

             ¹ Exxelia Group (Exxelia Supply), France ²Exxelia Sic-Safco,, France

Application, Trends & Needs Part 2

Chairpersons : Manuel Morales – ALTER &  Guido Joormann - DLR

Evaluation and Qualification of Commercial Off-The-Shelf Supercapacitors for Space Applications

 BF FAURE¹, LC COSQUERIC¹, VG GINESTE¹, DL LATIF², PV VASINA², DL LACOMBE³, BB BÜRGLER³, MS SIMCAK⁴

 ¹AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, France ²EGGO Space s.r.o.,, Czech Republic ³European Space Agency (ESTEC),, Netherlands  ⁴CSRC spol. s.r.o., Czech Republic

  High data rate solutions with new cable and connector technologies

          NK Kellett¹, GR Rouchaud², SH Hermant², KE Enouf²

               ¹Axon' Cable Ltd, United Kingdom ²Axon' Cable SAS,  France

  Piezoelectric components for usual space and cryogenic environment

FB Barillot¹, FBo Bourgain¹, CBy Belly¹, C. Allegranza², D. Lacombe³

¹Cedrat Technologies, France ²ATG-Europe B.V.,  Nederland ³ESA,  Nederland

 Assessment of the Rules on Heater De-Rating

          R. Schlitt¹, B.C. Sander², B. Bonnafous³

¹OHB System AG, Germany ²Zarm-Technik,, Germany ³ESA, Netherlands

 

Interactive panel discussion on:

          “Commercial vs. COTS+ vs. Qualified passive components for space applications”

Tomáš Zedníček, Ph.D.

EPCI, European Passive Components Institute

Capacitor Failure Modes – Lessons from Industry

Nick Aitken

Edif ERA

 

Friday 14 October 2016

Test, Reliability & Evaluation for space

Chairpersons: :Teva Ihorai – TAS & Ismail Feldkamp- OHB

ESTEC's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory capabilities on testing passive components.

          J. Jimenez Carreira¹, NC Carthew²

               ¹ATG-EUROPE for ESA/ESTEC, Nederland ²Ajilon B.V. for ESA/ESTEC,, Nederland

 Feedback of 5 years of failure analysis on passive components from all electronic sectors .

          BM MOREAU, EZ mr ZAIA

          SERMA TECHNOLOGIES, France

Effects of ambient atmosphere on reliability of solid tantalum capacitors

          Y. Freeman, P. Lessner

          KEMET Electronics Co, United States of America

Evaluation of 10V chip polymer tantalum capacitors for space applications

          A.T. Teverovsky

          ASRC, United States of America

Miniaturization of metallized polyester film capacitors

          Tchavdar DOYTCHINOV

          Exxelia Technologies (Eurofarad), France

Evaluation & Qualification

Chairpersons : Dominique Ducasse - TAS &  Thomas Gaul - TESAT

Evaluation and qualification of ferrite isolators and circulators for space applications

          J.M. Bureau¹, A. Boisse², E. NGO MANDAG², S. Kurt², E. Laroche²

            ¹COBHAM MICROWAVE, France ²COBHAM MICROWAVE, R&D, France

SMP-LOCKⓇ THE ULTIMATE SECURE CONNECTION

          Olivier Berenfeld

         Radiall, France,

Custom-designed circuit protection solutions for future space applications

          B. Zemp, P. Straub, T. Flury

          SCHURTER AG, Switzerland

Design, Manufacture and Test Techniques for Multipactor Free RF Devices

          KS Shamsaifar, T. Rodriguez, J. Haas

         Sierra Microwave Technology, United States of America

Evaluation & Qualification Part 2

Chairman : Bertrand Marty – CNES &  Tomas Zednicek - EPCI

Tantalum SMD capacitors with manganese dioxide and conductive polymer counter electrode for space  applications

              A.T. Tomás¹, CMC Mota Caetano¹, RM Monteiro¹, DL Lacombe²

              ¹KEMET, SA Portugal, Portugal ²ESTEC: European Space Research and Technology Centre, Nederland

Base Metal Ceramic Capacitor Design and Manufacturing for Space and Military applications.

          E.J. Marshall, F mr Hodgkinson

AVX Ltd., United Kingdom

Ultra-miniature, ultra-rugged, and ultra-stable high performance Space grade OCXO and high reliability 5x7mm SMT 4-point mount crystal oscillators for space applications.

          R. Duong

         Q-TECH CORPORATION, Taiwan