Fermilab Capabilities: RF Engineering

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Fermilab Capabilities RF Engineering

• Notes from discussion with Dave McGinnis of
  Fermilab Accelerator Division
• Team 2-3 scientists / 2-3 engineers / 2-3
  technicians
• Microwave Experience
• Octave Bandwidth systems up to 10 GHz
• Hybrid microwave circuits
• Test equipment up to 40 GHz (up to 26 GHz
  mostly)
• Circuit design and simulation
• Design tools
• Ansoft-HFSS microwave EM simulations
• ADS-Agilent microwave circuit design
• Example topics
• Matching networks power or noise matching over
  wide bandwidth
• Polarization cross-talk
• Integral system analysis of noise temperature
• How to test at 90 GHz?
• Expected Workload
• Project X Accelerator Upgrade
• High-Intensity Neutrino Source

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• Tools
• 3 KS 8090 Wedge Bonding Machines
• 1 Research Devices Flip-Chip Bonder
• 1 KS Deep-Access Bonding Machine
• Disco DAD320 Wafer Dicing Saw
• Several (Warm) Probe Stations (old vintage)
• and Optical Inspection stations
• Several Coordinate Measuring Machines
• gt10,000 sqft clean room space exceeding
• class 10,000
• 3000 sqft clean room space exceeding

Fermilab Capabilities Microdetector Assembly
CMS Forward Silicon Pixel Detector