Personnel
Lei Yan, PhD student
Tom Keinicke Johansen, Associate professor
Viktor Krozer, Professor
Period
1 Oct 2007 - 1 Oct 2010
Funding
DTU funding
Background
We are faced with an increasing research and commercial demand for integrated circuits (MMIC) for communications, remote sensing and instrumentation systems operating at frequencies approaching terahertz (THz) frequencies. These concentrate especially at E-band (60–90 GHz), D-band (110–170 GHz), G-band (140–220 GHz), and beyond. These MMIC will have several promising markets including wireless broadband communications systems with data speeds of several Gbit/s at E-band, sub-millimetre-wave (submm-wave) heterodyne receivers for future instruments in Earth observation and space science, and low-noise receivers employed in imaging instrumentation for security applications.
For a few years now, there have been very intense development efforts worldwide on imaging for security applications. It can be expected that the market for mm/sub-mm wave components and modules will grow significantly. Also, it can be expected that mm/sub-mm wave imaging will increasingly be developed for space and military applications.
Description
The project is to design and realize an integrated circuit (IC) for sub-millimetre-wave applications from E band up to 600 GHz.
Start from the characterization of high frequency active component, to active device modeling, circuit simulation, and further the investigation of electromagnetic simulation. Finally, the project outcome will be MMIC components for receiver and transmitter applications in the bands E-band or D-band, G-band and at least one sub-harmonic mixer design operating around 600 GHz by using physical schottky diode model complied in ADS. The concentration will be also on the sensitivity, especially 1/f noise performance for the designed MMIC components. In particular, receiver components such as low noise amplifier, mixer, and power amplifier will be also analyzed in this project.
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