Millimeter Wave Technologies

Research foci

• Massive MIMO 5G (sub-6GHz and mmWave) transceiver frontends
• Design of mmWave and sub-THz RF integrated circuits (PA, PLL, Phase Shifters, LNAs, Mixers) in advanced silicon technologies
• (Ultra)-low power RF circuit design and wire­less power transfer (WPT)
• Radar sensor signal process­ing including machine learning and sensor fusion
• Inter­fer­ence reduc­tion and coex­is­tence of heterogenous wireless systems
• Agile analog/RF IC design
• RF ICs for secure wireless networks
• System architecture and analysis of phase-array/MIMO RF front-ends

Research competencies

• RF, mm-wave and sub-THz integrated circuit design in cutting edge CMOS (bulk, FinFET, SOI) and bipolar technologies
• Wire­less proto­cols and stan­dards (RFID, 802.15.3, LTE (incl. NB-IOT), 5G, ...) knowledge for transceiver design and testbed communication development
• RF and mmWave PCB Design
• A complete set of integrated circuits CAD tools are available to support systems, circuit and device modeling as well as design of SoC ASICs
• The access to silicon technologies are enabled via Europractice production service
• Equipped laboratory for testing integrated circuit proof-of-concept prototypes (RF and mmWave frontend building blocks) on PCB
• Virtual proto­typing, measure­ment and testing

Applications

• mmWave and sub-6GHz transceivers for 5G base station massive MIMO antenna arrays
• OTA testbed for radar and 5G mmWave communication devices