Development of a 210 GHz near-field measurement radar system based on an antenna-integrated MMIC receiver front-end and an ultra-compact HBV transmitter source module

Jan Svedin; Jan Kjellgren; Staffan Rudner; Gunnar Thordarsson; Sten Gunnarsson; Niklas Wadefalk; Serguei Cherednichenko; Iltcho Angelov; Herbert Zirath; Jan Stake; Tomas Bryllert; Josip Vukusic

doi:10.1117/12.800247

Development of a 210 GHz near-field measurement radar system based on an antenna-integrated MMIC receiver front-end and an ultra-compact HBV transmitter source module
Paper in proceeding, 2008

The development of a 210 GHz radar system intended to study security applications such as personnel scanning is reported. The system is designed to operate with a transmit antenna floodlighting the target scene and a mechanically scanned antenna-integrated receiver module. For increased performance and potential future volume production the receiver front-end is based on highly integrated MMICs manufactured using the IAF 0.1 µm GaAs mHEMT process made available through a Swedish-German MoU. A single-chip MMIC solution is being developed containing feed antenna, LNA, mixer and an LO multiplier-chain. The transmitter part is based on a high-power HBV quintupler source-module.

heterostructure barrier varactors

HBV

millimeterwave radar

Millimeter wave antennas

radar measurements

synthetic aperture radar

MMIC receivers

millimeter wave generation

frequency multipliers

millimeter wave frequency conversion

Author

Jan Svedin

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)