Spectrum Efficient D-band Communication Link for Real-time Multi-gigabit Wireless Transmission
Paper in proceeding, 2018

This manuscript presents results of wireless real-time data transmission at 143 GHz. The transmitter/receiver (Tx/Rx) front-end circuitry is integrated on a single monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), realized in a 250-nm indium phosphide (InP) double heterojunction bipolar transistor (DHBT) technology. The Tx module shows gain of 12 dB at 143 GHz with output power of -2.3 dBm at 1 dB gain compression. The Rx module has a gain of 15 dB with noise figure (NF) of 13 dB at 143 GHz. The minimum NF of 10 dB is measured at 132 GHz. The Tx/Rx front-end modules were integrated in two radio units to demonstrate a real time wireless data transmission. At a distance of 10 m and using 40 dBi gain antennas, the highest data rate achieved was 5.3 Gbit/s using 64 QAM modulation over a 1 GHz channel with spectrum efficiency of 5bit/s/Hz.

monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs)

Millimeter-wave (mmW) integrated circuits

Millimeter wave communication quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)

Author

Vessen Vassilev

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Zhongxia Simon He

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Sona Carpenter

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Herbert Zirath

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Yu Yan

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Ahmed Adel Hassona

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Mingquang Bao

Ericsson

Thomas Emanuelsson

Ericsson

Jingjing Chen

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Mikael Horberg

Ericsson

Yinggang Li

Ericsson

Jonas Hansryd

Ericsson

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

0149645X (ISSN)

1523-1526
978-1-5386-5067-7 (ISBN)

IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium
Philadelphia, PA, USA,

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439258

ISBN

9781538650677

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