BROADBAND AND SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT MM-WAVE SILICON-BASED RECEIVERS FOR MULTI-GB/S WIRELESS TRANSMISSION
Abstract
Abstract Broadband and spectrally-efficient mm-Wave silicon-based receivers for multi-Gb/s wireless transmission Kaushik Sengupta, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University The objective of this proposal is to develop novel silicon-based communication architectures through a circuits-systems-electromagnetics-signal processing crosscut approach that provides a scalable way of enabling short-range wireless communication towards multi-10s of Gb/s. Extremely high-bandwidth systems in the mm-wave frequencies beyond 100 GHz, have tremendous applications that can enable exciting new technologies both in the military as well as in the consumer space, such as ultrafast wireless communication, high resolution ranging, radar and sensing. However this method of exploiting higher bandwidth by moving to higher operation frequencies soon hits a wall, as we approach the cut-off frequency of the devices. More importantly, moving to higher frequencies leads to much lower efficiency power generation, high noise figure and consequently significantly lower sensitivity. The proposal aims to investigate optimal receiver architectures and fundamental techniques that maximize wireless transmission speed for a given power dissipation. The key towards scalable and efficient wireless architectures reaching towards multi-10s of Gb/s lies in extremely wideband mm-Wave receiver architectures that exploit higher fractional bandwidth architectures at a lower carrier frequency. Simultaneously, exploiting the digital signal processing capability of silicon-based technology, the architecture is expected to operate on spectrally efficient complex modulation, pushing the amount of data that can be squeezed in unit bandwidth. This proposal aims to investigate, analyze, design, fabricate and test silicon-based energy-efficient novel wideband receiver architectures along with broadband integrated antennas operating in the high mmWave frequencies which provide a scalable method of reaching multi-10s of Gb/s in short-range wireless communication.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 22, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512217
Entities
People
- Kaushik Sengupta
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Trustees of Princeton University
- United States Navy