Active Integrated Antenna Front-End Technology for Future Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communications

用于未来毫米波无线通信的有源集成天线前端技术

• 批准号: 9979286
• 负责人: Tatsuo Itoh
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-15 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9979286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Active; Integrated; Antenna; Front; End

This proposal will address three important and highly synergistic technical challenges for successful implementation of future generation millimeter-wave wireless communications systems, i.e., device, antenna and propagation, within a unified context. The concept of active integrated antennas will be explored extensively for optimal designing of both high-efficiency transmitting amplifiers and high-sensitivity receivers with adaptive capabilities. For instance, a novel push-pull power amplifier with integrated planar antennas for harmonic tuning and power combining, and a broadband, MMIC-compatible receiving array integrated with our recently invented quasi-Yagi antennas will be developed. To reach the proposed design objectives, unconventional CAD approaches such as global antenna/circuit/device EM simulation, and measurement techniques unique to highly integrated RF front ends, will be investigated as well.

该提案将解决三个重要且高度协同的技术挑战，以成功实施未来一代毫米波无线通信系统，即设备，天线和传播，在统一的环境中。主动集成天线的概念将进行广泛的探索，以最佳设计具有适应性功能的高效传输放大器和高敏性接收器。例如，将开发出一种新型的推力功率放大器，其中包含用于谐波调整和功率组合的集成平面天线，以及将开发与我们最近发明过的准耶阿吉天线集成的宽带，MMIC兼容的接收阵列。为了达到提出的设计目标，也将研究非常规的CAD方法，例如全局天线/电路/设备EM模拟，以及高度集成的RF前端的测量技术。