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Engineers invent breakthrough millimeter-wave circulator IC
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| Engineers invent breakthrough millimeter-wave circulator IC
Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Harish Krishnaswamy, associate professor of electrical engineering, in collaboration with Professor Andrea Alu's group from UT-Austin, continue to break new ground in developing magnet-free non-reciprocal components in modern semiconductor processes. At the IEEE Inter- national Solid-State Circuits Conference in February, Krishnaswamy's group un- veiled a new device: the first magnet-free non-reciprocal circulator on a silicon chip that operates at millimeter-wave frequencies (frequencies near and above 30GHz). Following up on this work, in a paper published today in Nature Commu- nications, the team demonstrated the physical principles behind the new device. Most devices are reciprocal: signals travel in the same manner in for- ward and reverse directions. Nonreciprocal devices, such as circulators, on the other hand, allow forward and reverse signals to traverse different paths and therefore be separated. Traditionally, nonreciprocal devices have been built from special magnetic materials that make them bulky, expensive, and not suitable for consumer wireless electronics. The team has developed a new way to enable nonreciprocal transmis- sion of waves: using carefully synchronized high-speed transistor switches that route forward and reverse waves differently. In effect, it is similar to two trains approaching each other at super-high speeds that are detoured at the last moment so that they do not collide. The key advance of this new approach is that it enables circulators to be built in conventional semiconductor chips and operate at millimeter-wave frequencies, enabling full-duplex or two-way wireless. Virtually all elec- tronic devices currently operate in half-duplex mode at lower radio- frequencies (below 6GHz), and consequently, we are rapidly running out of bandwidth. Full-duplex communications, in which a transmitter and a re- ceiver of a transceiver operate simultaneously on the same frequency chan- nel, enables doubling of data capacity within existing bandwidth. Going to 96 the higher mm-wave frequencies, 30GHz and above, opens up new band- width that is not currently in use. “This gives us a lot more real estate,” notes Krishnaswamy, whose Co- lumbia High-Speed and Mm-wave IC (CoSMIC) Lab has been working on silicon radio chips for full duplex communications for several years. His method enables loss-free, compact, and extremely broadband non-reciprocal behavior, theoretically from DC to daylight that can be used to build a wide range of non-reciprocal components such as isolators, gyrators, and circula- tors. “This mm-wave circulator enables mm-wave wireless full-duplex com- munications, Krishnaswamy adds, and this could revolutionize emerging 5G cellular networks, wireless links for virtual reality, and automotive radar.” The implications are enormous. Self-driving cars, for instance, require low-cost fully-integrated millimeter-wave radars. These radars inherently need to be full-duplex, and would work alongside ultra-sound and camera- based sensors in self-driving cars because they can work in all weather con- ditions and during both night and day. The Columbia Engineering circulator could also be used to build millimeter-wave full-duplex wireless links for VR headsets, which currently rely on a wired connection or tether to the computing device. The team, funded by sources including the National Science Foundation EFRI program, the DARPA SPAR program, and Texas Instruments, is cur- rently working to improve the linearity and isolation performance of their circulator. Their long-term goal is to build a large-scale mm-wave full- duplex phased array system that uses their circulator. Materials provided by Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171006085919.htm Text 5 жүктеу/скачать 2,39 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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