The modulation of millimeter-wave transmission through a silicon wafer upon photoexcitation is typically very inefficient for off-the-shelf low effective charge carrier lifetime wafers, requiring tens kilowatts photoexciting intensity to generate significant modulation. Here we demonstrate that increasing the light-matter interaction millimeter waves using diffractively coupled waveguide modes ...

This paper presents the analysis, design and implementation of a millimeter-wave W-band power detector. Fabricated in a 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology, the detector circuit exhibits a responsivity of 91 kV/W, a noise equivalent power of 0.5 pW/Hz, and a noise figure of 29 dB. The power dissipation of the detector is 75 μW. Reasonable agreement between simulations and measurements is obtained. T...

In this paper, the research advances in SIW-like (Substrate Integrated Waveguide-like) guided wave structures and their applications in the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves of China is reviewed. Our work is concerned with the investigations on the propagation characteristics of SIW, half-mode SIW (HMSIW) and the folded HMSIW (FHMSIW) as well as their applications in microwave and millim...

A new generation of high-frequency integrated circuits is presented, which is called substrate integrated circuits (SICs). Current state-of-the-art of circuit design and implementation platforms based on this new concept are reviewed and discussed in detail. Different possibilities and numerous advantages of the SICs are shown for microwave, millimeter-wave and optoelectronics applications. Pra...

The IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions on Electronics announces a forthcoming special section on "Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technologies" to be published in October 2018. Wireless communications have been developed toward higher operational frequencies to achieve higher data rate, and microwave and millimeter-wave technologies have become ...

A novel MEMS thermopile structure is presented, which consist of linearly arranged pand ntype polysilicon strips instead of the conventional loop-like configuration. It is shown that these devices sense the millimeter wave radiation beyond the infrared. The polarity and frequency dependence of the sensitivity prove that these strips behave as absorbing antennas towards the microwave/millimeter ...

12  Abstract — We have proposed and demonstrated a novel architecture of a radio over fiber (RoF) system in this paper. In this downlink system, the base band data signals are carried by the optical millimeter-wave generated at the central station and converted to the electrical RF signal by a converter at the base station before we distribute them through antenna. Here we generate and transmi...

Millimeter wave technology being an emerging area is still very undeveloped. A substantial research needs to be done in this area as its applications are numerous. In the present endeavor, a rectangular patch antenna is designed on thick substrate and simulated using SONNET software, also a novel analysis technique is developed for circular patch antenna for millimeter wave frequency. The anten...

Abstract—In this article, the design of an electromagnetically-coupled millimeter-wave elliptical patch array antenna prepared to work in the 56–65 GHz (14.8%) frequency band is presented. The introduced antenna array is designed for low-loss, high-gain and low cross-polarization levels. The proposed antenna exhibits a measured gain of 8 dBi and good linear polarization across the desired frequ...

A new technique is presented which enables the fabrication of highly transparent Josephson junctions in combination with mesoscopic devices. We utilize a modified AFM tip to plough grooves into superconducting material, thus defining a weak link. This weak link is made within the su-perconducting split-gates, which are used to electrostatically form a conventional quantum dot and serves as a so...