RF-to-THz Electronics and Waves
RF, Micro- and Millimeter-waves constitute a vital area of electrical engineering encompassing design, modeling, simulation, experimentation and analysis of single devices, circuits, sub-systems and packaging with applications to communications, imaging, fusion energy, radar and sensing systems, biology, energy harvesting and basic science. Faculty and students are engaged in a range of basic and applied research projects that focus on the efficient generation, propagation and detection of electromagnetic energy in the frequency range from approximately 100 MHz to greater than 1 THz. Topics of research include:
- Radio frequency
- High efficiency wide band gap circuits
- Active microwave frequency multiplication networks
- Integrated passive components
- Millimeter-wave phased array antennas
- Conformal antenna arrays
- High power GaN amplifiers and frequency multipliers
- Microfabricated millimeter-wave and THz vacuum electronics sources
- Millimeter-wave passive and active imaging systems
- RF/Microwave/Millimeter-wave packaging
- Millimeter-wave System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations
- Wireless chemical and bio-sensor nodes and reading systems.
