IMAGINE project : A low cost, high performance, monolithic passive mm-wave imager front-end

• The FP7 Research for SME project IMAGINE - a low cost, high performance monolithic passive mm-wave imager front-end is described in this paper. The main innovation areas for the project are: i) the development of a 94 GHz radiometer chipset and matching circuits suitable for monolithic integration. The chipset consists of a W-band low noise amplifier, fabricated using the commercially available OMMIC D007IH GaAs mHEMT process, and a zero bias resonant interband tunneling diode, fabricated using a patented epi-layer structure that is lattice matched to the same D007IH process; ii) the development of a 94 GHz antenna adapted for low cost manufacturing methods with performance suitable for real-time imaging; iii) the development of a low cost liquid crystal polymer PCB build-up technology with performance suitable for the integration and assembly of a 94 GHz radiometer module; iv) the assembly of technology demonstrator modules. The results achieved in these areas are presented.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

antenna design

liquid crystal polymer

low-noise amplifier

millimeter wave imaging

Millimeter wave technology

radiometer module

resonant interband tunneling diodes

Low cost manufacturing

Millimeter-wave imaging

Millimeter-wave technology

Monolithic integration

Realtime imaging

Technology demonstrators

Antennas

Liquid crystal polymers

Low noise amplifiers

Monolithic integrated circuits

Patents and inventions

Polychlorinated biphenyls

Radiometers

Sensors

Technology

Tunnel diodes

Millimeter waves

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)