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By Herbert Zirath

Oct 27, 2014

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On October 22nd, researchers from Chalmers University of
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Technology and Ericsson Research presented an

attention-grabbing record of 40 Gbps bitrate for a single
carrier chipset in the 140 GHz band. The work was
presented in the breaking news session at the Compound
Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium conference
(CSICS) in San Diego, California.
The rise of the mobile broadband has triggered a demand for
increased bandwidth and spectrum for mobile services. In the
coming years we will see an increased commercial use of radio
access services on microwave and mm-wave frequencies. As
a consequence, fixed wireless broadband services will be
pushed towards higher frequency bands in order to find
spectrum to be able to cope with the capacity needs.
Today, the highest frequency band in commercial use is the
70-80 GHz band. One motivation behind the work presented at
CSICS is to push the spectrum frontier further beyond 100
GHz, where large chunks of currently unused spectra are
available. A second aim is to develop hardware for wireless
data communication with the possibility to support bitrates
above 100 Gigabit per second. Key technologies to reach
these goals are newly developed integrated circuit processes
in Silicon and Indium Phosphide (InP). The first chipset with
fairly high level of integration was newly designed, fabricated,
and tested. It is based on a bipolar transistor process from
Teledyne Scientific. The D-band (110-170 GHz) chipset is
designed for a center frequency of 140 GHz. In order to
demonstrate the huge bandwidth of this technology, a record
high bitrate of 40 Gbps was achieved with direct I-Q
modulation, using Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK).
This is twice as fast as the previous world record at a
comparable frequency. As a result of the record, the
researchers was asked to present their results under the
heading Breaking News at the Compound Semiconductor
Integrated Circuits Symposium conference in San Diego.

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Figure 1: This photo shows the 140 GHz transmitter chip,

containing an I-Q modulator, a 3-stage amplifier, and a x3
frequency multiplier for the local oscillator. The chip was
designed by Sona Carpenter, Herbert Zirath, and Mingquan
Bao. Data-transmission measurements was done by Simon
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He. The chip size is 1.61.2 mm2.

At the conference, the research team from Chalmers will also
present a 320 GHz receiver chip in the same InP technology,
with an integrated antenna, sub-harmonic mixer, and an IF
buffer amplifier, suitable for beam-steering and multi pixel
imaging arrays.
The project has been funded by SSF, The Swedish Foundation
for Strategic Research and the Swedish research Council
(VR).
Herbert Zirath, Ericsson Research and Chalmers
Chalmers Press Release

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