6G wireless communication links operating at frequencies beyond 200 GHz : an analysis of their performance and main limitations / by Pedro Rodríguez Vázquez. Wuppertal, February 2021
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Context
- Introduction
- Current status of mobile communication networks
- The high mm-Wave and THz bands
- SoA of fully-electronic wireless communication links for frequencies beyond 200 GHz
- Central Research Question and Contributions
- Thesis Structure
- Digital Communications
- RF Front-ends for Wireless Communications
- Tx and Amplifier-first Rx RF-front-end modules
- Transmitter and Amplifier-first Receiver Architecture
- ×16 IQ LO generation path
- Tx up-conversion path
- Rx down-conversion path
- On-Chip antenna and BB packaging scheme
- RF Characterization
- Wireless Communication Link
- Conclusions
- Mixer-First Receiver RF front-end
- Introduction
- Mixer-First Rx Architecture
- RF characterization
- Wireless Communication Link
- Conclusions
- IQ-polarized Tx and Rx RF front-ends
- Introduction
- Tx and Rx Architecture
- Operation principle
- ×8 Lo generation path
- Tx up-conversion path
- Rx down-conversion path
- Linear Dual-Polarization antenna
- Packaging
- RF characterization
- Wireless Link Results
- Measured link results
- EVM analysis
- Wireless link performance for different Tx/Rx azimuthal rotations
- Conclusions
- MIMO RF front-end
- Conclusion and future outlook