Dr. Andrea Pallotta (ST-Micro) presented the paper “SiGe:BiCMOS technology is enabling D-band link with Active Phased Antenna Array” at the European Conference on Networks and Communications 2021 (EuCNC 2021) 8-11 June 2021; The paper describes the chips-set and components developed within the DREAM project, assembled in a D-band transceiver demonstrator... read more →
Jun
15
Feb
17
Dr Jussi Säily, of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, gives a talk “Advanced mm-wave phased array design” at the symposium, presenting results of the DREAM project and introducing the evolutions expected within the DRAGON project. The symposium is online the day of February 18, 2021, 1:00-3:00 pm. Detailed program... read more →
Feb
16
The promising results of DREAM led to its prosecution with a new advanced program “D-band RAdio 5G netwOrk techNology”, DRAGON, officially started in December 2020. The DRAGON project vision and objectives rely on a power efficient and silicon based BiCMOS transceiver analog front end, operating in D-band and enabling... read more →
Jan
25
Advancement of the DREAM project will be presented at 3rd Towards Terahertz Communications Workshop (FRI 12-Mar-2021; online). The workshop will host THz comms researchers from both industry and academia. Topics cover the latest EU projects results, future challenges and industrial perspective on THz comms. In addition to presentations there... read more →
Dec
16
New market demands create a strong connection between packaging & RF. RF electronics is currently experiencing strong growth, driven mostly by 5G requirements and connected devices. Examples of RF electronics include connectivity modules in smartphones and smartwatches, and radar for ADAS vehicles. These are growing systems requiring innovative packaging solutions... read more →
Dec
10
A paper describing the programmable D-band phase shifter developed within the DREAM project is available on IEEE Xplore: D. del Rio, I. Gurutzeaga, R. Berenguer, I. Huhtinen and J. F. Sevillano, "A Compact and High-Linearity 140-160 GHz Active Phase Shifter in 55 nm BiCMOS," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components... read more →
Nov
16
During the last ETSI ATTM TM4 #64 meeting, NOKIA presented a contribution on “New Antenna introduction” connected to the DMI ATTM 0451 on “Preliminary study on RPE for 92-114.25 GHz and 130-174.8 GHz bands”. The main scope of this contribution was to open a wider discussion on how new kind... read more →
Oct
28
During the last ETSI ISG mWT #7 meeting, NOKIA presented a contribution on “New Antennas Classification” as a contribution to current Work Item #27 mWT "Use of innovative antenna systems". Scope of the contribution was to rise the attention on new antenna approaches enabled by the use of frequency bands... read more →
Jun
25
A paper describing DREAM antennas has been accepted for publication and available on IEEE Xplore: A.Lamminen, J. Säily, J. Ala-Laurinaho, J. de Cos and V. Ermolov, "Patch Antenna and Antenna Array on Multilayer High-Frequency PCB for D-band" in IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/OJAP.2020.3004533. This paper presents... read more →
Feb
03
DREAM researcher Mahmoud Mahdipour Pirbazari from the University of Pavia has received a predoctoral achievement award by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society https://sscs.ieee.org/membership/awards/predoctoral-achievement-award?highlight=WyJwcmVkb2N0b3JhbCIsImF3YXJkIiwiYXdhcmQncyJd. AIC Lab of the University of Pavia is responsible for designing the D-band local oscillation (LO) chain to be used in the DREAM's wireless link supporting data rates up to... read more →