Lab equipment

Lab equipment: Microwave lab

  • Vector analyzers:
    • 60GHz Wiltron™ mit Waferprober
    • 40GHz HP™
    • 40GHz Rohde & Schwarz™
    • 8GHz Anritsu™ (mobil)
  • mm-wave receiver:
    • 75GHz - 110GHz Rohde & Schwarz™
    • 220GHz - 330GHz Rohde & Schwarz™
    • 330GHz - 500GHz Rohde & Schwarz™
  • Spectrum analyzer: 40 GHz (Anritsu™), 100 Hz - 2.5 GHz, 2 - 22 GHz (HP™)
  • Noise measurement: 26 GHz with wafer probe (Alessi-MNS)
  • Sampling scopes: 4 GHz / 20 GS/s (Tektronix™), 1 GHz / 5 GS/s (Tektronix™)
  • Generators: 165/330 MHz pulse pattern (Agilent™), UWB digital data analyzer, various RF synthesizers (Anritsu™).

Anechoic room with antenna measuring station

  • Anechoic chamber 900MHz-40GHz
  • Vector network analyzer: 40 GHz (Rohde & Schwarz™)
  • Near field: 10 GHz vector E/H field scanner (speag easy4MRI) with x-y-z stage (Systec™)
  • Far-field antenna measurement system: 2-axis (Orbit™)
  • Control-Units: 4-axis (Orbit™)
  • Calibrated wideband horn antennas: 2 - 32 GHz, (Satimo™)

Chip Antenna Measuring Station

  • mm-wave measuring station 75GHz - 500 GHz
  • variable frequency band due to the use of mm-Wave converters
  • On-chip and waveguide measurements for far-field and multi-port characterization
  • Far-field antenna measuring system: 2.5-axis spherical from DEMCON systec industrial systems
  • 3x 3-axis Cartesian positioning systems for measuring tips and wafer microscope

Characterization and fabrication equipment

  • PCB-Drucker (Voltera V-One)
  • 5-axis CNC Mill (Pocket NC)
  • Filament 3D-Printer (Ultimaker)
  • Swiss-to-12 MCK: Systems for material characterization for the frequency bands: 26-40GHz, 110-170GHz (Swiss-to-12)

Computational software and machines

  • 3D-FDTD: EMPIRE XPU™ / SEMCAD™ / Sim4Life™ (Physics-EM-Solver) / OpenEMS (Eigenentwicklung, open source) / MEEP (open source)
  • 3D-MoM: WIPL-D™ / ADS Momentum™
  • 3D-FEM: COMSOL Multiphysics™ (Module: RF, AC/DC, Heat Transfer, Battery & Fuel Cells, Wave Optics, Microfluidics, Live Link) / HFSS™ / Sim4Life™ (Physics-Quasistatic-Solver)
  • 3D-MoM/GTD: FEKO™
  • 2D/3D-FD: Highly efficient electrostatic simulators (in-house developments)
  • Microwave Simulation Platform: ADS (Agilent™)
  • Math: Mathworks MATLAB™
  • 1* Dual Intel Xeon E5-2697 V4 / 2.33GHZ / 512GB RAM (Dell)
  • 1* Dual Intel Xeon Bronze 3106 / 1.70GHZ / 512GB RAM / 4* Tesla P100 (Supermicro
  • 1* Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 V3 / 2.67GHz / 192GB RAM (Dell)
  • 1* Intel Xeon Gold 6152 / 2.10GHz / 192GB RAM (Dell)
  • 2* Intel Xeon Gold 6152 / 2.10GHz / 96GB RAM (Dell)
  • 2* AMD EPYC 7401P / 2.00GHz / 128GB RAM (Supermicro)
  • 1* AMD EPYC 7F72 / 3.20GHz / 128GB RAM (Supermicro)
  • 1* AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950x / 4.40GHz / 128GB RAM (Gigabyte)
  • 1* AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 32-Cores/ 3.50GHz / 512GB RAM (Gigabyte)