Descripción del proyecto
Tecnología innovadora de orientación del haz para antenas de comunicación
En el mundo moderno, todo se hace inalámbrico y todas las personas están conectadas. Para sostener esta tendencia, cada vez se desarrollan más componentes electrónicos analógicos de mayor frecuencia, más pequeños y más complejos con capacidades de orientación del haz. El objetivo del proyecto SMARTWAVE, financiado con fondos europeos, es reinventar, rediseñar y comercializar los componentes básicos principales de cualquier sistema de orientación del haz: el desfasador. Los desfasadores cambian el ángulo de fase de la transmisión de una señal de entrada. Un novedoso mecanismo de desfasador basado en metamateriales reconfigurables promete hacer posible una tecnología de desfasador con excelentes características de rendimiento, mayor velocidad y menor consumo energético.
Objetivo
In the modern world everything goes wireless and everyone goes mobile. To sustain this trend, higher frequency, smaller, more complex analogue electronics with beam steering capabilities are becoming ubiquitous. SMARTWAVE capitalizes on a newly identified technology combination to reinvent, design, fabricate and commercialize the main building block of any beam steering capable system, the phase shifter. A novel phase shifting mechanism based on reconfigurable metamaterials promises to enable phase shifting technology with excellent performance characteristics, increased speed and reduced power consumption.
SMARTWAVE technology is easily implemented in existing semiconductor fabrication lines and is inherently compatible with both III-V as well as Si and SiGe fabrication process. This ensures easy adoption of the novel idea into existing markets. To prove this, SMARTWAVE aims at demonstrating the phase shifting prototype in both technological platforms building a III-V based, K-band version to be included in a demonstrator phase array antenna for Satcomm and / or Radar applications as well as an advanced radar chipset fabricated in SiGe BiCMOS technology operating at 120GHz.
SMARTWAVE capitalizes on that technology and an agile consortium made of 1 large company, 3 SME’s with unique high tech knowledge and an academic partner with extensive III-V fabrication experience in radar modules to provide a fast track to commercialization from the design board all the way to Radar and Satcomm systems.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringanalogue electronics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-EIC-FETPROACT-2019
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
92190 MEUDON
Francia