Description du projet
Une technologie innovante d’orientation de faisceau pour les antennes de communication
Dans le monde moderne, tout se fait sans fil et tout le monde devient mobile. Pour soutenir cette tendance, des appareils électroniques analogiques à plus haute fréquence, plus petits et plus complexes, dotés de capacités d’orientation de faisceau (beam steering), font l’objet de nombreux développements. Le projet SMARTWAVE, financé par l’UE, vise à réinventer, à reconcevoir et à commercialiser le principal élément de base de tout système d’orientation de faisceau: le déphaseur. Les déphaseurs modifient l’angle de phase de transmission d’un signal d’entrée. Ainsi, un mécanisme innovant de déphasage basé sur des métamatériaux reconfigurables promet de permettre une technologie de décalage de phase présentant d’excellentes caractéristiques de performance, une vitesse accrue et une consommation d’énergie réduite.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
92190 MEUDON
France