WICAT AND NYU WIRELESS
RF Integrated Circuits and Millimeter-Wave Lab
Lab Now Available for Outside Users
The WICAT and NYU WIRELESS RFIC laboratory, which houses the equipment listed below, is now available, on a selective as-available basis, to instutitions, agencies, and companies interested in using our state-of-the-art hardware and software suites. Companies only need to supply their own probe tips, cables, and calibration ISS standards. For hourly rates or more information, please email your contact information and a brief description of your project with your lab needs to Leslie Cerve at cerve@cs.nyu.edu OR to Valarie Davis at vdavis@poly.edu.
L. Ragan, A. Hassibi, T. S. Rappaport, C. L. Christianson, "Novel On-Chip Antenna Structures and Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) Approaches for Millimeter Wave Devices," IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Baltimore, MD, Oct. 1-3, 2007, pp. 2051-2055.
Vector Network Analyzer (Agilent E8361A)
- Measures 10 MHz to 67 GHz
- Data sheet and Tech specs
- This VNA contains options: 014, UNL, 080, 081
Air Suspended Workstation (Kinetic Systems 1200 series workstation)
- 1" thick critically damped steel with automatic leveling and height control
- Air suspension damps out vibrations with efficiencies approaching 99%
Probe Station (Cascade Microtech Infinity Probe)
- Summit 11101B
Probe Tips (Cascade Microtech Infinity Probe)
- GSG and GSGSG probes reduce fringing effects
- Coaxial to co-planar waveguide probe tips
Two Signal Generators (Agilent E8257D)
- Provides signals 250 kHz - 67 GHz
- Can be used for LO substitution, low jitter clock replacement
- Can also be used for testing mixers, running intermodulation product tests
Spectrum Analyzer (Agilent E4407B ESA-E Standard Analyzer)
- Measurements 9 kHz -26.5 GHz (up to 67 GHz with down converter)
Down Converter (Agilent N8975A)
- RF input (50-63.5 GHz) ; RF output (18-4.5 GHz)
50-75 GHz Preselected RF Section (HP 11974V)
External Computer
- Running WinCal 2006 (VNA controller and measurement software)
- Provides color microscope video output
This work was sponsored by the Army Research Office, Project W911NF-05-2-0044.
