Facilities

The RF circuits and antennas lab at the University of Colorado has a complete set of measurement equipment covering the range to 110GHz. This includes:

• two HP8510 network analyzers
• Cascade Summit 9000 probe station
• several 75-GHzspectrum analyzers
• several 50-GHz synthesized sources
• a 40-GHz Microwave Transition Analyzer for nonlinear circuit measurements
• a 50-GHz oscilloscope
• a number of power amplifiers and power meters, impedance meters, and a variety of standard electronic equipment.

Both passive and active antennas can be characterized in a 16-foot computer-controlled anechoic chamber. A clean room is used for passive circuit photolithographic fabrication. An LPKF milling machine is used for printed circuit fabrication, and a thermosonic bonder for hybrid circuits. The CAD lab is equipped with all standard microwave CAD tools and some powerful in-house written codes. The lab is used by local industry under a financial arrangement with the University of Colorado.

For further information, see research areas.