Enabling the Third Wireless Revolution: Transformative RF/mm-Wave Circuits, Wireless Systems and Sensing Paradigms Slides

Over the past 30 years, we have reaped the benefits of two wireless communication revolutions, which have had significant social and economic impact. The period from 1990-2000 witnessed the mobile wireless communication revolution, with emergence of cellular mobile telephony enabling instant global connectivity. The period from 2000 to the present is witness to the mobile wireless data revolution, as 3G and 4G networks have brought the Internet to our fingertips. The next wireless revolution will be the mobile wireless-reality revolution, which will bring the physical world to our fingertips. RF, mm-Wave and terahertz communication, imaging and sensing devices will enable us to interrogate the physical world and create virtual or augmented worlds in ways that exceed and augment human sensory situational awareness. The wireless-reality revolution will require a quantum leap forward in our ability to control and manipulate the RF-to- THz electromagnetic spectrum, and in our ability to transmit, acquire, aggregate and process the associated data. This webinar focused on recent research on high-power and energy-efficient millimeter-wave power amplifiers, transmitters and large-scale phased arrays that have drawn interest for next-generation 5G cellular networks and also extreme bandwidth(>20Gbps) communication links at millimeter-waves for applications such as virtual and augmented reality. Other novel wireless communication paradigms, including massive MIMO and full-duplex wireless, that enable extremely-high spectral efficiencies and data rates are presented. The realization of city-scale testbeds that deploy advanced wireless hardware supporting mm-Wave, massive MIMO and full-duplex operation, enabling higher-layer systems research at city scales are presented.