Title: Broadband Electronic-Photonic Millimeter-wave to Terahertz systems
Abstract: The Terahertz frequency range offers broad bandwidth, that can enable very high data-rate communication systems and applications such as broadband spectroscopy. Depending on the application, bandwidth of several hundreds of GHz can be used. Similarly electronic components for optical communication systems need to support broadband modulation formats, with bandwidth requirements around and beyond 100 GHz. Such high bandwidth systems pose challenging requirements on the integrated circuits as well as on hybrid integration into transmitter and receiver modules. In this talk the design, measurement and integration of broadband modules will be presented on the example of amplifier-modulator modules for optical communications and transmit-receive systems for broadband terahertz spectroscopy.
As a first topic, the design of a fully electronic time-domain THz spectrometer based on CMOS integrated nonlinear transmission line spike generators will be presented, including the integration into hybrid transmit-receive modules and spectroscopic measurements. As a second topic the broadband amplification of signals without distortion is addressed. Broadband amplifiers with small group delay variation for optical communication transmitter modules, including their design, measurement and integration with InP based optical components into electro-optical modules will be presented. Finally the talk will give an overview of the research lines and activities of the Center for Terahertz Science and Technology Eindhoven (CTSTe).
Speaker’s Bio:
Marion Matters-Kammerer is professor and vice dean at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. From 2020 till 2024 she was education program director of the department.
Her area of expertise is on millimeter-wave to Terahertz integrated circuit design and systems integration and on high-speed circuits for optical communication.
Matters-Kammerer received her PhD from RWTH Aachen (Germany) in 2006 for her work on integrated electronics in multi-layer, multi-material ceramic substrates. In 1999 she joined Philips Research where she worked on highly integrated circuits for mobile communication and automotive radar. In 2009 and 2010 she was lecturer and guest professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen (Germany). In 2011 she became Associate Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology on (Sub-) millimeter-wave and THz circuits and systems. In July 2017 she was appointed full professor. In 2025 she will be chair of the European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference.
Matters-Kammerer is founding member and Scientific Director of the Centre for Terahertz Science and Technology Eindhoven (CTSTe) and was coordinator of the THz research program in the Center for Wireless Technology Eindhoven (CWTe). In 2019 she co-founded the company TeraNova to facilitate the commercialization of research outcomes. She has coordinated and participated in numerous European and national research projects.
