ECLIPSE – Research into innovative high-frequency electronics for sensor and communication technology

The technological advancement of high-resolution radar sensors, high-precision measurement systems and wireless data links with enormous transmission speeds is characterized by the development of ever higher frequency ranges. This development is driven both by the lack of frequency ranges still freely available for licensing purposes and by the naturally lower usable absolute bandwidth at lower operating frequencies, which results in a clear limitation of the achievable data rates or radar resolution.

The aim of the ECLIPSE project is to research and develop the frequency range up to 420+ GHz for future applications with bandwidths up to 200+ GHz. To this end, innovative concepts for the necessary basic circuit components (e.g. transmit and receive amplifiers, mixers, frequency multipliers, adjustable attenuators) are to be investigated and developed.

Fraunhofer IAF will contribute its expertise in millimeter-wave switching and assembly technology as well as metamorphic HEMT technology to this project.