Project Details
Projekt
High-performance UWB systems for biomedical diagnostics and short-range communications
Applicants
Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Lindner; Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Menzel; Professor Dr.-Ing. Hermann Schumacher
Subject Area
Electronic Semiconductors, Components and Circuits, Integrated Systems, Sensor Technology, Theoretical Electrical Engineering
Term
from 2006 to 2011
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 23999341
Ultra-wide band (UWB) RF techniques offer well-recognized advantages for biomedical applications, both in communication links, e.g, with implanted sensors and actuators, or as a radar-like diagnostic tool exploiting tissue-specific differences in refractive index or dielectric dispersion characteristics. Advantages over existing techniques include a low spectral power density reducing concerns over interference with existing medical equipment or interactions with biological systems, non-ionizing radiation, low power consumption, and low cost. The proposed research project targets significant performance improvements over currently reported work throughincreased miniaturization and reduced cost of the UWB transmitters and receivers, realized monolithically on Silicon,¿ novel antenna structures in one- and two-dimensional arrays,¿ increased sensitivity and robustness through new system concepts including appropriate signal processing,¿ inclusion of communication applications and radar-like diagnostic/imaging in one system concept.Together with biomedical researchers and clinical specialists from the University of Ulm s University Hospitals, promising applications are being identified. They will guide and benefit from the close co-design of antenna, RF/analog electronics, and signal processing.
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