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Terahertz VCO Design for High-Speed Wireless Communication Systems

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The enormous evolution of the IoT and its applications requires highly secure communication with high data rates and high bandwidth. However, current wireless communication systems, based on microwave and millimeter frequencies, are not able to meet these requirements. For this reason, several actors propose the migration to terahertz frequencies. In this chapter, we present the THz domain and its potential applications, we present the impact of the use of THz in 6G, and finally we propose the study and design of a terahertz VCO for the THz band applications. The circuit is designed based on the pHEMT transistor from the United Monolithic Semiconductors foundry. Simulation results show that the oscillation frequency is around 104 GHz, the output power is −11.127 dBm.

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  1. AIDSES Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco

    Abdelhafid Es-Saqy, Maryam Abata, Said Mazer & Moulhime El Bekkali

  2. Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco

    Mohammed Fattah

  3. Microwaves Laboratory, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Mahmoud Mehdi

  4. ESYCOM Lab, University Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, Le Cnam, Paris, France

    Catherine Algani

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Es-Saqy, A. et al. (2022). Terahertz VCO Design for High-Speed Wireless Communication Systems. In: El Ghzaoui, M., Das, S., Lenka, T.R., Biswas, A. (eds) Terahertz Wireless Communication Components and System Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9182-9_1

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