Universit T Ulm Tender

Contract notice: two on-wafer measuring stations Two on-wafer measuring stations are to be set upas the core of the measuring station, the large device applied for should contain a high-performance vectorial network analyzer. this is intended to record the scattering parameters of the integrated circuits. this applies both to linear s-parameters and to frequency-converting parameters in the transmit and receive paths. a frequency range of up to at least 170 ghz should be covered in order to be able to serve all current projects. due to the application of the measuring station for active integrated circuits in silicon technology, the possibility of determining the noise figure in the highest possible frequency range and a corresponding determination of linearity (compression or intermodulation) is also indispensable. therefore, a basic device that is as flexible as possible is sought that covers this large number of measurement tasks and includes extended options. in addition, the device must enable real fully differential operation in order to be able to operate the differential circuit interfaces that are common today and to avoid a falsification of the performance parameters due to unnecessary band-limiting baluns with complex deembedding.With this tender, a new measuring station for the vectorial network analysis of integrated submillimeter wave circuits including accessories is to be procured. the setup should meet the requirements of on-wafer measurement technology for active integrated circuits. as the core of the measuring station, the large device applied for should contain a high-performance vectorial network analyzer. this is intended to record the scattering parameters of the integrated circuits. this applies both to linear s-parameters and to frequency-converting parameters in the transmit and receive paths. the submillimeter wave frequency ranges of 220-330 ghz and 330-500 ghz should be covered by the combination with 2 frequency converters each, in order to be able to serve all current projects.