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US 12,273,146 B1Granted
Apparatus embedded with terahertz transceivers using Gunn diodes
OwnerDarwin Huinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus embedded with one or more terahertz transceivers is described. The one or more terahertz transceivers based on at least Gunn diode are provided to facilitate wireless communication in the apparatus, where the apparatus is embedded with one or more planar antennas. The transceiver operates in terahertz and may be coupled to one or two different antennas, one for transmission and the other for reception.
Claims13
An apparatus communicating wirelessly with a remote device, the apparatus comprising:
- an antenna set;
- one or more terahertz transceivers coupled to the antenna set to exchange signals with the remote device in one or more predefined frequency bands, wherein each of the terahertz transceivers comprises:
- an oscillator including at least one Gunn diode, wherein an electric field across an active layer in the Gunn diode is established when a voltage is applied across the Gunn diode, a size of the active layer facilitates to determine an operating frequency of the oscillator;
- a slot antenna, coupled to the oscillator, generating a standing wave of electromagnetic field as a resonator to output a resonant signal in accordance with the operating frequency;
- a band filter to process the resonant signal and output a terahertz (THz) signal after amplified;
- a local oscillator receiving the THz signal and producing a reference signal;
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- an I/O mixer provided to modulate the reference signal with a signal.
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An apparatus communicating wirelessly with a remote device, the apparatus comprising:
- an antenna set;
- one or more terahertz transceivers coupled to the antenna set to exchange signals with the remote device in one or more predefined frequency bands, wherein each of the terahertz transceivers comprises:
- an oscillator including at least one Gunn diode, wherein an electric field across an active layer in the Gunn diode is established when a voltage is applied across the Gunn diode, a size of the active layer facilitates to determine an operating frequency of the oscillator;
- a slot antenna, coupled to the Gunn diode, forming a standing wave of electromagnetic field as a resonator to output a resonant signal in the predefined resonant frequency;
- a band filter to process the resonant signal and output a terahertz (THz) signal after amplified;
- a local oscillator receiving the THz signal and produce a reference signal;
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- an I/O mixer provided to modulate the reference signal with a signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.