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Microwave Design

  • Advanced Design System (2004A) from Agilent technologies

  • HFSS v.10.0 from Ansoft Corporation

  • SONNET Electromagnetic Simulation Suite

  • AWR Microwave Office 2004

  • MathCAD 12 Professional from Mathsoft

RF Micro fabrication Lab Facilities

  • Modular Clean Room with chemical hoods

  • Quintel 4000 Series Mask Aligner

  • Parylene Deposition System

  • Plasmod Tabletop Plasma Etcher

  • Denton Thermal Evaporator

  • PVDX Custom E-Beam Evaporator

  • Tousimis Critical Point Dryer

  • Tencor P-1 Long Scan Profiler

  • Programmable Convection Furnace and Bake Ovens

  • Wire Bonder

  • LPKF Automatic Milling Machine

  • RF Sputter System (shared)

    In addition the group has access to the Class 1000 Clean Room, Metrology and Thin Film Deposition tools at the  NanoMaterials and NanoManufacturing Research Center at USF

Microwave Measurement Resources

  • Basic JMicro Tabletop Probe Stations
  • Semi-Automatic Karl Suss Probe Station equipped with an Anritsu Wiltron VNA System capable of measurements up to 110 GHz
  • Semi-Automatic Cascade Probe Station with a Cryogenic temperature controlled (-55 C to +200 C) chuck capable of measurements up to 50 GHz
  • HP 8753 VNA (30 KHz to 6 GHz)
  • HP 8719 VNA (40 MHz to 13.5 GHz)
  • HP 4142 (Semiconductor Parameter Analysis) System
  • Agilent 4287A LCR Meter (1 MHz to 3 GHz)
  • Accent DIVA (Dynamic I -V Measurement System)
  • Anritsu Lightning VNA ( 40 MHz to 65 GHz)
  • Maury Automated Amplifier Load Pull Measurement System
  • Anechoic Chamber with Motorized Automatic Data Acquisition Controller for Antenna Measurements
  • LabView based Custom System for RF MEMS Switching Speed Measurement
  • Screen Room for Noise Parameter Characterization...

               and a host of Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Power Supplies etc to support a broad spectrum of measurement needs

 

 

RF Microsystems Group

A part of the Center for Wireless and Microwave and Information Systems, USF