
ESDC Facilities

Antenna Measurement Systems
- 0.5 GHz-16 GHz anechoic chamber (NSI Spherical Scanning System)
- R&S ATS800B Antenna test system up to 50 GHz
- Near field planar antenna scanning system (75 GHz-325 GHz)
- Reference antennas and accessories

On-wafer Spectrum/Power/S-parameter Measurement Systems
- 10 MHz-110 GHz on-wafer VNA system (automated)
- 140 GHz-220 GHz and 220 GHz-325 GHz on-wafer VNA systems (manual)
- 750 GHz-1.1 THz on-wafer VNA system (manual)
- VDI Erickson PM5 Power Meter and transition waveguides
- Keysight’s N9030B (3Hz-50 GHz and up to 325 with external mixers)
- Wiltron signal synthesisers (65 GHz)
- Keysight PSG signal generator (20 GHz)

Other Measurement Systems
- 750 GHz-1.1 THz material characterisation kit (MCK)
- Keysight B1500 Semiconductor device analyser for DC & Pulsed IV/CV measurement (on-wafer)
- Keysight B1505 Semiconductor device analyser for DC & Pulsed IV/CV measurement (on-wafer)
- Lakeshore temperature-controlled manual probe station (DC-40 GHz GSG probes, 77K-675K, fixed magnetic fields)

Simulation and Analysis Capabilities
- Olympus BX-51 and Zeiss Discovery V12 microscopes.
- 50 GHz spectrum analyser, 8.5 GHz network analyser, 8 GHz bit error-rate tester and 20 GHz analog signal generator.
- A full range of other tests/measurement instruments including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, source measurement units and signal generators.
- High-performance computing facilities for design and simulation, including a 384 core Clustervision parallel computer.
- Design/simulation software including Cadence, Lumerical, Tempest, Agilent ADS and Synopsys