Chapter 1 Introduction to THz Communications
Part I
Propagation and Channel Modelling 1: Channel Measurement Techniques (33pages)
Chapter 2 Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy (TDS)
Chapter 3 Measurements with Modulated Signals
Chapter 4 Vector Network Analyzer (VNA)
Chapter 5 Correlation based Channel Sounding
Part II
Propagation and Channel Modelling 2: Basic Propagation Phenomena
Chapter 6 Free Space Loss and Atmospheric Effects
Chapter 7 Reflection, Scattering and Transmission (incl. material parameters)
Chapter 8 Diffraction and Blockage
Chapter 9 Interference and Noise
Part III
Propagation and Channel Modelling 3: Modelling and Measurements in Complex Environments
Chapter 10 Indoor Environments
Chapter 11 Intra-Device and Close-Proximity
Chapter 12 Backhaul/Fronthaul Outdoor links
Chapter 13 Smart Rail Mobility
Chapter 14 Data Centers
Chapter 15 Vehicular Environments
Chapter 16 Stochastic Channel Models
Part IV
Antenna Concepts and Realization
Chapter 17 High-Gain Antennas
Chapter 18 Antenna Arrays for beam forming
Chapter 19 Algorithms for Multiple Antennas
Part V
Transceiver Technologies 1: Silicon-based Electronics
Chapter 20 SiGe HBT
Chapter 21 Si-CMOS
Part VI
Transceiver Technologies 2: III-V based Electronics (36 pages)
Chapter 22 III-V HBT
Chapter 23 III-V HEMT
Chapter 24 Resonat Tunelling Diode
Chapter 25 Plasma-wave device
Part VII
Transceiver Technologies 3: Photonics
Chapter 26 Photonics-based transmitters and receivers
Part VIII
Transceiver Technologies 4: Vacuum Electronic Devices
Chapter 27 Vacuum Electronic Devices
Part IX
Baseband Processing and Networking Interface
Chapter 28 Highspeed A/D and D/A
Chapter 29 Modulation Formats
Chapter 30 Forward Error Correction at ultra-high data rates
Chapter 31 MAC and Networking
Part X (82 pages)
Demonstrators and Experiments
Chapter 32 Real100G
Chapter 33 TERAPAN - A 300 GHz Fixed Wireless Link Based on InGaAs Transmit-Receive MMICs
Chapter 34 ThoR
Chapter 35 TERRANOVA
Chapter 36 Ultrawave
Chapter 38 Terapod
Chapter 39 iBrOW
Chapter 40 120-GHz-band project
Chapter 41 300-GHz-band InP IC project
Chapter 42 300-GHz-band Si-CMOS project
Chapter 43 Fully Electronic Generation and Detection of THz Picosecond Pulses and Their Applications
Chapter 44 RTD transceiver project
Chapter 45 Photonics-aided 300-500 GHz wireless communications beyond 300 GHz
Chapter 46 Ultrabroadband Networking Systems testbed at Northeastern University
Chapter 47 Photonics-based project at IEMN
Chapter 48 Opto-electronic generation of high-speed T-wave signals and their reception with a Kramers-Kronig receiver
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About the Author:
Thomas Kürner (Fellow IEEE) received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990, and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1993, both from University of Karlsruhe (Germany). From 1990 to 1994 he was with the Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) at University of Karlsruhe working on propagation modelling and channel characterisation. From 1994 to 2003, he was with the radio network planning department at the headquarters of the mobile operator E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co KG, Düsseldorf, where he was team manager radio network planning support. Since 2003 he is Full University Professor for Mobile Radio Systems at the Technische Universität Braunschweig working on propagation modelling, channel characterisation, modelling and simulation of wireless networks, car-to-X communications and THz communications. From 2014 to 2017 he has chaired Task Group IEEE 802.15.3d, which standardized the first wireless communication standard operating at 300 GHz. Since 2013 he has coordinated several collaborative research projects on THz communications.
Dr. Mittleman received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, and his M.S. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1994, all in physics, from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a post-doctoral member of the technical staff, working first for Dr. Richard Freeman on a terawatt laser system, and then for Dr. Martin Nuss on terahertz spectroscopy and imaging. Dr. Mittleman joined the ECE Department at Rice University in September 1996. In 2015, he moved to the School of Engineering at Brown University . His research interests involve the science and technology of terahertz radiation. He is a Fellow of the OSA, the APS, and the IEEE, and is a 2018 recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. In 2020, he completed a three-year term as Chair of the International Society for Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves.
Dr. Nagatsuma received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1981, 1983, and 1986, respectively. From 1986 to 2007, he was with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan. Since 2007, he has been with Osaka University, where he is a Professor with the Division of Advanced Electronics and Optical Science, Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science. His research interests include millimeter-wave and terahertz photonics and their applications to wireless communications, sensing, and measurement. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and the IEEE Trans. Terahertz Science and Technology, and a Vice President of the IEICE and the Terahertz Systems Consortium.
