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The Car2TERA project “Eyes and Ears for the car of the Future” has come to a successful conclusion! The project was launched in January 2019 to develop emerging sub-THz smart electronic systems based on latest semiconductor, microsystem and nanoelectronics technologies....

Today is the final day of the Car2TERA project, and as such we would like end it with the 4th and final Newsletter with a reflection by the technical lead, reporting on the latest results and achievements and insights to...

In the last couple of months, the Car2TERA in-cabin radar sensor prototype has been brought up and gone through initial testing in the Microwave Electronics Lab at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. After showing capabilities of sub-10 cm...

Coinciding with the end of the project Frida Strömbeck has successfully defended her PhD thesis on the 21st March, 2023 in Gothenburg. Her work explores the opportunities and challenges of short-range, ultra-high data rate, PMF bound communication, which is found...

Occupant safety and the increasing appeal of autonomous automobiles are the driving forces behind the rapidly growing need for smart electronic systems based on the latest semiconductor, microsystem and nanoelectronics technologies. The Car2TERA project focused of two areas of research...

The 2nd International Workshop on Polymer Microwave Fiber Technology, PMF 2023, organized and hosted by the KU Leuven, aimed to bring together all important players in this new field, academia as well as industry and other stakeholders, in order to...

This is a depiction of the first D-band (150 GHz) Tx and Rx chips in eWLB (embedded wafer level ball grid) package assembly in standard SMD process at Ericsson AB and the initial Tx-Rx link test setup. The photo shows:...

Yinggang Li (Ericsson) presented data links for future radio base stations based on sub-THz polymer microwave fibers IET Colloquium on Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Engineering and Technology (18. – 19. October 2022). The invited talk discussed the potential benefits using polymer...

The third Car2TERA newsletter is now available for download. In this edition, we present a message from the technical lead, an update on current work in the project including recent publications, a listing of past & upcoming events, an overview...

The Car2TERA team used its high presence at the European Microwave Conference EUMW 2022 in Milan to gather partners for a face-to-face meeting opportunity.  During this meeting on the 29th September the partners met for an efficient day face-to-face and...

PAVM145 chip operating at D-band (110-170 GHz) consists of 3 Broadband Balanced Cascode (BBC) Amplifiers including 3-stage PA, 3-stage LNA and 2-stage General Purpose Amplifier. For the purpose of single to differential conversion, Marchand Baluns (MBLs) are implemented with the...

There are some huge differences between the daily development process for a typical semiconductor products and R&D projects with a high degree of innovation. While in a standard development with qualified and released technologies a full characterization plan has to...

Currently the Chalmers team (Frida Strömbeck, Yan Yu, Gregor Lasser, Herbet Zirath, Sining An, Marzieh Mollaapouramiri, and Simon He [missing in the picture]) is working hard on characterizing delivery BiCMOS chip designs of 160GHz and 260 GHz transceivers. The on-wafer...

Veoneer completed the test setup design of the demonstrators for different application scenarios. First experiments using commercial equipment in the targeted frequency range were successfully conducted. Veoneer received first prototype chips of the micromachined beam-steering frontend, which are currently under...

On 19th January 2022 an intermediate review meeting took place. Due to the persistent Covid-19 pandemic the meeting was again held online. During the full day meeting various presentations were given in order to show the project’s progress during the...

Anteral prepared different concept designs together with specific optimization tools to be ready for the final redesign work. Since the final substrate has been selected, Anteral has redesigned the MMIC-PMF transition to work in the D-band. The final design is...

The latest podcast in the Car2TERA series is now available! In this episode we sit down with Herbert Zirath from project partner Chalmers. He talks about the demonstrators in Car2TERA and the importance of the signal processing circuits. Please share...

The latest podcast in the Car2TERA series is now available! In this episode we speak with with Jonas Hansryd & Yinggang Li from project partner Ericsson. They tell us what contributions Ericsson is making and how the project is progressing...

The third year of the Car2TERA project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we are presenting Technikon...

The third year of the Car2TERA project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we are presenting Ericsson...

The third year of the Car2TERA project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we are presenting KTH...

The third year of the Car2TERA project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we are presenting Infineon,...

The third year of the Car2TERA project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we are presenting VIGO,...

The third year of the Car2TERA project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we start with Anteral...

The first Review Meeting took place on 8th September 2020. Due to the Covid-19 situation, the meeting was held online. The meeting lasted from 9 am until 4:30 pm the day was dedicated to present the progress over the past...

In this episode we talk about Car2TERA and the use of graphene to leverage the latest in semiconductor technology to push the project forward. Wlodek Strupinski from Vigo System joins us to make his role in Car2TERA a little clearer.

Watch this short video to understand the main goal of the Car2TERA project.

The official Car2TERA Technical & Advisory Board Meeting took place from the 27th to 28th of February 2020 and was hosted by ENT/VIGO in Poland. During the morning, the project consortium executed a project internal meeting to discuss the technical...

The three H2020 projects SERENA, car2TERA and GRACE have organized a Winter School “Technology and Integration Platforms for Future mm-wave Communication and Radar Applications”, which took place from 15th – 17th January 2020 at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. The...

In this episode we speak with Olof Eriksson from Veoneer about the progress of the Car2TERA project which has been underway for about a year. Learn more about the goals, expectations and challenges of this H2020 project.

The end results of the Car2TERA project could have tangible results for all European citizens. See what make this project so important to the advancement or driver safety and get a glimpse of how it works.

For the largest European event in Graphene and 2D materials, Car2TERA project partners from ENT- Wlodek Strupinski and Iwona Pasternak held a presentation and represented the Ca2TERA project with the topic: Emerging technologies for future THz car sensors and networks....

Today in talk with Adrian Gomez – 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

The official Technical Meeting took place from 13th – 14th June 2019 and was hosted by Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Partner CHALMERS has been invited to give a talk at the EuMW 2019 in Paris/France (1st – 3rd October 2019).

Today in talk with Tobias Aderum – 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Car2TERA project partners- Dr.Yinggang Li, Jonas Hansryd and Mikael Hörberg from Ericsson, took part the IMS Microwave Week held on 2-7 June 2019 in Boston by presenting the topic “High capacity mmW point to point radio links for 5G and...

Today in talk with Umer Shah – 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Today in a talk with Olof Eriksson- 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Today in a talk with Itziar Maestrojuan- 5 questions about herself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Today in a talk with Franz Dielacher- 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Today in a Talk with Alberto Bianchi- 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Today in a Talk with Yinggang Li – 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

Today in a Talk with Joachim Oberhammer – 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

For the 2nd Towards THz Communications Workshop held on 7th March 2019 at the Albert Borschette Congress Centre (CCAB) in Brussels, Prof. Joachim Oberhammer (KTH) contributed to the event with the topic of THz micromachining – enabling the large-scale exploitation...

Today in a Talk with Wlodek Strupinski – 5 questions about himself and the Car2TERA H2020 project.

With the Car2TERA kick-off meeting taking place in Villach, Austria on Jan 28-29, it was a great opportunity to record the project’s first podcast in the Technikon studio. We sat down with Scientific Lead, Joachim Oberhammer from KTH in Sweden...

The Car2TERA project launched with a well-attended kick-off meeting in Villach, Austria on Jan 28-29. Project partners gathered to plan, organize and designate duties for the next 39 months. Work packages were discussed and a forum was available provide answers...

Engineers from Austria, Sweden, Poland, Italy and Spain are now underway in developing the latest radar and sensing equipment for the cars of tomorrow. The European Union’s Horizon 2020 funded Car2TERA project has recently launched in Villach, Austria and promises...