Inexpensive millimeter-wave communication channel using glow discharge detector and satellite dish antenna

Lidor Kahana, Daniel Rozban, Moshe Gihasi, Amir Abramovich, Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Natan Kopeika

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Abstract

A full proof of concept for low-cost millimeter wave (MMW) communication link is demonstrated in this study. The suggestedMMWchannel is based on a very inexpensive commercially available off-axis dish antenna usually used for TV satellites, two Arduino Uno micro controller boards, and glow discharge detectors (GDD). The GDD is a robust and inexpensive room-temperature plasma device which was found to be a sensitive MMW radiation detector. The Arduino micro controllers are used to encode a text message into serial bits and also decode it. Those serial bits were used to modulate the MMW radiation in On-Off keying. The detection of MMW radiation was performed using a simple and inexpensive GDD. The suggested MMW channel can be used as point to point backhaul wireless communication for the 5th generation of cellular communication.

Original languageEnglish
Article number677
JournalElectronics (Switzerland)
Volume9
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2020

Keywords

  • Millimeter wave (MMW) communication
  • Plasma detectors
  • Quasi-optical design

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