CAMEL Platform

Design and electromagnetic characterization for wireless technologies

Electromagnetic Modeling and Analysis

CAMEL is a platform for the characterization and modeling of high-frequency materials, devices and circuits.

This platform is housed in the Microwave department at IMT Atlantique. CAMEL benefits from our expertise in the field of electromagnetism and offers a wide range of measurement devices and techniques over a very broad frequency spectrum. Many application fields are covered, including 5G, the Internet of Things and communicating objects, terrestrial and space telecommunications, and sensors for autonomous vehicles, among others. In addition, CAMEL relies on an in-house prototyping capacity for the manufacture of the devices to be tested

Dedicated to collaborative and contractual research, CAMEL provides partners with new test resources enabling them to validate ideas, concepts and technologies experimentally for their future developments

Multi-scale design and simulation methods

  • Circuit : ADS / PSpice
  • CAO : HFSS / CST-MWS / FEKO / HyperMesh
  • Support : SolidWorks / LabVIEW / Matlab

simulation

Wide range of equipment

  • EEG 256 sensors
  • 3D scanners for obtaining meshes
  • Under-peak stations
  • Vector network analyzer up to 325 GHz
  • Spectrum analyzers up to 325 GHz

Ad hoc measuring benches

  • Anechoic chambers up to 300 GHz
  • Material characterization
  • Noise figure and phase noise measurement

Characterization Setups

Materials

Camel, matériaux

Characterization of solid, non-solid and multiplayer dielectric materials. Free space measurements of S parameters for extraction of complex permittivity in the Ka; W: D and J bands

Radiation antennas & devices

Camel, rayonnement antennes & dispositifs

Radiation characterization of communicating objects and devices in (sub-)millimeter band. 3D characterization of devices intergating beamforming techniques

Channels of propagation

Camel, canaux de propagation

Wideband acquisition system with mutli-sensors up to 6GHz for proof-of-concept, channel sounding, and space-time analysis of MIMO channels

Devices

Camel, dispositifs

Device and component characterizations,  passive or active. Measurements on LTCC components up to 170 GHz. Temperature measurements (thermal chuck)

EEG

Camel, EEG

High-resolution electroencephalograph (256 sensors) with low-noise amplifier and complementary electrode localization system by photogrammetry

What we offer

For bilateral or collaborative projects:

  • Expertise in electromagnetics
  • Device design (front-end, antennas, ...)
  • Manufacture and characterization of prototypes

diaporama

Banc quasi-optique pour la caractérisation de matériaux en bande Ka
Caractérisation encéphalographique
Caractérisation de système communicant à 60 GHz avec antenne active

Some succes stories

  • ANR «economic impact» award for the TRIMARAN Project dealing with green MIMO OFDM communications based on micro-structured antennas and time reversal
  • "Loading the Future» trophies at the Image & Networks cluster’s open innovation:
    • the OptimiSME project on the design of a multi-standard extender (2018).
    • the Spatial Modulation project on the theoretical and experimental study of spatial modulation (2019).
  • Material characterization and modeling for automotive and avionics manufacturers and suppliers

diaporama

Antenne 64 capteurs application 5G
Conception d’un combineur de puissance en bande K
Front-end millimétrique pour plateforme 60 GHz

Consult the pdf version

Contact

Campus de Brest: Technopôle Brest-Iroise CS 83818 - 29238 Brest Cedex 3

Monsieur Jérémie Hemery 

The platform has received financial support from
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