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

doi:10.3390/electronics9040677

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

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ariel University

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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 language	American English
Article number	677
Journal	Electronics (Switzerland)
Volume	9
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9040677
State	Published - 1 Apr 2020

Keywords

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

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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

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