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A major breakthrough! Successfully developed

The reporter recently learned from Nankai University that Nankai University, together with the City University of Hong Kong, successfully developed a thin-film lithium niobate photonic millimeter-wave radar chip, making a major breakthrough in the field of millimeter-wave radar. This innovation has laid a solid foundation for the application of 6G communication, intelligent driving, accurate perception and other cutting-edge fields in the future.

Photonic millimeter-wave radar chip automotive radar applications.

Zhu Xia, a member of the research team and a professor at Nankai University, said that the chip is designed based on a 4-inch thin-film lithium niobate platform compatible with CMOS process, achieving centimeter-level distance and velocity detection resolution, and showing excellent accuracy in inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) two-dimensional imaging, which was published in the journal Nature Photonics on January 27. This innovation effectively breaks through the technical bottleneck of traditional electronic radar in the narrow bandwidth of low frequency bands, and promotes the integrated photonic millimeter-wave radar system to a new level in terms of resolution, flexibility, applicability and integration.

Microwave photonics has a wide range of applications, including communications, radar, electronic warfare, etc. As an extension of this technology, microwave photonic radar breaks the trade-off between frequency and bandwidth of traditional electronic radar. Due to its unique properties, thin-film lithium niobate materials are ideal for high-performance electro-optical modulation. By combining advanced photonic integration materials and processes, microwave photonic radar is expected to achieve higher frequency, larger bandwidth, and smaller size in the future, bringing changes to automotive radar, airborne radar, and smart home.

Thin-film lithium niobate photonic millimeter-wave radar architecture and chip.

The research team successfully integrated the frequency doubling module and the echo deskew module on a single chip by optimizing the preparation technology to complete the efficient generation, processing and reception of millimeter-wave radar signals. To validate the radar’s performance, the team conducted a series of experiments, including ranging, velocity, and retrosynthetic aperture imaging tests. The results show that the radar can accurately detect range and velocity, and perform high-definition imaging of different targets.

Zhu Xia said that this achievement not only improves the performance of existing microwave photonic radar, but also sets a new benchmark for the development of high-performance and miniaturized photonic radar systems in the future. In the upcoming 6G era, this technology is expected to spark major changes in several fields, marking an important milestone in the development of microwave photonic radar technology.

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