Overview

The Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center (DMRC) is founded in June 2008 by Professor Neville Luhmann, Jr.and Professors Anh-Vu Pham as an industry university cooperative research program.The Principal Investigator’s group together with those of the Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center (DMRC) and members possess perhaps the most extensive microwave, millimeter-wave, and THz equipment collection available anywhere. The research areas include but not limit to:

  • Millimeter-wave systems
    • Radars, imaging, sensors, and communications
  • RF/microwave/millimeter components and packaging
    • Integrated passive devices and antennas
    • MEMS
  • RF/microwave/millimeter integrated circuits and modeling
    • MmW/THz Si CMOS and systems
    • GaAs and GaN integrated circuit design
  • THz microfabricated vacuum electronics
    • Nano-machining, fabrication, devices and materials

The primary UC Davis laboratory facilities include two laboratories housed in Kemper Hall, two laboratories in Ghausi Hall, and a new 12,000 ASF Spafford Rd, facility located just off campus (see Figs. 1 and 2).

The current laboratory facilities include a magnetic fusion plasma diagnostics laboratory (~850 square feet), a microwave/millimeter wave laboratory (~5,000 square feet), a high power microwave source laboratory (~2000 square feet), advanced nano-machining (1,000 square feet), and a millimeter wave characterization and FIR laser development facility (~6,000 square feet). UC Davis also has a 10,000 square feet microfabrication facility (Northern California Nanotechnology Center), which is used by DMRC members. The Investigator’s research staff members and graduate students are housed in additional space in the Academic Surge Building as part of the Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center (DMRC), along with the Investigator’s computational facilities and video-, tele- and data-conferencing center. In the following, we have provided brief descriptions of each of these laboratories and facilities, together with a discussion as to how they relate to the overall DMRC activity.

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Fig. 1. Photographs of the Kemper Hall (left), and Ghausi Hall (right) buildings.


Fig. 2. Photographs of the Academic Surge building (left), and Spafford Rd facility (right).