THz Interconnect, the Last Centimeter Communication

Dr. Jane Gu
Professor ECE Department, UC Davis, Davis, CA

Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A
4:00 PM

Abstract – "Interconnect Gap" has been a long-standing big challenge caused by the gap between the ever-increasing data rate demand of inter-/intra- chip communications and the insufficient capabilities. Existing electrical interconnect (EI) and optical interconnect (OI) face grand barriers to completely address the interconnect issues individually. THz Interconnect (TI), utilizing the frequency spectrum sandwiched between microwave and optical frequencies, holds the high potentials to complement EI and OI by leveraging the advantages of both electronics and optics. In this talk, I will present our research activities in the high potential TI field, including THz silicon waveguide channel development, TI system demonstration, dispersion constrained link bandwidth and mitigation schemes such as FDM and orthomode channelization.

Dr. Qun Jane Gu has received the Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. Since August 2012, she has been with University of California, Davis, where she is currently a professor. Dr. Jane Gu's group is passionate in high performance RF, mm-wave and THz integrated circuits and systems and its broad applications. The work from her group has won several best paper awards from international conferences. She has received NSF CAREER award, 2015 COE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2017 and 2018 Qualcomm Faculty Award, and 2019 Chancellor Fellow.