A 2.2-km 39-GHz Transceiver System for UAV Application

Yuen Sum Ng; Yunshan Wang; Santosh Kumar Khyalia; Shih Kai Ho; Zhao He Lin; Chun Nien Chen; Tzu Chien Tang; Yen Wei Chang; Chung Tse Michael Wu; Hsin Chia Lu; Hsi Tseng Chou; Tian Wei Huang; Huei Wang

doi:10.1109/TMTT.2024.3459473

A 2.2-km 39-GHz Transceiver System for UAV Application

Yuen Sum Ng, Yunshan Wang, Santosh Kumar Khyalia, Shih Kai Ho, Zhao He Lin, Chun Nien Chen, Tzu Chien Tang, Yen Wei Chang, Chung Tse Michael Wu, Hsin Chia Lu, Hsi Tseng Chou, Tian Wei Huang, Huei Wang

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This article presents a 2.2-km high-speed transceiver system for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) video streaming applications at a 39-GHz band. This proposed system includes transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) modules, which are developed from TX/RX chips and flip-chip mounted on an IC package substrate, a pair of high-gain active antennas, and software-defined radio (SDR) modules for data-to-image conversion. The TX provides an estimated effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) of 37 dBm from the measured RX spectrum. Active antennas of TX and RX provide up to 37- and 40-dB antenna gain, respectively. The presented flip-chip TX provides 11.6 dBm of saturated power (P_sat) and 13 dB of conversion gain (CG), while the flip-chip RX delivers 18 dB of CG. The real-time video system’s characteristics have been demonstrated outdoors, marking the first video demonstration of a kilometer-scale long-range transmission at 39 GHz in UAV applications.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1545-1557
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume	73
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2024.3459473
State	Published - 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Radiation
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP)
error vector magnitude (EVM)
fifth-generation (5G)
millimeter-wave integrated circuit
receiver (RX)
system-on-chip (SoC)
transmitter (TX)
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

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