Facilities

The AEL has access to a number of advanced fabrication, measurement, and computing facilities including:

• Agilent E5071C, 300 kHz to 20 GHz Vector Network Analyzer.
• Tektronix AWG70002A arbitrary waveform generator with 8 GS/s sampling capability.
• Tektronix DPO70404C digital oscilloscope with 4 GHz bandwidth.
• mmWave measurement equipment, communications workstation for BER testing, and other advanced equipment in the MRC Electrical Characterization Facility.
• On campus anechoic chamber for automated radiation pattern measurements (http://research.ece.ncsu.edu/preal/).
• Commercial-grade Satimo 64 3D pattern measurement system at the nearby Wireless Research Center of North Carolina.
• The latest EM and RF simulation tools including: HFSS, FEKO, CST, XFDTD, Wavenology EM. 
• 3D Systems Cube 3 Printer
• LPKF C60 printed circuit board (PCB) rapid prototyping machine