Pfeiffer, Ullrich
FE 00.11, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119 Wuppertal
The primary focus of Prof. Ullrich Pfeiffer’s group is centered on the development, design and characterization of silicon-based chips in the THz range for a wide variety of applications such as imaging, sensing and 6G communication.
One of the latest challenges was exploiting THz radiations for biomedical applications. For this purpose, a portable 2D SoC sensor was designed to facilitates the examination of the life cycle of of human cells enabling real-time monitoring of their viability. The development of this sensor presents a significant advancement in the ongoing THz research, potentially paving the way for new and more critical applications and revolutionizing the biomedicine and the identification of cancer.
P. Hillger et al., "A 128-Pixel System-on-a-Chip for Real-Time Super-Resolution Terahertz Near-Field Imaging," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 3599-3612, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2878817.
R. Jain, P. Hillger, E. Ashna, J. Grzyb and U. R. Pfeiffer, "A 64-Pixel 0.42-THz Source SoC With Spatial Modulation Diversity for Computational Imaging," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 3281-3293, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.3018819.
P. Hillger, J. Grzyb, R. Jain and U. R. Pfeiffer, "Terahertz Imaging and Sensing Applications With Silicon-Based Technologies," in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-19, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TTHZ.2018.2884852.
J. Grzyb, B. Heinemann and U. R. Pfeiffer, "A 0.55 THz Near-Field Sensor With a μm -Range Lateral Resolution Fully Integrated in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 3063-3077, Dec. 2016, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2603992.
U. R. Pfeiffer et al., "Ex Vivo Breast Tumor Identification: Advances Toward a Silicon-Based Terahertz Near-Field Imaging Sensor," in IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 32-46, Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/MMM.2019.2922119.
P. Hillger et al., "A Solid-State 0.56 THz Near-Field Array for μM-Scale Surface Imaging," 2018 43rd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Nagoya, Japan, 2018, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2018.8509876.