由於毫米波與次毫米波輻射已被普遍應用且商業化，致使我們越發想了解此波段除了應用在無線通訊、安全監控，甚至在軍事武器外，其所輻射出的長波長能量對生物細胞能否有重要的治療功效，如刺激活化細胞或抑制疼痛神經等等。然而，大部分探討毫米波對生物影響的研究的實驗架構有弊病存在，其一即供應毫米波之機制非常龐大且易造成儀器連結上的訊號損耗，其二為傳統提供毫米波之生物實驗裝置僅能提供單一頻率的毫米波輻射，當探討不同頻率對生物體之不同影響時會造成很大的麻煩。為了解決這些問題，本文利用一項光科技技術：將超高速(~300 GHz)近彈道單載子傳輸光二極體與輻射毫米波之偶極天線耦合在利於觀測螢光反應的生物晶片上，此架構實現了寬頻(75~200 GHz)毫米波輻射且因積體化故達到低損耗之便於觀測螢光反應的生物晶片。As the application and commercial use of millimeter- and sub-millimeter wavelength radiation become more widespread, there is a growing need to understand both the coupling systems and the impact of this long wavelength energy on biological tissues. However most of the millimeter wave components used for bio-experiment is very bulky with huge loss for interconnection. Moreover, the maximum available bandwidth of these components is usually limited, which may cause troubles in investigating the bio-organisms with un-known interesting MMW bands. In order to solve above problems, ultra-high speed (~300 GHz) near ballistic uni-traveling carrier photodiode based bio-chip with ultra-wide MMW operation bandwidth are designed and demonstrated in this paper. By using photonic technology, the wide- band (75-200 GHz) radiation and low interconnection loss bio-chip demonstration is realized for MMW nanoporation.
