The discovery of a charged Higgs boson (H±) would be a clear indication for physics beyond the Standard Model. This thesis describes searches for charged Higgs bosons with the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The first data collected during the LHC Run 1 is analysed, searching for a light charged Higgs boson (mH±<mtop), which decays predominantly into a tau-lepton and a neutrino. Different final states with one or two leptons (electrons or muons), as well as leptonically or hadronically decaying taus, are studied, and exclusion limits are set. The background arising from misidentified non-prompt electrons and muons was estimated from data. This so-called "Matrix Method'' exploits the difference in the lepton identification between real, prompt, and misidentified or non-prompt electrons and muons. The Matrix Method is used in all charged Higgs boson searches in this thesis. In 2024 the LHC will be upgraded into a High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The ATLAS detector is expected to collect around 300 fb-1 of collision data until 2022, whereas the HL-LHC will deliver about 250-300 fb-1 of data per year. This will increase the mean number of interactions per bunch crossing, resulting in larger particle fluxes. This puts challenging requirements on the electronics. In order to keep trigger and data rates at manageable levels, new trigger concepts require more intelligence at early stage which possibly results in more cables and connectors, inside the detector which lead to degraded performance of the detector system. This thesis presents new concepts using wireless technology at 60 GHz, in order add more data links inside the detector system without adding much material. Patch antennas have been developed, operating at 60 GHz. Manufacture methods have been investigated, and the fabrication tolerances and bandwidth of these antennas have been studied. Also, concepts of using passive repeaters have been investigated, to make the 60 GHz signal pass boundaries. These repeaters can be used to connect intelligence inside the detector, but also for reading out data from the whole detector radially.

Modern embedded systems complexity, performance and energy efficiency has been increasing steeply the last few years. An explosive growth in demand for wireless communication is observed as well and modern wireless links are expected to deliver bit rates of several gigabits while consuming even less energy. In order to satisfy these needs new technologies emerge and novel design approaches are put into practice. Communication at 60 GHz is such a technology that is able to deliver high bit rates in short range wireless links. A major motivation to use the 60 GHz spectrum is the worldwide availability which makes exploitation economically viable. Moreover, small wavelength of only 5 mm promises high integration due to small antenna component size which is one of the main bottlenecks for reducing the dimensions. However, increased frequency comes with many disadvantages as well. To increase the market potential of such a new technology the chip design needs to be cheap and energy-efficient. Such cost and energy constrains heavily impact the performance and the quality of both the analog and the digital components of the chip. In the current thesis the design possibilities of a component in the digital baseband of the receiver of such a chip are explored. The component under investigation is a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) that is used for frequency domain equalization. This part of the receiver is used to reduce the effects of multipath in a non line-ofsight communication environment and as this is a common case in wireless communication the FFT block has been identified as one of the 2 most computational intensive components of the receiver in 60 GHz. This is the main reason why we explore possibilities to further decrease the power consumption of the block while maintaining the performance and the quality of service. To achieve this reduction the possibilities of a new design concept are explored. System Scenarios is a new design concept for embedded systems operating in dynamic environments. Wireless communication systems exhibit high dynamism during their operation on highly varying data streams, providing the System Scenarios huge xvi capabilities. The essential idea behind system scenarios is the classification of the application under investigation from a cost perspective during design time. Then, the classification is exploited during run time resulting to an overall improved implementation of the application. To achieve this the application is broken down to run-time situations (RTS) which are distinguishable operation modes of the application. Then RTSs with similar costs are clustered to form system scenarios. Finally for each scenario a different mapping and scheduling of the application is generated. In the case of the current thesis the application is the FFT and the cost perspective is the power consumption of the component. To exploit the RTS clustering in run time different quantization schemes have been produced. These schemes have been generated based on various properties of the data waveforms in the input of the FFT. The thesis explores the potential of the System Scenarios as well as the application of a quantization methodology for the FFT. Different options of the RTS clustering and the quantization of the FFT block are evaluated in order to come up with a more efficient implementation. / Τα σύγχρονα ηλεκτρονικά συστήματα παρέχουν στους χρήστες έναν καθημερινά αυξανόμενο αριθμό υπηρεσιών και λειτουργιών. Η ζήτηση τς αγοράς για ϕθηνές, αξιόπιστες και ϕορητές ηλεκτρονικές συ- σκευές ωθεί τα όρια του σχεδιασμού των ενσωματωμένων συστημάτων σε νέες ανεξερεύνητες περιοχές. Η ϕορητότητα απαιτεί την αϕαίρεση όλων των καλωδίων είτε για μετάδοση δεδομένων είτε για ενέργεια. Για να επιτευχθεί αυτό, η ασύρματη επικοινωνία σε υψηλό ρυθμό μετάδοσης είναι επιθυμητή χωρίς να θυσιαστεί η υψηλή ενεργειακή απο- δοτικότητα που καθιστά την συσκευή αυτόνομη από το ενεργειακό δίκτυο για μεγάλες χρονικές περιόδους. Η συνεχής αύξηση στις προδιαγραϕές των σύγχρονων ενσωματομένων συστημάτων έχει οδηγήσει στην χρήση καινοτόμων ιδεών, προσεγγίσεων και τεχνολογιών. Μια νέα τεχνολογία που υπόσχεται υψηλή ολοκλήρωση και υψηλό ρυθμό μετάδοσης δεδομένων στις ασύρματες ζεύξεις είναι η επικοινωνία στα 60 GHz. Μια νέα προσέγγιση σχεδιασμού για ενσωματομένα συστήματα υπόσχεται αποτελεσματική εκμετάλευση του δυναμισμού που μπορεί να παρουσιάζει ένα σύστημα. Τα ασύρματα συστήματα επικοινωνίας λειτουργούν τυπικά σε πολύ δυναμικά περιβάλλοντα. Τα Σενάρια συστήματος έχουν μεγάλες δυνατότητες για να βελτιώσουν την αποτελεσματικότητα της υλοποίησης των ψηϕιακών βάσεων τέτοιων συστημάτων. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εξερευνούμε της δυνατότητες της αρχιτεκτονικής του FFT που βρίσκεται στην πλευρά του δέκτη ενός πομποδέκτη στα 60 GHz. Ο FFT είναι μέρος της εξίσωσης στο πεδίο της συχνότητας που χρησιμοποιείται για να μειώσει της επιδράσεις του ϕαινομένου multipath. Χρησιμοποιώντας Σενάρια Συστήματος προσπαθούμε να καταλήξουμε με μια πιο προσαρμοστική και συνεπώς πιο ενεργειακά αποδοτική υλοποίηση του μετασχηματισμού. Η εϕαρμογή των Σεναρίων Συστήματος χρησιμοποιώντας δεδομένα ως παράμετρο είναι μια καινοτόμα προσέγγιση και σε αυτή την διπλωματική εργασία ελέγχουμε την επιτευξιμότητα της. Για να επιτύχουμε κάτι τέτοιο πρέπει να μπορούμε να παράγουμε πολλαπλά διαϕορετικά σχέδια κβαντοποίησης του μετασχηματισμού σε αποδεκτά χρονικά διαστήματα. Οι παρούσες μέθοδοι κβαντοποίησης δεν μπορούν ακόμα να παρέχουν τέτοια δυνατότητα. Έτσι βασιζόμενοι στην επέκταση μια υπάρχουσας μεθοδολογίας προτείνουμε μια ολοκληρωμένη μεθοδολογία που μπορεί να παράγει σχέδια κβαντοποίησης μεγάλων στοιχείων υλικού όπως ο FFT.

Στο πεδίο των ασύρματων επικοινωνιών της τάξης των 60 GHz που αντιστοιχούν σε ρυθμούς μετάδοσης multi-gigabits ανά δευτερόλεπτο, οι σύγχρονες υλοποιήσεις βασίζονται στα ιδιαίτερα προσαρμοζόμενα ASICs, ανάλογα με τις ανάγκες της εφαρμογής. Απαιτούνται γενικώς υψηλές ταχύτητες επεξεργασίας σε συνδυασμό με χαμηλή κατανάλωση ενέργειας. Ωστόσο, για να υποστηριχθούν διαφορετικά πρότυπα με μεγάλη διαφοροποίηση τρόπων χρήσης, είναι ιδιαίτερα επιθυμητές λύσεις αρχιτεκτονικής που μπορούν να προγραμματιστούν και να ρυθμιστούν έτσι ώστε αυξάνοντας το δυνατό αγοραστικό κοινό, να μειωθεί το κόστος επεξεργασίας ανά chip. Στις μέρες μας, τα ASIPs (Application-Specific Instruction-set Processors) δεν είναι εφικτά λόγων των υψηλότατων απαιτήσεων απόδοσης/ενέργειας. Ωστόσο, το κενό που υπάρχει με τα ASICs μπορεί κατά μεγάλο μέρος να γεφυρωθεί ή και να εξαλειφθεί, εισάγοντας και χρησιμοποιώντας ποιο δυναμική συμπεριφορά στην ψηφιακή front-end λειτουργικότητα. Για να επιτευχθεί αυτό, απαιτούνται καινοτομίες στην πλευρά της αρχιτεκτονικής του επεξεργαστή και ειδικότερα στον τρόπο που οι αλγόριθμοι αντιστοιχίζονται σε αυτές τις απαιτήσεις. Ξεκινώντας από παλαιότερα πειράματα που έδειξαν ότι η ιδέα αυτή είναι εφικτή, τα αντιπροσωπευτικά αλγοριθμικά τμήματα (με βάση κυρίως τον FFT) θα αντιστοιχηθούν στην επιλεγμένη αρχιτεκτονική ASIP για εφαρμογές στα 60 GHz. Σε αυτά τα πλαίσια, θα εφαρμοστεί η μεθοδολογία του διαγράμματος ροής εκτιμήσεων υψηλής κλίμακας (high level estimations flowchart). Πιο συγκεκριμένα, αρχικά θα αποκτηθεί μια πιο ακριβής καταγραφή του λειτουργικού κόστους της αλυσίδας φορτίου δεδομένων του ψηφιακού μέρους του δέκτη που υλοποιεί το πρότυπο επικοινωνιών στα 60 GHz. Στη συνέχεια θα κβαντιστούν οι πιο πολύπλοκοι, λειτουργικά, πυρήνες της αλυσίδας, όπως θα προκύψει από το προηγούμενο βήμα και τελικά οι πυρήνες αυτοί θα αντιστοιχηθούν σε αναδιαμορφώσιμα αρχιτεκτονικά μοντέλα. Η εργασία θα επικεντρωθεί στον FFT, που αναμένεται να έχει τη μέγιστη λειτουργική πολυπλοκότητα και θα προταθεί μια διαφορετική προσέγγιση για τον τρόπο προσπέλασης των δεδομένων και των συντελεστών στην SRAM και το register file, με στόχο την ελάττωση της κατανάλωσης ενέργειας του πυρήνα αυτού. Τέλος, θα παρατεθεί μια συγκριτική μελέτη των σχημάτων πρόσβασης που θα ερευνηθούν. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο μπορούν να ποσοτικοποιηθούν τα συνολικά κέρδη της έρευνάς μας. / In the domain of multi-gigabits per second wireless 60 GHz communication transceivers and beyond, today's implementations are all based on heavily customized application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The basic motivation for this customization is the extremely high processing speeds that are required, in combination with the need for low energy consumption. However, to support different standards and highly varying usage modes, more programmable or configurable architecture solutions are strongly desirable to increase the potential market volume and in this way to reduce the per-chip processing costs. Today these application-specific instruction set processors or ASIPs are not feasible due to the too high performance/energy requirements. Nevertheless, we believe that by introducing and exploiting more dynamic behavior in the digital front-end functionality, the performance/energy gap with the ASICs can be largely bridged and potentially even fully overcome. In order to achieve this, innovations are required on the processor architecture side and especially on the way algorithms are mapped to those architectures. In this thesis, we will start from earlier experiments which have shown the viability of the above concept. Τhe representative algorithmic blocks (mainly FFT oriented) will be mapped onto reconfigurable hardware based on ASIP architectures for 60 GHz applications. In this way we can quantify the overall gains and check how far the approach can be extended to exploit all the available dynamism using the concept of scenario clustering. In this context, we will follow the steps of the high level estimations flowchart methodology. In particular, we will obtain a more accurate account of the operational complexity of the digital base-band payload chain kernels, quantize the most complex of them and then map them in reconfigurable architectures. Especially for the FFT kernel, that is expected to show the highest complexity, we will implement a different approach in the accessing of the data and coefficients that intends to limit the energy usage of the kernel. For this purpose, we will end this work with a comparative study of different schemes explored.

abstract: ABSTRACT Ongoing research into wireless transceivers in the 60 GHz band is required to address the demand for high data rate communications systems at a frequency where signal propagation is challenging even over short ranges. This thesis proposes a mixer architecture in Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology that uses a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) operating at a fractional multiple of the desired output signal. The proposed topology is different from conventional subharmonic mixing in that the oscillator phase generation circuitry usually required for such a circuit is unnecessary. Analysis and simulations are performed on the proposed mixer circuit in an IBM 90 nm RF process on a 1.2 V supply. A typical RF transmitter system is considered in determining the block requirements needed for the mixer to meet the IEEE 802.11ad 60 GHz Draft Physical Layer Specification. The proposed circuit has a conversion loss of 21 dB at 60 GHz with a 5 dBm LO power at 20 GHz. Input-referred third-order intercept point (IIP3) is 2.93 dBm. The gain and linearity of the proposed mixer are sufficient for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation at 60 GHz with a transmitted data rate of over 4 Gbps. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2010

In this work  high gain antennas are investigated for the 60 GHz frequency. The goal is to produce a high bandwidth point-to-point wireless network that could enable improved and new features in embedded systems used to detect particles in high energy physics. A literature study was performed aiming at simple, high gain, highly polarised antennas. Complex designs were grouped into three different groups: flat antenna design, build-up design and multi-antenna design. The multi-antenna design was found to have the simplest design and manufacturing but also feature larger antenna area. Three different designs were produced and tested, standard patch antenna, long patch antenna and a Vivaldi antenna. Manufacturing of a 4-patch antenna was also tested. All three demonstrated expected properties, the Vivaldi shows the best gain while the long patch antenna is slightly below the standard patch antenna. A forth design implementation was also tested using a 3D-printed lens. A lens can increase gain and allow changing beam direction. A lens was design and tested, the results showed an increased gain but with varying results at angels. Antennas were designed and manufactured using simple etching technique showing that further research can be done using simple and easily accessible techniques. Both antenna and lens show good properties and should be further investigated and validated. / I det här arbetet har antenner med hög förstärkning vid frekvensen 60 GHz undersökts. Målet är att utveckla punkt-till-punkt nätverk med hög bandbredd för detektorer i partikelkolliderare. Idag används trådade nätvärk i detektorn, genom att byta till trådlös dataöverföring kan onödig massa minskas och kvalitet förbättras. En litteraturstudie genomfördes med inriktning mot enkla, starkt förstärkande och kraftigt polariserad antenner. Tre olika typer defineras: platta designer, uppbygda designer och antenngrupper. Antenngrupper var de med enklaste design och tillverkning men också de med störst area relativt de andra. Tre olika antenner tillverkades och testades: patchantenn, lång patchantenn och Vivaldiantenn. Även en 4-patch antenn tillverkades. Produktionen av alla antenner höll hög kvalitet och de testade egenskaperna var förväntade. Vivaldiantennen hade starkast förstärkning av de testade antennerna, den långa patchantennen presterade strax under standard patchantennen. Även tester av en antenngrupp bestående av en patch antenn oc hen antennlins gjordes. Genom att använda en lins kan förstärkningen ökas och riktningen ändras. En lins designades och tillverkades med en 3D-skrivare. Resultat från tester visade på en ökad förstärkning men med varierande resultat vid vinklar. Antenner designades och tillverkades med en enkel etsningsmetod, detta visar att forsatta undersökningar kan utnyttja enkel och lättilgänlig teknik. Goda resultat uppvisades med både antenner och lins. Framtida studier kan utföras för att vidarutveckla och validera konceptet.

La vision future de l'internet des objets (IdO) et Internet du Tout (OIE) plongera les personnes soi-disant environnements intelligents impliquant un grand nombre de secteurs d'applications telles que l'habitat intelligent, smart-villes, surveillance de l'environnement, l'e-santé ... IdO et l'OIE ont tendance à faire des objets du quotidien lisible, identifiable, localisable, adressable et contrôlable via le déploiement sans fil généralisée et l'Internet. Parmi ces capacités, la localisation et plus largement le positionnement omniprésente joueront, dans un proche avenir, un rôle clé pour promouvoir une autre vision émergente: un Internet spatio-temporelle des lieux (IoP), qui serait en mesure de structurer et d'organiser, par des moyens des approches sans fil d'énergie savez, le contenu spatial d'Internet. Il est bien connu que dans les réseaux locaux sans fil et personnelles, l'encombrement du spectre, les communications à faible efficacité énergétique et l'exploitation insuffisante des ressources spatiales sont parmi les facteurs qui peuvent ralentir son développement en termes de débit et de l'autonomie. Pour surmonter ces restrictions inévitables, la technologie de localisation sans fil, comme le mécanisme pour découvrir relation spatio-temporelle entre les objets connectés, apparaît ici aussi comme une des solutions clés. Ce est parce que les techniques de localisation dédiés à la communication sans fil peuvent aider à développer plus largement l'exploitation des ressources spatiales et de permettre la conduite routage optimisé pour une faible énergie communication multi-hop et la décongestion du spectre pour Green ICT (Information et Communication Technology). Pour proposer des systèmes optimisés atteindre à la fois la communication des taux de données élevés et la localisation précise, nous définissons un TDOA bien adapté (Time Difference of Arrival) méthode basée en mesure d'effectuer la localisation basée sur des signaux de communication et de données seulement. Avec cette technique, contrairement estimations TDOA classiques, il est possible de diminuer considérablement la complexité des infrastructures nécessaires en utilisant des configurations SIMO (Single Input Multiple Output), MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) ou MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) dans les objets connectés . Toute cette étude est faite dans le cadre de l'IEEE 802.11ad spécifications de l'alliance standard et WiGig, mais les solutions proposées sont compatibles avec d'autres normes et peuvent être étendues à d'autres applications de contexte courant nécessitant entrées de localisation tels que la robotique par exemple ou de shopping intelligent... / The forthcoming vision of Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE) will immerse people in so-called Smart Environments involving a great number of sectors of applications such as smart habitat, smart-cities, environment monitoring, e-health… IoT and IoE tend to make everyday objects readable, recognizable, locatable, addressable and controllable via the widespread wireless deployment and the internet. Among these capabilities, localization and more extensively the ubiquitous positioning will play, in the next future, a key role to promote another emerging vision: a spatio-temporal Internet of Places (IoP), which would be able to structure and organize, by means of wireless energy aware approaches, the spatial content of Internet. It is well known that in wireless local and personal area networks, the spectrum congestion, the low energy efficiency communications and the insufficient exploitation of the spatial resources are among the factors that may slow down its development in terms of throughput and autonomy. To overcome these unavoidable restrictions, wireless localization technology, as the mechanism for discovering spatio-temporal relationship between connected objects, appears here also as one of the key solutions. This is because dedicated localization techniques in wireless communication can help in developing more extensively the exploitation of spatial resources and allow driving optimized routing for low energy multi-hop communication and spectrum decongestion for Green ICT (Information and Communication Technology). To propose optimized systems achieving both high data rate communication and precise localization, we define a well suited TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) based method able to perform localization based on communication signals and data only. With this technique, unlike conventional TDOA estimations, it is possible to drastically decrease the complexity of required infrastructures by using either SIMO (Single Input Multiple Output), MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) or MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) configurations in connected objects. This whole study is made within the framework of the IEEE 802.11ad standard and WiGig alliance specifications, however the proposed solutions are compatible with other standards and can be extended to other context aware applications requiring localization inputs such as robotics for example or smart shopping...

In this thesis, the design fabrication and characterization of a 2 x 8 microstrip planar antenna array operating at the 60 GHz band for Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) applications are presented. The trade-offs among low production costs, performance, and ease of fabrication were considered. Full-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis is implemented for the antenna design by using |ANSYS®High Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS), a finite-element EM solver. The antenna structure consists of two layers, where each array element is a Conductor-Backed Coplanar Waveguide (CB-CPW) loop-fed patch antenna. The bottom layer houses the transmission line and feeding circuitry, while the patch antennas are built on the top layer. The transmission line is designed on microfabrication-compatible quartz substrate, and the patches on a Rogers RO3003 Printed Circuit board (PCB) substrate. The CPW network's right-angle bends are optimized with chamfered lines. Air bridges are used to suppress the parasitic coupled slot line mode of the CPW line divisions. Results of the EM analysis show that the array covers the United States (US) 60 GHz unlicensed band (57-64 GHz), and has a maximum realized gain of 18 dB at 61 GHz on the broadside direction. The antenna design is later fabricated combining microfabrication and standard PCB procedures.

In 2001, the Federal Communications Commission made available a large block of spectrum known as the 60 GHz band. The 60 GHz band is attractive because it provides the opportunity of multi-Gbps data rates with unlicensed commercial use. One of the main challenges facing the use of this band is poor propagation characteristics including high path loss and strong attenuation due to oxygen absorption. Antenna arrays have been proposed as a means of combating these effects. This thesis provides an analysis of array processing for communication systems operating in the 60 GHz band. Based on measurement campaigns at 60 GHz, deterministic modeling of the channel through ray tracing is proposed. We conduct a site-specific study using ray tracing to model an outdoor and an indoor environment on the Virginia Tech campus. Because arrays are required for antenna gain and adaptability, we explore the use of arrays as a form of equalization in the presence of channel-induced intersymbol interference. The first contribution of this thesis is to establish the expected performance achieved by arrays in the outdoor environment. The second contribution is to analyze the performance of adaptive algorithms applied to array processing in mobile indoor and outdoor environments. / Master of Science

In this modern age of information, the demands on data transmission networks for greater capacity, and mobile accessibility are increasing drastically. The increasing demand for mobile access is evidenced by the proliferation of wireless systems such as mobile phone networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs). The frequency range over which an oxygen resonance occurs in the atmosphere (~58-62 GHz) has received recent attention as a possible candidate for secure high-speed wireless data networks with a potentially high degree of frequency reuse. A significant challenge in implementing data networks at 60 GHz is the manufacture of low-cost RF transceivers capable of satisfying the system requirements. In order to produce transceivers that meet the additional demands of high-volume, mobility, and compactness, monolithic millimeter wave integrated circuits (MMICs) offer the most practical solution. In the design of radio tranceivers with a high degree of integration, the receiver front-end is typically the most critical component to overall system performance. High-performance low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) are now realizable at frequencies in excess of 100 GHz, and a wide variety of mixer topologies are available that are capable of downconversion from 60 GHz. However, local oscillators (LOs) capable of providing adequate output power at mm-wave frequencies remain bulky and expensive. There are several techniques that allow the use of a lower frequency microwave LO to achieve the same RF downconversion. One of these is to employ a subharmonic mixer. In this case, a lower frequency LO is applied and the RF mixes with a harmonic multiple of the LO signal to produce the desired intermediate frequency (IF). The work presented in this thesis will focus on the development of a GaAs MMIC 4-X subharmonic mixer in Finite Ground Coplanar (FGC) technology for operation at 60 GHz. The mixer topology is based on an antiparallel Schottky diode pair. A discussion of the mechanisms behind the operation of this circuit and the methods of practical implementation is presented. The FGC transmission lines and passive tuning structures used in mixer implementation are characterized with full-wave electromagnetic simulation software and 2-port vector network analyzer measurements. A characterization of mixer performance is obtained through simulations and measurement. The viability of this circuit as an alternative to other high-frequency downconversion schemes is discussed. The performance of the actual fabricated MMIC is presented and compared to currently available 60 GHz mixers. One particular MMIC design exhibits an 11.3 dB conversion loss at an RF of 58.5 GHz, an LO frequency of 14.0 GHz, and an IF of 2.5 GHz. This represents excellent performance for a 4X Schottky diode mixer at these frequencies. Finally, recommendations toward future research directions in this area are made. / Master of Science

Avec le contexte actuel des défis sécuritaires, la détection de petits objets devient un enjeu majeur pour lutter contre les actes malveillants. Mais les évolutions des technologies en bandes millimétriques et le potentiel de ces bandes, notamment autour de 60 GHz peuvent faciliter la conception de systèmes de plus en plus performants, permettant de répondre à ces enjeux. Cette thèse s’inscrit dans ce contexte pour proposer un système de détection ultra-large bande (ULB) millimétrique pour des applications de courte portée. Après un état de l'art détaillé des fondamentaux de la détection, nous présentons une validation de l'estimation de la surface équivalente radar (SER) par simulation avec le logiciel HFSS et par mesures en chambre anéchoïque. Ces deux études nous ont permis d'identifier les éléments essentiels à l'analyse système et les paramètres critiques de la détection d'objets canoniques cylindres et plaques. Une fois l'analyse système cernée, nous avons proposé une approche de détection multi-bande basée sur le radar monostatique pour améliorer la couverture de détection des systèmes, mais aussi et surtout pour pallier la limitation de la détection des objets en fonction de leur orientation par rapport à l'axe de viser de l'antenne. Nous avons également proposé une architecture (émetteur-récepteur) simple pouvant être associée au principe de détection. Le dimensionnement du système nous a permis d'identifier les amplificateurs faible bruit (LNAs) comme éléments critiques du récepteur et ainsi d'établir leurs spécifications pour atteindre les performances visées. Une comparaison des technologies SG13S de IHP et D007IH de OMMIC est menée dans la dernière partie de ce travail. Le choix de la technologie est justifié et la conception des LNAs sous ADS Keysight est détaillée. Une simulation de l'ensemble du système basée sur les performances des LNAs conçus et sur les simulations de SER est présentée pour illustrer la mise en œuvre de la détection. Enfin, les performances de la détection sont évaluées pour des cibles cylindriques et les apports du système proposé sont illustrés en comparaison avec une détection classique mono-bande / With the current context of security challenges, small objects detection is becoming a major issue in the fight against malicious acts. However, developments in millimeter-band technologies and the potential of these bands, particularly around 60 GHz, can facilitate the design of increasingly efficient systems to meet these challenges. This thesis is part of this context to propose an ultra-wideband (UWB) millimeter-wave detection system for short-range applications.After a detailed state-of-the-art of the fundamentals of detection, we present a validation of the radar cross-section (RCS) estimation by simulations with HFSS software and by measurements in anechoic chamber. These two studies allowed us to identify the essential elements for system analysis and the critical parameters for the detection of canonical objects such as cylinders and plates.Once the system analysis was identified, we proposed a multi-band detection approach based on monostatic radar to improve the detection coverage of the systems, but also and especially to overcome the limitation of objects detection according to their orientation in relation to the antenna boresight. We also proposed a simple architecture (transceiver) that could be associated with the detection principle. The system design allowed us to identify low noise amplifiers (LNAs) as critical elements of the receiver and thus establish their specifications to achieve the targeted performances.A comparison of IHP's SG13S and OMMIC's D007IH technologies is conducted in the last part of this work. The choice of technology is justified and the design of LNAs under ADS Keysight is detailed. A simulation of the entire system based on the performance of the designed LNAs and RCS simulations is presented to illustrate the implementation of detection. Finally, detection performances are evaluated for cylindrical targets and the contributions of the proposed system are illustrated in comparison with conventional single-band detection