DocumentCode :
1335127
Title :
A Low-Power UWB-IR Transmitter by Tapered Nonlinear Transmission Lines
Author :
Yu, F. ; Lyon, Keith G. ; Kan, Edwin C.
Author_Institution :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Volume :
22
Issue :
12
fYear :
2012
Firstpage :
618
Lastpage :
620
Abstract :
We present a low-power transmitter for the ultra-wide-band impulse radio utilizing tapered nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) designs. As the energy in each pulse scales with the inverse of frequency, the tapered NLTL achieves up to 40% energy improvement over a uniform NLTL transmitter. We fabricated three 10 GHz transmitters with different tapering factors in 0.13 
m RF-CMOS technology and demonstrated 15 pJ of energy consumption per pulse.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Energy consumption; Radio transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Varactors; Impulse radio (IR); tapered nonlinear transmission line (NLTL); ultra-wideband (UWB);
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1531-1309
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/LMWC.2012.2226020
Filename :
6353601
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