• 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 \\mu 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
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1335127