A 90GHz-carrier 30GHz-bandwidth hybrid switching transmitter with integrated antenna

Author

Arbabian, Amin ; Afshar, Bagher ; Jun-Chau Chien ; Shinwon Kang ; Callender, Steven ; Adabi, Ehsan ; Toso, S.D. ; Pilard, Romain ; Gloria, Daniel ; Niknejad, A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

7-11 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

420

Lastpage

421

Abstract

A fully integrated 90 GHz-carrier pulsed transmitter with on-chip antenna and >30 GHz measured bandwidth is demonstrated in 0.13 Â¿m SiGe BiCMOS. By exploring the benefits of hybrid PA/antenna switching and high-performance digital circuitry, the transmitter generates variable-width carrier-modulated pulses with minimum measured pulse width of 35 ps.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; MMIC; antennas; microwave antennas; power amplifiers; radio transmitters; BiCMOS; SiGe; bandwidth 30 GHz; frequency 90 GHz; hybrid power amplifier-antenna switching; hybrid switching transmitter; integrated antenna; on chip antenna; pulsed transmitter; size 0.13 mum; variable width carrier modulated pulse; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Germanium silicon alloys; Integrated circuit measurements; Pulse circuits; Pulse measurements; Silicon germanium; Space vector pulse width modulation; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6033-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2010.5433852

Filename

5433852