A 340 GHz fully integrated transmitter for high-speed communications

Author

Xiaodong Deng ; Yihu Li ; JianKang Li ; Wen Wu ; Yong-Zhong Xiong

Author_Institution

Ministerial Key Lab. of JGMT, Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

303

Abstract

This paper presents a 340 GHz 4-way fully integrated phased array transmitter using 0.13um SiGe BiCMOS technology. The chip integrates a 21.25 GHz synthesizer, a quadrupler together with a 1:4 Wilkinson network, power amplifiers, analog phase shifters, 20Gbps OOK modulators, and 2×2 on-chip antenna arrays on each channel. Simulated patterns show scanning to ±12° and >12dBi gain in E-plane. The chip size of the fully integrated phased array transmitter is 8×4.3 mm².

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; antenna phased arrays; antenna radiation patterns; phase shift keying; radio transmitters; scanning antennas; silicon compounds; submillimetre wave antennas; transmitting antennas; wireless channels; BiCMOS technology; OOK modulator; SiGe; Wilkinson network; analog phase shifter; frequency 340 GHz; fully integrated phased array transmitter; high-speed communication; on-chip antenna array; power amplifier; quadrupler; synthesizer; wireless channel; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Loss measurement; Phase shifters; Power amplifiers; System-on-chip; Transmitters; Phased arrays; on-chip antennas; silicon; terahertz; transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2014 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISICIR.2014.7029569

Filename

7029569