Components for generating and phase locking 390-GHz signal in 45-nm CMOS

Author

Shim, Dongha ; Koukis, Dimitrios ; Arenas, Daniel J. ; Tanner, David B. ; Seok, Eunyoung ; Brewer, Joe E. ; O, Kenneth K.

fYear

2012

fDate

13-15 June 2012

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

11

Abstract

Components for generating and phase locking 390-GHz signal are demonstrated using low leakage transistors in 45-nm CMOS. An integrated chain of circuits composed of an 195-GHz oscillator with frequency doubled output at ~390 GHz followed by two cascaded ÷2 injection locked frequency dividers with output frequency of ~49 GHz is demonstrated. The peak power radiated at ~390 GHz by an on-chip antenna is ~2 μW. The oscillator and frequency divider consumes 21 and 6 mW, respectively.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; antennas; frequency dividers; phase locked oscillators; signal generators; transistors; ÷2 injection locked frequency divider; CMOS; circuit integrated chain; frequency 195 GHz to 390 GHz; low leakage transistor; oscillator; power 21 mW to 6 mW; signal generation; signal phase locking; size 45 nm; CMOS integrated circuits; Current measurement; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Oscillators; System-on-a-chip; Transistors; CMOS; injection locked frequency divider; on-chip antenna; oscillator; phase locking; sub-millimeter wave;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Circuits (VLSIC), 2012 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0848-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0845-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243764

Filename

6243764