A 2.4GHz MEMS-Based Transceiver

Author

Ruffieux, David ; Chabloz, Jérémie ; Muller, Claude ; Pengg, Franz-Xaver ; Tortori, Paola ; Vouilloz, Alexandre

Author_Institution

CSEM, Neuchatel

fYear

2008

fDate

3-7 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

523

Abstract

Miniaturization and reduction of power dissipation are two issues that currently prevent the seamless integration of wireless and networking capability into any tiny high-tech object such as hearing aids or miniature drug delivery monitoring devices or implants. The combination of MEMS technologies, yielding novel devices such as RF bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators and filters or low frequency silicon resonators, with RF ICs call for several innovations at the architectural, packaging, circuit and device levels to demonstrate the miniaturization and power reduction potential of the involved technologies.

Keywords

acoustic resonators; bulk acoustic wave devices; micromechanical devices; radiofrequency integrated circuits; transceivers; MEMS technologies; MEMS-based transceiver; RF IC; RF bulk acoustic wave filters; RF bulk acoustic wave resonators; frequency 2.4 GHz; low frequency silicon resonators; networking capability; wireless capability; Acoustic waves; Auditory implants; Drug delivery; Hearing aids; Micromechanical devices; Monitoring; Pharmaceutical technology; Power dissipation; Radio frequency; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2010-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2011-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523287

Filename

4523287