Title :
Ultra wide band low-power amplifier integrated on miniaturized antenna for biomedical applications
Author :
Hamouda, Mahmoud ; Scotto di Clemente, Francesco ; Hein, Matthias ; Fischer, Georg ; Weigel, Robert ; Ussmueller, T.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Electron. Eng., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Abstract :
This work presents the design and the manufacturing of an ultra wide band amplifier integrated with a low impedance antenna for Biomedical applications. The amplifier operates from 1.5 GHz up to 3.5 GHz that gives the advantage of having high resolution radar system. The amplifier has a gain of 10 dB with input reflection coefficient less -5 dB and serves as a matching network between the 50 Ω input and the low impedance antenna. The chip consumes low power of 56 mW and has an area of 0.689 mm2. The idea of integrating the chip with the antenna to realize a miniaturized active transmitter is shown. The chip is designed using a low cost 0.25 μm 95 GHz fmax SiGe-HBT-BiCMOS process technology.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; antennas; biomedical electronics; biomedical equipment; heterojunction bipolar transistors; low-power electronics; network synthesis; ultra wideband technology; biomedical application; chip design; chip low power consumption; frequency 1.5 GHz to 3.5 GHz; frequency 95 GHz; gain 10 dB; high resolution radar system; input reflection coefficient; low cost fmax SiGe-HBT-BiCMOS process technology; low impedance antenna; matching network; miniaturized active transmitter; miniaturized antenna; power 56 mW; resistance 50 ohm; size 0.25 mum; size 0.689 mm; ultra wideband amplifier manufacturing; ultra wideband low-power amplifier design; Bandwidth; Imaging; Impedance; Impedance matching; Inductance; Ultra wideband antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2013 European
Conference_Location :
Nuremberg
