Mao, Yanfei: 245 GHz subharmonic receivers for gas spectroscopy in SiGe BiCMOS technology. 2014
Content
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Design and Modeling of Integrated Passive Devices Beyond 100 GHz
- 2.1 Description of Semiconductor Technology
- 2.2 Resistors
- 2.3 Capacitors
- 2.4 High-Frequency Probe Pads
- 2.5 Inductors vs. Transmission Lines
- 2.6 Basic Transmission Line Theory [12]
- 2.7 Investigation of Integrated Transmission Line Topologies
- 2.8 Comparison of LNAs with different transmission line topologies
- 2.9 2-port Measurement Setup For 122 GHz LNA
- 2.10 Conclusions
- 3 CB LNA design
- 3.1 IEEE two-port noise model
- 3.2 Relationship between noise parameter and noise correlation chain matrix CA
- 3.3 Comparison of Common Base (CB) Stage With Other Circuit Topologies
- 3.4 CB LNA simulation and measurement results in 0.25 um SG25 H1 BiCMOS (DotFive) technology
- 3.5 Modified CB LNA in SG13G2 BiCMOS technology
- 3.6 2-port measurement setup for 245 GHz LNA
- 4 Subharmonic Mixer Design
- 4.1 Subharmonic Mixers
- 4.2 Topologies of Subharmonic Mixers
- 4.3 4th and 2nd transconductance subharmonic mixers
- 4.3.1 Schematic of 4th and 2nd transconductance subharmonic mixers
- 4.3.2 Simulation and measurement results of 4th transconductance subharmonic mixer
- 4.3.3 Simulation and measurement results of 2nd transconductance subharmonic mixer
- 4.4 Passive subharmonic mixer
- 4.5 3-port measurement setup of SHMs
- 5 Subharmonic receiver design
- 5.1 4th transconductance subharmonic receiver
- 5.2 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver
- 5.3 2nd passive subharmonic receiver
- 5.4 Measurement setup for subharmonic receivers
- 5.5 System analysis of three subharmonic receivers
- 5.6 Comparison state of the art
- 6 Subharmonic receiver in gas spectroscopy application
- 6.1 Dynamic range of 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver
- 6.1.1 Sensitivity and dynamic range
- 6.1.2 Sensitivity and dynamic range of 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver
- 6.2 On-chip antenna design
- 6.3 On chip measurements of 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver with on-chip antenna
- 6.3.1 3-port measurement setup for 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver with on-chip antenna
- 6.3.2 Measurement results of 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver with on-chip antenna
- 6.4 2nd transconductance subharmonic receiver in gas spectroscopy application
- 7 Conclusion and Outlook
- 8 References