Implementation of an all-analog active reflector

Author

Bousquet, Jean-François ; Magierowski, Sebastian ; Messier, Geoffrey ; Zhao, Zhixing

Author_Institution

Schulich Sch. of Eng., Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A 3.65-GHz all-analog wireless reflector acting as a cooperative diversity repeater is built in 0.13-μm CMOS technology and its performance is evaluated. Interfaced with a folded dipole antenna, the circuit can achieve a 23.5-dB gain for a very low power consumption equal to 300 μW.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; active antennas; coplanar waveguides; dipole antennas; field effect MMIC; microwave antennas; radio repeaters; reflector antennas; strip lines; CMOS technology; all-analog active reflector implementation; circuit gain; cooperative diversity repeater; coplanar stripline folded dipole antenna structure; discrete matching network; frequency 3.65 GHz; low power active reflector; power 300 muW; size 0.13 mum; wireless reflector; Dipole antennas; Frequency measurement; Gain; Radio frequency; Resistance; Transistors; coplanar stripline; folded dipole; negative resistance amplifier; reflector amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2010 23rd Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, AB

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5376-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575200

Filename

5575200