Silicon-based radar and imaging sensors operating above 120 GHz

Author

Sarkas, I. ; Laskin, E. ; Tomkins, A. ; Balteanu, A. ; Dacquay, E. ; Tarnow, L. ; Voinigescu, S.P. ; Hasch, J. ; Chevalier, P. ; Sautreuil, B.

Author_Institution

ECE Dept., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 May 2012

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

96

Abstract

This paper reviews the design considerations, integration issues, packaging and experimental performance of two, recently developed D-Band transceivers with on-die or above-IC antennas fabricated in a production SiGe BiCMOS technology. Potential solutions for future high-efficiency D- and G-Band radio and sensor transceivers are also investigated.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; field effect MIMIC; image sensors; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave detectors; millimetre wave radar; radio transceivers; silicon; BiCMOS technology; D-Band transceivers; above-IC antennas; high-efficiency G-band radio; imaging sensors; on-die antennas; sensor transceivers; silicon-based radar; Propagation losses; Receiving antennas; D-Band; G-Band; SiGe BiCMOS; imaging; nanoscale CMOS; radar; radio; sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Radar and Wireless Communications (MIKON), 2012 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1435-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIKON.2012.6233499

Filename

6233499