Title :
A Millimeter-Wave Schottky Diode Detector in 130-nm CMOS Technology
Author :
Seok, Eunyoung ; Cao, Changhua ; Sankaran, Swaminathan ; O, Kenneth K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL
Abstract :
A 182-GHz Schottky barrier diode detector has been demonstrated in 130-nm foundry CMOS using signals generated on-chip by modulating the bias current of a push-push voltage controlled oscillator as input. This work demonstrated that it is possible to build a detector operating near the top end of millimeter-wave range using digital CMOS
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; Schottky diodes; millimetre wave detectors; millimetre wave integrated circuits; voltage-controlled oscillators; 130 nm; 182 GHz; Schottky barrier diode detector; bias current modulation; digital CMOS technology; millimeter-wave detector; voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Circuits; Detectors; Frequency; Millimeter wave technology; Power generation; Schottky diodes; Signal detection; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Circuits, 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. 2006 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0006-6
DOI :
10.1109/VLSIC.2006.1705350