Title :
Feasibility study including detector non-idealities of a 95-GHz CMOS SoC radiometer for passive imaging
Author :
Mereni, L. ; Pepe, Domenico ; Zito, Domenico
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
Passive radiometry is a health-safe alternative to other imaging techniques conceived to be used on human beings for security or medical purposes. In this work we discuss the feasibility study of a W-band passive radiometer for imaging applications in nano-scale CMOS technology, with particular emphasis on the impact of the non-idealities of the detector on the overall system performances.
Keywords :
CMOS image sensors; radiometers; system-on-chip; CMOS SoC radiometer; W-band passive radiometer; detector nonidealities; frequency 95 GHz; nanoscale CMOS technology; passive imaging; passive radiometry; Antennas; CMOS integrated circuits; Detectors; Imaging; Microwave radiometry; Noise;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seville
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1261-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1259-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463537
