Review of Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits with Low Power Consumption for High Speed Wireless Communications

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Abstract

In this paper we review high-speed radio-frequency integrated circuits operating up to 210 GHz and present selected state-of-the-art circuits with leading-edge performance, which we have designed at our chair. The following components are discussed employing bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductors (BiCMOS) technologies: a 200 GHz amplifier with 17 dB gain and around 9 dB noise figure consuming only 18 mW, a 200 GHz down mixer with 5.5 dB conversion gain and 40 mW power consumption, a 190 GHz receiver with 47 dB conversion gain and 11 dB noise figure and a 60 GHz power amplifier with 24.5 dBm output power and 12.9 % power added efficiency (PAE). Moreover, we report on a single-core flash CMOS analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) with 3 bit resolution and a speed of 24 GS/s. Finally, we discuss a 60 GHz on-off keying (OOK) BiCMOS transceiver chip set. The wireless transmission of data with 5 Gb/s at 42 cm distance between transmitter and receiver was verified by experiments. The complete transceiver consumes 396 mW.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-9
Number of pages9
JournalFrequenz
Volume71
Issue number1-2
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017
Peer-reviewedYes

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  • analog-to-digital converters, integrated circuits, low-noise amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers, wireless communication