K. Schmalz, J. Borngraber, P. Neumaier, H. Hubers, D. Kissinger
{"title":"Sensor system in SiGe BiCMOS at 245 and 500 GHz for gas spectroscopy","authors":"K. Schmalz, J. Borngraber, P. Neumaier, H. Hubers, D. Kissinger","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445471","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews our recent work on transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) circuits in SiGe BiCMOS technology for gas spectroscopy in the frequency ranges around 245 GHz and 500 GHz. The 245 GHz TX consists of a 122 GHz local oscillator (LO) and a frequency doubler, and the 245 GHz RX consists of a low noise amplifier (LNA), a LO, and an active subharmonic mixer. A 245 GHz TX-array increases significantly the sensitivity of the sensor system. The 500 GHz system includes a TX-array, and a subharmonic RX with a transconductance mixer. The 500 GHz TX contains a frequency quadrupler, and the RX uses a frequency doubler for the LO. The LOs of the RX and the TX are controlled by two external phase-locked loops (PLLs). The reference frequency of the TX-PLL is frequency-modulated. The performance of the sensor system is demonstrated by using a gas absorption cell with dielectric lenses between the TX- and RX-modules, and measuring the 2f high-resolution absorption spectrum (second harmonic detection) of gaseous methanol (CH3OH) and acetonitrile (CH3CN).","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"19 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133169666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"60-GHz SiGe BiCMOS dual-conversion down-converter: Schottky diode RF mixer and analog Gilbert IF mixer with microwave quadrature generator","authors":"Jen-Chieh Kao, C. Meng, H. Wei, G. Huang","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445466","url":null,"abstract":"A 60 GHz dual-conversion down-converter using 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS process is demonstrated in this paper. A Schottky diode ring mixer with wideband Marchand balun works as the 60-GHz RF mixer while two analog Gilbert micromixers with LO port pumped by two quadrature couplers work as IF mixers. The cut-off frequency of a Schottky diode makes a fundamental RF ring mixer possible because the series resistance of a Schottky diode is effectively reduced by the n+ buried layer in SiGe BiCMOS process. A Gilbert micromixer with an IF buffer is used to accommodate the single-ended output of the RF ring mixer. By combining these advantages, a dual-conversion down-converter is achieved. The converter has about 8 dB conversion gain, 10 GHz RF bandwidth of 50-60 GHz, 100 MHz IF bandwidth when LO1 power is 8 dBm and LO2 power is 2 dBm.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134459413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Hurwitz, R. Kanawati, K. Moen, E. Preisler, S. Chaudhry, M. Racanelli
{"title":"Advances in RF foundry technology for wireless and wireline communications","authors":"P. Hurwitz, R. Kanawati, K. Moen, E. Preisler, S. Chaudhry, M. Racanelli","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445453","url":null,"abstract":"Improvements in foundry RF and mm-wave Si offerings over the last several years have allowed it to take market share from III-V processes for TX / RX applications. The increased RF switch content in handsets is now dominated by RF-SOI which also supports LNA and PA integration. SiGe BiCMOS technologies support the 802.11 FEIC and GPS receiver IC products and may be poised to take a larger share of the cellular PA market in the coming years. Higher-speed, high yielding SiGe BiCMOS is enabling new building blocks such as single-chip 60 GHz phased arrays. Here we review recent improvements in key technology figures of merit and integration that are driving the increased use of RF specialty silicon for high performance wireless and wireline communications.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131582460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Gianesello, A. Monroy, V. Vialla, E. Canderle, G. Bertrand, M. Buczko, M. Coly, Jeff Nowakowski, N. Revil, L. Rolland, D. Gloria, A. Juge, S. Gachon, J. Aubert, E. Granger
{"title":"Highly linear and sub 120 fs Ron × Coff 130 nm RF SOI technology targeting 5G carrier aggregation RF switches and FEM SOC","authors":"F. Gianesello, A. Monroy, V. Vialla, E. Canderle, G. Bertrand, M. Buczko, M. Coly, Jeff Nowakowski, N. Revil, L. Rolland, D. Gloria, A. Juge, S. Gachon, J. Aubert, E. Granger","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445454","url":null,"abstract":"RF front end modules (FEMs) are currently realized using a variety of technologies. However, since integration drives wireless business in order to achieve the appropriate cost and form factor, CMOS Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) has emerged over the past few years as the dominant technology for RF switches in RF FEMs for cell phones and WiFi [1]. While current performances available on RF SOI technology are already exceeding what was feasible using GaAs one, new cellular system such as carrier aggregation require even more stringent performances (linearity, power handling, insertion loss, isolation). To address those new requirements, RF SOI technology has to be improved. In this paper, the performances results of the latest generations of RF SOI switch technologies from STMicroelectronics are reviewed and technology elements that contribute to improved performance are discussed. Future improvements are also proposed, paving the way for RF SOI technology able to address 5G RF switches challenges.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127894972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jin Li, ZhengAn Yang, M. Hickle, D. Psychogiou, D. Peroulis
{"title":"Electrical properties of creep-resistant nanocrystalline gold-vanadium thin films at millimeter-wave frequencies","authors":"Jin Li, ZhengAn Yang, M. Hickle, D. Psychogiou, D. Peroulis","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445457","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the mechanical and electrical properties of creep-resistant nanocrystalline gold-vanadium (Au-V) thin films that are employed in electrostatically-actuated microcorrugated diaphragms (MCDs) of frequency-reconfigurable all-silicon cavity filters. Solid solution strengthened Au-V MCDs featuring the lowest stress relaxation to date were built and experimentally tested. In a 3-hour stress relaxation experiment under a 20-μm constant displacement, they exhibited a 6.2% decay and a rate of stress relaxation (at the 3rd hour) that is 9.7×/5.4× lower than that of previously reported Au/Au-V MCDs. Grounded coplanar waveguide transmission lines were built and measured on a quartz substrate in order to experimentally evaluate the electrical properties (sheet resistance: Rs, conductivity: σ, and attenuation factor: α) of the Au-V thin films through DC and RF measurements in the 20-40 GHz band. These were specified as follows for the annealed Au-V (2.2 atomic percent of V) thin films: Rs = 339.10 mΩ/□, σ = 5.9 MS/m, α = 0.327-0.410 dB/mm.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114292943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Buckwalter, S. Daneshgar, J. Jayamon, P. Asbeck
{"title":"Series power combining: Enabling techniques for Si/SiGe millimeter-wave power amplifiers","authors":"J. Buckwalter, S. Daneshgar, J. Jayamon, P. Asbeck","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445485","url":null,"abstract":"We review series power combining techniques for power amplifiers that have significantly enhanced the output power and power density of millimeter-wave power amplifiers implemented in Silicon (Si) and Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) integrated circuit processes. Two of the record highpower demonstrations for Si/SiGe have included transistor stacking and sub-quarter-wavelength power combiners. A 30-GHz power amplifier implemented in 45-nm CMOS SOI demonstrates 24.5 dBm of output power with 30% PAE using four stacked FETs. A two-stage, 114-130 GHz power amplifier with stacked HBTs and sub-quarter-wavelength baluns also demonstrates a record 22 dBm output power and 254 mW/mm2 output power per unit area.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"116 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128671711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Knoll, S. Lischke, A. Awny, M. Kroh, E. Krune, C. Mai, A. Peczek, D. Petousi, S. Simon, K. Voigt, G. Winzer, L. Zimmermann
{"title":"BiCMOS silicon photonics platform for fabrication of high-bandwidth electronic-photonic integrated circuits","authors":"D. Knoll, S. Lischke, A. Awny, M. Kroh, E. Krune, C. Mai, A. Peczek, D. Petousi, S. Simon, K. Voigt, G. Winzer, L. Zimmermann","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445464","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic BiCMOS is a novel technology for fabricating electronic-photonic integrated circuits. Broadband silicon photonics devices such as germanium photodiodes and depletion type Mach-Zehnder modulators were monolithically integrated in a high performance SiGe BiCMOS baseline process. Integration aspects and examples of demonstrator circuits shall be reviewed.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123669415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Curtis, Hongyu Zhou, P. Hisayasu, Anirban Sarkar, F. Aryanfar
{"title":"MM-wave radio, a key enabler of 5G communication","authors":"J. Curtis, Hongyu Zhou, P. Hisayasu, Anirban Sarkar, F. Aryanfar","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445445","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we evaluate a few millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands as candidates for cellular mobile communication and demonstrate how selection of frequency band, size of base station (BS) phased array, coverage range, and number of simultaneous users that can be supported are tightly related. One of the major differences of 5G vs. legacy cellular generations is that the radio is operating at a significantly higher frequency; hence, we review the required technologies from integrated circuits to packaging and printed circuit boards (PCB) along with tradeoff among possible choices.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116518809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOI technology pushes the limits of CMOS for RF applications","authors":"J. Raskin","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445456","url":null,"abstract":"This last decade Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) MOSFET technology has demonstrated its potentialities for high frequency commercial applications pushing the limits of CMOS technology. Thanks to the thinning down of the silicon channel, SOI MOSFETs operate in fully depleted regime and short channel effects are under controlled. Besides the gate length downscaling, strain channel engineering is introduced to achieve cutoff frequencies larger than 300 GHz. SOI also presents the major advantage of providing high resistivity substrate capabilities, leading to substantially reduced substrate RF losses, crosstalk and non-linearity. High Resistivity (HR) SOI CMOS is commonly foreseen as the most promising technology for radio frequency integrated circuits and mixed signal applications. Based on several experimental results, the interest, limitations but also possible future improvements of SOI MOS technology are presented.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128376079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data converters for 100 Gbit/s communication links and beyond","authors":"M. Grozing, Hao Huang, Xuan-Quang Du, M. Berroth","doi":"10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIRF.2016.7445481","url":null,"abstract":"High speed data converters are key components for high-throughput wired, fiber optical, RF and mm-wave communication systems that apply higher order modulation formats to achieve date rates up to 100 Gbit/s and beyond. We present a 100 GS/s 8 bit 28 nm CMOS four-fold time-interleaved DAC prototype intended for coherent fiber optical links with up to 480 Gbit/s per wavelength carrier and the design of a 25 GS/s 4 bit 130 nm BiCMOS single-core ADC intended for a 100 Gbit/s wireless link.","PeriodicalId":138697,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 16th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130137212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}