H. Chiu, Chih-Wei Yang, Hsiang-Chun Wang, F. Huang
{"title":"Microwave wide bandgap GaN high electron mobility transistor development and its monolithic integrated circuits (Invited)","authors":"H. Chiu, Chih-Wei Yang, Hsiang-Chun Wang, F. Huang","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324950","url":null,"abstract":"Wide bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) has been extensively studied [1]. The material properties of GaN compared to competing materials are presented in Table I. The superior material properties high breakdown voltage, which allows large drain voltages to be used, leading to high output impedance per watt of RF power, and lower loss matching circuits. High current density of 2-D electron gas (2-DEG) leads to large sheet charge [2] and transistor area can be reduced resulting in high watts per millimeter of gate periphery. High saturated velocity leads to high saturation current densities and watts per unit gate periphery. These result GaN based HEMT are suitable for high-power and high-frequency monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) applications [3-5]. Due to these excellent material characteristics, the output power and efficiency of GaN power amplifier between L-band and Ka-band was not only more superior to the conventional LDMOSFETs and GaAs power amplifier, but also the die area can be reduced. The GaN HEMT can be operated at 42 V of VDS and even higher, while also demostrated the similar fT and fmax with GaAs pHEMT. The high powers from GaN HEMT transistors at a wide frequency range have been reported form a single die up to several hundred watts [6-7]. However, these high power densities also present extreme power dissipation on the layouts and the semiconductor substrates. Nevertheless, the SiC substrates with a high thermal conductivity (> 330 W/mK) allows high power densities to be efficiently dissipated for practical drain efficiencies, preventing the extreme channel that would result due to self-heating with other substrate technologies.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"342 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76912722","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":"Influence of surface/interface stress on thermal conductivity of stressed GaN nanofilms","authors":"Linli Zhu, Hao Luo","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324995","url":null,"abstract":"This work investigates the effects of surface/interface stress on phonon thermal conductivity of stressed GaN nanofilms theoretically. The elasticity model is applied to describe the phonon dispersion relations of spatially confined GaN nanofilms. The acoustoelastic effects and surface/interface stress effects are accounted for in calculating the phonon properties and thermal conductivity. Theoretical results show that the surface/interface stress can alter significantly the phonon properties such as the phonon dispersion relations, resulting in the modification of thermal conductivity in GaN nanofilms. In addition, the surface/interface stress can change the dependence of thermal conductivity on the prestress fields and temperature. These results can be useful in controlling the thermal conductivity based on the strain/stress engineering in GaN nanostructures-based electronic devices.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82418864","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":"Novel polarization independent and angle consistency absorber based on metal-dielectric metamaterial","authors":"Ju Gao, Qun Wu, Kuang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325035","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel absorber based on metal-dielectric rod is presented. This absorber is consisted of a metal slab and a high permittivity dielectric cross which is composed by two rods vertically. The absorber is polarization independent that the electromagnetic responses always keep the same absorption both for whether the incident wave is horizontally polarized wave (TE wave) or vertically polarized wave (TM wave). The mechanism of the absorption is illustrated by the field distribution. While the incident angle changes from 0 to 65 deg, the absorber shows an excellent performance to keep the absorbance above 90%. We also show the possibility of combing different functions in the same object by using high permittivity dielectric metamaterial.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"04 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88279971","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":"Axial ratio enhanced wideband circularly polarized aperture antenna with corner-truncated AMC reflector","authors":"Baolin Cao, Danyun Li, Yuan Zhao, Hao Wang, Yong Huang","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324935","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a corner-truncated artificial magnetic conductor (CT-AMC) reflector backed octagonal-shaped aperture (OSA) antenna is proposed for wideband circularly polarized application. By introducing a CT-AMC reflector, a bidirectional radiation of OSA antenna is changed to unidirectional radiation, and the axial ratio bandwidth and gain increased obviously. Moreover, electromagnetic simulations and measurements of antenna performances agree well over the whole frequency range of interest. The measured results show that 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth increase to 31.6 % with impedance bandwidth of 38.3% for |S11|<; -10, and the gain of 8.0 dBi is achieved at the frequency of 5.0 GHz.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"155 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73647004","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":"The design of a high gain on-chip antenna for SoC application","authors":"Yexi Song, Yunqiu Wu, Jie Yang, K. Kang","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324967","url":null,"abstract":"A V-band high gain and high efficiency on-chip antenna in a CMOS 0.18-μm process is presented in this work. High resistivity silicon substrate, dielectric resonator and a layer of off-chip ground are used in this design to enhance the antenna gain and reduce the antenna size. The proposed antenna achieves a maximum gain of 8 dBi with a -10 dB bandwidth of 4 GHz. The peak antenna efficiency is 96.7% and the half-power-beamwidth is 72° and 92° in the E-and H-plane respectively. Moreover, the chip size of the presented antenna is 700 μm × 1250 μm.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"131 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74862341","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":"A palladium decorated signal walled carbon nanotube enabled chipless sensor for detecting methane at room temperature based on UWB-RFID system","authors":"Jian Liu, Baiping Li","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325027","url":null,"abstract":"In order to detect methane at room temperature, a chipless methane sensor in ultra-wideband radio frequency identification (UWB-RFID) is designed in the paper. The proposed sensor is a type of thin film equipped by an antenna and a nano-technique enabled sensor head. The antenna is a planar patch with arc typed edge loaded by lumped circuit for impedance matching; the sensor head is an electrode with interdigitated fingers (IDE) loaded by the palladium decorated single walled carbon nanotubes (Pd-SWCNTs). The performance of the proposed sensor is validated by the analytical and numerical analyses in terms of a predefined scenario where the concentration of methane is increased from 0ppm to 100ppm at room temperature. Results show that, if the sensor is geometrized in the mechanism of amplitude modulation of band-gap, the identifiable sensitivity can achieve -9.32dB; on the contrary, if it is geometrized in the mechanism of frequency modulation of band-gap, the identifiable sensitivity can achieve a little bit high by -11.30dB.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"28 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78649855","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":"Fast simulation of microwave devices via a data-sparse and explicit CN-FETD method","authors":"T. Wan, L. Du, Yunqin Hu","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325018","url":null,"abstract":"For the fast design of microwave circuit, an unconditionally stable and fully explicit finite-element time-domain (FETD) method is presented. The Crank-Nicolson (CN) scheme is implemented leading to an unconditionally stable mixed FETD method. A hierarchical (H-) matrix algorithm is introduced to provide a data-sparse way to approximate the inverse of the sparse system matrix produced by the CN-FETD method which is dense originally. This approximate inverse can be computed and stored with almost linear complexity, and then the CN-FETD method can be computed explicitly at each time step. Examples of two microwave devices are simulated to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"169 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76499861","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":"High-speed and low-power OOK CMOS transmitter and receiver for wireless chip-to-chip communication","authors":"H. Lee, J. Lee, C. Lee, T. Jang, H. Kim, C. Park","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324964","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a high-speed and low-power on-off keying (OOK) transmitter and receiver for wireless chip-to-chip communication implemented in 65 nm CMOS. These direct-conversion transmitter and non-coherent receiver operate with 80 GHz carrier frequency. The transmitter consists of the current-reused modulator and the 80 GHz push-push VCO for low power consumption, and the receiver consists of the wideband low-noise amplifier and gain-boosting demodulator for wide bandwidth. The transmitter and receiver consume 18 mW and 46 mW, respectively, and achieve 12 Gbps wireless data transmission over 1.2 cm distance with the bit error rate less than 10-11 for 27-1 pseudorandom binary sequence. As a result, the transmitter and receiver achieve 4.5 pJ/bit, which is the lowest bit-energy efficiency among the state-of-the-art works.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"14 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81984028","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":"A novel central-stub-loaded, dual-band bandpass filter for PCS and WiMAX application","authors":"M. Tang, Ting Shi","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7325021","url":null,"abstract":"A planar dual-band bandpass filter with large-bandwidth ratio, which is suitable in PCS and WiMAX applications, is presented. It possesses a compact and simple configuration, which includes a hexagon resonator and a central loaded stub. Benefiting from the introduction of loaded stub, additional mode is well excited and could operate between the first-order mode and the second-order mode of the hexagon resonator. By simply adjusting the central stub impedance, the fundamental mode of central stub could be shifted away from the first-order mode of the resonator (which operates in the lower frequency range covering PCS band), and close to the second-order degenerate modes of resonator, and thus form a second wide three-mode passband (which covers WiMAX band).","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"117 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85222295","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}
Jun Zhou, Xin Rao, Shan Tu, Lu Duan, Xiao-dong Chen
{"title":"Temperature and doping dependence of the optical properties of silicon at terahertz frequencies","authors":"Jun Zhou, Xin Rao, Shan Tu, Lu Duan, Xiao-dong Chen","doi":"10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMWS-AMP.2015.7324978","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the optical properties of semiconductors at terahertz (THz) frequencies is crucial to THz semiconductor characterization and applications. Prediction of the optical properties requires precise knowledge of the dielectric function of semiconductor in different environments, such as variable temperature and dopant concentration. In this work, the optical properties of silicon without and with different helium ion concentrations have been measured by using a THz time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) for the temperature and frequency ranges of 85-520 K and 0.1-3 THz, respectively. The strong frequency dependence of the complex optical constants due to the free carriers in the THz region has been observed and the measured data have been analyzed by using the Drude-Lorentz model. The experimental results and the analytical ones coincide with each other very well. This work is helpful for understanding the physics and designing devices and applications.","PeriodicalId":6625,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP)","volume":"284 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76844321","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}