Session 17 overview: TX and RX building blocks

RF transceivers enable everything from the plethora of connectivity on mobile devices to emerging applications in fixed point-to-point links, imaging, and sensing. Advances across all aspects of signal generation, modulation, power amplification, and radiation are required to reduce power dissipation while increasing performance. The papers in this session highlight several advances in the state of the art in RF, mm-wave, and THz domains. Antenna interface improvements include a circulator for TX/RX isolation, a digitally assisted CMOS front-end module, a polar PA with intrinsic nonlinearity compensation, electrical-balance-duplexer impedance detection, and radiator-embedded power combining. Wideband systems for spectroscopy achieve a wide bandwidth for integrated spectroscopy and parallel multi-tone generation. A 310-to-370GHz array embeds beam steering with independent frequency tuning. High data-rate communication is demonstrated with a 5m 130GHz 12.5Gb/s link and a 105Gb/s 300GHz transmitter.