A CMOS focal-plane array for heterodyne terahertz imaging

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 433-436

  Pfeiffer, Ullrich R ^a   Öjefors, Erik ^a   Lisaukas, Alvydas ^b   Glaab, Diana ^b   Roskos, Hartmut G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMOS; Distributed resistive mixing; Focal plane arrays; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

CMOS; CMOS PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED RESISTIVE MIXING; FULLY INTEGRATED; HETERODYNE IMAGING; IF AMPLIFIERS; ON CHIPS; PATCH ANTENNA; PIXEL ARRAYS; SELF-MIXING; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FOCUSING; HETERODYNING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; RADIO; RADIO WAVES;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

EID: 70350228512     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135574     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. W. Knap, F. Teppe, Y. Meziani, N. Dyakonova, J. Lusakowski, F. Boeuf, T. Skotnicki, D. Maude, S. Rumyantsev, and M. S. Shur, "Plasma wave detection of sub-terahertz and terahertz radiation by silicon field-effect transistors," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 675-677, 2004.
2. R. Tauk, F. Teppe, S. Boubanga, D. Coquillat, W. Knap, Y. M. Meziani, C. Gallon, F. Boeuf, T. Skotnicki, and C. Fenouillet-Beranger, "Plasma wave detection of terahertz radiation by silicon field effect transistors: Responsivity and noise equivalent power," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 89, 2006.
3. B. Gershgorin, V. Kachorovskii, Y. Lvov, and M. Shur, "Field effect transistor as heterodyne terahertz detector," Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 17, pp. 1036-1037, 14 2008.
4. W. Stillman and M. Shur, "Closing the gap: Plasma wave electronic terahertz detectors," Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, vol. 2, pp. 209-221(13), December 2007.
5. M. Dyakonov and M. Shur, "Plasma wave electronics: novel terahertz devices using two dimensional electron fluid," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 1640-1645, Oct 1996.
6. S. Maas, "Microwave mixers," Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1986.
7. R. A. Barett, "Broadband RF detector using FET," US Patent 4 647 848, 1987.
8. H.-G. Krekels, B. Schiek, and E. Menzel, "Power detector with GaAs field effect transistors," in Proc. European Microwave Conf., 1992, pp. 174-179.
9. S. Gunnarsson, N. Wadefalk, I. Angelov, H. Zirath, I. Kallfass, and A. Leuther, "A 220 GHz (G-Band) microstrip MMIC single-ended resistive mixer," IEEE Microw. Wireless Compon. Lett., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 215-217, 2008.
10. S. E. Gunnarsson, N. Wadefalk, I. Angelov, H. Zirath, I. Kallfass, and A. Leuther, "A G-band (140-220 GHz) microstrip MMIC mixer operating in both resistive and drain-pumped mode," IEEE MTT-S Int. Microw. Symp. Dig., 2008.
11. M. Varonen, M. Karkkainen, and K. Halonen, "V-band balanced resistive mixer in 65-nm CMOS," European Solid-State Circuits Conf., pp. 360-363, 2007.
12. U. R. Pfeiffer and E. Öjefors, "A 600-GHz CMOS focal-plane array for terahertz imaging applications," in European Solid-State Circuits Conf., 2008, pp. 110-114.
13. rd Intl. Conf. Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, Sep. 2008.
14. E. Öjefors, U. Pfeiffer, A. Lisaukas, and H. Roskos, "A 0.65 THz focalplane array in a quarter-micron CMOS process technology," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, p. Accepted for publication, 2009.
15. B. Heinemann, R. Barth, D. Knoll, H. Rücker, B. Tillack, and W. Winkler, "High performance BiCMOS technologies without epitaxially-buried subcollectors and deep trenches," Semicond. Sci. Technol., vol. 22, pp. 153-157, 2007.
16. J. L. Hesler and T. W. Crowe, "Responsivity and noise measurements of zero-bias schottky diode detectors," 18th Intl. Symp. Space Terahertz Techn., 2007.