A fully-integrated W-band imaging receiver IC in silicon-germanium BiCMOS technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7670, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gilreath, Leland ^a   Jain, Vipul ^b   Yao, Hsin Cheng ^a   Zheng, Le ^a   Heydari, Payam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SaberTek   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; millimeter wave; passive imaging; SiGe; W band

Indexed keywords

BASE-BAND CIRCUITRY; BICMOS; DIRECT-DETECTION; IMAGER CHIPS; IMAGING MEASUREMENTS; OFF-CHIP; ON CHIPS; PASSIVE IMAGING; POWER SUPPLY; RESPONSIVITY; SIGE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; SILICON-BASED; SILICON-GERMANIUM BICMOS; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION;

GERMANIUM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TECHNOLOGY;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77953557304     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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