A 60-GHz OOK receiver with an On-chip antenna in 90 nm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1720-1731

  Kang, Kai ^a,b   Lin, Fujiang ^a   Pham, Duy Dong ^a   Brinkhoff, James ^c   Heng, Chun Huat ^d   Guo, Yong Xin ^d   Yuan, Xiaojun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Sapphicon Semiconductor   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

60 GHz; CMOS; detector; limiting amplifier; low noise amplifier; millimeter wave; modeling; on chip antenna; on off keying; receiver; transmission line

Indexed keywords

60 GHZ; CMOS; LIMITING AMPLIFIERS; LOW NOISE; MODELING; ON CHIP ANTENNA; ON-OFF KEYING; RECEIVER; TRANSMISSION LINE;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956223457     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2053095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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