Design and analysis of a 60-GHz CMOS doppler micro-radar system-in-package for vital-sign and vibration detection

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1649-1659

  Kao, Te Yu J ^a,b   Yan, Yan ^a,c   Shen, Tze Min ^a,d   Chen, Austin Ying Kuang ^a,e   Lin, Jenshan ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Coherent Logix ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Doppler radar; flip chip; frequency measurement; medical signal detection; millimeter wave integrated circuits; patch antennas; sensors

Indexed keywords

FLIP CHIP; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; HIGH-POWER AMPLIFIERS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR PHASE MODULATION; QUADRATURE GENERATION;

DOPPLER RADAR; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84876037106     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2247620     Document Type: Article

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