160-GHz SiGe-Based Transmitter and Receiver With Highly Directional Antennas in Package

Abouzar Hamidipour; Alexander Fischer; Martin Jahn; Andreas Stelzer

160-GHz SiGe-Based Transmitter and Receiver With Highly Directional Antennas in Package

Abouzar Hamidipour, Alexander Fischer, Martin Jahn, Andreas Stelzer

Department of RF-Systems

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Abstract

This paper presents a 160-GHz transmitter and receiver in an embedded wafer level ball grid array package for millimeter-wave applications. The transmitter and the receiver were realized in an SiGe:C HBT production technology with an fmax of 250 GHz. The transmitter features a frequency multiplier chain that scales a 4.3−4.6 GHz signal up to 155−165 GHz, and allows the use of a commercial signal source. The receiver employs a subharmonic mixer with LO and RF frequencies around 80 GHz and 160 GHz, respectively. A highly directional 160-GHz rhombic antenna array was designed and integrated with the aforementioned transmitter and receiver in two 6 × 6 mm2 packages. The performance of such a system in package was then evaluated and proved in a quasi-monostatic FMCW radar measurement setup with an up-chirp frequency sweep from 157 GHz to 160 GHz.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proc. of the 8th Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)
Pages	81-84
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

Fields of science

202019 High frequency engineering
202029 Microwave engineering
202033 Radar technology

JKU Focus areas

Mechatronics and Information Processing

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