Wide Bandwidth Millimeter-wave System-on-Chip Development and Applications

Wide bandwidth transmitter and receiver chips have been successfully developed by the Davis Millimeter-Wave Research Center, including V-band (55–75 GHz) and W-band (75–110 GHz), with F-band (110–140 GHz) receiver chips awaiting test following tape-out. They are expected to satisfy many commercial and scientific applications with substantial cost reduction. They provide 30x signal gain compared with previous Schottky mixer planar antenna front-end approaches by employing a pre-LNA on the receiver chip. The typical noise temperature is suppressed below 4,000 Kelvin. An internal local oscillator chain provides a compact, portable detection solution.