Terahertz imaging and sensing applications with silicon-based technologies

P Hillger, J Grzyb, R Jain… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional terahertz (THz) equipment faces major obstacles in providing the system cost
and compactness necessary for widespread deployment of THz applications. Because of …

Emerging terahertz integrated systems in silicon

X Yi, C Wang, Z Hu, JW Holloway… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon-based terahertz (THz) integrated circuits (ICs) have made rapid progress over the
past decade. The demonstrated basic component performance, as well as the maturity of …

Millimeter-wave and terahertz transceivers in SiGe BiCMOS technologies

D Kissinger, G Kahmen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This invited paper reviews the progress of silicon–germanium (SiGe) bipolar-complementary
metal–oxide–semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology-based integrated circuits (ICs) during the …

Gas spectroscopy system for breath analysis at mm-wave/THz using SiGe BiCMOS circuits

K Schmalz, N Rothbart, PFX Neumaier… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unique fingerprint spectra of volatile organic compounds for breath analysis and toxic
industrial chemicals make an mm-wave (mmW)/THz gas sensor very specific and sensitive …

Filling the gap: Silicon terahertz integrated circuits offer our best bet

R Han, Z Hu, C Wang, J Holloway, X Yi… - IEEE Microwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The definition for the frequency range of a terahertz wave varies in the literature. Some refer
to terahertz as the spectrum between 300 GHz (λ= 1 mm) and 3 THz (λ= 0.1 mm) to …

Dual-terahertz-comb spectrometer on CMOS for rapid, wide-range gas detection with absolute specificity

C Wang, R Han - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design and implementation of a 220-320 GHz spectrometer
consisting of a pair of 65-nm CMOS chips. The spectrometer utilizes two counterpropagating …

A 32-unit 240-GHz heterodyne receiver array in 65-nm CMOS with array-wide phase locking

Z Hu, C Wang, R Han - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports a 32-unit phase-locked dense heterodyne receiver array at f RF= 240
GHz. To synthesize a large receiving aperture without large sidelobe response, this chip has …

Molecular detection for unconcentrated gas with ppm sensitivity using 220-to-320-GHz dual-frequency-comb spectrometer in CMOS

C Wang, B Perkins, Z Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-wave/terahertz rotational spectroscopy of polar gaseous molecules provides a
powerful tool for complicated gas mixture analysis. In this paper, a 220-to-320-GHz dual …

Integrated millimeter-wave and terahertz analyzers for biomedical applications

D Kissinger, M Kaynak, A Mai - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This invited paper reviews the progress of silicon-based integrated analyzers for biomedical
applications over the last two decades. Focus is set on various integrated circuit realizations …

A 200–225 GHz SiGe Power Amplifier with peak Psat of 9.6 dBm using wideband power combination

N Sarmah, K Aufinger, R Lachner… - … Conference 2016: 42nd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 200-225 GHz SiGe combiner Power Amplifier (PA) based on a wideband 4-way power
combiner architecture is presented in this paper. The circuit is implemented in a 130 nm …