1. mm-Wave Through-Load Switch for in-situ Vector Network Analyzer on a 55-nm BiCMOS Technology
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Christophe Gaquiere, Abdelhalim A. Saadi, Philippe Ferrari, Manuel J. Barragan, Sylvain Bourdel, Emmanuel Pistono, Marc Margalef-Rovira, Reliable RF and Mixed-signal Systems (RMS ), Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés (TIMA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Radio-Fréquence et d'Intégration de Circuits (RFIC-Lab ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520 (IEMN), Centrale Lille-Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique (ISEN)-Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF), Puissance - IEMN (PUISSANCE - IEMN), Centrale Lille-Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique (ISEN)-Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF)-Centrale Lille-Institut supérieur de l'électronique et du numérique (ISEN)-Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF), European Project: 737454,H2020,H2020-ECSEL-2016-1-RIA-two-stage,TARANTO(2017), Reliable RF and Mixed-signal Systems (TIMA-RMS), and Laboratoire commun STMicroelectronics-IEMN T1
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Materials science ,02 engineering and technology ,Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY ,7. Clean energy ,law.invention ,law ,3-dB slow-wave coupler ,in-situ reflectometer ,mm-wave ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS ,Insertion loss ,[SPI.NANO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics ,NMOS logic ,Load control switch ,business.industry ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,Bandwidth (signal processing) ,Transistor ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Biasing ,switch ,PACS 85.42 ,Power dividers and directional couplers ,Optoelectronics ,business ,on-wafer calibration ,Voltage - Abstract
International audience; In this paper, an innovative millimeter-wave (mm-wave) through-load switch for in-situ reflectometers and on-wafer calibration is proposed. This two-port device can switch between two states: (i) a through connection or (ii) a 50 Ω load for both of its ports. The through-load switch is composed of a 3-dB directional coupler and two nMOS transistors controlled through a biasing voltage applied to their gate. Measurement results of a 120-GHz 3-dB directional coupler are provided up to 145 GHz together with EM simulations and circuit-level simulations up to 220 GHz of the through-load switch. A wide bandwidth is obtained, from 73 GHz to 179 GHz, with limited insertion loss of 2 dB.
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- 2020