Silicon based arrays : from millimeter wave communications to wireless power transfer
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis presents the application of millimeter wave silicon integrated circuits towards high data rate wireless communications and wireless power transfer (WPT). Power generation in the D-band is challenging due to device limitations, therefore we present a SiGe transmitter that is fully packaged with a dielectric rod antenna-in-package that provides EIRP greater than 15 dBm at 135 GHz and consumes 366 mW. Next, we propose WPT in the radiative near-field using electrically large phased arrays. The trade-offs of this approach are analyzed to optimize an antenna array over frequency. Finally, a 4-channel Ka-band transmitter beamformer was fabricated on TSMC's 65nm CMOS technology, and is meant for large scalable arrays. Since the cost of the array is partly driven by the electronics, the beamformer architecture aims to reduce the overall chip area using a traveling wave distribution network. The proposed RFIC consumes 1.65 mm2 of die area and 320 mW (84 mW/element).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Saiz, Nicholas |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Lee, Thomas H, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Thomas H, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Arbabian, Amin |
| Thesis advisor | Zambre, Yadunath |
| Degree committee member | Arbabian, Amin |
| Degree committee member | Zambre, Yadunath |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nicholas Saiz. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Nicholas Saiz
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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