Zeinolabedinzadeh Namarvar, Saeed ; Cressler, John D. Electrical and Computer Engineering Ralph, Stephen E. Wang, Hua Durgin, Gregory D. Adibi, Ali Gunter, Brian ; Cressler, John D.
The objective of this research is to study the implementation of high frequency millimeter-wave (mmW) and Terahertz (THz) integrated circuits in silicon technologies for space applications. Several fully integrated circuits and sub-systems such as transceiver front-ends and array transmitters with on-chip phase-locked-loop (PLL) and antennas were implemented to show the possibility of realization of fully integrated THz circuits in SiGe technologies. Novel design techniques were implemented in these systems to enhance the performance of THz transmitter and receiver circuits. The reported circuits in this work were among the early realizations of Terahertz circuits in silicon technology and often achieved record performance metrics by utilizing novel circuit architectures and techniques. This includes the first report of fully integrated, fully phase-locked transceiver at THz frequencies. In addition, the effect of radiation intensive environments present in space was experimentally studied on mmW circuits for the first time. Novel methods to perform radiation experiments on high frequency circuits as well as modeling and simulation methodologies were proposed to understand single-event effects (SEE) on high frequency receivers.
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