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- Title
- Low-cost SiGe circuits for frequency synthesis in millimeter-wave devices
- Related
- Australasian Digital Theses Program
- Publisher
- Australia : Macquarie University
- Date
- 2010
- Author/Creator
- Lauterbach, Adam Peter
- Description
- "2009"
- Description
- Thesis (MSc (Hons))--Macquarie University, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Physics and Engineering, 2010.
- Description
- Bibliography: p. 163-166.
- Description
- Introduction -- Design theory and process technology -- 15GHz oscillator implementations -- 24GHz oscillator implementation -- Frequency prescaler implementation -- MMIC fabrication and measurement -- Conclusion.
- Description
- Advances in Silicon Germanium (SiGe) Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology has caused a recent revolution in low-cost Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) design. -- This thesis presents the design, fabrication and measurement of four MMICs for frequency synthesis, manufactured in a commercially available IBM 0.18μm SiGe BiCMOS technology with ft = 60GHz. The high speed and low-cost features of SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) were exploited to successfully develop two single-ended injection-lockable 15GHz Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) for application in an active Ka-Band antenna beam-forming network, and a 24GHz differential cross-coupled VCO and 1/6 synchronous static frequency prescaler for emerging Ultra Wideband (UWB) automotive Short Range Radar (SRR) applications. -- On-wafer measurement techniques were used to precisely characterise the performance of each circuit and compare against expected simulation results and state-of-the-art performance reported in the literature. -- The original contributions of this thesis include the application of negative resistance theory to single-ended and differential SiGe VCO design at 15-24GHz, consideration of manufacturing process variation on 24GHz VCO and prescaler performance, implementation of a fully static multi-stage synchronous divider topology at 24GHz and the use of differential on-wafer measurement techniques. -- Finally, this thesis has llustrated the excellent practicability of SiGe BiCMOS technology in the engineering of high performance, low-cost MMICs for frequency synthesis in millimeterwave (mm-wave) devices.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Description
- xxii, 166 p. : ill (some col.)
- Subject Keyword
- Microwave integrated circuits -- Design and construction
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- Frequency synthesizers
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- Millimeter wave devices
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- Semiconductors
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- Silicon compounds
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- Germanium compounds
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- Bipolar transistor
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- Metal oxide semiconductors
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- SiGe
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- BiCMOS
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- Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO)
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- Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC)
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- Millimeter-wave (mm-wave)
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- Short Range Radar (SRR)
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- frequency prescaler
- Resource Type
- Thesis masters research
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics and Engineering
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/76626
- Identifier
- 1370917
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright disclaimer: http://www.copyright.mq.edu.au
- Rights
- Copyright Adam Peter Lauterbach 2010.
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