Paper Info
Title
A 93-to-113GHz BiCMOS 9-element imaging array receiver utilizing spatial-overlapping pixels with wideband phase and amplitude control
Abstract
Benefiting from aggressive feature size scaling, silicon technologies have recently shown the capability of implementing W-band imaging receivers with an image resolution of 1.5mm and temperature resolutions of less than 0.5K [1-4]. This paper extends the capability of an imaging array receiver by improving image resolution using the novel concept of spatial-overlapping sub-arrays and enhancing image capture time using a phased-array within an imaging array receiver (RX). Specifically, the design and implementation of a BiCMOS 9-element array RX consisting of four 2×2 overlapping sub-arrays is presented. The RF-path-sharing between neighboring sub-arrays leads to a reduction in the chip area by 40% as compared to a conventional imaging array consisting of four 2×2 non-overlapping sub-arrays, while improving the RX's spatial resolution due to the higher sub-array density. Each 2×2 sub-array in this imaging array RX forms a pixel (Fig. 8.5.1).
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487674
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers
Keywords
Field
DocType
BiCMOS integrated circuits,bipolar MIMIC,image enhancement,image resolution,millimetre wave receivers,BiCMOS 9-element array RX,BiCMOS 9-element imaging array receiver,RF-path-sharing,RX spatial resolution,W-band imaging array receivers,amplitude control,frequency 93 GHz to 113 GHz,image capture time enhancement,image resolution,neighboring subarrays,phased-array,spatial-overlapping pixels,wideband phase
Wideband,BiCMOS,Computer science,Image capture,Chip,Electronic engineering,Pixel,Electrical engineering,Amplitude control,Image resolution,Bicmos integrated circuits
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
56
0193-6530
978-1-4673-4515-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francis Caster140.76
Leland Gilreath2172.04
Shiji Pan340.76
Zheng Wang4102.33
Filippo Capolino51497.14
Payam Heydari642.73