Title
A Power-Harvesting Pad-Less Millimeter-Sized Radio
Abstract
A wireless-powered pad-less single-chip radio is implemented in 65 nm CMOS for applications in Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless tagging. This fully-self-sufficient mm-wave radio has no pads or external components (e.g., power supply), and the entire radio is a single chip with dimensions of 3.7 mm by 1.2 mm. To provide multi-access, and to mitigate interference, it uses two separate mm-wave bands for RX/TX and integrates both antennas to provide a measured communication range of 50 cm. The transmitter uses a modified Multipulse Pulse Position Modulation (MPPM) with 2 GHz of bandwidth on a 60 GHz carrier to communicate the data sequence as well as the local timing reference. The entire system operates with standby harvested power below 1.5 μW and achieves an aggregate data rate > 12 Mbps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/JSSC.2014.2384034
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of  
Keywords
Field
DocType
cmos integrated circuits,internet of things,uhf antennas,uhf integrated circuits,energy harvesting,interference suppression,millimetre wave antennas,millimetre wave integrated circuits,pulse position modulation,radio receivers,radio transmitters,radiofrequency interference,cmos technology,iot,mppm,rx/tx,antenna,bandwidth 2 ghz,data sequence,frequency 60 ghz,interference mitigation,mm-wave radio,modified multipulse pulse position modulation,power-harvesting pad-less millimeter-sized radio,size 65 nm,transmitter,wireless-powered pad-less single-chip radio,internet of things (iot),millimeter-wave communication,rfid tags,millimeter-wave integrated circuits,sensors,ultra-low power radio,wireless sensor networks,internet of things iot,resistance
Transmitter,Remote radio head,Transmitter power output,Wireless,Pulse-position modulation,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Chip,Bandwidth (signal processing),Electrical engineering,Radio-frequency engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
4
0018-9200
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
1.33
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maryam Tabesh117820.91
Nemat Dolatsha2192.11
amin arbabian322735.52
Ali M. Niknejad4942148.48