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Design and Analysis of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$D$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-Band On-Chip Modulator and Signal Source Based on Split-Ring Resonator |
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In an effort toward high-speed and low-power I/O data link in the future exascale data server, this paper presents a signal source and a modulator in the
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-band. The split-ring resonator (SRR) structures are used to boost both the signal power and the extinction ratio (ER). The modulator manifests itself as a compact SRR whose magnetic resonance frequency can be modulated by high-speed data. Such a magnetic metamaterial achieves a significant reduction of radiation loss with high ER by stacking two auxiliary SRR unit cells with interleaved placement. The high-Q tank for oscillation is realized by a stacked SRR decorated with slow-wave transmission line (T-line) for electric field confinement. A four-way power-combined fundamental 80-GHz coupled-oscillator network is magnetically synchronized by the slow-wave T-line, which is frequency doubled to 160 GHz. Fabricated in the 65-nm CMOS process, the measured results show that: 1) the modulator achieves 3-dB insertion loss at the on-state with 43-dB isolation at the off-state, leading to a 40-dB ER at 125 GHz within an area of only
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and 2) the signal source achieves 6.3% frequency tuning range (FTR) with 3.7-mW peak output power at 160 GHz within 0.053-mm
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active area. It has a measured phase noise of −105 dBc/Hz at 10-MHz offset, 5.5% dc-to-RF power efficiency, 70.1-mW/mm
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power density, FOM of −171 dBc/Hz, and FOM
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of −172.7 dBc/Hz. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2906680 | IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Magnetic resonance,Frequency modulation,Oscillators,Erbium | Journal | 27 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
7 | 1063-8210 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 9 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuan Liang | 1 | 17 | 15.27 |
| Chirn Chye Boon | 2 | 136 | 26.81 |
| Chenyang Li | 3 | 3 | 1.46 |
| Xiaolan Tang | 4 | 27 | 5.56 |
| Herman Jalli Ng | 5 | 8 | 1.46 |
| Dietmar Kissinger | 6 | 40 | 18.10 |
| Yong Wang | 7 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Qingfeng Zhang | 8 | 1 | 1.73 |
| Hao Yu | 9 | 395 | 55.62 |