A 77-GHz Phased-Array Transceiver With On-Chip Antennas in Silicon: Transmitter and Local LO-Path Phase Shifting

By Arun Natarajan, A. Komijani, Xiang Guan, A. Babakhani, Ali Hajimiri. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2006

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Single and Four-Element $Ka$-Band Transmit/Receive Phased-Array Silicon RFICs With 5-bit Amplitude and Phase Control (2009, background): “The transmit/receive implementation in [14] employs separate phase shifters for the transmit and receive paths and results in potential phase errors between the transmit and receive paths across temperature and process variations.”
A 28-GHz Low-Power Phased-Array Receiver Front-End With 360° RTPS Phase Shift Range (2017, background): “Initial array demonstrations at 24 and 77 GHz [1], [3]–[5] have led to large, scalable arrays at mm-wave frequencies such as 60 GHz [6] and 94 GHz [7], [8].”
UC-EBG on LTCC for 60-GHz Frequency Band Antenna Applications (2009, background): “on-chip antennas, the radiated power is heavily bound to the lossy silicon substrate having a high dielectric constant ( ), and the radiation efficiency can be as low as 5% [1].”
Millimeter-Wave Communications: Physical Channel Models, Design Considerations, Antenna Constructions, and Link-Budget (2018, background): “applications [6], [24]–[26], but not for commercial wireless networks.”
Multibeam Antenna Technologies for 5G Wireless Communications (2017, methodology): “Rather than using phase shifters or time delay lines, virtual phase shifts can be obtained via modifying the phase of the local oscillator (LO) [182], [183].”
A Fully-Integrated 16-Element Phased-Array Receiver in SiGe BiCMOS for 60-GHz Communications (2010, background): “Such mm-wave phased arrays have been demonstrated at 24 [9], 77 [5], 40 [10], and 60 GHz [6], [7], [11].”
A 77GHz 4-channel automotive radar transceiver in SiGe (2008, methodology): “The SiGe:C base of the transistors has been implemented by selective epitaxial growth.”
A Comprehensive Survey on Millimeter Wave Communications for Fifth-Generation Wireless Networks: Feasibility and Challenges (2020, background): “While the mmWave standardization activities for commercial cellular networks are still ongoing, mmWave RATs are currently used for many applications, such for instance radar systems [39], point-to-point (PTP) communication [20], [40], satellite communications (SATCOM) applications [41], [42], radio ”
Millimeter Wave Communication: A Comprehensive Survey (2018, background): “In [61], a fully integrated 77GHz phased-array transceiver is introduced for the ﬁrst time.”
60-GHz Patch Antennas and Arrays on LTCC With Embedded-Cavity Substrates (2008, neutral): “In [6] the measured gain for a planar dipole antenna on silicon was dBi without, and 2 dBi with a focusing dielectric lens.”
A 77-GHz FMCW MIMO Radar Based on an SiGe Single-Chip Transceiver (2009, background): “The development of complete integrated radar circuits operating in the millimeterwave range has led to a low-cost and compact realization of multichannel systems [1], [2].”
Antenna Miniaturization Techniques: A Review of Topology- and Material-Based Methods (2018, background): “The value [0–500] shows the possible range of the resistance value at 24 MHz.”