IEEE Journal of Microwaves (Jan 2021)
SiGe HBTs and BiCMOS Technology for Present and Future Millimeter-Wave Systems
- Thomas Zimmer,
- Josef Bock,
- Fred Buchali,
- Pascal Chevalier,
- Michael Collisi,
- Bjorn Debaillie,
- Marina Deng,
- Philippe Ferrari,
- Sebastien Fregonese,
- Christophe Gaquiere,
- Haitham Ghanem,
- Horst Hettrich,
- Alper Karakuzulu,
- Tim Maiwald,
- Marc Margalef-Rovira,
- Caroline Maye,
- Michael Moller,
- Anindya Mukherjee,
- Holger Rucker,
- Paulius Sakalas,
- Rolf Schmid,
- Karina Disch,
- Karsten Schuh,
- Wolfgang Templ,
- Akshay Visweswaran,
- Thomas Zwick
Affiliations
- Thomas Zimmer
- ORCiD
- IMS Laboratory, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Talence Cedex, France
- Josef Bock
- Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, Germany
- Fred Buchali
- Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany
- Pascal Chevalier
- ORCiD
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France
- Michael Collisi
- Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Bjorn Debaillie
- IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
- Marina Deng
- IMS Laboratory, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Talence Cedex, France
- Philippe Ferrari
- ORCiD
- University of Grenoble Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France
- Sebastien Fregonese
- IMS Laboratory, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Talence Cedex, France
- Christophe Gaquiere
- ORCiD
- IEMN Laboratory, University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
- Haitham Ghanem
- ORCiD
- IEMN Laboratory, University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
- Horst Hettrich
- ORCiD
- Micram Microelectronic GmbH, Bochum, Germany
- Alper Karakuzulu
- IHP - Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
- Tim Maiwald
- FAU, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Marc Margalef-Rovira
- ORCiD
- University of Grenoble Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France
- Caroline Maye
- IEMN Laboratory, University of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
- Michael Moller
- Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Anindya Mukherjee
- Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Holger Rucker
- IHP - Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
- Paulius Sakalas
- Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Rolf Schmid
- Micram Microelectronic GmbH, Bochum, Germany
- Karina Disch
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Karsten Schuh
- Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany
- Wolfgang Templ
- ORCiD
- Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany
- Akshay Visweswaran
- ORCiD
- IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
- Thomas Zwick
- ORCiD
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2020.3031831
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 1,
no. 1
pp. 288 – 298
Abstract
This paper gives an overall picture from BiCMOS technologies up to THz systems integration, which were developed in the European Research project TARANTO. The European high performance BiCMOS technology platforms are presented, which have special advantages for addressing applications in the submillimeter-wave and THz range. The status of the technology process is reviewed and the integration challenges are examined. A detailed discussion on millimeter-wave characterization and modeling is given with emphasis on harmonic distortion analysis, power and noise figure measurements up to 190 GHz and 325 GHz respectively and S-parameter measurements up to 500 GHz. The results of electrical compact models of active (HBTs) and passive components are presented together with benchmark circuit blocks for model verification. BiCMOS-enabled systems and applications with focus on future wireless communication systems and high-speed optical transmission systems up to resulting net data rates of 1.55 Tbit/s are presented.
Keywords
- Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs)
- high-frequency measurements
- millimeter wave
- SiGe
- technologies
- terahertz
