Microwave Transceiver Circuit Building Blocks

Eddie Lok Chuen Ng
 2003 M.S. (advisor: Prof. Ali Niknejad)

With the advancement of commercial CMOS and bipolar technologies, fT and fmax of the transistors are well above 100GHz. However, most circuit designs in such processes only operate up to about 10GHz or fT/10. The 60GHz wireless local area network project explores the possibility of RF/microwave designs at fT/2, utilizing these very same low-cost commercial processes.