28/12/15

You are invited to attend a lecture

By

Samuel Jameson

Ph.D. student of Prof. Eran Socher

Electrical Engineering, Physical Electronics Department

Tel Aviv University

Millimeter-Wave and THz CMOS Radiating Transmitters

Abstract

CMOS was originally not considered suitable for RF-circuits however, the CMOS technology kept improving its operation frequency, enabling nowadays to reach THz frequencies with sufficient power that will allow us to create low-cost THz scanners. If efficient transmitters and receivers can be made efficient enough with high gain and compact antennas, THz scanner of the size of a hand or even less could be realized one day at low cost. Such devices could be then plugged to any smart-phone allowing extremely quick and regular scan of our body detecting and identifying diseases at the earliest stage for quicker prevention and treatment. On the road to the THz and its applications, systems based on millimeter-wave frequencies (24-300 GHz) are developed but mainly in targeting automotive systems (76.5 GHz) and in image screening for weapon detection (94 GHz). CMOS will be the key for mass-production for its low-cost and large scale integration properties that would allow integrating a whole system on-chip. In this research, we will focus on the development and improvement of CMOS MMW and THz transmitters and on their connection from the micro-scale environment to the human scale environment while conserving their state-of-the-art characteristics.

Thursday, December 28, 2015, at 16:00

Room 001, Kitot building