Circuit techniques for plasma wave FET based integrated terahertz receivers
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Authors
Nahar, Shamsun
Issue Date
2015-08
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Electrical engineering
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Abstract
The fabricated systems are characterized for narrow and wide band THz detection. In CMOS technology, the E-shaped patch antenna coupled FET, achieves 2X better responsivity than the stacked half wave coupled system; with a 1.5X bigger aperture area. With on-chip amplification and under open drain bias mode, the responsivity is measured as 10 and 4 V/W for E-shaped and half wave coupled system; while maintaining a minimum signal to noise ratio of 40 dB over a 3 dB bandwidth of 10 GHz. In the current driven mode, the response increases to 100 and 20 V/W with a corresponding decrease in bandwidth to 3.5 GHz due to the increased channel resistance of the detector. In general, the HEMT detectors in InGaAs/GaAs technology achieve better responsivity than the Si FETs. The absolute responsivity of the patch, dipole and bow-tie antenna coupled HEMT detector is measured as 15, 30, and 30 V/W respectively at the open drain mode. Effect of substrate thinning and external lens has also been characterized and the results show ∼ 13X improvement. An wide band on chip amplifier is also included with the dipole and patch antenna coupled detectors for high modulation frequency characterization. The detection systemachieve ∼ 3 V/W responsivity in the open drain mode with a detection bandwidth of 8 GHz. The results presented in this thesis show the great promise of low cost and small size modules integrated in standard semiconductor technologies for applications in imaging and wide band communications at THz frequency range.
Description
August 2015
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
Full Citation
Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY