Silicon-Based sub-THz Radiometers for Passive Imaging

摘要

This paper presents three silicon-based 100 GHz radiometer chips for passive imaging, including a total power radiometer and two types of Dicke radiometers. The total power radiometer consists of a high gain low noise amplifier (LNA) and a high-responsivity detector. Besides the LNA and the detector, the two Dicke radiometers include an additional passive SPDT switch and a proposed SPDT amplifier respectively. The above radiometers are fabricated in two different 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technologies, which feature comparable f