Research on Silicon-Based Terahertz Communication Integrated Circuits  

作　　者：ZHOU Peigen CHEN Jixin TANG Siyuan YU Jiayang WANG Chen LI Huanbo LU Haiyan YAN Pinpin HOU Debin CHEN Zhe HONG Wei 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves,Southeast University,Nanjing 210096,Chinch [2]Science and Technology on Monolithic Integrated Circuits and Modules Laboratory,Nanjing 210096,China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Electronics》2022年第3期516-533,共18页电子学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62101117);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20210206);the Science and Technology on Monolithic Integrated Circuits and Modules Laboratory(614280303011903);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。

摘　　要：With the increasing number of users and emerging new applications, the demand for mobile data traffic is growing rapidly. The limited spectrum resources of the traditional microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands can no longer support the future wireless communication systems with higher system capacity and data throughput. The terahertz(THz) frequency bands have abundant spectrum resources, which can provide sufficient bandwidth to expand channel capacity and increase transmission data rate. In addition, with the rapid development of silicon-based semiconductor technology,its characteristic size keeps decreasing, and the radio frequency performance of active devices is gradually approaching the performance of III-V semiconductor technology. The realization of THz communication systems based on low-cost, high-stability, and easy-to-integrate silicon-based process has become a feasible solution. This review summarizes the reported silicon-based THz communication systems, as well as the key sub-circuit chips in these systems, including the local oscillator, power amplifier, low noise amplifier, on-chip antenna and transceiver chip, etc.

关 键 词：Communication system Integrated circuit Local oscillator On-chip antenna Power amplifier TERAHERTZ 

分 类 号：TN929.5[电子电信—通信与信息系统] TN40[电子电信—信息与通信工程]