Abstract
Radar systems are gaining in popularity and spreading into more and more
applications due to their robust measurement method. While single-chip
solutions have been published in the last decade in the upper
millimetre-wave range, solutions are still very limited in the lower THz
range. In this paper, a 0.48THz FMCW-radar transceiver MMIC in a 130nm
silicon-germanium (SiGe) technology is presented. The MMIC consists of
one Tx and Rx channel, respectively. The components for frequency
synthesis and on-chip patch antennas are fully integrated into the MMIC.
The achievable tuning range of the MMIC is 0.448 − 0.491 THz with a
peak on-chip output power of about -9.4 dBm. The MMIC was designed and
manufactured with the IHP SG13G3 technology.