Title:
Silicon-based terahertz signal generation with multi-phase sub-harmonic injection locking technique
Silicon-based terahertz signal generation with multi-phase sub-harmonic injection locking technique
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wang, Hua | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bakir, Muhannad S. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Papapolymerou, John | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chi, Taiyun | |
| dc.contributor.department | Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-27T13:25:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-27T13:25:10Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2016-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-05-10 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2016 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-27T13:25:10Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis presents a multi-phase injection locking (IL) technique and its application in the locking range extension in multi-phase injection locking oscillators (ILOs) for Terahertz (THz) signal generation. The proposed technique can significantly increase the frequency locking range of a multi-phase injection locking oscillator compared to the conventional single-phase injection locking scheme. Based on the multi-phase IL technique and sub-harmonic ILOs, an “active frequency multiplier chain” architecture and a multi-ring system layout topology are also proposed to achieve scalable THz signal generation. As proof of concept, a cascaded 3-stage 3-phase 2nd-order sub-harmonic ILO chain is implemented in the IBM 9HP SiGe BiCMOS process. The design achieves a maximum output power of -16.6dBm at 498GHz, a phase noise of -87dBc/ Hz at 1MHz offset, and a total 5.1% frequency tuning range from 485.1GHz to 510.7GHz, which is the largest frequency tuning range among all the reported silicon-based THz oscillator sources in the 0.5THz band. | |
| dc.description.degree | M.S. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55058 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| dc.subject | Injection locking | |
| dc.subject | Terahertz signal source | |
| dc.title | Silicon-based terahertz signal generation with multi-phase sub-harmonic injection locking technique | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.advisor | Bakir, Muhannad S. | |
| local.contributor.advisor | Wang, Hua | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
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| thesis.degree.level | Masters |