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This paper reports a miniaturization technique of non-isolated power combiners and its application for a compact outphasing transmitter. The technique is used to build an LDMOS Z-LINC system. The maximum output power and PAE measured at 900 MHz are 9.3 W a ...
Phase-noise mechanisms in cross-coupled LC voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) are reviewed based on a physical understanding of reactive power imbalances in the tank and in the active part. These phenomena are proven to be the predominant phase-noise de ...
This letter presents a CMOS-compatible photodetector displaying direct light-to-time conversion and intrinsic charge integration with a very low dark current. This device is particularly adapted for applications requiring high sensitivity such as biolumine ...
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This paper presents a compact model for LINC (linear amplification with non linear components) transmitters an their power combiners. The study focuses on the detrimental effect of the transmission line nonidealities. A mathematical description of the syst ...
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A VCO topology with a high gm at RF and low gm at low frequencies (LF) is presented. A high gm(RF) improves start-up conditions, and a low gm(LF) enables a significant improvement of the phase noise and the power supply rejection. The VCO with a modified p ...
A prospective study of the junctionless transistors (JLTs) scaling performances based both on TCAD and analytical evaluations of the intrinsic delay after considering on/off voltage constraints is proposed. The tradeoffs between speed and switching power p ...
A new type of CMOS compatible photodetector, exhibiting intrinsic light-to-time conversion, is proposed. Its main objective is to start the time-to-digital conversion directly at its output, thereby avoiding the cumbersome analog processing. The operation ...
A new approach for linear amplification with nonlinear components (Z-LINC) that provides a zero capacitive load to their power amplifiers is proposed. The zero capacitive loading over the whole power back-off range enables to overcome the efficiency deteri ...
This paper presents a theoretical study of CMOS differential Colpitts VCOs. The objective is to provide a deep understanding of the different mechanisms that impact the performances of these VCOs, namely the Gm-boosting and cyclostationary noise. The devel ...
In this paper, we propose an approximate solution to solve the two dimensional potential distribution in ultra-thin body junctionless double gate MOSFET (JL DG MOSFET) operating in the subthreshold regime. Basically, we solved the 2D-Poisson equation along ...