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mm-Wave Front-End Design for Phased-Array Systems

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Batteryless mm-Wave Wireless Sensors

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In the previous chapters, a monolithic mm-wave sensor network was introduced. An on-chip wireless power receiver with an ultra-low-power receiver and transmitter front-end was presented. In this chapter, the base-station for monolithic sensor networks with phased-array architecture is analyzed and the key circuits are developed. By using a phased-array architecture, the base-station can achieve better sensitivity for the receiver part, and can also increase the transferred power density at the sensor node location for the transmitter part.

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    Hao Gao, Marion Matters-Kammerer, Dusan Milosevic & Peter G. M. Baltus

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Gao, H., Matters-Kammerer, M., Milosevic, D., Baltus, P.G.M. (2018). mm-Wave Front-End Design for Phased-Array Systems. In: Batteryless mm-Wave Wireless Sensors. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72980-0_8

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