Lecture 1: Novel Device Architecture for Silicon-based Power Amplifiers at Millimeter-Wave
Dr. Thomas Farmer, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
Lecture 2: Piezo-MEMS Enabled, Low Power Mechanical Logic
Dr. Robert Proie, U.S. Army research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
Date: Thursday May 31st, 2012
Time: Dinner (Optional) 5:30 pm, Lecture 7:00
Dinner: Sakura Restaurant, 9031 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 20740
Place: American Center for Physics
Free parking.
All IEEE members and guests are welcome to attend.
Cost: Lecture free, Dinner $10
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Abstract 1:
Our
architecture reliably operates and has been implemented using 120 ľm
SiGe technology at 2.4 GHz and 30 GHz. It allows for very large output
voltage swings, leading to high output power with high efficiency when
used in a power amplifier design. It is our hope that the
reproducibility of our design can be integrated into new devices in a
cost-effective manner to ensure their continued proliferation and the
unlocking of the next generation millimeter-wave wireless
technologies.
Abstract 2:
MEMS devices offer an alternative to
solid-state components for ultra low power, digital computation. These
devices can have extremely sharp, less than 1-mV/dec, turn-on I-V
slopes, and the use of a body bias has been used to demonstrate
switching voltages under 200-mV. For those reasons, a design,
fabrication and characterization effort, intended to develop a complete
MEMS digital library and design flow, has been undertaken to enable
ultra low power microcontrollers. Current generation components
have a power consumption advantage over bulk CMOS processes at lower
frequencies. Furthermore, future scaling of the actuator and
contact gap is predicted to reduce dynamic energy consumption to under
10-aJ, with static power scaling similarly.
