Low Power Emerging Wireless Technologies

1	Passive Imaging in Silicon Technologies
Payam Heydari

CONTENTS

1.1    Introduction

1.1.1    Motivation

1.1.2    Passive Imaging Fundamentals

1.1.3    Total Power Radiometer

1.1.4    Dicke Radiometer

1.2    Single-Pixel Silicon-Based Passive Imaging Receiver

1.2.1    A Passive Imaging RX Using Balanced LNA with Embedded Dicke Switch

1.3    Focal Plane Array Imaging Receivers

1.3.1    FPA Architecture

1.3.2    Receiver Building Blocks

1.3.3    System Performance

Acknowledgments

References

1.1    INTRODUCTION

Passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imaging is a method that forms images through the passive detection of natural millimeter-wave radiation (30–300 GHz) from objects. Although such systems have been developed and studied for decades, ...