270GHz SiGe BiCMOS manufacturing process platform for mmWave applications

Arjun Kar-Roy; Edward J. Preisler; George Talor; Zhixin Yan; Roger Booth; Jie Zheng; Samir Chaudhry; David Howard; Marco Racanelli

doi:10.1117/12.901659

13 October 2011 270GHz SiGe BiCMOS manufacturing process platform for mmWave applications

Arjun Kar-Roy, Edward J. Preisler, George Talor, Zhixin Yan, Roger Booth, Jie Zheng, Samir Chaudhry, David Howard, Marco Racanelli

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Proceedings Volume 8188, Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology IV; 81880F (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.901659
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

TowerJazz has been offering the high volume commercial SiGe BiCMOS process technology platform, SBC18, for more than a decade. In this paper, we describe the TowerJazz SBC18H3 SiGe BiCMOS process which integrates a production ready 240GHz F_T / 270 GHz F_MAX SiGe HBT on a 1.8V/3.3V dual gate oxide CMOS process in the SBC18 technology platform. The high-speed NPNs in SBC18H3 process have demonstrated NF_MIN of ~2dB at 40GHz, a BV_ceo of 1.6V and a dc current gain of 1200. This state-of-the-art process also comes with P-I-N diodes with high isolation and low insertion losses, Schottky diodes capable of exceeding cut-off frequencies of 1THz, high density stacked MIM capacitors, MOS and high performance junction varactors characterized up to 50GHz, thick upper metal layers for inductors, and various resistors such as low value and high value unsilicided poly resistors, metal and nwell resistors. Applications of the SBC18H3 platform for millimeter-wave products for automotive radars, phased array radars and Wband imaging are presented.

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Arjun Kar-Roy, Edward J. Preisler, George Talor, Zhixin Yan, Roger Booth, Jie Zheng, Samir Chaudhry, David Howard, and Marco Racanelli "270GHz SiGe BiCMOS manufacturing process platform for mmWave applications", Proc. SPIE 8188, Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology IV, 81880F (13 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.901659

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