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Abstract: Terahertz operation of CMOS circuits which once appeared to be wishful hopes of a few has become a reality. Signal generation up to 1.33 THz, coherent detection up to 1.2 THz and incoherent detection up to ~10 THz have been demonstrated using CMOS integrated circuits. Furthermore, highly integrated transceivers operating at frequencies up to ~400 GHz have been demonstrated. In addition, demonstrations of affordable approaches for packaging and testing terahertz CMOS circuits have been demonstrated. The performances of these CMOS circuits are or close to being sufficient to support electronic smelling using rotational spectroscopy that can detect and quantify concentrations of a wide variety of gases; imaging that can enable operation in a wide range of visually impaired conditions; and high-bandwidth communication. Despite these, wide deployments of terahertz CMOS circuits and systems are not imminent. This talk will review the state of the art for the CMOS terahertz circuit and system performance, and will discuss applications that can be supported by these performance profiles. Additionally, this talk will discuss potential advances, technologies and research efforts that can broaden application areas as well as potentially more rapidly enable a large-scale commercialization of the technology.
Bio: Kenneth O received his S.B, S.M, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1984, 1984, and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1994, Dr. O worked at Analog Devices Inc. developing sub-micron CMOS processes for mixed signal applications, and high speed bipolar and BiCMOS processes. He was a professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville from 1994 to 2009. He is currently the Director of the Texas Analog Center of Excellence and Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair Professor of Analog Circuits and Systems at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research group is developing circuits and components required to implement analog and digital systems operating at frequencies up to 40THz using silicon IC technologies. Dr. O was the President of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society in 2020 and 2021. He has authored and co-authored ~300 journal and conference publications, as well as holding 15 patents. Dr. O has received the 2014 Semiconductor Research Association University Researcher Award. Prof. O is also an IEEE Fellow.
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