MILLIMETER-WAVE IC: IS SILICON WINNING?
IS GAAS STILL ALIVE?

Date: Monday, June 16, 2008
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Room: A412

Organizers: Chinchun Meng, National Chiao Tung University

Moderator: Huei Wang, National Taiwan University

Panel:

Young-Kai Chen, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent
Bryan Floyd, IBM
Ali Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology
Joy Laskar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinchun Meng, National Chiao Tung University
Sorin Voinigescu, University of Toronto
Herbert Zirath, Chalmers University of Technology

Sponsor: RFIC

Abstract:

Fully integrated 60 GHz MMICs were successfully built by PHEMT/ MHEMT technologies while advanced CMOS and SiGe HBT technologies have also shown good promise on 60 GHz MMICs. GaAs technology was not fairly invested at the beginning of RFIC revolution even though it is known to have better intrinsic properties. Thus, the panel will examine which technology will be the winner at the millimeter-wave regime and whether GaAs can come back at the microwave regime.