@inproceedings{86b4a7d3c64e4259bc10aee0382c68eb,
title = "A passive 461 MHz AlN-CMOS RF front-end for event-driven wakeup receivers",
abstract = "This paper presents a fully passive front-end operating at 461 MHz, as a building block for implementation of wakeup receivers in sensor networks. We use an Aluminum Nitride (AlN) microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator for impedance transformation in order to achieve passive voltage boost at the input of a quadratic envelope detector, fabricated in a 130nm CMOS process. Each individual block is co-designed to maximize overall voltage gain so that the resulting dc output can be detected by ultra-low power (ULP) digital circuitry. Integration of these two technologies results in the reduction of node size and achieves superior performance at higher frequencies.",
keywords = "CMOS integrated circuit, microelectromechanical systems, wireless sensor networks",
author = "Pouyan Bassirian and Jesse Moody and Anming Gao and Tomas Manzaneque and Calhoun, {Benton H.} and Barker, {N. Scott} and Songbin Gong and Bowers, {Steven M.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017 ; Conference date: 30-10-2017 Through 01-11-2017",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234415",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of IEEE Sensors",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1--3",
booktitle = "IEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}