Publication Date:
2018-01-03
Description:
Sensors, Vol. 18, Pages 110: A Monolithic Multisensor Microchip with Complete On-Chip RF Front-End Sensors doi: 10.3390/s18010110 Authors: Massimo Merenda Corrado Felini Francesco Della Corte In this paper, a new wireless sensor, designed for a 0.35 µm CMOS technology, is presented. The microchip was designed to be placed on an object for the continuous remote monitoring of its temperature and illumination state. The temperature sensor is based on the temperature dependence of the I-V characteristics of bipolar transistors available in CMOS technology, while the illumination sensor is an integrated p-n junction photodiode. An on-chip 2.5 GHz transmitter, coupled to a mm-sized dipole radiating element fabricated on the same microchip and made in the top metal layer of the same die, sends the collected data wirelessly to a radio receiver using an On-Off Keying (OOK) modulation pattern.
Electronic ISSN:
1424-8220
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
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