RFIC Plenary Speaker 2: New Horizons for Millimeter-Wave Sensing

Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. This talk will provide an overview of the rapidly evolving millimeter-wave sensor market, including radar, imagers, and spectroscopy. The research and development opportunities at device, packaging and system/algorithm levels are both challenging and exciting and technologies such as low-cost deep submicron CMOS, SiGe, and other compound materials are promising from different performance and figure of merit criteria. Many cases demand a hybrid integration as a system-in-package. This talk will cover some of the most important current and upcoming technologies and trade-offs for the millimeter-wave sensor market.