학술논문

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a D-Band Bolometric Power Sensor
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on. 71:1-9 2022
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Silicon
Resistance
Thermal resistance
Platinum
Conductivity
Thermal conductivity
Temperature sensors
Bolometric
characterization
D-band
metrology
millimeter wave
power sensor
WR 6.5 waveguide flange
Language
ISSN
0018-9456
1557-9662
Abstract
This article presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a D-band (110–170 GHz) bolometric power sensor, used for millimeter-wave metrology. This sensor type is new thin-film-based sensor, which consists of a multilayer chip embedded in a silicon substrate as a microwave absorber. The sensor demonstrates reasonable performance with a return loss of better than 15 dB across the entire D-band and the rise and fall times better than 1.8 ms. The sensor achieves high power linearity between −10 and +8 dBm. Frequency response of the sensor was measured, and its flatness changes no more than 20% across the frequency band. Furthermore, this power sensor has been characterized in the microcalorimeter, and an effective efficiency of over 90% could be achieved. For the first time, the design, fabrication, and characterization of a novel power sensor prototype with excellent performance at D-band are presented.