An RF MEMS Sensor Driver/Readout SoC with Resonant Frequency Shift and Closed-Loop Envelope Regulation for Microplastic Detection

Seung Beom Ku; Kwonhong Lee; Han Sol Lee; Kyeongho Eom; Minju Park; Jinhyoung Kim; Cheolung Cha; Hyung Min Lee

doi:10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268805

An RF MEMS Sensor Driver/Readout SoC with Resonant Frequency Shift and Closed-Loop Envelope Regulation for Microplastic Detection

Seung Beom Ku^*
, Kwonhong Lee
, Han Sol Lee
, Kyeongho Eom
, Minju Park
, Jinhyoung Kim
, Cheolung Cha
, Hyung Min Lee

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a high-precision RF MEMS sensor driver and readout SoC to implement a low-cost portable device for microplastic (MP) detection. The proposed sensor driver and readout SoC operate as a miniaturized RF signal generator and network analyzer, respectively, that can analyze the resonant frequency shift depending on MP concentration. The system also adopts the closed-loop power amplifier (PA) envelope regulation to ensure consistent sensor driving against frequency shift. The 180-nm CMOS sensor driver chip exhibits an output power up to 0.23 dBm at 1.14 GHz and achieves small output power variation of4.9% between 1.1 GHz and 1.15 GHz, compared to 12.6% of the conventional drivers, thanks to PA envelope regulation. The 250-nm CMOS readout SoC can sense a minimum -10dBm input power and detect the changes of the input power with the dynamic range of18 dB, achieving a small linearity error of 1%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ESSCIRC 2023 - IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	481-484
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350304206
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268805
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	49th IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2023 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 2023 Sept 11 → 2023 Sept 14

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Name	European Solid-State Circuits Conference
Volume	2023-September
ISSN (Print)	1930-8833

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Conference	49th IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2023
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	23/9/11 → 23/9/14

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Keywords

closed-loop envelope regulation
dynamic range
linearity error
Microplastic
output power variation
readout SoC
RF MEMS sensor
sensor driver

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Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Ku, S. B., Lee, K., Lee, H. S., Eom, K., Park, M., Kim, J., Cha, C., & Lee, H. M. (2023). An RF MEMS Sensor Driver/Readout SoC with Resonant Frequency Shift and Closed-Loop Envelope Regulation for Microplastic Detection. In ESSCIRC 2023 - IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference (pp. 481-484). (European Solid-State Circuits Conference; Vol. 2023-September). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268805

An RF MEMS Sensor Driver/Readout SoC with Resonant Frequency Shift and Closed-Loop Envelope Regulation for Microplastic Detection. / Ku, Seung Beom; Lee, Kwonhong; Lee, Han Sol et al.
ESSCIRC 2023 - IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference. IEEE Computer Society, 2023. p. 481-484 (European Solid-State Circuits Conference; Vol. 2023-September).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Ku, SB, Lee, K, Lee, HS, Eom, K, Park, M, Kim, J, Cha, C & Lee, HM 2023, An RF MEMS Sensor Driver/Readout SoC with Resonant Frequency Shift and Closed-Loop Envelope Regulation for Microplastic Detection. in ESSCIRC 2023 - IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference. European Solid-State Circuits Conference, vol. 2023-September, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 481-484, 49th IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 23/9/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268805

Ku SB, Lee K, Lee HS, Eom K, Park M, Kim J et al. An RF MEMS Sensor Driver/Readout SoC with Resonant Frequency Shift and Closed-Loop Envelope Regulation for Microplastic Detection. In ESSCIRC 2023 - IEEE 49th European Solid State Circuits Conference. IEEE Computer Society. 2023. p. 481-484. (European Solid-State Circuits Conference). doi: 10.1109/ESSCIRC59616.2023.10268805

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