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The use of Radio Frequency Identification is increasing rapidly. The reason is the capability to transfer data wirelessly without line-of-sight necessity, high data rate and long read range. The main advantage of barcode is its lower cost which has ensured its existence for many years. The applications and materials that are identified by RFID increase as the price of RFID tags decrease. This Project deals with the front-end of an Integrated RFID Reader for the UHF band. The bottleneck of the design is the presence of a large interferer just hundreds of kilohertz apart from the desired signal which is at about 900 MHz. The key idea of the design is utilizing feedback in order to cancel... 

This thesis deals with the front-End of an Integrated RFID Reader operated in 860MHz to 960MHz, which integrates a RF transceiver including PA, LNA and Mixer. In the receiver part, a power amplifier was fabricated and measured and in the transmitter part, LNA and Mixer were designed. There is a growing interest in utilizing CMOS technologies for RF power amplifiers (PAs). Although several advances have been made recently to enable full integration of PAs in CMOS, it is still among the most difficult challenges in achieving a truly single-chip radio system in CMOS. This is exacerbated by supply voltage reduction due to CMOS technology scaling and on-chip passive losses due to the conductive... 

In this thesis, we try to design and implement a low noise, low power consumption CMOS direct conversion mixer with LO-2LO topology. Direct conversion mixers have two differential I,Q outputs. Because of zero intermediate frequency, flicker noise is critical. This mixer is designed for UHF band in TSMC CMOS 0.18µm technology. Total current consumption of I,Q mixer is less than 3mA .Voltage conversion gain is about 23 dB and DSB noise figure is less than 3.5 dB. Some conventional thermal and flicker noise cancellation has been used simultaneously to reduce noise figure. New noise cancellation techniques are proposed to get further improvement in noise figure with negligible extra current... 

Progress of technology and the ability of construction of devices in micro and nano scales, have developed a new field of science that the classical laws of fluid dynamics can not be analyzed in by the well known Navier-Stokes Model. So, research fields in micro and nano scales have been paid attention more. In micro and nano scales, due to small size of characteristic length, the fluid is rarefied and the behavior of the fluid and its interaction with surfaces and walls in such scales is very different from those in large-scale systems. So, the particle-based-methods like Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) method have been considered one of the most interesting fields of researches for... 

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a fast developing research area in the pool of analog RF circuit design. Its applications are growing rapidly, in very different sectors ranging from supply chain management to airport baggage handling or traffic management for non-stop toll collection, etc. RFID surpasses the conventional bar code system in so many fields such as, long read range, multiple tag identification, contactless, re-programmability of tags and no need for a line-of-sight.
Inthis projecta new approach for modeling and reducing the Multi Path Fading (MPF) error is proposed. It isbased on Direction of Arrival (DOA) technique in thepositioningofpassivetags in UHFRFID... 

One of the most important parameters of a smartphone is the ability to operate in a long time with a rechargeable battery. As a result, the design of radio frequency circuits which are used in these cell phones is a consistent challenge for designers. Bluetooth Low-Energy standard (BLE) which is the fourth edition of Bluetooth standard is recently introduced with the aim of transporting low volume data with minimum power consumption. The most important challenge of the design of an RF receiver in the BLE standard is the power consumption. In a typical receiver, the oscillator and the mixer are the most power hungry blocks. Therefore, decreasing the power consumption of these two blocks is... 

One of the most important parameters of implanted chip in body is its ability to work for a long time without the need for battery change. Hence designing radio frequency transceivers used in these chips should be done with the lowest possible power consumption. Of course it should be noticed that for correct communication, standard specifications must be meeted. In this thesis, a receiver in medical implant communication service standard with the goal of minimal power consumption is designed. In circuit design different challenges such as low inductor quality factor, threshold voltage of transistors and usual trade-offs between receiver parameters are faced. Therefore, previous used... 

In this project a centrifugal, microfluidic platform to the end of separation and studying circulating tumor cells is designed, modelled and analyzed. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are specific types of cancer cells which leave the original tumor and enter the blood stream. For the separation of CTCs, a novel anti-body separation technic has been used which targets the specific MCF7 CTCs using their corresponding Ep-CAM antibody. First the Ep-CAM antibody is coated on magnetic nanoparticles through a chemical bonding process. Afterwards the CTCs are exposed to their antibodies, through which they will bind together and form CTCs with magnetic characteristics. Finally through exerting an... 

This thesis begins in an attempt to design an X band front-end receiver in GaAs pHEMT technology, suitable for microwave circuits which should be high frequency, low noise, high gain, as well as high power handling and should have stable characteristics at large number of productions. The front-end receiver consists of three blocks, namely limiter, low noise amplifier, and mixer, which are designed in ISDL group previously. The measurement result of the fabricated low noise amplifier was satisfactory, since it was close to its simulation result. However, due to the drawbacks of modeling the switching behavior of devices, the results of the two other blocks, i.e., limiter and mixer – which... 

The most important feature of the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications is the increase of information transfer rate and together with it the increase of the capacity of telecommunication channels in comparison with the previous generation. One solution is to increase the frequency toward millimeter-wave frequencies. Currently, the most suitable option for the millimeter-wave frequency band is the 28 GHz band, which has received a lot of attention due to its availability and the possibility of implementing cheap integrated circuits using CMOS technology in this band. In addition to the features that this frequency band has; This band has limitations such as high emission losses and... 

Thanks to the recent advances in the semiconductor technology and transistors’ miniaturization, design and implementation of millimeter-wave circuits is no longer a dream. As instance, transistors of 65nm CMOS technology are characterized to have cut-off frequencies higher than 200 GHz. This, along with the wide band-width available in millimeter-wave, has pushed the IC design engineers to mm-wave circuit design.In this project, different types of automotive sensors will be discussed. In the following, after a brief comparison of typical radar systems, a receiver front-end based on FMCW radar system specifications will be designed. Keeping in mind the required specifications for maximum... 

RF Receivers are one of the main components of telecommunication systems, which can be composed of many parts and circuits according to their working frequency and application.In this thesis, the design and simulation of an X-band Receiver in 0.15um GaAs technology has been discussed. The receiver chain, in the order of receiving the signal, includes the main blocks of limiter, attenuator, low noise amplifier and mixer. It also includes a number of filters. The attenuator has two digital bits and the receiving chain filters are implemented in such a way to provide more than 20dB attenuation in the frequency band of the image signal. In this research, the limiter is implemented with a...