Research Article
Sub-Nanosecond Greater-Than-10-V Compact Tunable Pulse Generator for Low-Duty-Cycle High-Peak-Power Ultra-Wideband Applications
Table 1
Performance of UWB pulse generators.
| Technology | Waveform | Pulse amplitude (V) | Pulse width (nanosecond) | Power cons. (mW) | Supply voltage (V) | Die size (mm2) | Eff. (%) | Jitter (ps) | Ref. |
| GaAs HBT | Impulse | 3.5–11.5 | 0.25–0.65 | 120 | 3.3–14 | | — | <1.5 |
[4] | Monocycle | 5.1–8.8 | 0.2–1.0 | 0.8 | |
| GaAs HEMT | Impulse | 0.7 | 0.06 | 120 | — | | — | 0.5–1.5 | [11] |
| Si SRD | Monocycle | 8 | 0.6–1.1 | — | 18 | | — | | [12] | Impulse | 4.35 | 0.25 | — | 15 | | — | — | [13] |
| Si BJT | Monocycle | 1.3 | 0.5 | — | — | — | — | — | [14] |
| Si MOSFET | Impulse | 1.4 | 0.4 | — | 2.5 | | — | — | [15] | Monocycle | 0.3–0.6 | 0.14–0.35 | — | | | — | | | Impulse | 2.8 | 0.5 | — | 3.3 | 0.5 | — | — | [16] | Impulse | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.72 | 1.8 | | — | — | [17] | Monocycle | 3.7 | 0.5 | — | — | — | — | — | [18] | Impulse | 0.03–0.12 | 0.07–0.18 | 17 | 1 | 0.0068 | — | — | [19] | Monocycle | 0.66 | 0.38 | 19.8 | 1.2 | 0.25 | 2.6 | — | [20] | Monocycle | 0.175 | 0.3 | 0.18 | 1.8 | | — | — | [21] |
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