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4.10 Performance Summary and Comparison o f Wide-Tuning 60-
GHz VCOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4.11 Performance Summary and Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.1 Performance Comparison of State-of-the-Art VCO Designs
around 60 GHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.2 Performance Comparison with Recently Published THz Signal
Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
5.3 Performance Comparison with Recently Published THz Signal
Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.1 Simulated DC Power Compariso n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
6.2 Performance Summary and Comparison with State-of-the-Art
CMOS 60-GHz PLL s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
7.1 Comparison of State-of-the-Ar t Two-Stage 60 GHz CMOS
PAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
7.2 Performance Summary for the Implemented 60 GHz CMOS
PA Pr ototype with Differential 2×4 Power Combining . . . 182
7.3 Comparison of Both 60-GHz CMOS PA Prototypes and State-
of-the-Art CMOS PAs at 60 GHz with High Output Power by
Various Powe r Co mbining Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
9.1 Performance Comparis on of State-of-the-Art Os cillator
Designs around 70 GHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
9.2 Performance Comparis on of State-of-the-Art Os cillator
Designs around 100 GHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
10.1 Performance Comparison of State-of-the-Art Receivers for
Imaging Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
11.1 Performance Comparison with Recent mm-Wave Receivers . 258
12.1 State-of-the-Art CMOS THz Imag e Rec eivers Performance
Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
12.2 Performance Comparison with Recently Published THz Trans-
mitters and Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
13.1 Comparison with Previous Wo rks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
14.1 Performances Summary and Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . 318
14.2 Summary and Comparison of State-of-the-Art Wireline
Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322