Comparative Performance of 100–200 GHz Wideband Transceivers: CMOS vs Compound Semiconductors

This paper provides a survey of silicon bulk CMOS, FD-SOI, SOI, and SiGe transceivers and compares their performance to compound semiconductor implementations in III-V technology nodes. A comparison of transistor level, block level, and complete transceiver level performance is presented to gauge the applicability of CMOS technology to these emerging higher frequency communication and sensing applications.