Toward Co-Design of Spin-Wave Sensors with RFIC Building Blocks for Emerging Technologies

A holistic approach is proposed for Chip-Package-PCB-Probe Co-Design of near-Field and far-Field detectors for the test and characterization of emerging technologies. Innovative integrated Magnetic Sensor solutions at micronic and nanometric scales are presented. Several sensor architecture topologies are designed, fabricated and experimentally characterized in terms of their performances for several applicative scenarios. Perspectives for Co-Design of Spin-Wave sensors with RFIC building blocks are drawn. Designed and fabricated unit-cell Spin-Wave magnetic sensors exhibit Nano-Tesla accuracy outperforming, at room temperature, state of the art magnetic sensors based on Hall effects, Squid technology or Josephson junctions. Dedicated prototypes are realized for proper co-integration of the magnetic sensors with CMOS/BiCMOS/SOI electronic circuitry including biasing, control and signal processing which support DC and RF/mm-Wave sensing.