Title
Millimeter wave transformer coupled low-power and broadband power amplifiers
Abstract
This paper presents two millimeter wave PAs realized in a 130 nm CMOS process. The power amplifier adopts transformer and transmission line matching topology which achieves small area and broadband. One power amplifier focus on low power and the other focus on broadband. The low-power power amplifier operates from 1.2 V supply with 10 dB gain at 62 GHz, and dissipates 58 mW DC power. Reverse isolation is better than 39 dB from 50 GHz to 75 GHz. The measured 3 dB bandwidth of the broadband power amplifier is 20 GHz (from 47 GHz to 67 GHz); the measured maximum gain is 8.6 dB; output 1 dB compression power is 9.36 dBm and consumes 90 mA current from 1.2 V DC supply. Including its pads, the PA occupies a compact chip area of 0.318 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> , and without pads, the PA occupies 0.141 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISICIR.2016.7829719
2016 International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
CMOS,power amplifier,transformer model,millimeter wave,60 GHz
Transmission line,Linear amplifier,Broadband,Power supply rejection ratio,Engineering,RF power amplifier,Electrical engineering,Power bandwidth,Switched-mode power supply,Amplifier
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-0631
978-1-4673-9020-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
bo chen13120.10
liheng lou275.35
kai tang32911.22
Jianjun Gao45111.33
Yuanjin Zheng532872.86