DocumentCode
2567875
Title
Electrical funnel: A broadband signal combining method
Author
Afshari, Ehsan ; Bhat, H. ; Xiaofeng Li ; Hajimiri, Ali
Author_Institution
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
fYear
2006
fDate
6-9 Feb. 2006
Firstpage
751
Lastpage
760
Abstract
A non-uniform 2D propagation medium is compatible with modern IC processes and is used to produce a 4-to-1 broadband power combiner called an electrical funnel. The combiner is used in a wideband power amplifier in a 0.13mum SiGe BiCMOS process and yields 125mW peak output power at 85GHz with a 24GHz 3dB bandwidth
Keywords
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; MIMIC; millimetre wave power amplifiers; power combiners; wideband amplifiers; 0.13 micron; 125 mW; 24 GHz; 2D propagation medium; 85 GHz; BiCMOS process; SiGe; broadband power combiner; broadband signal combining; electrical funnel; wideband power amplifier; Frequency; Impedance; Lattices; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Millimeter wave transistors; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Silicon;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
0193-6530
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0079-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696114
Filename
1696114
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