A 75 - 95 GHz Wideband CMOS Power Amplifier

Author

Wicks, Byron ; Skafidas, Efstratios ; Evans, Rob

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC

fYear

2008

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

554

Lastpage

557

Abstract

In this paper, a 75 - 95 GHz wideband power amplifier (PA) in 0.13-mum CMOS is implemented to explore the feasibility of low-cost CMOS technology for use in 71 - 76 GHz, 81 - 86 GHz and 92 - 95 GHz fixed point-to-point link bands and the 77-GHz vehicular radar band. The fully-integrated design incorporates the power amplifier, matching networks, and input and output transmission line networks on-chip. The designed amplifier achieves small signal gain of 6.0 dB at 77 GHz, a 3-dB bandwidth of 75 - 95 GHz and delivers a saturated output power of 8.1 dBm.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MIMIC; integrated circuit design; millimetre wave power amplifiers; power integrated circuits; wideband amplifiers; CMOS technology; fixed point-to-point link bands; frequency 75 GHz to 95 GHz; fully-integrated design; gain 6 dB; matching networks; size 0.13 mum; transmission line networks on-chip; vehicular radar band; wideband CMOS power amplifier; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS technology; Gain; Impedance matching; Network-on-a-chip; Power amplifiers; Power transmission lines; Radar; Signal design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference, 2008. EuMIC 2008. European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-007-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMICC.2008.4772352

Filename

4772352