• DocumentCode
    1994557
  • Title

    Third order harmonic cancellation technique for a parametric amplifier

  • Author

    Shrimali, Hitesh ; Chatterjee, Shouri

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Delhi, India
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    15-18 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1880
  • Lastpage
    1883
  • Abstract
    This work presents a feed-forward technique to reduce the third order harmonic distortion of a parametric amplifier. A prototype design of an nMOS based differential parametric amplifier with supporting circuits were integrated on a standard 0.13 μm CMOS technology. A comparison between a regular parametric amplifier, and a parametric amplifier with feed-forward distortion cancellation, demonstrates a mean reduction of third order harmonic distortion of -13 dB. This comes at a cost of a maximum gain reduction of 0.9 dB.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; amplifiers; feedforward; harmonics suppression; CMOS technology; feedforward distortion cancellation; nMOS based differential parametric amplifier; size 0.13 mum; third order harmonic cancellation; Capacitance; Clocks; Gain; Harmonic analysis; Harmonic distortion; Logic gates; Probes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Rio de Janeiro
  • ISSN
    0271-4302
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9473-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0271-4302
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2011.5937954
  • Filename
    5937954