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

230

Lastpage

233

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; microwave integrated circuits; microwave power amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; CMOS technology; bandwidth 75 GHz to 95 GHz; frequency 71 GHz to 76 GHz; frequency 81 GHz to 86 GHz; frequency 92 GHz to 95 GHz; fully-integrated design; gain 6.0 dB; matching networks; on-chip transmission line networks; wideband 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

Wireless Technology, 2008. EuWiT 2008. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-008-8

Type

conf

Filename

4753849