A 50 to 70 GHz power amplifier using 90 nm CMOS technology

Jing Lin Kuo; Zuo-Min Tsai; Kun You Lin; Huei Wang

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2008.2008603

A 50 to 70 GHz power amplifier using 90 nm CMOS technology

Jing Lin Kuo^*, Zuo-Min Tsai , Kun You Lin, Huei Wang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Communications Engineering

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Abstract

A 50 to 70 GHz wideband power amplifier (PA) is developed in MS/RF 90 nm 1P9M CMOS process. This PA achieves a measured P_sat of 13.8 dBm, P_{1 dB} of 10.3 dBm, power added efficiency (PAE) of 12.6%, and linear power gain of 30 dB at 60 GHz under V_DD biased at 1.8 V. When V _DD is biased at 3 V, it exhibits P_sat of 18 dBm, P _{1 dB} of 12 dBm, PAE of 15%, and linear gain of 32.4 dB at 60 GHz. The MMIC PA also has a wide 3 dB bandwidth from 50 to 70 GHz, with a chip size of 0.66 × 0.5 mm². To the author's knowledge, this PA demonstrates the highest output power, with the highest gain among the reported CMOS PAs in V-band.

Original language	English
Article number	4729665
Pages (from-to)	45-47
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2008.2008603
State	Published - 1 Jan 2009

Keywords

60 GHz
Broadband
CMOS
Microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC)
Power amplifier (PA)
V-band

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