A W-band medium power amplifier in 90 nm CMOS

Yu Sian Jiang; Jeng Han Tsai; Huei Wang

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2008.2007712

A W-band medium power amplifier in 90 nm CMOS

Yu Sian Jiang^*, Jeng Han Tsai, Huei Wang

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Abstract

A W-band CMOS medium power amplifier (PA) is presented in this letter. The circuit is implemented in 90 nm mixed signal/radio frequency CMOS process. By utilizing balanced architecture, the PA demonstrated a measured maximum small signal gain of 17 dB with 3 dB bandwidth from 91 to 108 GHz. The saturation output power (P_sat) is 12 dBm between 90 and 100 GHz for V _ds of each transistor at 1.5 V. To our knowledge, this is the highest frequency CMOS PA to date.

Original language	English
Article number	4686756
Pages (from-to)	818-820
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2008.2007712
Publication status	Published - 2008 Dec
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CMOS
Microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC)
Power amplifier (PA)
W-band

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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