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60 GHz Wide-Band Power Amplifier

Amin Hamidian and Georg Boeck

The paper is accepted for BCTM 2009 http://www.ieee-bctm.org .

Abstract: This paper presents a fully integrated 60 GHz single stage power amplifier with cascode topology. The PA is designed on 0.25 um SiGe:C BiCmos technology. The technology provides f _T and f _max ~ 200 GHz. The PA has achieved the 1dB bandwidth of more than 9 GHz from 57 GHz to 66 GHz and 3dB bandwidth of more than 18 GHz (30 %) from 51 GHz to 69 GHz. The PA has been designed to have the large and small signal matching in the whole range. This has resulted to 1dB gain compression point better than 11.5 dBm and power added efficiency better than 9 % from 57 GHz to 65 GHz. The PA achieves the maximum P1dB of 13.5 dBm at around 58 GHz. The constant gain, high linearity and good PAE for the whole range (57 to 66 GHz) has made this circuit a State of the art PA.

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Publications Publications, alphabetical order Publications 2008 Publications 2009 Publications 2010 Publications 2011 ICC 2009 PR 01/2009 Final Presentation	[15] 60 GHz Wide-Band Power Amplifier Amin Hamidian and Georg Boeck The paper is accepted for BCTM 2009 http://www.ieee-bctm.org . Abstract: This paper presents a fully integrated 60 GHz single stage power amplifier with cascode topology. The PA is designed on 0.25 um SiGe:C BiCmos technology. The technology provides f _T and f _max ~ 200 GHz. The PA has achieved the 1dB bandwidth of more than 9 GHz from 57 GHz to 66 GHz and 3dB bandwidth of more than 18 GHz (30 %) from 51 GHz to 69 GHz. The PA has been designed to have the large and small signal matching in the whole range. This has resulted to 1dB gain compression point better than 11.5 dBm and power added efficiency better than 9 % from 57 GHz to 65 GHz. The PA achieves the maximum P1dB of 13.5 dBm at around 58 GHz. The constant gain, high linearity and good PAE for the whole range (57 to 66 GHz) has made this circuit a State of the art PA.