TY - GEN
T1 - Compact 160-GHz amplifier with 15-dB peak gain and 41-GHz 3-dB bandwidth
AU - Hara, S.
AU - Katayama, K.
AU - Takano, K.
AU - Watanabe, I.
AU - Sekine, N.
AU - Kasamatsu, A.
AU - Yoshida, T.
AU - Amakawa, S.
AU - Fujishima, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Chao Ma, Jintang Sun and Qianqian Shao for excellent technical assistance. This work is financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81772879 and 31470885).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/25
Y1 - 2015/11/25
N2 - This paper presents a compact wideband amplifier at 160 GHz in 40-nm CMOS. Typical wideband amplifier design requires higher-order matching networks and more gain stages, both of which demand larger die area. The presented 8-stage amplifier uses a compact 'fishbone' layout technique, and its core size is as small as 190 × 123 μm2. A small-signal gain of 15 dB at 160 GHz and a 3-dB bandwidth of 41 GHz are achieved. It consumes 117 mW from a 0.9 V voltage supply.
AB - This paper presents a compact wideband amplifier at 160 GHz in 40-nm CMOS. Typical wideband amplifier design requires higher-order matching networks and more gain stages, both of which demand larger die area. The presented 8-stage amplifier uses a compact 'fishbone' layout technique, and its core size is as small as 190 × 123 μm2. A small-signal gain of 15 dB at 160 GHz and a 3-dB bandwidth of 41 GHz are achieved. It consumes 117 mW from a 0.9 V voltage supply.
KW - CMOS process
KW - Frequency estimation
KW - Millimeter wave circuits
KW - amplifiers
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U2 - 10.1109/RFIC.2015.7337691
DO - 10.1109/RFIC.2015.7337691
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84975691055
T3 - Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium
SP - 7
EP - 10
BT - Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2015
A2 - Leenaerts, Domine
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2015
Y2 - 17 May 2015 through 19 May 2015
ER -