TY - GEN
T1 - A Highly Efficient Broadband mm-Wave 24-32.5 GHz SiGe PA for Potential 5G Applications
AU - Tsay, Jerry
AU - Mayeda, Jill C.
AU - Lopez, Jerry
AU - Lie, Donald Y.C.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This material is based on research sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Grant Number FA8650-19-1-7902. The US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon. We also thank TTU Keh-Shew Lu Regents Chair Endowment and the GlobalFoundries University Program, esp. D. Harame, D. Wang, N. Cahoon and A. Joseph.
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PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - We present in this work a highly efficient broadband millimeter-wave power amplifier (mm-wave PA) design in a 90nm SiGe technology for potential 5G applications. The post-layout extraction simulations suggest that the PA achieves broadband power-added efficiency (PAE) >31.4%, gain >8.5 dB, and POUT,sat >13.3 dBm across 24-32.5 GHz, with peak PAE of 40.2% at 26 GHz. The PA shows good linearity with 16-QAM LTE 250 MHz modulated signal input, obtaining ACLR1 of -38.6/-37.3 dBc at 26 GHz with POUT,avg of 6.4 dBm. The PA is also robust against variation in bias VB = 0.83-0.85 V and supply VCC = 1.0-1.4 V and can be applicable toward multi-band 5G applications.
AB - We present in this work a highly efficient broadband millimeter-wave power amplifier (mm-wave PA) design in a 90nm SiGe technology for potential 5G applications. The post-layout extraction simulations suggest that the PA achieves broadband power-added efficiency (PAE) >31.4%, gain >8.5 dB, and POUT,sat >13.3 dBm across 24-32.5 GHz, with peak PAE of 40.2% at 26 GHz. The PA shows good linearity with 16-QAM LTE 250 MHz modulated signal input, obtaining ACLR1 of -38.6/-37.3 dBc at 26 GHz with POUT,avg of 6.4 dBm. The PA is also robust against variation in bias VB = 0.83-0.85 V and supply VCC = 1.0-1.4 V and can be applicable toward multi-band 5G applications.
KW - 5G
KW - SiGe
KW - broadband
KW - high-efficiency
KW - millimeter-wave (mm-Wave)
KW - power amplifier (PA)
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U2 - 10.1109/MWSCAS.2019.8885209
DO - 10.1109/MWSCAS.2019.8885209
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85075009630
T3 - Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
SP - 714
EP - 717
BT - 2019 IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 62nd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2019
Y2 - 4 August 2019 through 7 August 2019
ER -