• DocumentCode
    3145498
  • Title

    Wide center-tape balun for 60 GHz silicon RF ICs

  • Author

    Meng, Fanyi ; Yeo, Kiat Seng ; Xu, Shanshan ; Ma, Kaixue ; Lim, Chee Chong

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    17-18 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    17
  • Lastpage
    19
  • Abstract
    A monolithic transformer balun has been designed for 60 GHz applications. The balun is implemented based on GLOBALFOUNDRIES 65 nm CMOS process. Simulated amplitude and phase imbalance less than 0.1 dB and 0.34 degrees respectively over the 55-66 GHz frequency band are achieved. Insertion loss is as low as 1.22 dB at 60 GHz. The designed device has advantage of small size, low loss and excellence in output balance.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; baluns; elemental semiconductors; millimetre wave integrated circuits; silicon; GLOBALFOUNDRIES CMOS process; RFIC; Si; amplitude imbalance; frequency 55 GHz to 66 GHz; monolithic transformer balun; phase imbalance; size 65 nm; wide center-tape balun; 60 GHz; Passive Balun; RFIC design; mm-wave;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2011 International
  • Conference_Location
    Jeju
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0709-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0710-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISOCC.2011.6138635
  • Filename
    6138635