43–68 GHz broad band low noise MMIC medium power amplifier

Author

Wang, Chuang ; Fusco, Vincent F. ; Sun, Lingling

Author_Institution

ECIT Inst., Queen´´s Univ. Belfast, Belfast

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

290

Lastpage

292

Abstract

A V band (43- 68 GHz) MMIC broad band power amplifier (PA) for 60 GHz high data rate indoor wireless communication system has been designed and tested. The amplifier has been designed in conjunction with other transceiver MMIC in the 0.15 mum GaAs pHEMT process of UMS (PH15). The measurement results matched very well with the simulation ones based on the extensive circuit and EM co-simulations. The compact amplifier, which is only approx. 1.9 times 0.9 mm², gives out a gain of 17 dB and, 4 dB noise figure and 13 dBm P1dB with 250 mW DC power consuming. It is well matched in the band 43 - 68 GHz.

Keywords

MMIC amplifiers; gallium arsenide; high electron mobility transistors; low noise amplifiers; power amplifiers; radiocommunication; EM co-simulations; GaAs; MMIC medium power amplifier; UMS; broad band amplifier; frequency 43 GHz to 68 GHz; gain 17 dB; high data rate indoor wireless communication system; low noise amplifier; noise figure 4 dB; pHEMT process; power 250 mW; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Gallium arsenide; High power amplifiers; Low-noise amplifiers; MMICs; PHEMTs; System testing; Transceivers; Wireless communication; 60GHz; MMIC; broad band; component; power amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology, 2008. ICCT 2008. 11th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2250-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2251-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2008.4716243

Filename

4716243