A 3.3 V self-biased 2.4-2.5GHz high linearity PHEMT MMIC power amplifier

Author

Chu, Chen-Kuo ; Huang, Hou-Kuei ; Wang, Chih-Cheng ; Wang, Yeong-Her ; Hsu, Chuan Chien ; Wu, Wang ; Wu, Chang-Luen ; Chang, Chian-Sem

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Inst. of Microelectron., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

667

Lastpage

670

Abstract

A 3.3V single voltage self-biased 2.4GHz-2.5GHz high linearity AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs PHEMT MMIC power amplifier for wireless local-area network (WLAN´s) applications (dual channel for 802.11a/b combination systems)is demonstrated. This two-stage amplifier is designed to fully match for a 50 ohm input and output impedance. In this process, a backside via-ground method is not used, so it can offer very low cost for the production of wireless LAN IC. With only a 3.3V drain voltage, the amplifier has achieved 30dB small-signal gain, 23.5dBm 1 dB gain compression power with 24.2% power-added efficiency (PAE). In addition, high linearity with 37.2dBm third-order intercept point at frequency of 2.45GHz is achieved. For this power amplifier MMIC, the WLAN requirements of power amplifiers including aspects of high efficiency, high gain, high linearity and operation at 2.4GHz ISM band are procured.

Keywords

HEMT integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; MMIC power amplifiers; aluminium compounds; integrated circuit design; wireless LAN; 2.4 to 2.5 GHz; 2.45 GHz; 3.3 V; 30 dB; 50 ohm; 802.11a-b combination systems; AlGaAs-InGaAs-GaAs; PHEMT MMIC power amplifier; backside via-ground method; drain voltage; dual channel; gain compression power; power-added efficiency; two-stage amplifier; wireless LAN IC; wireless local area network; Gain; Gallium arsenide; High power amplifiers; Indium gallium arsenide; Linearity; MMICs; Operational amplifiers; PHEMTs; Voltage; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2003. ESSCIRC '03. Proceedings of the 29th European

Conference_Location

Estoril, Portugal

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7995-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2003.1257223

Filename

1257223