Ultra low power low noise amplifier design for 2.4 GHz applications

Author

Msolli, Amina ; Nasri, Mohsen ; Helali, Abdelhamid ; Maaref, Hassen

Author_Institution

Lab. of Micro-Optoelectron. & Nanostruct., Fac. of Sci. of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Requirements of Wireless Sensor Network application which are limited power, required energy and moderate performance has been forced the Wireless Sensor Network transceiver designers toward an adaptive transceiver structures. To address the above mentioned concerns, a low-noise amplifier integrated in 2.4 GHz, in 0.18 μm CMOS technology is developed. The proposed LNA can operate at 1.8 V supply voltage. The LNA provides a good gain of 17 dB, a noise figure of 0.01 dB, reverse isolation (S12) of -3 dB, input return loss (S11) of -15 dB and output return loss (S22) of -7 dB, while consuming only 7.2 Mw DC power.

Keywords

low noise amplifiers; radio transceivers; wireless sensor networks; CMOS technology; LNA; adaptive transceiver structure; frequency 2.4 GHz; gain 17 dB; input return loss; loss -15 dB; loss -7 dB; noise figure; noise figure 0.01 dB; output return loss; power 7.2 mW; reverse isolation; size 0.18 mum; supply voltage; ultra low power low noise amplifier design; voltage 1.8 V; wireless sensor network application; wireless sensor network transceiver designer; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Impedance matching; Noise; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS), 2012 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gammarth

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1926-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DTIS.2012.6232962

Filename

6232962