• DocumentCode
    2988065
  • Title

    Internal Unilaterization Technique for CMOS mm-Wave Amplifiers

  • Author

    Heydari, Babak ; Adabi, Ehsan ; Bohsali, Mounir ; Afshar, Bagher ; Arbabian, Amin ; Niknejad, Ali M.

  • Author_Institution
    UC Berkeley, Berkeley
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    3-5 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    463
  • Lastpage
    466
  • Abstract
    An internal unilaterization technique for cas-code devices is analyzed and demonstrated in 90 nm CMOS technology. The substrate network of the device has been incorporated in a circuit technique together with an LC tank on the top gate of the cascode structure. The structure is accurately modeled and conditions for unilaterization of the cascode are derived in terms of the the LC tank parameters. An increase in the maximum stable gain from 7.5 dB to 20 dB has been verified in the measurements using this technique.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; millimetre wave amplifiers; CMOS technology; LC tank; cascode devices; gain 7.5 dB to 20 dB; internal unilaterization technique; mm wave amplifiers; size 90 nm; Automotive engineering; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Circuits; Frequency; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Radar applications; CMOS amplifiers; cascode amplifiers; mm-wave; unilaterization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2007 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • ISSN
    1529-2517
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0530-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1529-2517
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2007.380924
  • Filename
    4266472