Low noise fully single-ended broadband receiver front-end with InGaAs pHEMT technology

Author

Zhengyu Sun ; Hongwen Yang ; Lijun Zhang ; Yuepeng Yan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

14-18 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper demonstrates a fully single-ended broadband receiver front-end using a 0.5μm InGaAs E-mode pHEMT technology. The receiver consists of a wideband low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a wideband mixer with active baluns. A modified Kukielka LNA with the added LC-ladder matching network for bandwidth extension and noise optimization is employed. A new switched transconductor mixer embedded with an active balun for the local oscillator (LO) signal is designed. Measured results show that the front-end can achieve conversion gain of 26-29 dB, double sideband noise figure of 2.6-4.4 dB over the entire frequency range of 0.7 to 5.2 GHz. Based on the proposed front-end, an image-reject receiver is also presented with an image rejection of 35 dBc within the bandwidth.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; LC circuits; UHF amplifiers; UHF field effect transistors; UHF mixers; UHF oscillators; baluns; gallium arsenide; high electron mobility transistors; indium compounds; ladder networks; low noise amplifiers; microwave amplifiers; microwave field effect transistors; microwave mixers; microwave oscillators; microwave receivers; radio receivers; semiconductor device measurement; semiconductor device noise; InGaAs; LC-ladder matching network; LO signal; active balun; bandwidth extension; e-mode pHEMT technology; frequency 0.7 GHz to 5.2 GHz; gain 26 dB to 29 dB; image-reject receiver; local oscillator signal; low noise fully single-ended broadband receiver front-end; modified Kukielka LNA; noise figure 2.6 dB to 4.4 dB; noise optimization; size 0.5 mum; switched transconductor mixer; wideband low- noise amplifier; wideband mixer; Broadband communication; Frequency measurement; Gain; Impedance matching; Mixers; Radio frequency; Receivers; LNA; active balun; broadband receiver; mixer; pHEMT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Symposium (IWS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEE-IWS.2013.6616705

Filename

6616705