This letter presents a two-stage mm-wave power amplifier (PA) in 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. High output power is obtained through transistor stacking. Transistor segmentation and back-gate bias control techniques are used in this adaptive PA which can work in high gain mode (HGM) and high linearity mode (HLM). The proposed PA achieves 17.9 dBm saturated output power ( Psat ), 27.6 dB power gain, 11.6 dBm output 1-dB compression point (OP1dB), and 11.0% peak power-added efficiency (PAE) at 74 GHz in the HGM. In the HLM, 17.1 dBm Psat , 21.2 dB power gain, 14.6 dBm OP1dB, and 12.9% peak PAE are obtained at 74 GHz.
Banerjee, A, van Liempd, B & Wambacq, P 2022, 'A Stacked Segmented Adaptive Power Amplifier in 22nm FD-SOI', IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 983-986. https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2022.3159601
Banerjee, A., van Liempd, B., & Wambacq, P. (2022). A Stacked Segmented Adaptive Power Amplifier in 22nm FD-SOI. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 32(8), 983-986. https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2022.3159601
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title = "A Stacked Segmented Adaptive Power Amplifier in 22nm FD-SOI",
abstract = "This letter presents a two-stage mm-wave power amplifier (PA) in 22nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology. High output power is obtained through transistor stacking. Transistor segmentation and back-gate bias control techniques are used in this adaptive PA which can work in high gain mode (HGM) and high linearity mode (HLM). The proposed PA achieves 17.9 dBm saturated output power ( Psat ), 27.6 dB power gain, 11.6 dBm output 1-dB compression point (OP1dB), and 11.0% peak power-added efficiency (PAE) at 74 GHz in the HGM. In the HLM, 17.1 dBm Psat , 21.2 dB power gain, 14.6 dBm OP1dB, and 12.9% peak PAE are obtained at 74 GHz.",
keywords = "Transistors, Gain, Power generation, Logic gates, Voltage measurement, Linearity, Threshold voltage, Fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI), millimeter-wave (mm-wave), power amplifier (PA)",
author = "Aritra Banerjee and {van Liempd}, Barend and Piet Wambacq",
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year = "2022",
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