This letter gives an early assessment of deep submicron planar bulk CMOS devices for millimeter wave power amplifier (PA) applications. Using load pull measurements, a record high power density of 100 mW/mm and a transducer gain of 7 dB at 35 GHz were achieved for a 40 nm physical gate length CMOS device with a total gate width of 192 μm. Furthermore a peak PAE of 33% was reached. This shows that 40 nm gate length CMOS is feasible for medium PAs in the millimeter wave region.
Ferndahl, M, Nemati, H, Parvais, B, Zirath, H & Decoutere, S 2008, 'Deep submicron CMOS for millimeter wave power applications', IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 18, no. 5, 4497806, pp. 329-331. https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2008.922122
Ferndahl, M., Nemati, H., Parvais, B., Zirath, H., & Decoutere, S. (2008). Deep submicron CMOS for millimeter wave power applications. IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 18(5), 329-331. Article 4497806. https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2008.922122
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abstract = "This letter gives an early assessment of deep submicron planar bulk CMOS devices for millimeter wave power amplifier (PA) applications. Using load pull measurements, a record high power density of 100 mW/mm and a transducer gain of 7 dB at 35 GHz were achieved for a 40 nm physical gate length CMOS device with a total gate width of 192 μm. Furthermore a peak PAE of 33% was reached. This shows that 40 nm gate length CMOS is feasible for medium PAs in the millimeter wave region.",
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author = "Mattias Ferndahl and Hossein Nemati and Bertrand Parvais and Herbert Zirath and Stefaan Decoutere",
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