Systematic Design of On-Chip Matching Networks for D-band Circuits
 
Systematic Design of On-Chip Matching Networks for D-band Circuits ■
 
Johan Nguyen, Johan Nguyen, Johan Nguyen, Xinyan Tang, Xinyan Tang, Xinyan Tang, Khaled Khalaf, Khaled Khalaf, Khaled Khalaf, Bjorn Debaillie, Bjorn Debaillie, Bjorn Debaillie, Piet Wambacq, Piet Wambacq, Piet Wambacq
 
Abstract ■

Design of mm-wave circuits operating above 100 GHz is challenging due to loading effects between different components, device, and layout parasitics. In this work, we propose a systematic approach using ABCD-parameters for multistage differential designs. This approach provides with high accuracy the scattering parameters for every possible realization of the chosen matching network within a broad search space. Hereby it considers loading effects and matching constraints.