A Wideband 60 GHz LNA with 3.3 dB Minimum Noise Figure

This work presents a 60 GHz two-stage low-noise amplifier (LNA) without the use of a base inductor. A common emitter (CE) stage followed by a cascode (CC) stage is chosen to achieve a low noise figure (NF) with high gain. The LNA is designed in the Jazz SBC18H3 process technology, exhibits 15 dB gain with a 3-dB bandwidth of 14 GHz (52-66 GHz), has a minimum NF of 3.3 dB and an input P-1dB of -13.5 dBm +/- 0.5 dB with 19.6 mW of power consumption. A detailed set of experiments are presented to eliminate the uncertainties and errors, such as ENR data and measurement components, in the noise figure measurement set-up at mm-wave frequencies.