Ka-Band Dual Input Stacked 22 nm CMOS FDSOI Power Amplifier with Transformer-Based Power Combiner

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作者
Rusanen, Jere [1 ]
Tervo, Nuutti [1 ]
Rahkonen, Timo [1 ]
Parssinen, Aarno [1 ]
Aikio, Janne P. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Oulu, Dept Informat Technol & Elect Engn, Oulu, Finland
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芬兰科学院;
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AM-PM; CMOS; mmWave; PA; SOI; DESIGN;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A Ka-band dual input, three stack power amplifier (PA) is designed and fabricated using 22nm CMOS FDSOI. The PA output matching is implemented with a transformer-based combiner, which allows tuning the load with bias and input drive settings. The PA shows maximum output power, gain, one dB output power compression point (P-1dB) and power added efficiency (PAE) of 19.5dBm, 11.5dB, 14.1dBm and 17%, respectively, measured at 29.5GHz. Measured amplitude to phase modulation (AM-PM) stays at very low level, below 0.7 degrees up to P-1dB and below 2.6 degrees up to P-3dB. With a 100MHz 64-QAM OFDM signal the PA achieves 8% error vector magnitude (EVM) and -28 dBc adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) at 6.3dBm and 7.6dBm output channel power, respectively.
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页码:145 / 148
页数:4
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