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Conference Paper A 28-GHz CMOS LNA with Stability-Enhanced Gm-Boosting Technique Using Transformers
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Authors
Sunwoo Kong, Hui-Dong Lee, Seunghyun Jang, Jeehoon Park, Kwang-Seon Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee
Issue Date
2019-06
Citation
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium 2019, pp.7-10
Publisher
IEEE
Language
English
Type
Conference Paper
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2019.8701753
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a low noise amplifier (LNA) using a gm-boosting technique with improved stability using transformers in the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) band. The transformer composed of three inductors improves not only stability, but also gain and low-noise performance of the LNA. The conditions for stability shows that the proposed structure can guarantee good stability over a high frequency range. The chip was fabricated using the TSMC 65-nm CMOS process and it has an active chip area of 0.11 μm2. The fabricated LNA has a gain of 18.33 dB and a noise figure (NF) of 3.25-4.2 dB. The stability factor μ values are 9.7 and 5.2 at the source and load sides of the LNA, respectively. The 3-dB bandwidth of the LNA is 24.9-32.5 GHz and the chip consumes 17.1-mA current from a 1.2-V supply.
KSP Keywords
3-dB bandwidth, 5 GHz, CMOS LNA, CMOS Process, Chip area, Frequency range, High frequency(HF), Noise performance, Stability factor, boosting technique, gm-boosting