A 20 dBm fully-integrated 60 GHz SiGe power amplifier with automatic level control

UR Pfeiffer, D Goren - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A+ 20 dBm power amplifier (PA) for applications in the 60 GHz industrial scientific medical
(ISM) band is presented. The PA is fabricated in a 0.13-mum SiGe BiCMOS process …

A 0.92-THz SiGe power radiator based on a nonlinear theory for harmonic generation

H Aghasi, A Cathelin, E Afshari - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a nonlinear device model and a systematic methodology to generate maximum
power at any desired harmonic. The proposed power optimization technique is based on the …

A wideband, dual-path, millimeter-wave power amplifier with 20 dBm output power and PAE above 15% in 130 nm SiGe-BiCMOS

Y Zhao, JR Long - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A frequency-scalable, three-stage, transformer-coupled millimeter-wave power amplifier
(PA) is implemented in 130 nm SiGe-BiCMOS. Differential common-base gain stages extend …

A DC-to-108-GHz CMOS SOI distributed power amplifier and modulator driver leveraging multi-drive complementary stacked cells

O El-Aassar, GM Rebeiz - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a complementary distributed power amplifier (DPA) using stacked gain
cells with multiple input driving signals. The stack multi-drive compensates for the increasing …

mm-wave silicon ICs: Challenges and opportunities

A Hajimiri - 2007 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-waves offer promising opportunities and interesting challenges to silicon
integrated circuit and system designers. These challenges go beyond standard circuit …

Compact series power combining using subquarter-wavelength baluns in silicon germanium at 120 GHz

S Daneshgar, JF Buckwalter - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an explicit analysis of the bandwidth and port imbalance of a subquarter-
wavelength transmission-line (t-line) transformer and verifies this with the design of a two …

Design and analysis of a stage-scaled distributed power amplifier

J Chen, AM Niknejad - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design, analysis, and measurement of a pseudodifferential
distributed power amplifier in a 0.13-μm SiGe BiCMOS process. To mitigate the large loaded …

A 23-dBm 60-GHz distributed active transformer in a silicon process technology

UR Pfeiffer, D Goren - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a distributed active transformer for the operation in the millimeter-wave
frequency range is presented. The transformer utilizes stacked coupled wires as opposed to …

Terahertz electronics: Application of wave propagation and nonlinear processes

H Aghasi, SMH Naghavi, M Tavakoli Taba… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We review the recent advances on the implementation of electronic circuits that operate in
the millimeter-wave (30–300 GHz) and terahertz (300–3000 GHz) frequency ranges. The …

A wideband 77-GHz, 17.5-dBm fully integrated power amplifier in silicon

A Komijani, A Hajimiri - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 77-GHz,+ 17.5 dBm power amplifier (PA) with fully integrated 50-Omega input and output
matching and fabricated in a 0.12-mum SiGe BiCMOS process is presented. The PA …