A Ka 4-Stack Power Amplifier in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS

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Zhang, Hao [1 ]
Xie, Kenan [2 ]
Wang, Keping [2 ]
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[1] Nanjing Res Inst Elect Technol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
[2] Tianjin Univ, Sch Microelect, EAST Lab, Tianjin, Peoples R China
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2020 13TH UK-EUROPE-CHINA WORKSHOP ON MILLIMETRE-WAVES AND TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGIES (UCMMT2020) | 2020年
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In this paper, a single-stage SiGe BiCMOS power amplifier is demonstrated for 32-38 GHz with the stacked BJTs. To maintain a wideband bandwidth, interstage shunt inductors are used to resonate out the parasitic capacitance between the stacked BJTs. The Wilkinson power divider/combiner are also used to boost the output power. The power amplifier is designed in a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. It achieves a saturated output power (P-SAT) of 21 dBm and a peak PAE of 39%. The gain is larger than 17.5 dB from 32-38 GHz. The chip area is 2.09 mm(2) including pads.
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