Abstract
This paper presents a complementary push-pull 60-GHz power amplifier (PA) in 40-nm CMOS. The proposed technique is used to mitigate the amplitude to phase modulation (AM-PM) distortion caused by the nonlinear input capacitance of an MOS transistor. By operating in deep class-AB mode, the back-off efficiency of the PA is improved without compromising gain. The proposed interstage transformer with two secondary windings enables right impedance transformation concurrently for the two separate transistors with independent biasing ability. The two-stage PA achieves a gain of 22.4 dB, power added efficiency (PAE) PAEMAX of 23%, and saturated output power ( $P_{\text {SAT}}$ ) of 16.4 dBm with 8% PAE at 6 dB back-off. With 35 dB of adjacent channel power ratio. Also a comparison with a common-source PA is presented, which shows its limitation in dealing with AM-PM distortion.
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