Abstract
A compact 60GHz power amplifier chip in 65nm CMOS technology of three-stage common source structure is presented. The first two amplifiers offer sufficient gain to pre-amplify the small input power. The third stage amplifier uses two sets of differential pairs to achieve power synthesis. On-chip transformer coupling is adopted to realize inter-stage impedance matching as well as input and output matching. The compact structure of on-chip transformer can reduce the chip size and improve the integration degree. The measured small signal gain at 60GHz of 22.3dB, the saturation power of 20.2dBm, the output P-1dB of 17.3dBm, the PAE of 14%, and the core area is 0.19mm2. The power amplifier can be used in high-speed short-range wireless communication system to enhance communication data transmission capacity.
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