Abstract
A good design of LNA for S band satellite navigation receivers and 4G LTE wireless communication system has been implemented in this paper. Due to increased congestion in the present L band, the S Band frequency from 2483.5 - 2500 MHz has been allocated for the future satellite navigation systems. For this purpose ATF-34143 amplifier (pHEMT) having high electron mobility and fast switching response has been chosen due to its very low Noise Figure (NF). The amplifier has been designed having bandwidth of 8 GHz from 1.8 – 2.6 GHz. Because of the large bandwidth, the amplifier could serve many wireless communication applications including 4G LTE mobile communication at 2.1 GHz. The design was implemented using the micro strip technology offering extremely low noise figure of 0.312 dB and 0.377 dB for 2.1 GHz and 2.49 GHz respectively. The gain of the amplifier was low and found to be 10.281 dB and 9.175 dB. For the purpose of increasing the gain of an amplifier, the proposed LNA design was then optimized by using Wilkinson Power Divider (WPD). The Balanced LNA design using WPD offered very low noise figure of 0.422 dB and 0.532 dB respectively and the gain was considerably increased and was found to be 20.087 dB and 17.832 dB respectively against 2.1 GHz and 2.49 GHz. Simulations and measurements were taken in Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) software. The suggested LNA can be used for a variety of wireless communications applications including the future S band satellite navigation systems.
Highlights
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology has grown rapidly all around the world and many countries are trying their best to use their own navigation satellite systems to cope up
The Radio Frequency (RF) band which is currently allocated for GNSS is not adequate for providing several planned services for the future due to congestion in the current spectrum especially in E1 and L1 bands [Liu, Liang, Morton et al (2014); Betz (2013)]
There is a need for a new frequency band to be used for the satellite navigation systems in addition to L Band
Summary
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology has grown rapidly all around the world and many countries are trying their best to use their own navigation satellite systems to cope up. The noise figure of LNA should be extremely low otherwise the noise along with the received signal might get amplified. The main aim of this research is to propose an optimized low noise amplifier design offering very low noise figure of less than 0.6 dB and with an appreciable amplifier gain so that it can be utilized in the receiver chain of radio frequency front-end. The finalized Balanced LNA design gives extremely low noise figure of 0.422 dB and 0.532 dB respectively and the gain was found to be considerably good measuring 20.087 dB and 17.832 dB respectively against 2.1 GHz and 2.49 GHz. The designed LNA can be used for a diverse nature of applications such as wireless, mobile communications and future S band satellite navigation systems.
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