4.7 A Compact DC-to-108GHz Stacked-SOI Distributed PA/Driver Using Multi-Drive Inter-Stack Coupling, Achieving 1.525THz GBW, 20.8dBm Peak P1dB, and Over …

O El-Aassar, GM Rebeiz - 2019 IEEE International Solid-State …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed amplifiers (DAs) are important circuit blocks for wireline optical links, high-
resolution imaging systems, and millimeter-wave instrumentation. A clear trade-off exits in …

A cascaded multi-drive stacked-SOI distributed power amplifier with 23.5 dBm peak output power and over 4.5-THz GBW

O El-Aassar, GM Rebeiz - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a cascaded distributed power amplifier (DPA) topology with greater
than 4.5-THz gain-bandwidth (GBW) product. The DPA uses stacking with multi-drive inter …

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 …

A 120-GHz bandwidth CMOS distributed power amplifier with multi-drive intra-stack coupling

O El-Aassar, GM Rebeiz - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a distributed power amplifier (DPA) topology that improves both the
power combining efficiency and the operation bandwidth. Multi-drive intra-stack coupling is …

A compact pMOS stacked-SOI distributed power amplifier with over 100-GHz bandwidth and up to 22-dBm saturated output power

O El-Aassar, GM Rebeiz - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an all-pMOS stacked-SOI distributed power amplifier (DPA) as an
alternative to conventional nMOS for higher reliable operating voltages. The pMOS-DPA …

Robust, efficient distributed power amplifier achieving 96 Gbit/s with 10 dBm average output power and 3.7% PAE in 22-nm FD-SOI

U Çelik, P Reynaert - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A pseudo-differential distributed power amplifier (DPA) based on complementary gain
stages is presented for wideband femtocell 5G indoor communications in 22-nm fully …

A 1–17 GHz stacked distributed power amplifier with 19–21 dBm saturated output power in 45nm CMOS SOI technology

L Gao, Q Ma, GM Rebeiz - 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a uniform distributed amplifier (DA) based on 45nm CMOS SOI. Four
stacked transistors are employed in a single arm to construct a four-stage DA. The wideband …

Efficient 2–16 GHz flat-gain stacked distributed power amplifier in 0.13 μm CMOS using uniform distributed topology

MM Tarar, T Beucher, S Qayyum… - 2017 IEEE MTT-S …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the design and implementation of a flat-gain, efficient and wideband
stacked distributed power amplifier (SDPA) in 0.13 um CMOS technology. To obtain high …

1–20 GHz distributed power amplifier based on shared artificial transmission lines

Y Zhang, K Ma, H Yang, Y Zhang, Y Guo - IEICE Electronics Express, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
A 1–20GHz distributed power amplifier (DPA) with a novel compact structure is designed
and implemented in a commercial 0.18 µm CMOS technology. The proposed DPA consists …

4.9 A 60GHz CMOS power amplifier with cascaded asymmetric distributed-active-transformer achieving watt-level peak output power with 20.8% PAE and supporting …

HT Nguyen, D Jung, H Wang - 2019 IEEE International Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its invention in early 2000s, Distributed Active Transformer (DAT) has been a popular
power-combiner technique for high-power high-efficiency Power Amplifiers (PAs) in voltage …