A review of technologies and design techniques of millimeter-wave power amplifiers

V Camarchia, R Quaglia, A Piacibello… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews the state-of-the-art millimeter-wave (mm-wave) power amplifiers (PAs),
focusing on broadband design techniques. An overview of the main solid-state technologies …

5G cellular user equipment: From theory to practical hardware design

Y Huo, X Dong, W Xu - IEEE access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research and development on the next generation wireless systems, namely 5G, has
experienced explosive growth in recent years. In the physical layer, the massive multiple …

A highly efficient and linear power amplifier for 28-GHz 5G phased array radios in 28-nm CMOS

S Shakib, HC Park, J Dunworth… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the first linear bulk CMOS power amplifier (PA) targeting low-power fifth-
generation (5G) mobile user equipment integrated phased array transceivers. The output …

2.7 A wideband 28GHz power amplifier supporting 8× 100MHz carrier aggregation for 5G in 40nm CMOS

S Shakib, M Elkholy, J Dunworth… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet rising demand, broadband-cellular-data providers are racing to deploy fifth
generation (5G) mm-wave technology, eg, rollout of some 28GHz-band services is intended …

Fully depleted silicon on insulator devices CMOS: The 28-nm node is the perfect technology for analog, RF, mmW, and mixed-signal system-on-chip integration

A Cathelin - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The race on the Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) More Moore
integration scale has brought to light several major limitations for efficient planar process …

20.6 A 28GHz efficient linear power amplifier for 5G phased arrays in 28nm bulk CMOS

S Shakib, HC Park, J Dunworth… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rapidly growing demand for broadband-cellular-data traffic is driving fifth-generation (5G)
wireless standardization towards the deployment of gigabit-per-second mm-Wave …

Design of a -Band 20-dBm Wideband Power Amplifier Using Transformer-Based Radial Power Combining in 90-nm CMOS

CF Chou, YH Hsiao, YC Wu, YH Lin… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a V-band 1.2-V wideband power amplifier (PA) with a compact four-way
radial power combiner in a 90-nm CMOS process. A transformer-based radial power …

A 65 nm CMOS power amplifier with peak PAE above 18.9% from 57 to 66 GHz using synthesized transformer-based matching network

W Ye, K Ma, KS Yeo, Q Zou - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining good power performance in a large bandwidth continues to challenge the
design of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) power amplifiers (PAs), including mm-wave PAs with …

A 28GHz self-contained power amplifier for 5G applications in 28nm FD-SOI CMOS

B Moret, V Knopik, E Kerherve - 2017 IEEE 8th Latin American …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 28 GHz CMOS balanced Power Amplifier (PA) with integrated
quadrature hybrid couplers to achieve robust load insensitivity for 5G phased array …

60-GHz power amplifier in 45-nm SOI-CMOS using stacked transformer-based parallel power combiner

J Xia, XH Fang, S Boumaiza - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the design of a 60-GHz power amplifier (PA) using a new stacked
transformer (STF)-based parallel combiner. It begins by highlighting the main limitation of …