Highly Efficient Wide-Band Power Amplifiers Design For Millimeter Wave Digital Arrays (MIDAS)
Abstract
This is the final report of the Phase II of the DARPA MIDAS program from Prof. Donald Lies team at Texas Tech University (TTU). Monolithic high efficiency wideband millimeter-wave power amplifiers (mm-Wave PAs) can be critically important for realizing ultra-low-power, miniaturized mm-Wave digital arrays (MIDAS) systems, since these PAs can often consume about half of the overall system power budget. This work, therefore, performs fundamental research on the design of broadband 18-50 GHz mm-Wave PAs in several state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies for potential commercial and DoD (Department of Defense) applications. Specifically, we take advantages of the HRLs (Hughes Research Labs) 40 nm GaN T3 technology on SiC, GFs (GlobalFoundries) 90 nm SiGe BiCMOS (9HP) and GFs 22nm CMOS-FD (fully-depleted) SOI processes (22FDX), together with novel IC design techniques, to realize highly-efficient broadband mm-Wave PAs. We will investigate the design of broadband mm-Wave PAs in the medium output power range of tilde less than 20 dBm, with very broad BW of tilde 20-30 GHz, excellent broadband peak PAE > tilde 20 - 45 percent, and also good linearity. This comprehensive final report on broadband highly-efficient and linear mm-Wave PA design consists of six chapters, 131 figures, and over two hundred pages.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1179000
Entities
People
- Donald Y. Lie
Organizations
- Texas Tech University