A 1.9-GHz silicon-on-insulator CMOS stacked-FET power amplifier with uniformly distributed voltage stresses

  • Donggu Im
  • , Kuduck Kwon
  • , In Young Lee*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A 1.9-GHz single-stage differential stacked-FET power amplifier with uniformly distributed voltage stresses was implemented using 0.32-μm 2.8-V thick-oxide MOSFETs in a 0.18-μm silicon-on-insulator CMOS process. The input cross-coupled stacked-FET topology was proposed to evenly distribute the voltage stresses among the stacked transistors, alleviating the breakdown and reliability issues of the stacked-FET power amplifier in sub-micrometer CMOS technology. With a 4-V supply voltage, the proposed power amplifier with an integrated output coupled-resonator balun showed a small-signal gain of 17 dB, a saturated output power of 26.1 dBm, and a maximum power-added efficiency of 41.5% at the operating frequency.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1660-1672
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
Volume45
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017.11

Keywords

  • breakdown
  • cascode
  • CMOS
  • cross-coupled
  • front-end module
  • power-added efficiency
  • saturated output power
  • silicon-on-insulator
  • stacked-FET

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Materials Science
  • Computer Science & Information Systems
  • Mathematics
  • Engineering - Electrical & Electronic
  • Engineering - Petroleum
  • Data Science

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