High-efficiency CMOS stacked-FET power amplifier for W-CDMA applications using SOI technology

A linear CMOS power amplifier (PA) is developed for wideband code-division multiple-access (W-CDMA) application using 0.18 µm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. By adopting a quadruple-stacked FET structure, 1W of output power is achieved at 4V supply voltage. A negative capacitance circuit is e...

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description A linear CMOS power amplifier (PA) is developed for wideband code-division multiple-access (W-CDMA) application using 0.18 µm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. By adopting a quadruple-stacked FET structure, 1W of output power is achieved at 4V supply voltage. A negative capacitance circuit is employed to maximise the efficiency of the PA by cancelling out the excessive capacitance at the source terminal of the common-gate stage. Besides, a lineariser based on the variable capacitor circuit is added to reduce the inherent AM-PM distortion of the CMOS FET. Using W-CDMA modulation at 837MHz, the fabricated PA module delivers a PAE of 47.5% and an adjacent channel leakage ratio of − 36dBc at the output power of 27.1dBm.
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AM‐PM distortion
Applied sciences
capacitance
capacitors
channel leakage ratio
Circuit properties
CMOS analogue integrated circuits
CMOS FET
code division multiple access
Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits
Electronic circuits
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
excessive capacitance
fabricated PA module
frequency 837 MHz
high‐efficiency CMOS stacked‐FET power amplifier
linear CMOS power amplifier
lineariser
MOSFET
negative capacitance circuit
PAE
power 1 W
power amplifiers
quadruple‐stacked FET structure
Radiocommunications
silicon‐on‐insulator
silicon‐on‐insulator technology
size 0.18 mum
SOI technology
source terminal
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
variable capacitor circuit
voltage 4 V
wideband amplifiers
wideband code‐division multiple‐access apllication
Wireless communications
W‐CDMA application
W‐CDMA modulation
title High-efficiency CMOS stacked-FET power amplifier for W-CDMA applications using SOI technology
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