High-Voltage MOSFET-Based Stacked RF Switch with Extended Bandwidth Down to DC

State-of-art stacked MOSFET-based RF switches cannot handle DC voltages exceeding maximum ratings of individual transistors in stack. In this paper a shunt switch constructed from stacked low-voltage transistors and capable of handling high DC and AC voltages in OFF-state is demonstrated for the fir...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE solid-state circuits letters 2023-01, Vol.6, p.1-1
Hauptverfasser: Syroiezhin, Semen, Weigel, Robert, Solomko, Valentyn
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:State-of-art stacked MOSFET-based RF switches cannot handle DC voltages exceeding maximum ratings of individual transistors in stack. In this paper a shunt switch constructed from stacked low-voltage transistors and capable of handling high DC and AC voltages in OFF-state is demonstrated for the first time. The DC voltage handling capability is achieved by introducing a resistive gate bias network coupled to the poles of the switch. An analytical model of the bias network is presented in the paper. A hardware prototype of the proposed device has been implemented in a dedicated 65 nm RF-switch SOI-CMOS process. The measurements of a 20-stack switch demonstrated peak RF and DC voltage handling of 20 V with the potential for further improvement and state-of-art linearity.
ISSN:2573-9603
2573-9603
DOI:10.1109/LSSC.2023.3268089