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    Haoyang Jia Headshot
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    Haoyang Jia
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    South China University of Technology
    Country
    Country
    China
    Author(s)
    Display Name
    Haoyang Jia
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    South China University of Technology
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    Guangyin Feng
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    Affiliation
    South China University of Technology
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    Yanjie Wang
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    Affiliation
    South China University of Technology
    Abstract

    This paper presents a broadband transformer design based on three coils with mutual magnetic coupling for cascode amplifiers. To demonstrate benefits of the proposed tri-coil transformer, a single-stage cascode low noise amplifier is designed in 40nm CMOS process. The LNA with proposed tri-coil transformer exhibits significant stability and bandwidth enhancement. The simulated results show that the LNA achieves the 3-dB bandwidth of 27GHz, and factional bandwidth of 52.4%. At 54GHz, the simulated noise figure and gain of single-stage LNA are 3.6dB and 11.07dB, respectively.

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    • A Broadband Tri-Coil Based Transformer Design for Mm-wave Cascode Amplifiers (application/pdf)