A 5dBm BiCMOS 90° phase shifter with single-voltage tuning for mm-wave beam steering

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Abstract

This work studies a concept for a 90° vector-sum phase shifter operating at 54.6GHz, which delivers a high output power over a wide bandwidth of 20GHz, corresponding to a relative bandwidth of 37.2%. The circuit was designed to control the phase in a local-oscillator chain and was realized in a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. A root mean square (RMS) magnitude error of only 0.23dB is paired with an RMS phase error of 0.89dB, achieving linear control with only one un-calibrated analog voltage. An output-referred 1dB-compression point oP 1dB of 5.0dBm is achieved at 60GHz with 11.3dB gain and a power-added efficiency of 6.3%. The high output power qualifies this circuit to directly drive state-of-the-art frequency multipliers and leverage their multiplication factor to reach mm-wave bands with 360° of available phase control. To the best knowledge of the authors, this circuit demonstrates the highest output power and power-added efficiency reported for phase shifters operating at about 60GHz or above, while still providing high power gain.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)
Pages174-177
ISBN (electronic)978-1-6654-0839-4
Publication statusPublished - 22 Dec 2021
Peer-reviewedNo

External IDs

Scopus 85124460480

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