@inproceedings{8a980eaa83f54f87a3cf2927e0e821f9,
title = "Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling",
abstract = "Aggressive duty-cycling is an approach to reduce the DC power demand of wireless networks. Turning off the power hungry blocks as often and as long as possible requires them to have fast operating point switching (OPS) times with a low energy consumption. This paper presents a V-band SiGe power amplifier (PA) with ultra-fast transition times. An approach of deriving the turn-on/off times is proposed and a method to measure the energy consumption during the OPS is presented. The single-stage inverse class-E PA achieves a power-added-efficiency (PAE) of 24.8% and an output power of 8.5 dBm at 54 GHz and 2 dBm available source power. It reaches these continuous-wave characteristics within 7.3 ns and a single OPS cycle consumes about 100 pJ.",
keywords = "BiCMOS integrated circuits, duty-cycling, inverse class-E, operating point switching, power amplifiers, transmitter",
author = "Becker, {Maximilian Gottfried} and Marco Gunia and Diego Mendez and Frank Ellinger",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 European Microwave Association (EuMA).; 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023 ; Conference date: 18-09-2023 Through 19-09-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.23919/EuMIC58042.2023.10288787",
language = "English",
series = "2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "329--332",
booktitle = "2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023",
address = "United States",
}
