Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling

Maximilian Gottfried Becker; Marco Gunia; Diego Mendez; Frank Ellinger

doi:10.23919/EuMIC58042.2023.10288787

Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling

Maximilian Gottfried Becker
, Marco Gunia
, Diego Mendez
, Frank Ellinger

Department of Electronic Engineering

Technische Universität Dresden

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	329-332
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9782874870736
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EuMIC58042.2023.10288787
State	Published - 2023
Event	18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 18 Sep 2023 → 19 Sep 2023

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Name	2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023

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Conference	18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	18/09/23 → 19/09/23

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits
duty-cycling
inverse class-E
operating point switching
power amplifiers
transmitter

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Becker, M. G., Gunia, M., Mendez, D., & Ellinger, F. (2023). Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling. In 2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023 (pp. 329-332). (2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuMIC58042.2023.10288787

Becker, Maximilian Gottfried ; Gunia, Marco ; Mendez, Diego et al. / Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling. 2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. pp. 329-332 (2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023).

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Becker, MG, Gunia, M, Mendez, D & Ellinger, F 2023, Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling. in 2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023. 2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 329-332, 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023, Berlin, Germany, 18/09/23. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuMIC58042.2023.10288787

Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling. / Becker, Maximilian Gottfried; Gunia, Marco; Mendez, Diego et al.
2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 329-332 (2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2023).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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