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Study on Millimeter-wave Broadband Balanced Amplifiers with Cascode Configuration  

Lim, Byeong-Ok (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
Kwon, Hyuk-Ja (Sam-sung Thales)
Moon, Sung-Woon (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
An, Dan (DTaQ, Defense agency for Technology and Quality)
Lee, Mun-Kyo (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
Lee, Sang-Jin (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
Jun, Byoung-Chul (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
Park, Hyun-Chang (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
Rhee, Jin-Koo (MINT, Millimeter-wave INnovation Technology research center)
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Abstract
We report broadband cascode amplifiers of a single-ended and a balanced amplifier for the millimeter-wave applications. The amplifiers were fabricated using 0.1 ${\mu}m\;{\Gamma}-gate$ PHEMT technology on GaAs substrate. The single-ended cascode amplifier was designed and fabricated by using shunt peaking technology. The fabricated single-ended cascode amplifier shows 3 dB bandwidth of 37 GHz($18.5{\sim}55.5$ GHz) and the maximum $S_{21}$ gain of 9.38 dB. The balanced cascode amplifier using tandem couplers achieves 3 dB bandwidth and the maximum $S_{21}$ gain of 44.5 GHz($21{\sim}65.5$ GHz) and 10.4 dB at 60 GHz, respectively. The 3 dB bandwidth of the balanced cascode amplifier shows 20% lager than the single-ended cascode amplifier.
Keywords
Millimeter-wave; broadband; cascode amplifier; shunt peaked amplifier; tandem coupler;
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