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Gain Improvement of a 2.4-GHz/5-GHz CMOS Low Noise Amplifier by Using High-Resistivity Silicon-on-Insulator Wafers
Junichi KODATE Mamoru UGAJIN Tsuneo TSUKAHARA Takakuni DOUSEKI Nobuhiko SATO Takehito OKABE Kazuaki OHMI Takao YONEHARA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Vol.E86-C
No.6
pp.1041-1049 Publication Date: 2003/06/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Devices and Circuits for Next Generation Multi-Media Communication Systems) Category: Keyword: RFIC, CMOS, LNA, silicon-on-insulator, SOI,
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Summary:
The performance of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology can be improved by using a high-resistivity SOI substrate. We investigated the correlation between substrate resistivity and the performance of a low noise amplifier (LNA) on ELTRAN(R) SOI-Epi wafersTM, whose resistivity can be controlled precisely. The use of high-resistivity ELTRAN wafers improves the Q-factor of spiral inductors, and thereby increases the gain and narrows the bandwidth of the LNA. Using the high-resistivity ELTRAN wafers, we have successfully fabricated a 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz CMOS LNA in 0.35-µm SOI CMOS technology, whose process cost is lower than the latest CMOS technologies.
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