A low noise integrated 0.3-16 GHz differential amplifier for balanced ultra wideband antennas
Other conference contribution, 2010

A 300 MHz-16 GHz, Low noise, wideband differential amplifier (active balun) for balanced ultra wideband antennas realized in a commercial low-cost 150 nm GaAs-mHEMT process, is described. The amplifier has demonstrated a differential gain of 25 dB and a common mode rejection of more than 30 dB. A 3-dB bandwidth of 16 GHz is achieved. The measured noise figure is below 1 dB in most of the band. A method for measuring noise figure of differential amplifiers at microwave frequencies is proposed and demonstrated experimentally.

Active balun

Eleven antenna

Wideband microwave differential amplifier

MMIC

CMRR

UWB

SKA

Author

Niklas Wadefalk

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Per-Simon Kildal

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Herbert Zirath

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

2010 32nd IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSICS 2010, Monterey, CA, United States, 3-6 October 2010

1550-8781 (ISSN)

Art. no. 5619677-
978-1-4244-7438-7 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SO 2010-2017, EI 2018-)

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/CSICS.2010.5619677

ISBN

978-1-4244-7438-7

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10/7/2017