A 217.6–227-GHz CMOS Signal Generator with Injection Locking Technique

A 50–59 GHz CMOS Injection Locking Power Amplifier

The injection-locked power amplifier (ILPA) has demonstrated relatively high gain and high efficiency at millimeter-wave frequency. However, their application is still limited by its sensitivity to loading effect and narrow injection locking bandwidth. In this letter, a wide injection locking ILPA using buffered input and output has been proposed and implemented on 65 nm CMOS technology. The bu...

Silicon-based Terahertz Signal Generation with Multi-phase Sub-harmonic Injection Locking Technique

A 27.9-53.5-GHz Transformer-Based Injection-Locked Frequency Divider with 62.9% Locking Range

An ultra-wide locking range transformer-based injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) is presented. By making use of a 4-order transformer-based resonator and an inductive gain peaking technique, the proposed ILFD can achieve high performance in terms of wide locking range and low power consumption. Fabricated in a standard 65nm CMOS process with a core area of 0.18mm, the ILFD measures a loc...

RF signal generator using time domain harmonic suppression technique in 90nm CMOS

This paper proposes an RF signal generator using a time domain harmonic suppression technique based on Fourier series analysis. The circuit consists of four differential ring voltage control oscillators (VCO’s) with phase differences and the pulse signal summing circuit. By summing pulse signals from VCO’s with appropriate phase differences determined by Fourier series in time domain, the third...

2.4 GHz CMOS Power Amplifier with Mode-Locking Structure to Enhance Gain

We propose a mode-locking method optimized for the cascode structure of an RF CMOS power amplifier. To maximize the advantage of the typical mode-locking method in the cascode structure, the input of the cross-coupled transistor is modified from that of a typical mode-locking structure. To prove the feasibility of the proposed structure, we designed a 2.4 GHz CMOS power amplifier with a 0.18 μm...