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Abstract

This work presents an ultra-wideband (UWB) low noise amplifier (LNA) with active shunt-feedback technique for wideband and flat gain by using standard 0.18 μm CMOS processes. Different from past resistive shunt-feedback technique, the capacitor supersedes by a transistor in active shunt-feedback technique. The active shunt-feedback provides input matching generating a 50 Ω real part with proper design and achieves flat gain from 2.5 GHz to 12 GHz. The UWB LNA achieved 11.4±0.2 dB gains, 4.5~5.2 dB noise figure (NF), 13.5 mW power consumption at frequency 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz, -15 dBm of 1-dB compression point (P1dB), and -3 dBm of input third intercept point (IIP3) at 6 GHz. The chip size including pads is only 0.6×0.5 mm².

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Dr. Jian-Yi Li

Dr. Wen-Jeng Lin

Dr. Mau-Phon Houng

Dr. Lih-Shan Chen