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Matching Network Efficiency: The New Old Challenge for Millimeter-Wave Silicon Power Amplifiers
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Microwave Magazine IEEE Microwave Microwave Magazine, IEEE. 22(12):86-96 Dec, 2021
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Millimeter wave transistors
Transducers
Spaceborne radar
Millimeter wave radar
Microwave communication
Microwave circuits
Transformers
Language
ISSN
1527-3342
1557-9581
Abstract
Recently emerging applications in the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequency range, such as automotive radar, satellite communications, 5G, 6G, and beyond, have brought new and significant challenges to the implementation of microwave circuits and systems. Many of these, such as speed, power consumption, signal-handling capability, linearity, integration possibilities, and cost, are directly related to the choice of the semiconductor process technology. For the implementation of a sophisticated mm-wave front end, different technology options are available, mainly the group III–V semiconductors, silicon–germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistor/bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), or CMOS processes in their multiple variants [1]–[3].