IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
ISSN-L : 1349-2543
LETTER
A 31.5-to-40.5 GHz injection-locked CMOS frequency tripler with injection-current enhancement technique
Yupeng FuLianming LiDongming WangXuan WangXu Wu
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2020 Volume 17 Issue 7 Pages 20200061

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This letter presents an injection-locked 36 GHz frequency tripler (ILFT) for 5G applications. With the high order transformer based LC tank, over the target operating frequency range its phase response is flat at around 0 degree, and the injection-current is enhanced with a 3rd harmonic LC tail filter, thereby achieving a wide locking range. Fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process, the ILFT consumes about 7.2 mW from a 0.6 V supply, and its core area without the output buffer and input matching network is only 0.25 × 0.4 mm2. With 0 dBm input injection power, the proposed ILFT achieves a locking range from 31.5 to 40.5 GHz (25%).

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