A
9-10.6 GHz
Microstrip Antenna - UWB Low Noise Amplifier with differential Noise Canceling
technique for IoT applications
Dalia Elsheakh 1,2,
Heba Shawkey 1 , Sherif Saleh 1
1 Electronics
Research Institute, El Bohous St., Dokki, Giza, Egypt
2 Hawaii
Center for Advanced Communication, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
The paper is received on May 15, 2019
Abstract.
An ultra wide band (UWB) receiver front-end operates
at the UWB frequency range, starting from 9 GHz-10.6 GHz is proposed in this
paper. The proposed system consists of an off-chip microstrip antenna and CMOS differential
low noise amplifier with a differential noise canceling (DNC) technique. The
proposed antenna is trapezoidal dipole shaped with balun and printed on a
low-cost FR4 substrate with dimensions 10x10x0.8 mm3. The
balun circuit integrated with the ground antenna to improve the antenna
impedance matching. Full-wave
EM solver HFSS (High Frequency Structure Simulator) is used for modeling the
proposed antenna. The CMOS LNA is designed using UMC
0.13µm CMOS process, and exhibits a flat gain of 19dB, maximum noise figure of 2.9
dB, 1dB compression point -16dBm, 3rd order intercept point (IIP3) -10dBm, and
DC power consumption of 2.8 mW at 1.2 V power supply. Applying the noise
canceling stage, the NF is reduced by 50% to be 2.75 dB while the power consumption
is increased to be 2.9mW.
Keywords: ultra-wideband
(UWB), low noise amplifier (LNA), differential noise
canceling, low power, low noise figure.
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