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Journal of Radio Electronics Online scientific journal · eISSN 1684-1719
2019, № 5 · ELECTRODYNAMICS

A 9-10.6 GHz Microstrip Antenna - UWB Low Noise Amplifier with differential Noise Canceling technique for IoT applications

D. Elsheakh1,2,3,4, K. Shawkey1,2, S. Saleh1,2

1 Исследовательский институт электроники, Giza
2 Electronics Research Institute, Dokki, Egypt
3 Гавайский центр развития телекоммуникаций, Gonolulu
4 Hawaii Center for Advanced Communication, Honolulu, USA
Full text (PDF) DOI: 10.30898/1684-1719.2019.5.13 EDN ISMGGM

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 10100.8 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.

  • ultra-wideband (UWB)
  • low noise amplifier (LNA)
  • differential noise canceling
  • low power
  • low noise figure

For citation

Elsheakh D., Shawkey K., Saleh S. A 9-10.6 GHz Microstrip Antenna - UWB Low Noise Amplifier with differential Noise Canceling technique for IoT applications // Journal of Radio Electronics. – 2019. – No. 5. https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2019.5.13

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