A 300 GHz single varactor doubler in 40 nm CMOS

This paper presents a 300 GHz single varactor doubler suitable for ultrahigh-speed wireless communications. The proposed varactor doubler realized in TSMC 40 nm CMOS can be integrated with other CMOS components to generate millimetter-wave signals at 300 GHz frequency band. At the pumping frequency of 150 GHz, input power of 10 dBm, the doubler results in an output power of -3.5 dBm at 300 GHz. The doubler consumes no DC power while it occupies a chip area of 0.27 mm
²
including probe pads.