A 416-mW 32-Gbit/s 300-GHz CMOS receiver

This paper reports on a 300-GHz CMOS receiver with an LNA-less architecture that operates above NMOS unity-power-gain frequency, f
max
. Both low power consumption and high conversion gain are achieved using a high-performance tripler-last multiplier combined with a downconversion mixer. Its conversion gain and 3-dB bandwidth are −18 dB and 33 GHz, respectively. The receiver achieves a wireless data rate of 32 Gb/s with 16QAM.