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A K-Band Hybrid-Packaged Temperature-Compensated Phased-Array Receiver and Integrated Antenna Array


Abstract:

This article presents an eight-channel 1.9-dB noise figure (NF) K -band phased-array receiver (RX) for satellite communication (SATCOM). It employs the hybrid-packaged...Show More

Abstract:

This article presents an eight-channel 1.9-dB noise figure (NF) K -band phased-array receiver (RX) for satellite communication (SATCOM). It employs the hybrid-packaged 65-nm CMOS beamformer and 0.1- \mu \text{m} GaAs low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) based on the fan-out wafer-level chip-scale packaging (WLCSP) technology. For the power-efficient RX implementation, the power consumption of gain and phase tuning blocks is discussed, and the fully passive phase shifter (PS) and attenuator (ATT) are employed in this work. A global biasing scheme is proposed to ensure performance uniformity across temperature variations. Across the SATCOM band of 17.7–20.2 GHz, the proposed hybrid-packaged phased-array RX IC only consumes 30.2-mW dc power per channel and achieves < 1.2-dB gain variation and < 0.9-dB NF variation from −40° to 85 °C. Based on the RX IC, a dual-polarized 1024-element RX antenna array is further introduced. The measured gain-to-noise temperature ratios (G/Ts) are 6.22 and 6.51 dB/K at 19.7 GHz for left- and right-hand circular polarizations, respectively.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques ( Volume: 71, Issue: 1, January 2023)
Page(s): 409 - 423
Date of Publication: 08 December 2022

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