Investigation of differential broadband amplifiers in normally-on mHEMT technology

This paper presents differential DC-28GHz two-stage baseband amplifier topologies realized in a 35 nm gate-length InAlAs/InGaAs mHEMT technology. They are intended as buffer amplifiers of future single-chip receiver MMICs for point-to-point communication systems. Implementation possibilities of DC-offset cancellation and gain control without affecting the bandwidth are shown for the normally-on mHEMT technology. DC-offset levels up to ±0.2 V can be compensated. The required chip area is 0.1 mm
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and the presented circuits are therefore suitable for integration in single-chip submm-wave receiver MMICs.