An E-band, scalable 2×2 phased-array transceiver using high isolation injection locked oscillators in 90nm SiGe BiCMOS

Abstract

This paper presents the first E-band phased array transceiver that uses injection locked oscillators (ILOs) for beamforming. We propose a current injection distribution network with wide locking range and high isolation. A 2×2 bidirectional transceiver is demonstrated to operate from 71-86 GHz and measurements verify that each oscillator can be controlled independently with phase shift over ±300 degrees with <; 5° phase error and under 0.9 dB amplitude variation. Each channel has a 9.5-dB noise figure in RX mode and a 10-dBm output power in TX mode. The phase noise of the locked oscillator exhibits less than 2.5 dB variation across the phase steering range. The 90-nm SiGe BiCMOS chip consumes 386.4 mW in TX mode and 286 mW in RX mode per channel.