Design of V-band millimeter-wave MMIC low noise amplifiers

Abstract

In this paper, a three-stage cascode LNA and a three-stage common source LNA are presented. A comparison in terms of noise figure and gain between the two designed three-stage MMIC common source and cascode LNAs is discussed. This LNAs will be used as a part of a WPAN (Wirless Personal Area Network) receiver in the millimeter-wave band at 60 GHz.