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An ultra-wideband (UWB) low-noise amplifier (LNA) using a 0.11 µm CMOS technology is proposed. The common-gate (CG) input stage for wideband input impedance matching and the common-source (CS) stage for noise cancelling are applied. In the proposed LNA, the current of the CG input stage can be significantly reduced by applying the gm -boosting technique using the noise-cancelling CS stage without additional amplifier, and the noise performance can be improved at the same power consumption. For low-power operation, the LNA consumes 2.9 mW and achieves a noise figure (NF) of S 21 between 16.5 and 17.6 dB at S 11, lower than −12.4 and 3.6–3.7 dB at frequencies of 3–10 GHz. In low-noise operation, the LNA consumes 8.3 mW, achieving S 11 of less than −10.7 dB, S 21 of 17.5–18.7 dB, and NF of 2.4–2.9 dB.
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