Analysis and Design of Transformer-Based mm-Wave Transmit/Receive Switches

Table 1

Comparison to recently published mm-wave T/R switches.

	Ref.
Process	This work/[7]	[6]	[8]	[9]	[10]	[11]
	90 nm CMOS	130 nm CMOS	90 nm CMOS	90 nm CMOS	65 nm CMOS	90 nm CMOS
Frequency (GHz)	50	60	24	72	82	60
Insertion loss (dB)	3.4	4.5	3.5	2.7	4.2	1.5
Tx-RX isolation (dB)	13.7	24	16	27	25	25
Supply voltage (V)	1	1.2	1.2	1	1.2	1.2
IP−1dB (dBm)	14	4.1	28.7	15	N/A	13.5
Area (mm^2)	0.004	0.221	0.018	0.14	N/A	0.27
Switching time (nS)	0.25	0.4	10	N/A	N/A	3.1