An X-Band Low Noise Amplifier Design for Marine Navigation Radars

Christina Lessi, Evangelia Karagianni

National and Kapodistian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Hellenic Naval Academy, Pireaus, Greece.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2014.73009                

Abstract

In this paper, the design of a 9.1 GHz Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) of a RADAR receiver that is used in the Navy is presented. For the design of the LNA, we used GaAs Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) from Agilent ADS component library. In order to keep the cost of the circuit in low prices and the performance high, we design a two-stage LNA.

Keywords

Navy RADAR; Low Noise Amplifier (LNA); Field Effect Transistor (FET)

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	Kuo, W.-M.L., et al. (2006) An X-Band SiGe LNA with 1.36 dB Mean Noise Figure for Monolithic Phased Array Transmit/Receive Radar Modules. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, San Francisco, 11-13 June 2006, 501.
[2]	Masuda, T., et al. (2005) SiGe HBT Based 24-GHz LNA and VCO for Short-Range Ultra-Wideband Radar Systems. Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, Hsinchu, 1-3 November 2005, 425-428.
[3]	Dinc, T., et al. (2013) Building Blocks for an X-Band SiGe BiCMOS T/R Module. IEEE Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications (PAWR), Austin, 20-23 January 2013, 97-99.
[4]	Colangeli, S., et al. (2013) GaN-Based Robust Low-Noise Amplifiers. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 60, 3238-3248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TED.2013.2265718
[5]	Khanh, N.N.M. and Asada, K. (2013) A 0.18-μm CMOS Fully Integrated Antenna Pulse Transceiver with Lea-kage-Cancellation Technique for Wide-Band Microwave Range Sensing Radar. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Seattle, 2-4 June 2013, 97-100.
[6]	Karagianni, E. and Gyparis, I. (2013) Telecommunication and Navigation Systems: A Monography for ETO Training according to STCW.
[7]	Homaee, A. (2013) A CMOS 3.1 -10.6 GHz UWB LNA Employing Modified Derivative Superposition Method. Cir-cuits and Systems, 4, 323-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/cs.2013.43044
[8]	Kapsides, J.D., Chryssomallis, M.T. and Kyriacou, G.A. (2000) A Technique for the Design of Microwave Transistor Oscillators for Optimum Power Output. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Trans Black Sea Region on Applied Electromagnetism, Xanthi, 27-29 June 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AEM.2000.943257
[9]	Pozar, D.M. (1998) Microwave Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.
[10]	Hsu, M.-T., Du, J.-H. and Chiu, W.-C. (2012) Design of Low Power CMOS LNA with Current-Reused and Notch Filter Topology for DS-UWB Application. Wireless Engineering and Technology, 3, 167-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/wet.2012.33024
[11]	Wu, C.-S., Lin, T.-Y., Chang, C.-H. and Wu, H.-M. (2011) 3 -10 GHz Ultra-Wideband Low-Noise Amplifier Using Inductive-Series Peaking Technique with Cascode Common-Source Circuit. Wireless Engineering and Technology, 2, 257-261. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/wet.2011.24034