Characterization of a CMOS 135-GHz low noise amplifier with two different noise measurement methods

A D-band low-noise amplifier (LNA) has been developed based on a 65-nm CMOS technology, which showed a measured peak gain of 16.1 dB at 134.5 GHz. The noise property of the fabricated amplifier was characterized with two different noise measurement techniques: the cryogenic Y-factor method and the N-times power method. The two methods showed a minimum value of the noise figure of 10.7 dB and 14.7 dB, respectively.