This dissertation comes as an application of receive and transmit phased array beamformers on 22 nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator technology. They both use the concept of passive vector modulation for higher linearity. The advantage of the smaller feature size switches was used to implement the design at the Ka-band with minimized losses. The receiver IP-1dB is higher than -20 dBm with a power consumption of 60 mW at typical biasing. The biasing was varied for gain from 11 dB to 18 dB, 5 GHz bandwidth (24-29 GHz), and power consumed from 35 mW to 180 mW. The noise figure is optimized to be at 3 dB while minimizing the power consumption. The phase error standard deviation is less than 4.5 degrees for 6-bit phase shifters. The gain error standard deviation is less than 0.25 dB for the attenuators.
The Ka-band transmit channel, beamformer, has an OP-1dB is 15.5 dBm with 12.5 % efficiency of the entire channel. For the QAM-64-100 MHz modulated signal, the efficiency is 7.9 % at EVM of 3.7 % and output power of 13.1 dBm. The gain is 27 dB, and the 3 dB bandwidth extends from 22.5 GHz to 26.8 GHz. The channel 6-bit phase shifters have 5.5-degree phase error standard deviations at the center frequency and 2 degrees at 26.8 GHz. The attenuator's gain error standard deviation is less than 0.4 dB within the transmitter band.