High conversion gain millimeter-wave monolithic IC quadruple subharmonic mixer

Dan An; Sung Chan Kim; Bok Hyung Lee; Mun Kyo Lee; Sam Dong Kim; Hyun Chang Park; Jin Koo Rhee

doi:10.1143/JJAP.46.1452

High conversion gain millimeter-wave monolithic IC quadruple subharmonic mixer

Dan An, Sung Chan Kim, Bok Hyung Lee, Mun Kyo Lee, Sam Dong Kim, Hyun Chang Park, Jin Koo Rhee

Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

We report a high conversion gain millimeter-wave monolithic IC (MMIC) quadruple subharmonic mixer adopting a novel cascode harmonic generator for an improved conversion gain. The proposed cascode harmonic generator produces 2.9 dB higher fourth harmonic output powers on the average compared with those of the conventional multiplier. The fabricated mixer shows a high conversion gain of 3.4 dB at a local oscillator (LO) power of 13 dBm. High isolations were obtained the LO-to-intermediate frequency (IF) of -53.6 dB and the LO-to-radio frequency (RF) of -46.2 dB, at a frequency of 14.5 GHz. The conversion gain achieved in this work is the best performance among the millimeter-wave MMIC subharmonic mixers reported to date.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1452-1457
Number of pages	6
Journal	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers
Volume	46
Issue number	4 A
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.46.1452
State	Published - 5 Apr 2007

Keywords

Cascode
Conversion gain
MMIC
Subharmonic mixer

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