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2011-07-28
Balanced Mixers Using Wideband Symmetric Offset Stack Balun in 0.18 um CMOS
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 23, 41-54, 2011
Abstract
This work proposes a symmetrical offset stack coupled lines balun and a dual balun for a single balanced mixer and a star mixer, respectively. To achieve a minimum insertion loss and a maximum bandwidth, the design formulas are derived by properly selecting the width of coupled lines and the offset width between two coupled lines. The measured results of the proposed single and dual baluns achieve the bandwidths of over 110% and 90%, and insertion losses of less than 4.4 dB and 7.4 dB at 38 GHz. These two baluns occupied chip sizes of 0.07 mm2. Two balanced diode mixers are further proposed and implemented in tsmcTM 0.18-μm CMOS processes. These mixers utilize a stack balun feature wide bandwidth with very compact size. The measured results of the single balanced and star mixer achieve over 115% and 100% bandwidth for a conversion loss of <15 dB. The isolations are better than 24 dB from 10 to 65 GHz of the single balance mixer and better than 31 dB from 20 to 65 GHz of the star mixer.
Citation
Hwann-Kaeo Chiou, and Jui-Yi Lin, "Balanced Mixers Using Wideband Symmetric Offset Stack Balun in 0.18 um CMOS," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 23, 41-54, 2011.
doi:10.2528/PIERC11053009
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