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2010-09-14
A 9-21 GHz Miniature Monolithic Image Reject Mixer in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology
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Wei-Chih Chien,

    Dr. Wei-Chih Chien

    Department of Electrical Engineering

    National Cheng-Kung University

    Taiwan

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Chih-Ming Lin,

    Dr. Chih-Ming Lin

    Department of Electrical Engineering

    National Cheng-Kung University

    Taiwan

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Yung-Hsiang Chang,

    Dr. Yung-Hsiang Chang

    Department of Electrical Engineering

    National Cheng-Kung University

    Taiwan

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Yeong-Her Wang

    Prof. Yeong-Her Wang

    Institute of Microelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering

    National Cheng-Kung University

    Taiwan, ROC

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 17, 105-114, 2010
doi:10.2528/PIERL10072602 | Google Scholar

Abstract
A compact 9-21 GHz monolithic image reject mixer (IRM) with a chip dimension of 0.9×0.74 mm2 has been designed and fabricated using a standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The compact configuration is composed of a 90°coupler for local oscillator (LO) and two doubly balanced ring mixers for mixing core. Particularly, a radio frequency (RF) dual balun with advanced intermediate frequency (IF) extraction technique can not only eliminate the use of power divider in IRM design, and simultaneously provide balanced signals for ring mixing, but also obtain high side band suppression without any additional IF low-pass filter. Moreover, the entire passive circuits are constructed by utilizing broad side coupling structure to achieve high-level integration further. From the measured results, the IRM exhibits a 19.4-22.4 dB conversion loss, a maximum image rejection ratio (IRR) of 34 dB, all port-to-port isolations better than 28 dB over RF frequency range of 9 to 21 GHz, and an input 1 dB compression power of 14 dBm.
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Wei-Chih Chien, Chih-Ming Lin, Yung-Hsiang Chang, and Yeong-Her Wang, "A 9-21 GHz Miniature Monolithic Image Reject Mixer in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 17, 105-114, 2010.
doi:10.2528/PIERL10072602
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