A 30-100 GHz wideband sub-harmonic active mixer in 90 nm CMOS technology

Jeng Han Tsai; Hong Yuan Yang; Tian Wei Huang; Huei Wang

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2008.2001021

A 30-100 GHz wideband sub-harmonic active mixer in 90 nm CMOS technology

Jeng Han Tsai^*, Hong Yuan Yang, Tian Wei Huang, Huei Wang

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Abstract

This letter presents a 30-100 GHz wideband and compact fully integrated sub-harmonic Gilbert-cell mixer using 90 nm standard CMOS technology. The sub-harmonic pumped scheme with advantages of high port isolation and low local oscillation frequency operation is selected in millimeter-wave mixer design. A distributed transconductance stage and a high impedance compensation line are introduced to achieve the flatness of conversion gain over broad bandwidth. The CMOS sub-harmonic Gilbert-cell mixer exhibits -1.5 ± 1.5 dB measured conversion gain from 30 to 100 GHz with a compact chip size of 0.35 mm ². The OP_{1 dB} of the mixer is -10.4 dBm and -9.6 dBm at 77 and 94 GHz, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, the monolithic microwave integrated circuit is the first CMOS Gilbert-cell mixer operating up to 100 GHz.

Original language	English
Article number	4588998
Pages (from-to)	554-556
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2008.2001021
Publication status	Published - 2008 Aug
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CMOS
E-band
Gilbert-cell
Millimeter-wave (MMW)
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)
Sub-harmonic

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Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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