@inproceedings{5de1dc6e1ed14af5b7fa99f5948868c0,
title = "A 2-to-67 GHz 0-dBm LO power broadband distributed NMOS-HBT Darlington mixer in 0.18 μm SiGe process",
abstract = "A 2-to-67 GHz distributed N-type complementary metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS)-heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) Darlington mixer using 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS process is presented in this paper. A distributed topology is adopted to achieve broad RF bandwidth with good radio frequency (RF) and local oscillation (LO) input return losses. A hybrid NMOS-HBT Darlington cell is utilized in the mixer gain cell design to extend RF bandwidth with low LO driving power as compared to the conventional distributed drain mixer. The proposed mixer exhibits a broad RF factional bandwidth of 188.4%, a maximum conversion gain of 5 dB, a LO power of 0 dBm, and a compact chip size of 0.76 × 0.55 mm2. The total dc power consumption is 17.5 mW.",
keywords = "BiCMOS, CMOS, Darlington, SiGe, distributed mixer, microwave and millimeter-wave (MMW)",
author = "Liu, {Yu Cheng} and Chang, {Yi Wei} and Yeh, {Ya Che} and Weng, {Shou Hsien} and Tsai, {Jeng Han} and Chang, {Hong Yeh}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2016 ; Conference date: 22-05-2016 Through 27-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1109/MWSYM.2016.7540371",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2016",
}