TY - JOUR
T1 - The design of low LO-power 60-GHz CMOS quadrature-balanced self-switching current-mode mixer
AU - Shahroury, Fadi Riad
AU - Wu, Chung-Yu
PY - 2008/10/1
Y1 - 2008/10/1
N2 - This letter describes the analysis and measurement of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) quadrature-balanced current-mode mixer with a 90° branch-line hybrid coupler and self-switching current-mode devices. The proposed mixer, using 0.13 μm 1P8M CMOS technology, can downconvert a 60 GHz RF signal to a 2 GHz intermediate frequency (IF) signal, with a local-oscillator power of 0 dBm at 58 GHz. In the design, the mixer had a single-end conversion gain of 1 dB and an input-referred 1 dB compression point of 2 dBm. The LO-RF isolation of the mixer can achieve -37 dB while using 3 mA from a supply voltage of 1.2 V.
AB - This letter describes the analysis and measurement of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) quadrature-balanced current-mode mixer with a 90° branch-line hybrid coupler and self-switching current-mode devices. The proposed mixer, using 0.13 μm 1P8M CMOS technology, can downconvert a 60 GHz RF signal to a 2 GHz intermediate frequency (IF) signal, with a local-oscillator power of 0 dBm at 58 GHz. In the design, the mixer had a single-end conversion gain of 1 dB and an input-referred 1 dB compression point of 2 dBm. The LO-RF isolation of the mixer can achieve -37 dB while using 3 mA from a supply voltage of 1.2 V.
KW - Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
KW - Quadrature-balanced mixer
KW - V-band
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U2 - 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2003474
DO - 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2003474
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:54049140436
VL - 18
SP - 692
EP - 694
JO - IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
JF - IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
SN - 1531-1309
IS - 10
M1 - 4639553
ER -