A miniature MMIC double doubly balanced mixer using lumped dual balun for high dynamic receiver application

Hwann Kaeo Chiou; Hao Hsiung Lin

doi:10.1109/75.605486

A miniature MMIC double doubly balanced mixer using lumped dual balun for high dynamic receiver application

Hwann Kaeo Chiou, Hao Hsiung Lin

Department of Electrical Engineering

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A simple dual-balun structure is proposed for a miniature monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) double doubly balanced mixer (DDBM) design. The dual balun is realized by using two out-of-phase power splitters in parallel, which are then applied in a DDBM mixer. The measured conversion loss of the mixer is less than 10 dB for a radio frequency (RF) bandwidth of 2-5.5 GHz and fixed intermediate frequency (IF) output frequency of 2 GHz. The mixer achieves a high input IP3 of 24 dBm and a 1-dB compression input power of 13 dBm at 17-dBm local oscillator (LO) drive. The chip area of mixer is less than 1.0 × 1.4 mm², which is the smallest size ever reported for monolithic DDBM mixers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	227-229
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/75.605486
State	Published - Aug 1997

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