A Low-Power Broadband 200 GHz Down-Conversion Mixer with Integrated LO-Driver in 0.13 mu m SiGe BiCMOS

作者：Fritsche David^*; Leufker Jan Dirk; Tretter Gregor; Carta Corrado; Ellinger Frank

来源：IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 2015, 25(9): 594-596.

DOI：10.1109/LMWC.2015.2451353

• BiCMOS integrated circuits
• broadband amplifiers
• frequency conversion
• low-noise amplifiers
• millimeter-wave integrated circuits
• mixers
• receivers

This letter presents an active 200 GHz fundamental down-conversion mixer based on the Micromixer topology for low-power high data-rate wireless communications. The mixer-core operation requires a -5 dBm LO-signal, which is generated on-chip from an external single-ended source of only -20 dBm by means of a power-efficient LO-driver and a passive balun. Mixer, LO-driver and balun have been implemented together in a 450 GHz SiGe BiCMOS technology occupying a circuit core area of 0.21 mm(2). For a 200 GHz LO-signal, the characterized circuit exhibits a maximum conversion gain of 5.5 dB over a 3 dB RF-bandwidth of 30 GHz, requiring only 17.4 and 22.5 mW of DC-power in the mixer core and in the LO-driver, respectively.

• 出版日期2015-9