A 20-32-GHz Wideband Mixer With 12-GHz IF bandwidth in 0.18-mu m SiGe Process

abstract

• This paper presents a 2032-GHz wideband BiCMOS mixer with an IF bandwidth of 12 GHz. The mixer utilizes an inductive peaking technique to extend the bandwidth of the downconverted IF signal. To our knowledge, the proposed mixer achieves the widest IF bandwidth using silicon-based technologies in K-band. Analytical expressions for the conversion gain and output noise of the proposed mixer are presented. The wideband mixer is implemented using 0.18-m BiCMOS technology and occupies an area of 0.19 mm2. It achieves a conversion gain of 3 dB, a noise figure between 10.5 and 13.0 dB, and an IIP3 higher than 0.5 dBm with a power consumption of 18 mW from a 1.8-V supply. 2006 IEEE.

authors

• Entesari, Kamran

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES

author list (cited authors)

• El-Nozahi, M., Sanchez-Sinencio, E., & Entesari, K.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• El-Nozahi, Mohamed||Sanchez-Sinencio, Edgar||Entesari, Kamran

publication date

• November 2010

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques  Journal

keywords

• Bicmos
• Microwave
• Millimeter-wave
• Mixer
• Wideband

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2077572

start page

• 2731

end page

• 2740

volume

• 58

issue

• 11

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2Ftmtt.2010.2077572