2.3 GHz 대역에서 단일 Half-LO 주파수를 이용한 Double-Conversion Down Mixer 설계

Design of Double-Conversion Down Mixer Using Single Half-LO Frequency at 2.3 GHz

  • Kim Min-Seok (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Moon Ju-Young (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Yun Sang-Won (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University)
  • 발행 : 2006.08.01

초록

본 논문에서는 Half-LO 주파수를 이용하는 새로운 방식의 double-conversion down mixer를 2.3 GHz 대역에서 설계하였다. 제안된 mixer에서는 Half-LO 주파수를 2개의 HEMT에 인가하여 두 HEMT에서의 변환 방식을 gate type과 resistive type으로 다르게 함으로서 IF 주파수를 얻게 된다. 기존의 sub-harmonic mixers와 같이 Half-LO 주파수를 사용하지만 제안된 mixer는 Half-LO의 second harmonic 성분을 이용하지 않고 Half-LO의 기본 주파수를 이용하여 주파수 변환을 하고 두 번째 HEMT에서 Resistive mixer type으로 IF 신호를 얻기 때문에 기존의 능동 mixer보다 향상된 선형성을 얻을 수 있다. 2.3 GHz 대역에서 설계 제작된 mixer는 Half-LO 전력 10 dBm을 이용하여 5dB의 변환 손실과 16.25dBm의 IIP3 특성을 얻을 수 있었다.

In this paper, we designed the double conversion down mixer by using Half-LO frequency in 2.3 GHz band. The IF frequency is obtained by supplying two LO frequencies to HEMT in both gate type and resistive type. The proposed mixer uses Half-LO frequency the same way as conventional sub-harmonic mixers. However the proposed one uses fundamental component of Half-LO frequency in first stage instead of using second harmonic components of Half-LO frequency, and the IF frequency is obtained by resistive type mixer in second stage, thereby the proposed mixer can improve linearity in comparison with conventional active mixer. We can verify that the proposed mixer has an conversion loss of 5dBm and IIP3 of 16.25dBm by using 10 dBm Power.

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