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Single Balanced Monolithic Diode Mixer using Marchand Balun for Millimeter-wave Applications

  • 투고 : 2012.05.22
  • 심사 : 2012.06.11
  • 발행 : 2012.06.30

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In this paper, we reported on a single balanced monolithic diode mixer using Marchand balun for millimeter-wave applications. The single balanced monolithic mixer was fabricated using drain-source-connected pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (PHEMT) diodes considering the PHEMT MMIC full process. The average conversion loss is 16 dB in the RF frequency range of 81~86 GHz at LO frequency of 75 GHz with LO power of 10 dBm. The RF-to-LO isolation characteristics are greater than -30 dB and the total chip size is $1.0mm{\times}1.35mm$.

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