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Design and Fabrication of 2 GHz Doubly Balanced Star Mixer using Novel Balun  

김선숙 (충남대학교 전파공학과)
이종환 (충남대학교 전파공학과)
염경환 (충남대학교 전파공학과)
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Abstract
In this paper, a DBM(Doubly Balanced Mixer) of 2 GHz is implemented on FR4 substrate. The structure of doubly balanced mixer requires, in general, two batons and a quad diode. For balun, a novel planar balun using microstrip to CPS is suggested and designed. The suggested balun shows the phase imbalance of 180$^{\circ}$${\pm}$ 1.5$^{\circ}$and the amplitude imbalance of ${\pm}$ 0.2 ㏈ for 1.5 to 2.5 GHz. Using the balun, DBM is succesfully implemented, and the measured conversion loss of up/down converter show about 6 ㏈ over the bandwidth. The balun may be applicable for MMIC DBM with the process supporting backside via thourgh more study.
Keywords
Star Mixer; Doubly Balanced Mixer; Marchand Balun;
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