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Design of 2nd-harmonic Quadrature Mixer for Ultra Wideband(UWB) Systems  

Jung, Goo-Young (Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lim, Jong-Hyuk (Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Choi, Byung-Hyun (Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Yun, Tae-Yeoul (Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Abstract
This paper presents an ultra wideband(UWB) direct conversion mixer for IEEE 802.15.3a applications with simulation and measurement results. Since the direct conversion mixing causes dc-offset and even-order distortion, the proposed mixer adopts an anti-parallel diode pairs(APDPs) to solve these problems. The proposed mixer consists of an in-phase wilkinson power divider over $3.1{\sim}4.8GHz$, a wideband $45^{\circ}$ power divider over $1.5{\sim}2.4GHz$, and miniatured band pass filters(BPFs) for RF-LO isolations. The conversion loss is optimized with impedance matchings between APDPs and wideband components. The measured mixer shows the conversion loss of 13.5 dB, input third-order intercept-point($IIP_3$) of 7 dBm, and 1-dB gam compression point($P_{1dB}$) of -4 dBm. Quadrature(I/Q) outputs have the magnitude difference of about 1 dB and phase difference of ${\pm}3^{\circ}$.
Keywords
$45^{\circ}$ Coupled Line Coupler; Anti-parallel Diode; Direct Conversion Mixer; Sobharmonically Pumped Mixers; Wilkinson Power Divider;
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