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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2008.19.9.985

Balanced Mixer Based on Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line Leaky-Wave Antenna  

Kim, Young (Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Abstract
This paper presents a novel balanced mixer receiver front-end design based on a metamaterial structure applicable to differential-/common-mode excitation. This metamaterial structure functions as a leaky-wave antenna and provides in-trinsic common-mode suppression. Low LO leakage and high RF to LO isolation are achieved without additional filters for LO and RF paths. The metamaterial is based on a unit-cell which under a differential-mode excitation behaves like a composite right/left-handed(CRLH) metamaterial. In contrast, the metamaterial unit-cell is below cut-off under a common-mode excitation. Experimental results are used to verify the proposed metamaterial's differential-/common-mode characteristics. The metamaterial is integrated with a balanced mixer design resulting in an operation frequency range of $1.96{\sim}2.40$ GHz with an optimum mixer conversion loss of 21.1 dB at 2,4 GHz.
Keywords
Leaky-Wave Antenna; Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line; Balanced Mixer; Differential-/Common-Mode;
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