• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.34D no.10
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• pp.14-23
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• 1997

An MMIC downconverting mixer for cellular phone application has been successfully developed using an MMIC process including $1 \mu\textrm{m}$ ion implanted gaAs MESFET and passive lumped elements consisting of spiral inductor, $Si_3N_4$ MIM capacitor and NiCr resistor. The configuration of the mixer presented in this paper is single-ended dual-gate FET mixer with common-source self-bias circuits for single power supply operation. The dimension of the fabricated circuit is $1.4 mm \times 1.03 mm $ including all input matching circuits and a mixing circuit. The conversion gian and noise figure of the mixer at LO powr of 0 dBm are 5.5dB and 19dB, respectively. The two-tone IM3 characteristics are also measured, showing -60dBc at RF power of -30dBm. Allisolations between each port show better than 20dB.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.261-264
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• 2005

This paper presents the design of a down-conversion mixer with built-in active balun integrated in a $0.25\;{\mu}m$ pHEMT process. The active balun consists of series-connected common-gate FET and common-source FET. The designed balun achieved broadband characteristics by optimizing gate-width and bias condition for the reduction in parasitic effect. From DC to more than 6GHz, the active balun shows the phase error of less than 3 degree and the gain error of less than 0.4 dB. A single-balanced down-conversion mixer with built-in broadband active balun has been designed with optimum width, load resistor and bias for conversion gain and without any matching component for broadband operating. The designed mixer whose size of including on-chip bias circuit is $1\;mm{\times}1\;mm$ shows the conversion gain of better than 7 dB from 2 GHz to 6 GHz and $P_{1dB}$ of -10 dBm at 5.8 GHz

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2008

본 논문은 Local oscillator의 2차 harmonic 신호를 이용하고 Dual gate FET 형태를 이용한 이중대역 주파수 혼합기 설계에 대한 연구 이다. 기존의 회로 구조는 두 대역을 처리하기 위해 각각 두 개의 국부 발진기와 혼합기를 사용함으로 인하여 구조의 복잡함과 큰 전력 손실이라는 단점을 가지고 있었다. 본 연구는 하나의 주파수 혼합기로 두 개의 대역에서 동시에 적용할 수 있는 Concurrent 이중 대역 설계 연구를 하였다. ISM(Industrial Science Medical) 대역 인 912MHz, 2.45GHz의 RF 입력과 455.5MHz, 1224.5MHz의 LO 입력 신호에서 동일한 IF인 1MHz로 하향변환 했을 때 모의실험 결과 변환이득은 각각 7dB, 12dB로 이고 RF-LO 격리도는 -29dB, -24.7dB가 나왔다. 또한 두 입력 단에서의 반사손실의 -15dB 이상을 얻었다. 또한 각각의 대역에서 잡음지수는 8.5dB, 6.26dB이다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.2 no.1 s.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 1998

In this paper, Antenna, LNA, Mixer, VCO, and Modulation/Demodulation in Baseband processor which are the RF main components in Wireless LAN system for ultra high-speed communications network are studied. Antenna bandwidth and selective fading due to multipath can be major obstacles in high speed digital communications. To solve this problem, wide band MSA which has loop-structure magnetic antenna characteristics is designed. Distributed mixer using dual-gate GaAs MESFET can achieve over 10dB LO/RF isolation without hybrid, and minimize circuit size. As linear mixing signal is produced, distortions can be decreased at baseband signals. Conversion gain is achieved by mixing and amplification simultaneously. Mixer is designed to have wide band characteristics using distributed amplifier. In VCO design, Oscillator design method by large signal analysis is used to produce stable signal. Modulation/Demodulation system in baseband processor, DS/SS technique which is robust against noise and interference is used to eliminate the effect of multipath propagation. DQPSK modulation technique with M-sequences for wideband PN spreading signals is adopted because of BER characteristic and high speed digital signal transmission.