• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2003

In this paper, we have designed and fabricated high conversion gain Q-band active sub-harmonic mixers for a receiver of millimeter wave wireless communication systems. The fabricated active sub-harmonic mixer uses 2nd harmonic signals of a low local oscillator (LO) frequency. The fabricated mixer was successfully integrated by using $0.1{\;}\mu\textrm{m}$GaAs pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (PHEMTs) and coplanar waveguide (CPW) structures. From the measurement, it shows that maximum conversion gain of 4.8 dB has obtained at a RF frequency of 40 GHz for 10 dBm LO power of 17.5 GHz. Conversion gain from the fabricated sub-harmonic mixer is one of the best reported thus far. And a phase noise of the 2nd harmonic was obtained -90.23 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. The active sub-harmonic mixer also ensure a high degree of isolations, which are -35.8 dB from LO-to-IF and -40.5 dB from LO-to-RF, respectively, at a LO frequency of 17.5 GHz.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 낮은 변환손실 특성의 94 GHz MIMIC(Millimeter-wave Monolithic Integrated Circuit) resistive 믹서를 설계 및 제작하였다. MIMIC resistive 믹서는 $0.1{\mu}m$ InGaAs/InAlAs/GaAs Metamorphic HEMT (High Electron Mobility Transistor)를 이용하여 설계 및 제작되었다. 제작된 MHEMT는 드레인 전류 밀도 665 mA/mm, 최대 전달컨덕턴스(Gm)는 691 mS/mm를 얻었으며, RF 특성으로 fT는 189 GHz, fmax는 334 GHz의 양호한 성능을 나타내었다. 94 GHz MIMIC 믹서의 개발을 위해 MHEMT의 비선형 모델과 CPW 라이브러리를 구축하였으며, 이를 이용하여 MIMIC 믹서를 설계하였다. 설계된 믹서는 본 연구에서 개발된 MHEMT MIMIC 공정을 이용해 제작되었다. 94 GHz MIMIC resistive 믹서의 측정결과 변환손실 특성은 94 GHz에서 8.2 dB의 양호한 특성을 나타내었으며, 입력 P1 dB는 9 dBm, 출력 P1 dB는 0 dBm의 결과를 얻었다. Resistive 믹서의 LO-IF 격리도는 94.03 GHz에서 15.6 dB의 측정 결과를 얻었다. 본 논문에서 설계 및 제작된 94 GHz MIMIC resistive 믹서는 기존의 W-band 대역 resistive 믹서와 비교하여 낮은 변환손실 특성을 나타내었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.411-412
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• 2008

The high performance 94 GHz MMIC(Monolithic Micro-wave Integrated Circuit) single balanced mixer was designed and fabricated, using MHEMT structure based diodes and a CPW(Coplanar Waveguide) tandem coupler. A novel single-balanced structure of diode mixer is proposed in this work, where a 3-dB tandem coupler with two section of parallel-coupled line. Implemented air-bridge crossover structures achieve wide frequency operation and the fabricated mixer exhibits excellent LO-RF isolation, larger than 30 dB, in the 5 GHz bandwidth of 91-96 GHz. A good conversion loss of 7.4 dB is measured at 94 GHz. The proposed MHEMT-based diode mixer shows superior LO-RF isolation and conversion loss to those of the W-band mixers reported to date.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.497-502
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• 2010

In this paper, the O-mode ultrashort-pulse reflectometry (USPR) millimeter-wave signals that propagate into the plasma and cover a frequency bandwidth of 33-158 GHz are examined numerically using MATLAB. Two important processes are involved in the computation: the propagation of the USPR impulse signal through a waveguide and the frequency up-conversion using millimeter-wave mixers. These mixers are limited to intermediate frequency signals that are less than 500 mV; thus, it is necessary to disperse the impulse signal into a chirped waveform using the waveguide. The stationary phase method is utilized to derive a closed-form formula for a chirped waveform under the assumption that the USPR impulse is Gaussian. In the process of frequency up-conversion, the chirped waveform is mixed with the mixer LO signal, and the lower frequency components of the RF signal are removed using high pass filters.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.857-860
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• 2005

We reported 94 GHz, low conversion loss, and high isolation single balanced active-gate mixer based on 70 nm gate length InGaAs/InAlAs metamorphic high electron mobility transistors (MHEMTs). This mixer showed that the conversion loss and isolation characteristics were 2.5 ${\sim}$ 2.8 dB and under -30 dB, respectively, in the range of 93.65 ${\sim}$ 94.25 GHz. The low conversion loss of the mixer is mainly attributed to the high-performance of the MHEMTs exhibiting a maximum drain current density of 607 mA/mm, a extrinsic transconductance of 1015 mS/mm, a current gain cutoff frequency ($f_t$) of 330 GHz, and a maximum oscillation frequency ($f_{max}$) of 425 GHz. High isolation characteristics are due to hybrid ring coupler which adopted dielectric-supported air-gapped microstrip line (DAML) structure using surface micromachined technology. To our knowledge, these results are the best performance demonstrated from 94 GHz single balanced mixer utilizing GaAs-based HEMTs in terms of conversion loss as well as isolation characteristics.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.765-768
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• 2005

In this paper, high LO-RF isolation 94 GHz MMIC single-balanced mixer was designed and fabricated using a branch line coupler and a ${\lambda}/4$ transmission line. The 94 GHz MMIC single-balanced mixer was designed using the 0.1 ${\mu}m$ InGaAs/InAlAs/GaAs Metamorphic HEMT(MHEMT) diode. The fabricated MHEMT was obtained the cut-off frequency($f_T$) of 189 GHz and the maximum oscillation frequency($f_{max}$) of 334 GHz. The designed MMIC single-balanced mixer was fabricated using 0.1 ${\mu}m$ MHEMT MMIC process. From the measurement, the conversion loss of the single-balanced mixer was 23.1 dB at an LO power of 10 dBm. The LO-RF isolations of single-balanced mixer was obtained 45.5 dB at 94.19 GHz. We obtained in this study a higher LO-RF isolation compared to some other balanced mixers in millimeter-wave frequencies.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.921-924
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• 2005

We report low conversion loss and high LO to RF isolation 94 GHz MMIC resistive mixers based on 0.1 ${\mu}m$ InGaAs/InAlAs/GaAs metamorphic HEMT technology. The fabricated resistive mixers applied a one-stage amplifier on RF port of the mixer. By using the one-stage amplifier, we obtained the decrement of conversion loss and the increment of LO to RF isolation. So, we can obtain higher performances than conventional resistive mixers. The modified mixer shows excellent conversion loss of 6.7 dB at a LO power of 10 dBm. We also observed an extremely high isolation characteristic from the MMICs exhibiting the LO-RF isolation of 21 ${\pm}$ 0.5dB in a frequency range of 93.7${\sim}$ 94.3 GHz. The low conversion loss and high LO-RF isolation characteristics of the MMIC modified resistive mixers are mainly attributed to the performance of the MHEMTs exhibiting a maximum transconductance of 654 mS/mm, a current gain cut-off frequency of 173 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 271 GHz.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제38권11호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2001

밀리미터파 대역에서 안정적이고 경제적인 local oscillator (LO) 신호를 생성하기 위한 주파수 체배기를 설계 및 제작하였다. 주파수 체배기는 14.5 GHz를 입력받아 29 GHz를 생성하도록 설계되었으며, 측정 결과 14.5 GHz에서 S11이 -9.2 dB, 29 GHz에서 S22가 -18.6 dB 로 입력 측은 14.5 GHz에, 출력 측은 29GHz에 매칭이 되었다. 변환손실의 경우 14.5 GHz에서 입력전력 6 dBm일 때 최소 값인 18.2 dB를 보였으며, 출력 단에서의 주파수 스펙트럼 특성은 14.5 GHz에서 15.2dB의 값을 나타내었다. 또한 입력신호의 isolation특성은 10.5 GHz에서 18.5GHz까지 주파수 범위에서 30 dB이상의 값을 보였다. 제작된 MMIC(Microwave monolithic integrated circuits) 주파수 체배기의 칩 사이즈는 $1.5{\times}2.2\;mm^2$이다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.127-130
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• 2012

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 $1.0mm{\times}1.35mm$.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권10A호
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• pp.847-851
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 밀리미터파 응용에서 사용 가능한 우수한 성능의 MMIC (Millimeter-wave Monolithic Integrated Circuit) star 혼합기를 구현하였다. MMIC star 혼합기를 구현하기 위하여 PHEMT (pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor) 공정 기반의 소오스와 드레인 단자를 연결한 쇼트키 (Schottky) 다이오드를 사용하였다. 혼합기의 측정 결과 LO 주파수가 75 GHz이며 전력이 10 dBm 인 경우, 81 GHz에서 86 GHz의 RF 주파수 범위에서 평균 13 dB의 변환손실 특성을 얻었다. RF-LO 격리도 특성은 30 dB 이상의 결과를 얻었으며 약 4 dBm의 P1 dB 특성을 얻었다. 전체 칩의 크기는 0.8 mm ${\times}$ 0.8 mm이다.