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Millimeter-wave dual-mode and dual-band switchable Gilbert up-conversion mixer in 65-nm CMOS process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2021

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Guo Qing Luo
Fang Zhu
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems of Ministry of Education, School of Electronics and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Guo Qing Luo*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems of Ministry of Education, School of Electronics and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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Author for correspondence: Guo Qing Luo, E-mail: luoguoqing@hdu.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this paper, a millimeter-wave (MMW) dual-mode and dual-band switchable Gilbert up-conversion mixer in a commercial 65-nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process is presented. By simply changing the bias, the proposed CMOS Gilbert up-conversion mixer can be switched between subharmonic and fundamental operation modes for MMW dual-band applications. With a low local oscillator pumping power of 3 dBm and low dc power consumption of 6 mW, the proposed CMOS Gilbert up-conversion mixer exhibits a measured conversion gain of −0.5 ± 1.5 dB from 37 to 50 GHz and 2.5 ± 1.5 dB from 17.5 to 32 GHz for the subharmonic and fundamental modes, respectively.

Keywords

CMOSdual-banddual-modemixermillimeter-waveswitchable
Type
Frequency Mixers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 13 , Issue 9 , November 2021 , pp. 875 - 879
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the European Microwave Association

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