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Broadband CMOS mixer cell for UWB applications
Author(s) -
Chen W. L.,
Huang G. W.,
Chang S. F.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.22026
Subject(s) - cmos , broadband , microwave , electrical engineering , return loss , frequency mixer , electronic engineering , engineering , radio frequency , optoelectronics , materials science , telecommunications , antenna (radio)
A broadband mixer cell with active matching network was developed using commercial 0.25‐μm CMOS technology. From experimental results, the down‐converter with the proposed mixer cell achieves a RF input return loss greater than 10 dB from 3.1 to 23.3 GHz. For UWB low‐band application, it achieves a conversion gain of −9.2 dB and an input P1dB greater than −3 dBm at the moderate LO power level of 4 dBm. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 127–128, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22026