A high linearity I/Q mixer for high data rate E-band wireless communication links

Author

Antes, J. ; Lopez-Diaz, D. ; Lewark, U.J. ; Wagner, Steffen ; Tessmann, A. ; Leuther, A. ; Kallfass, I.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech. und Elektron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2012

Firstpage

278

Lastpage

281

Abstract

A high linearity I/Q bi-directional mixer MMIC using a Lange coupler to generate the 90° phase shift between the I and Q ports for E-band communication systems has been successfully realized in a 50nm mHEMT technology. The mixer achieves a measured conversion gain of -11 dB without pre- or post-amplification and an IF bandwidth of 6 GHz. An on-wafer linearity measurement shows no compression behavior up to an RF input power of 2 dBm, which is higher than the 1 dB-compression point of other reported E-band mixers.

Keywords

MMIC mixers; radio links; I ports; Lange coupler; Q ports; bandwidth 6 GHz; gain -11 dB; high data rate E-band wireless communication links; high linearity I/Q bi-directional mixer MMIC; mHEMT technology; on-wafer linearity measurement; size 50 nm; Frequency measurement; Linearity; Mixers; OFDM; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; E-band mixer; E-band wireless communication; I/Q down-converter; MMICs; millimeter wave integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), 2012 7th European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2302-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-87487-026-2

Type

conf

Filename

6483790