Compact Integration of Sub-Harmonic Resistive Mixer with Differential Double Slot Antenna in G-Band Using 50nm InP-HEMT MMIC Process

Author

Karandikar, Yogesh ; Zirath, Herbert ; Yan, Yu ; Vassilev, Vessen

Author_Institution

Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenberg, Sweden

fYear

2012

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Sub-Harmonic resistive HEMT based mixers in Gband have been designed and integrated with Double Slot Antenna in Differential Configuration for the first time. This novel topology shows compact integration of active devices between antenna ports while achieving 25 GHz bandwidth around 200 GHz. The dual-gate 50nm x 15um InP HEMT used in the design achieves the conversion loss of 15 dB with +3 dBm LO power drive. Furthermore, a similar topology when used as a Harmonic mixer using a single gate device offers 16.5 dB conversion loss for +4 dBm LO power. For compact integration, via hole matching on slot antenna is also presented.

Keywords

MMIC mixers; high electron mobility transistors; indium compounds; slot antennas; G-band; InP; active devices; bandwidth 25 GHz; compact integration; differential configuration; double slot antenna; dual-gate HEMT MMIC Process; hole matching; loss 15 dB; loss 16.5 dB; single gate device; size 50 nm; subharmonic resistive mixer; Antenna measurements; HEMTs; Microstrip; Mixers; Radio frequency; Slot antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

La Jolla, CA

ISSN

1550-8781

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0928-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSICS.2012.6340081

Filename

6340081