Design of a MMIC frequency quadrupler in millimeter-wave band

Author

Abata, Maryam ; El Bekkali, Moulhime ; Mazer, Said ; El Hamdani, Wafae ; Algani, C.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Inf. Process. & Transm., Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ., Fez, Morocco

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 April 2014

Firstpage

1506

Lastpage

1509

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a frequency quadrupler circuit that operates in the millimeter-wave band [56-64 GHz]. The circuit designed is composed of a single stage that could be associated with an oscillator operating around 15GHz [14-16 GHz] in order to generate frequencies in the range of [56-64 GHz] to perform the RF signal demodulation of a wireless communication link in the millimeter-wave band. The required output power is achieved by a buffer amplifier on the output. The conversion gain is about -4.2 dB with a very high rejection level of unwanted harmonics that goes up to 18.8 dB. This quadrupler is designed according to the MMIC technology (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit) in PH15 process from UMS foundry.

Keywords

MMIC oscillators; amplifiers; frequency multipliers; millimetre wave oscillators; radio links; radio networks; MMIC frequency quadrupler design; PH15 process; RF signal demodulation; VMS foundry; buffer amplifier; conversion gain; frequency 56 GHz to 64 GHz; frequency generation; loss -4.2 dB; millimeter-wave band; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; oscillator; rejection level; unwanted harmonics; wireless communication link; Foundries; Harmonic analysis; Irrigation; Laboratories; MMICs; PHEMTs; Power system harmonics; MMIC technology; buffer amplifier; frequency Quadrupler; mm-wave band;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3823-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911239

Filename

6911239