A compact millimeter-wave broadband stacked coupled balun

Author

Hsuan-Der Yen ; Guo-Wei Huang ; Shiao, Yu-Shao Jerry ; Fon-Shan Huang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

992

Lastpage

994

Abstract

This paper presents a compact 27.6-65.5GHz broadband Marchand balun in a 65-nm 1P6M CMOS technology. It uses stacked coupled structure for millimeter-wave application. The stacked coupled structure uses different layers coupling signals, instead of a planar layer, to reduce Machand balun size The balun bandwidth is 81.2%, the amplitude imbalance is less than 0.8 dB, and the phase imbalance is less than 8°. The balun occupies a 0.12mm² die area.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; baluns; millimetre wave integrated circuits; 1P6M CMOS technology; Machand balun size; broadband Marchand balun; different layers coupling signals; frequency 27.6 GHz to 65.5 GHz; millimeter-wave application; millimeter-wave broadband stacked coupled balun; phase imbalance; planar layer; size 65 nm; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; Impedance matching; Loss measurement; Metals; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave circuits; Balun; Marchand balun; broadband; millimeter wave; monolithic microwave integrated (MMIC); stacked structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1330-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1331-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2012.6421802

Filename

6421802