On-chip millimeter wave Rat-race Hybrid and Marchand Balun in IBM 0.13um BiCMOS technology

Author

Ding, Hanyi ; Lam, Kwanhim ; Wang, Guoan ; Woods, Wayne H.

Author_Institution

Syst. & Technol. Group, IBM, NY

fYear

2008

fDate

16-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

On-chip millimeter wave circuit designs at 60GHz and 77GHz offer huge potentials for various wireless communication and radar applications. This paper investigates the implementation of on-chip balun, which is one of the important components in millimeter wave design. Particularly, we are interested in two types of passive structure: rat-race hybrid and Marchand balun. In the following sections, we are going to present an on-chip Rat-race Hybrid design and a Marchand Balun design in 0.13um BiCMOS technologies. Simulation results using 3D electromagnetic simulator will be shown and verified with hardware measurements.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; MIMIC; baluns; 3D electromagnetic simulator; BiCMOS technology; MIMIC; Marchand balun; frequency 60 GHz; frequency 77 GHz; on-chip balun; on-chip millimeter wave circuit design; rat-race hybrid; size 0.13 mum; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit synthesis; Hardware; Impedance matching; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Radar applications; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2008. APMC 2008. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2641-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2642-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2008.4957919

Filename

4957919