DC magnetic field modulated doubly balanced monolithic mixer using magnetic thin film baluns

Author

Li, Hui ; Kong, Cen ; Chen, Xiaojian ; Wang, Weibo ; Zhou, Jianjun ; Chen, Chen

Author_Institution

Sci. & Technol. on Monolithic Integrated Circuits & Modules Lab., Nanjing Electron. Device Inst., Nanjing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel DC Magnetic Field modulated doubly balanced monolithic mixer consisting of NiFe-SiOx magnetic thin film spiral transformer-baluns is presented first time. The -3dB bandwidth of the mixer from original L/S-band (1.3-3GHz) was modulated to L/C-band (1.4-5.5GHz) while a DC magnetic field was applied. Besides, the conversion loss of the mixer was improved by 1dB decreasion at the same time. The fabrication process of the mixer was fully compatible with standard monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) process.

Keywords

MMIC mixers; baluns; iron alloys; magnetic thin film devices; nickel alloys; silicon compounds; transformers; DC magnetic field; MMIC; NiFe-SiO; conversion loss; doubly balanced monolithic mixer; frequency 1.3 GHz to 5.5 GHz; magnetic thin film spiral transformer-baluns; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; Bandwidth; Impedance matching; MMICs; Magnetic fields; Magnetic films; Mixers; Spirals; MMIC process; Modulated monolithic mixer; NiFe-SiOx magnetic thin film; ultra broadband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230013

Filename

6230013