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Compact Monolithic Frequency Converters for a V-Band Transmitter/Receiver
Hiroshi OKAZAKI Tetsuo HIROTA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E79-B
No.12
pp.1754-1758 Publication Date: 1996/12/25 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Millimeter-wave Short-range Application Systems Technology) Category: Keyword: MMIC, up-converter, down-converter, resistive FET mixer,
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Summary:
A V-band compact monolithic up-converter and down-converter were designed and tested. Each frequency converter was highly integrated with RF and LO amplifiers into a single compact chip. To avoid undesirable resonance, the chip width was limited to 0.9 mm. The up-converter has a balanced configuration to suppress undesired LO leakage. Using the uniplanar concept, the chip size of each frequency converter was greatly reduced to only 2.6 mm2. Measured performance of the up-converter includes conversion gain of-10.6 dB 3.3 dB for a bandwidth of 10 GHz, and LO leakage is more than 10 dB below LO input. The down-converter shows a conversion gain of -0.4 dB 2.0 dB.
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