A high gain and high linearity 94 GHz CMOS up-conversion mixer using negative resistance compensation and simplified modified derivative superposition techniques

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• 作者：Yo-Sheng Lin ; Van Kien Nguyen…
• 关键词：CMOS ; 94 GHz ; Up ; conversion mixer ; Conversion gain ; Balun ; LO ; RF isolation ; Simplified modified derivative superposition
• 刊名：Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：86
• 期：2
• 页码：241-253
• 全文大小：1,727 KB
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• 作者单位：Yo-Sheng Lin (1)
  Van Kien Nguyen (1)
  Chien-Chin Wang (1)
  Chih-Chung Chen (1)
  Yun-Wen Lin (1)
  Run-Chi Liu (1)
  Chien-Chu Ji (1)
  
  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan, ROC
  
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Circuits and Systems
  Electronic and Computer Engineering
  Signal,Image and Speech Processing
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1979

文摘

A 94 GHz double-balanced mixer for direct up-conversion using 90 nm CMOS technology is reported. The mixer adopts an enhanced double-balanced Gilbert cell with PMOS negative resistance compensation for conversion gain (CG) enhancement and simplified modified derivative superposition in the transconductance stage for linearity improvement. In addition, an output buffer amplifier is included for loading effect suppression, CG enhancement and power consumption reduction. The mixer consumes 8.5 mW and achieves LO-port and RF-port input reflection coefficient better than −10 dB for frequencies of 81.4–110 GHz and 33.8–105.5 GHz, respectively. The mixer achieves maximal CG of 3.6 dB at 97 GHz, and CG of 2.1 ± 1.5 dB for frequencies of 77.5–100.2 GHz. That is, the corresponding 3 dB CG bandwidth is 22.7 GHz. In addition, the mixer achieves LO-RF isolation of 41.3 dB at 94 GHz. To the authors’ knowledge, the CG, LO-RF isolation, power dissipation and matching bandwidth results are one of the best data ever reported for a W-band up-conversion mixer.