Title :
255 to 330 GHz active frequency tripler MMIC
Author :
Lewark, U.J. ; Tessmann, A. ; Wagner, S. ; Leuther, A. ; Zwick, T. ; Kallfass, I.
Author_Institution :
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
An active frequency tripler MMIC achieving an output frequency of 330 GHz is presented. With the use of integrated post- amplification the frequency tripler generates an average output power of -0.4 dBm in the output frequency range from 255 to 330 GHz, corresponding to an absolute bandwidth of 75 GHz. At 288 GHz the measured output power is 0.6 dBm with an input power of 10 dBm and with an input power of 1 dBm the conversion gain is -2.7 dB. The MMIC is realized in a metamorphic HEMT technology with 35 nm gate-length and uses 1.25 × 0.5 mm2 of chip space for convenient integration into multifunctional MMIC circuits.
Keywords :
MIMIC; high electron mobility transistors; millimetre wave transistors; active frequency tripler MMIC; bandwidth 75 GHz; frequency 255 GHz to 330 GHz; gain -2.7 dB; input power; integrated post-amplification; metamorphic HEMT technology; multifunctional MMIC circuits; output power; size 35 nm; Frequency measurement; Indexes; Logic gates; MMICs; Semiconductor device measurement; Size measurement; mHEMTs; Frequency Multiplier; Frequency conversion; Millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMIC); Sub-millimeter-wave generation S-MMIC;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Circuits (INMMIC), 2012 Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Dublin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2950-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2948-4
DOI :
10.1109/INMMIC.2012.6331941
