A K-band monolithic CPW upconverter utilizing a source mixing concept

Author

Madihian, Mohammad ; Desclos, Laurent ; Maruhashi, Kenichi ; Onda, Kohei ; Kuzuhara, Masaaki

Author_Institution

C&C Inf. Technol. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

16-20 May 1995

Firstpage

127

Abstract

This paper concerns the design consideration and performance of a CPW upconverter MMIC for K-band wireless system applications. The upconverter consists of an FET as a "3-port" mixing element, IF, LO, and RF matching networks, and an output filter. Including a 3 dB pass-band insertion loss of the filter, the upconverter exhibits a maximum conversion gain of 6 dB with a port-to-port isolation better than 20 dB.<>

Keywords

MMIC frequency convertors; MMIC mixers; coplanar waveguides; field effect MMIC; impedance matching; integrated circuit design; millimetre wave frequency convertors; millimetre wave mixers; transceivers; -6 dB; FET three-port mixing element; K-band; MMIC; matching networks; monolithic CPW upconverter; output filter; pass-band insertion loss; port-to-port isolation; source mixing concept; wireless system applications; Circuits; Coplanar waveguides; Frequency conversion; K-band; Matched filters; Microwave FETs; Mixers; RF signals; Radio frequency; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1995., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2581-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1995.406082

Filename

406082