A Low-Cost Millimeter-Wave Six-Port Double-Balanced Mixer

Author

Boukari, Bouraima ; Moldovan, Emilia ; Affes, Sofiene ; Wu, Ke ; Bosisio, Renato G. ; Tatu, Serioja Ovidiu

fYear

2007

fDate

July 30 2007-Aug. 2 2007

Firstpage

513

Lastpage

516

Abstract

A low cost millimeter-wave narrowband six-port double-balanced mixer circuit is proposed. Due to the symmetry and specific properties of the six-port, the mixer exhibits very good suppression of harmonic and spurious products. The mid operating frequency is selected to be 77 GHz, which is dedicated to collision avoidance radar for automobile applications. The simulation results show a conversion loss less than 4 dB and a very good linearity over a wide input power range. The 1 dB compression point and the third-order input intercept point are respectively 7.25 and 17 dBm.

Keywords

collision avoidance; millimetre wave mixers; radar applications; automobile application; collision avoidance radar; double-balanced mixer circuit; frequency 77 GHz; millimeter-wave six-port circuit; Automobiles; Circuit simulation; Collision avoidance; Costs; Frequency; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave radar; Mixers; Narrowband; Radar applications; Double-balanced mixer; frequency conversion; millimeter wave; six-port;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Electronics, 2007. ISSSE '07. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1448-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1449-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSSE.2007.4294525

Filename

4294525