A MMW T/R front-end for TDD radio systems

Author

Cao, Yu ; Tang, Xiaohong ; Wang, Ling ; Xiao, Fei ; Wu, Tao

Author_Institution

Fundamental Sci. on EHF Lab., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

4

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A MMW (millimeter-wave) transceiver (T/R) frontend which used in the Time Division Duplex (TDD) radio systems is designed and implemented in this paper. The T/R front-end with a frequency range from 40.518 to 40.638GHz consists of a transmitter channel and a receiver channel, while they share a public pathway which contains a set of switches (as a TDD switch) to the single antenna. A local oscillator (LO) multiplier-amplifier chain which offers the necessary LO power is also included. The circuits are fabricated on 127μm thick Rogers Duroid 5880 substrate by hybrid integrated circuit technology. Experiments results present that the T/R switching time is just within 10ns and the isolation is over 70dB, the noise figure is remained below 5.4dB, as well as the output power and the receiver gain reach to over 21d Bm and 10dB, respectively. The structure of the front-end is compact, with the size of 60mm × 50mm × 15mm.

Keywords

oscillators; radio receivers; radio transceivers; radio transmitters; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; MMW T/R front-end; Rogers Duroid 5880 substrate; T/R switching time; TDD radio systems; frequency 40.518 GHz to 40.638 GHz; hybrid integrated circuit technology; local oscillator; millimeter-wave transceiver; multiplier-amplifier chain; noise figure; output power; public pathway; receiver channel; receiver gain; single antenna; switches; time 10 ns; time division duplex; transmitter channel; Band pass filters; Millimeter wave technology; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Receivers; Switches; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230284

Filename

6230284