COPLANAR INTEGRATED MIXERS FOR 77-GHZ AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS

Authors
VERWEYEN L MASSLER H NEUMANN M SCHAPER U HAYDL WH
Citation
L. Verweyen et al., COPLANAR INTEGRATED MIXERS FOR 77-GHZ AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS, IEEE microwave and guided wave letters, 8(1), 1998, pp. 38-40
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE microwave and guided wave letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10518207
Volume
8
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
38 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
1051-8207(1998)8:1<38:CIMF7A>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
For integration in receivers at 77 GHz, three passive mixers, a balanc ed diode mixer, a single ended and a balanced resistive mixer, as well as an active single-ended gate mixer have been realized in coplanar 0 .15-mu m PM-HEMT technology on GaAs. The passive mixers achieved conve rsion losses of about 9 dB. The resistive mixers required an LO power of only 3 dBm and the diode mixer 10 dBm for optimum conversion, The g ate mixer obtained a conversion gain of 1 dB for an LO power of 6 dBm, but showed higher sensitivity to the IF load.