An mm-Wave CMOS I-Q Subharmonic Resistive Mixer for Wideband Zero-IF Receivers

Dristy Parveg; Mikko Varonen; Amirreza Safaripour; Pekka Kangaslahti; Mikko Kantanen; Tero Tikka; Todd Gaier; Kari A.I. Halonen; Ali Hajimiri

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2020.2980973

An mm-Wave CMOS I-Q Subharmonic Resistive Mixer for Wideband Zero-IF Receivers

Dristy Parveg^*
, Mikko Varonen
, Amirreza Safaripour
, Pekka Kangaslahti
, Mikko Kantanen
, Tero Tikka
, Todd Gaier
, Kari A.I. Halonen
, Ali Hajimiri

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this letter, we propose a novel wideband subharmonically pumped fully differential I-Q resistive mixer architecture, which eliminates the necessity for on-chip dc-blocking capacitors to integrate IF amplifiers. The proposed differential subharmonic mixer topology is verified by presenting a CMOS millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC), which includes the mixer and two on-chip differential IF amplifiers at the mixer's I- and Q-channels. The 3-dB IF frequency bandwidth is measured from 0.01 to 5 GHz with a peak conversion gain (CG) of -2 dB and an image rejection ratio (IRR) of more than 25 dB over the IF frequency range. The proposed mixer covers the input signal (RF) frequency from 170 to 185 GHz. The mixer has also been tested with an on-chip voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and shows -4.7-dB CG with a 3-dB IF bandwidth from 0.01 to 4.5 GHz.

Original language	English
Article number	9050411
Pages (from-to)	520-523
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	30
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2020.2980973
Publication status	Published - May 2020
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Academy of Finland Projects through the MIDERI under Grant 310234, in part by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Business Finland) through the 5WAVE Project, and in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Keywords

differential mixer
I - Q
IF integration
image rejection
millimeter-wave (mm-wave)
millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC)
mixer
passive mixer
quadrature
receiver
resistive mixer
subharmonic
\boldsymbol CMOS

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