Analysis and design of reduced-size marchand rat-race hybrid for millimeter-wave compact balanced mixers in 130-nm CMOS p0rocess

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1966-1977

  Lien, Chun Hsien ^a   Wang, Chi Hsueh ^b   Lin, Chin Shen ^c   Wu, Pei Si ^d   Lin, Kun You ^a   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^d REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

60 GHz; CMOS; Diode mixer; Down converter; Gate pumped mixer; Millimeter wave; Rat race hybrid; Single balanced

Indexed keywords

60 GHZ; CMOS; DIODE MIXER; DOWN-CONVERTER; GATE-PUMPED MIXER; RAT-RACE HYBRID; SINGLE BALANCED;

DIODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXING; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 69249205371     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2025427     Document Type: Article

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