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Abstract | ||
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A 270–300-GHz double-balanced up-converter fabricated in 65-nm CMOS is presented. The up-converter is the first to employ accumulation mode MOS asymmetric varactors (ASVARs) as mixing devices. A power-splitting-transformer hybrid is utilized to improve differential signal isolation. The up-converter achieves the maximum conversion gain (CG) of –11.2 dB and the output 1-dB compression point (OP
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) of –6.2 dBm including the losses of input and output baluns added for measurements. The maximum CG and OP
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are the highest among up-converters operating near 300 GHz in CMOS and III–V transistors. The 3-dB bandwidth of CG is
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25 GHz, which makes the up-converter suitable for high data-rate communication. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3171545 | IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Asymmetric varactor (ASVAR),CMOS,parametric,reactive mixing,up-converter | Journal | 57 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
8 | 0018-9200 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 8 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhiyu Chen | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Wooyeol Choi | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
| K. O. Kenneth | 3 | 10 | 3.54 |