Wideband Frequency Quadrupler for D-Band Applications in BiCMOS Technology

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作者：

Ali, Abdul ^{[1
]}

Yun, Jongwon ^{[2
]}

Ng, Herman Jalli ^{[3
]}

Kissinger, Dietmar ^{[4
]}

Giannini, Franco ^{[1
]}

Colantonio, Paolo ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dept Elect Engn, Rome, Italy

[2] Samsung Elect, Device Solut Div, Gyeonggi, South Korea

[3] IHP GmbH, Dept Circuit & Design, Frankfurt, Oder, Germany

[4] Ulm Univ, Inst Electron Devices & Circuits, Ulm, Germany

来源：

2020 23RD INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE AND RADAR CONFERENCE (MIKON 2020) | 2020年

基金：

欧盟地平线“2020”;

关键词：

Broadband; D-band; Frequency Quadrupler; Gilbert Cell; Mixer; SiGe BiCMOS; sub-THz;

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中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

This paper presents the design of a D-band frequency quadrupler (FQ) based on two cascaded frequency doublers. Each doubler relies on the bootstrapped Gilbert cell (GC) mixers. The FQ is developed with a standard 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS process. It consists of fully integrated input and output baluns, frequency doublers, and matching networks. The design of the FQ was optimized via single-ended matching networks to reduce the chip area and increase bandwidth. The results based on the EM-simulation of FQ with the assistance of the hicum model for the transistor, demonstrate a peak conversion gain and output power of 25 dB and 5 dBm, respectively at 130 GHz. The FQ shows a 3-dB bandwidth higher than 84 GHz with an nth harmonic rejection of at least 16 dBc. The FQ can be exploited in various systems design for different D-band applications. The future work includes measurement of the FQ.

引用

页码：229 / 231

页数：3

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