V-band Sub-Harmonic Gate-Pumped Resistive Mixer With a 180 degrees Hybrid Using an In-Phase Power Divider Merging With an Out-Of-Phase Marchand Balun

Abstract

A high isolation gate-pumped resistive sub-harmonic mixer with a miniature 180 degrees hybrid is demonstrated using 90 nm CMOS process. An in-phase power divider and an out-of-phase Marchand balun form a reduced-size 180 degrees hybrid with shared coupled lines. For a sub-harmonic mixer, the input matches at LO/RF ports of the 180 degrees hybrid are achieved using high/low coupling coefficients of the shared equal-length coupled lines. Moreover, isolations between RF and LO ports are achieved at all frequencies because a Marchand balun maintains balanced signals and a power divider provides in-phase equal magnitude signals at all frequencies. The sub-harmonic mixer achieves a conversion gain around 0-3 dB from 58-67 GHz with 0 dBm LO pumping power. The LO-to-RF isolation is better than 36 dB within the operating bandwidth.