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High linearity wide band passive mixer for Ku-band applications in a 180nm CMOS technology

Duan et al., 2022

Document ID
3912581818006807311
Author
Duan H
Chen J
Wang M
Wei H
Zhang Q
Quan H
Publication year
Publication venue
2022 7th International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (ICICM)

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A design of a passive mixer is presented. Linearity and bandwidth are the critical problems to mitigate in this work. Both up-conversion and down-conversion are supported. Fabricated in a 180nm CMOS technology, the mixer includes a LO active balun, a LO buffer and a RF …
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