A subharmonic self-oscillating mixer with integrated antenna for 60-GHz wireless applications

High conversion gain cascode quadruple subharmonic mixer for millimeter-wave applications

“…In Fig. 16, the conversion gain performance of our subharmonic mixers is compared with those of the millimeter-wave subharmonic mixers reported earlier [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. While the reported millimeterwave subharmonic mixers exhibited conversion gains of )15 to )7 dB, an excellent gain of 3.4 dB was obtained in this work, as shown in Fig.…”

Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

“…Push-pull class-B amplifier. [29]. In this system, a 30-GHz dielectric resonator push-pull oscillator generates the internal LO signal and also operates as a balanced second-harmonic gate mixer, and phase locking is achieved with half the LO frequency.…”

“…As an example, Figure 21 shows a balanced antenna integrated second-harmonic self-oscillating mixer at 60 GHz Figure 21. Example of differential codesigned subsystem: balanced subharmonic self-oscillating mixer with integrated quasi-Yagi antenna for 60-GHz applications [29].…”

A 60 GHz multiport front‐end architecture with integrated phased antenna array

“…However, this type of front-end containing microstrip patch antenna and related down-converter on the same ceramic substrate enables a simple, compact, lightweight, and low-cost design of millimeter-wave transceivers. A subharmonic self-oscillating mixer with integrated quasi-Yagi antenna for 60 GHz wireless applications is proposed in [8]. This is a compact planar microstrip design on 5 mil alumina substrate, having an overall conversion gain of Ϫ15 dB.…”