High Conversion Gain Self-Oscillating Mixer for 5G mm-wave Applications

Abstract

We develop in this paper, a high conversion gain self-oscillating mixer (SOM) for 5G mm-wave applications using commercial 0.15µm GaAs PHEMT from UMS foundry. The up-conversion SOM transpose the IF signal from 2 GHz to 26 GHz LSB (lower sideband) signal using a 28GHz LO signal. The simulation results show that the SOM has a maximum conversion gain of 19dB, according to our knowledge, this structure presents the highest gain compared to SOMs published in the literature. While the 1dB compression point is obtained for an IF power of -20.6 dBm. The SOM circuit consumes 129mW and it occupies an area of 0.741 mm2.

Keywords

• cascode cell
• mm-wave band
• phemt mixer
• self-oscillating mixer