The demand for radio frequency (RF) transceivers operating at 2.4 GHz band has attracted considerable research interest due to the advancement in short range wireless technologies. The performance of RF transceivers depends heavily on the transmitter and receiver front-ends. The receiver front-end is comprised of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a downconversion mixer. There are very few designs...

The ALMA Band 6 (211-275 GHz) receivers use sideband-separating SIS mixer-preamplifiers with dual 4-12 GHz IF outputs. The sideband-separating mixers are of the phasing type, with the LO driving two component mixers in-phase and the RF signal connected to the mixers through a quadrature hybrid. The IF outputs of the mixers are amplified, then combined in a quadrature hybrid which separates the ...

We introduce a new dielectrophoretic particle microconcentrator that combines interdigitated electrodes with a chaotic mixer to achieve high-throughput (>100 microL/min) particle concentration. The interdigitated electrodes use positive dielectrophoresis to attract particles to the surface, while the chaotic mixer circulates the particles to increase the number brought in proximity with the sur...

Optical signal processing devices based on quasi-phase-matched three-wave mixing and cascaded three-wave mixing in guided-wave geometries have been demonstrated to operate efficiently at practical pump-power levels. We describe operation of such devices in a balanced mode that allows mixing without wavelength offset and separation of mixed output from pump and signal input without wavelength-se...

This paper presents a current re-use quadrature front end receiver architecture for ISM Band. The proposed architecture is a stacked QLMV cell which consists of a low-noise amplifier (LNA), mixer and voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), which feeds into the intermediate frequency (IF) load. The LNA is a common source amplifier with Ls source degeneration, a double-balanced Gilbert cell mixer an...

The signal arrives from the antenna, and is amplified by one or more stages of RF amplification (and sometimes bandpass filterig), and is then presented to the 1 mixer where the signal is converted to a fixed intermediate frequency by the mixing action between the incoming signal frequency and the frequency produced by the Variable Frequency Oscillator. The result is a fixed intermediate freque...

DSRC provides high speed radio link between Road Side Equipment and On-Board Equipment within the narrow communication area. In this paper, a 5.8 GHz down-conversion mixer for DSRC communication system is designed and fabricated using 0.8 m SiGe HBT process technology and RF/LO matching circuits, RF/LO input balun circuits and IF output balun circuit are all integrated on chip. The measured per...

This paper describes a doubly balanced Gilbert Cell mixer designed in BJT and CMOS technology to operate within 0 to 5 V. A 100 mv input signal was applied at both RF and LO port at different frequencies and their simulation curves were studied for a multiplier. The design done in BJT was taped out for fabrication and the chip on its return from foundry, was tested for its results. A comparison...

The paper presents analysis and design of a -band subharmonic mixer (SHM) with high conversion gain. The SHM consists of a local oscillator (LO) frequency doubler, RF pre-amplifier, and single-ended mixer. The SHM has been fabricated in a high-speed InP double heterojunction bipolar transistor (DHBT) technology using coplanar waveguide structures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first...

Three LNA and mixer combinations in 0.6pm and 0.4pm standard CMOS processes for direct-conversion receiver of 2.4GHz ISM band short-range wireless data-link applications are described in this paper. Taking low power dissipation as first consideration, these designs, employing differential common-source LNA and doublle balanced mixer architectures, achieve total conversion gain as high as 42.4dB...