@inproceedings{96865fd0813648bcb68007b070af73cd,
title = "A 230-310 GHz down converter with integrated local oscillator in 65 nm CMOS technology",
abstract = "In this work, we present an integrated 230-310 GHz heterodyne down converter in 65 nm CMOS technology. The circuit includes a mixer and a local oscillator based on a Colpitts topology VCO. The on-chip oscillator generates a 88-95 GHz fundamental tone but drives the mixer with the 3rd harmonic around 270 GHz. The down converter measured conversion loss is about +25.5 dB around 280 GHz. The measured noise figure is 25.5 dB which is the lowest reported above 220 GHz in CMOS technology, moreover the down converter has an IF 3-dB bandwidth of more than 20 GHz. The chip size is 0.226 mm2 including pads and consumes 76 mW of DC power from a 1.8 V supply. An additional version of the down converter is fabricated without integrated VCO to investigate the mixer performance in the same frequency range.",
keywords = "CMOS, Harmonic mixer, Heterodyne receiver, J-Band, Millimeter wave, Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)",
author = "Bassam Khamaisi and Eran Socher",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 European Microwave Association-EUMA.; 9th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2014 - Held as Part of the 17th European Microwave Week, EuMW 2014 ; Conference date: 06-10-2014 Through 07-10-2014",
year = "2014",
month = dec,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1109/EuMIC.2014.6997810",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "European Microwave Week 2014: {"}Connecting the Future{"}, EuMW 2014 - Conference Proceedings; EuMIC 2014: 9th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "136--139",
booktitle = "European Microwave Week 2014",
address = "ארצות הברית",
}