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Yi Zhang, Yuhang Zhuang, Hu Zhang, et al., “A 8–26 GHz Passive Mixer with Excellent Port Matching Utilizing Marchand Balun and Capacitor Compensation,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1–7, 2025 doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.178
Citation: Yi Zhang, Yuhang Zhuang, Hu Zhang, et al., “A 8–26 GHz Passive Mixer with Excellent Port Matching Utilizing Marchand Balun and Capacitor Compensation,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1–7, 2025 doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.178

A 8–26 GHz Passive Mixer with Excellent Port Matching Utilizing Marchand Balun and Capacitor Compensation

doi: 10.23919/cje.2023.00.178
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  • Author Bio:

    Yi Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in Circuit and System from School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University in 2013. In the same year, he joined the faculty of the Department of Microelectronics Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, where he is currently an associate professor. He visited CNRS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Cité as a visiting professor for one year, supported by the China Scholarship Council.He has authored and co-authored over 40 SCI and EI indexed papers, published 1 textbooks, and obtained over 40 granted patents. His research interests include RF and mixed signal integrated circuit designs. (Email: nyzhangyi@njupt.edu.cn)

    Yuhang Zhuang was born in Suzhou, China in 1999. He is now studying for a M.S. degree in integrated circuits at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. His current research activities focus on MMIC design using electromagnetic simulation tools, mainly in the field of Radio-frequency. (Email: 609019853@qq.com)

    Hu Zhang was born in 1998, Jiangsu Province, China. He graduated from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China in 2023 with a M.S. degree, majoring in microelectronics. His research direction is microwave millimeter wave monolithic integrated circuit design. (Email: zh02140821@163.com)

    Lei Yang was born in 1963. He graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) Nanjing, China, majoring in radio technology. He is a Researcher and is engaged in research on integrated circuit design technology. (Email: yang.lei@gbdz.net)

    Jing Wang got her Ph.D. in microelectronics and solid electronics in 2012, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. She visited the University of York, York, UK and the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK as a Visiting Professor in 2011 and 2019. She made a lot of improvement in IV group quantum dots and introduced in Nature Photonics. Recently she concentrated on semiconductor nano structures, especially on 2D deposition of silicon based arrays, which have widely potential application in optoelectronics devices and integrated circuit. (Email: IreneWang@njupt.edu.cn)

    Changchun Zhang is a Full Professor and a M.S./Ph.D. supervisor in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. He received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010. Then he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in EWU, Seoul, South Korea. He joined Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China in December 2010, engaged in research and teaching related to IC design; worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at a research institute from February 2012 to August 2014. He visited UVA in the United States from September to November 2014, and Singapore Management University, Singapore from April 2018 to April 2019. His research interests include IC designs on wireless transceivers, wireline transceivers and Energy harvesters, etc. (Email: zhangcc@njupt.edu.cn)

    Yufeng Guo received Ph.D. degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2005. He serves as the Executive Deputy Director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of RF Integration and Micro-Assembly Technology, NJUPT, Nanjing, China. He has authored over 150 SCI-indexed papers, published 6 textbooks, and obtained 73 granted patents. His current research interests include power devices and power integration technology, RF integrated circuit design, and intelligent EDA/TCAD tools. (Email: yfguo@njupt.edu.cn)

  • Corresponding author: Email: nyzhangyi@njupt.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 2023-05-10
  • Accepted Date: 2024-03-26
  • Available Online: 2024-05-18
  • In this study, a broadband monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) double-balanced mixer designed for operation within the frequency range of 8–26 GHz is presented. The design is implemented using a 0.15 μm GaAs process. Traditional Marchand baluns, when applied to wideband mixers, face challenges in simultaneously achieving broad bandwidth and good port matching characteristics. To address this issue, we employ a spiral Marchand balun with a compensation capacitor. This innovative approach not only maintains the mixer’s wide bandwidth but also enhances the matching between the LO and RF ports. Additionally, it significantly simplifies the complexity of designing the matching circuit. The optimization principle of the compensation capacitor is elaborated in detail within this paper. Experimental results demonstrate that, with an LO power of 14 dBm, the conversion loss remains below 8.5 dB, while the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of the LO and IF ports is less than 2 and the VSWR of the RF port is below 2.4. In comparison with existing literature, our designed mixer exhibits a broader bandwidth and lower loss.
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