A 27–41 GHz frequency doubler with conversion gain of 12 dB and PAE of 16.9%

• Main Authors: Li, Jiankang, Xiong, Yong-Zhong, Goh, Wang Ling, Wu, Wen
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102734; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16440
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A 27-41 GHz monolithic balanced frequency doubler fabricated using the 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology is presented in this letter. The balanced doubler consists of a balun, a driver amplifier (DA), a common-base (CB) doubling core and a medium power amplifier. The CB topology is used to increase the...