300-GHz InP HBT Quadrature VCO with Integrated Mixer

  • Kiryong Song
  • , Jungsoo Kim*
  • , Heekang Son
  • , Junghwan Yoo
  • , Minje Cho
  • , Jae Sung Rieh
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    A 300-GHz quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO) integrated with a pair of mixers based on an InP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology has been developed. A super-harmonic coupling technique was applied to generate the quadrature signal in the QVCO. The oscillation frequency tuning range is 24.8 GHz (from 286.1 to 310.9 GHz), and the frequency range maintaining the quadrature operation (within ±10°) is 4.8 GHz (297.2-302.0 GHz). The maximum output power of the QVCO was measured as 0.46 dBm at 286.3 GHz. The measured phase noise is -91.4 dBc/Hz with 10 MHz offset at 294.2 GHz. The integrated QVCO-mixer consumes a dc power of 167.5 mW.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number8988173
    Pages (from-to)419-422
    Number of pages4
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology
    Volume10
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020 Jul

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received October 18, 2019; revised December 31, 2019; accepted January 25, 2020. Date of publication February 10, 2020; date of current version July 2, 2020. This work was supported by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) Grant 2016-0-00185 funded by the Korea Government (MSIT). (Corresponding author: Jae-Sung Rieh.) The authors are with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, South Korea (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; jsrieh @korea.ac.kr).

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    Keywords

    • Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs)
    • quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator (QVCO)
    • terahertz
    • voltage-controlled oscillator

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Radiation
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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