• 文献标题:   Double-Balanced Graphene Integrated Mixer with Outstanding Linearity
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LYU HM, WU HQ, LIU JB, LU Q, ZHANG JY, WU XM, LI JF, MA T, NIU JB, REN WC, CHENG HM, YU ZP, QIAN H
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, mixer, integrated circuit, re electronic
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tsinghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   24
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02503
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

A monolithic double-balanced graphene mixer integrated circuit (IC) has been successfully designed and fabricated. The IC adopted the cross-coupled resistive mixer topology, integrating four 500 nm-gate-length graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs), four on-chip inductors, and four on-chip capacitors. Passive-first-active-last fabrication flow was developed on 200 mm CMOS wafers. CMOS back-end-of-line processes were utilized to realize most fabrication steps followed by GFET-customized processes. Test results show excellent output spectrum purity with suppressed radio frequency (RE) and local oscillation (LO) signals feedthroughs, and third-order input intercept (IIP3) reaches as high as 21 dBm. The results are compared with a fabricated single-GEFT mixer, which generates IIP3 of 16.5 dBm. Stand-alone 500 nm-gate-length GFETs feature cutoff frequency 22 GHz and maximum oscillation frequency 20.7 GHz RE performance. The double-balanced mixer IC operated with off-chip baluns realizing a print-circuit-board level electronic system. It demonstrates graphene's potential to compete with other semiconductor technologies in RE front-end applications.