Shuai Huang1, Xinnan Lin2, Yiqun Wei1, Jin He3
1The Key Laboratory of Integrated Microsystems, School of Computer & Information Engineering, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China, 2Peking University Shenzhen SOC Key Laboratory, PKU HKUST Shenzhen Institute, W303, West Tower, IER Bldg., Hi-Tech Industrial Park South, Shenzhen 518057, P. R. China, 3TSRC, Institute of Microelectronics, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
A high linear double-gate (DG) MOSFET application to RF mixer is proposed based on derivative superposition method which was successfully used in Bulk CMOS region. By independently biasing front and back gate voltage of DG MOSFET, one DG MOSFET device is reviewed as two parallel devices. In this way, we realize the derivative superposition method application in the DG MOSFET linearity analysis and high performance RF mixer. Via two-dimensional (2D) TCAD device simulation and through the third-order transconductance (gm3) cancellation, we get some interesting results of DG MOSFET mixer different from the Bulk CMOS mixer. It is found that the DG MOSFET is suitable to work as a single device mixer because of coupling effect of two gates, e.g., a high linear independent DG MOSFET mixer shows 7.8dB improvement on IIP3 corresponding to the symmetrical DG mixer with the same DC current.