A 5 mW-290 GHz heterostructure barrier tripler in a waveguide configuration

Author

David, T. ; Guillon, M. ; Arscott, S. ; Maestrini, A. ; Akalin, T. ; Lecomte, B. ; Carbonell, J. ; Chaubet, M. ; Mounaix, P. ; Beaudin, G. ; Lippens, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Electron. et de Microelectron. du Nord, Lille I Univ., Villeneuve d´Ascq, France

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

20-24 May 2001

Firstpage

1661

Abstract

An output power of 5 mW has been demonstrated at 290 GHz by tripling a primary signal in the W band. The nonlinear devices are high performance InP-based heterostructure barrier varactors mounted in mechanically tuned waveguide harmonic multiplier. The flange-to-flange maximum efficiency was 5% whereas the bandwidth is around 30 GHz. These results are the highest to date for an HBV multiplier operating at these frequencies.

Keywords

frequency multipliers; millimetre wave circuits; millimetre wave frequency convertors; varactors; waveguide components; 290 GHz; 5 mW; W band; flange-to-flange maximum efficiency; heterostructure barrier tripler; mechanically tuned waveguide harmonic multiplier; output power; primary signal; varactors; waveguide configuration; Bandwidth; Capacitance; Capacitance-voltage characteristics; Doping; Fabrication; Frequency; Ohmic contacts; Power generation; Stacking; Varactors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6538-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2001.967224

Filename

967224