• DocumentCode
    2645961
  • Title

    Millimeter-Wave Downconverter with Subharmonic Pump

  • Author

    McMaster, T.F. ; Schneider, M.V. ; Snell, W.W., Jr.

  • fYear
    1976
  • fDate
    14-16 June 1976
  • Firstpage
    185
  • Lastpage
    187
  • Abstract
    Hybrid integrated downconverters which are pumped at half the frequency needed in a conventional downconverter have shown a conversion loss of 3 dB and a SSB receiver noise figure of 6.7 dB at 50 GHz. Each downconverter circuit consists of a stripline conductor pattern, a novel transition from waveguide to stripline and a Schottky barrier diode pair. The circuits can be tuned over an RF bandwidth of 20 GHz, and they can be readily scaled to frequencies up to 100 GHz.
  • Keywords
    Amplitude modulation; Conductors; Frequency conversion; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Noise figure; Schottky barriers; Schottky diodes; Stripline; Tuned circuits; Waveguide transitions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium, 1976 IEEE-MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Cherry Hill, NJ, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1976.1123689
  • Filename
    1123689