Design of a millimeter wave frequency tripler at Q-band

Author

Biswas, B. ; Kumar, A.

Author_Institution

Circuits & Syst. Div., SAMEER, Kolkata, India

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A Q-band frequency tripler with centre frequency at 42 GHz has been developed. It is a Schottky diode based planar frequency tripler packaged in a compact hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit (MIC). A commercially available low cost Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) based amplifier has been integrated at the output of the tripler to enhance the output power to +13 dBm at 42 GHz for a corresponding input power of +10 dBm at 14 GHz. More than 40 dBc of harmonic rejection has been achieved without using any additional output filter.

Keywords

MMIC amplifiers; Schottky diodes; frequency multipliers; MMIC-based amplifier; Q-band frequency tripler; Schottky diode-based planar frequency tripler; compact hybrid MIC; compact hybrid microwave integrated circuit; frequency 14 GHz; frequency 42 GHz; harmonic rejection; low-cost monolithic microwave integrated circuit-based amplifier; millimeter wave frequency tripler design; MMICs; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave circuits; Microwave communication; Millimeter wave communication; Schottky diodes; MMIC packaging; frequency tripler; hybrid MIC; nonlinear circuit simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Bhubaneswar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3266-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AEMC.2013.7045085

Filename

7045085