Title :
A broadband planar monolithic ring mixer
Author :
Maas, S. ; Kintis, M. ; Fong, F. ; Tan, M.
Author_Institution :
Nonlinear Technols. Inc., Long Beach, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper reports the development of a mixer having RF and LO bands of 3 to 11 GHz and an overlapping IF of 1 to 11 GHz. This was achieved through the use of novel planar spiral RF and LO baluns and a new type of four-wire IF balun. We believe that this is the broadest-bandwidth planar monolithic mixer having an overlapped IF reported to date.
Keywords :
MMIC mixers; Schottky diode mixers; baluns; bipolar MMIC; 3 to 11 GHz; HBT technology; LO band; RF band; Schottky barrier diodes; broadband planar monolithic ring mixer; doubly balanced diode ring mixer; four-wire IF balun; overlapping IF; planar spiral baluns; Capacitance; Coupling circuits; Dielectric substrates; Diodes; Impedance matching; Inductance; Radio frequency; Space technology; Spirals; Strips;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium, 1996. Digest of Papers., IEEE 1996
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3360-8
DOI :
10.1109/MCS.1996.506302
