• DocumentCode
    2108451
  • Title

    Compact and wideband MMIC frequency converters

  • Author

    Hirota, Tetsuo ; Okazaki, Hiroshi

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Wireless Systems Laboratories 1-2356 Take, Yokosuka 238-03, Japan.
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    4-4 Sept. 1995
  • Firstpage
    1097
  • Lastpage
    1100
  • Abstract
    A V-band MMIC up-converter and a down-converter were designed and tested. The up-converter has novel balanced configuration using uniplanar structure. The down-converter includes RF and LO amplifiers and were integrated into a compact single chip. Measured performance of the down-converter includes conversion gain of 3.9 dB ±1.2 dB for 10 GHz bandwidth. The up-converter showed conversion loss of 14.7 dB ± 1.5 dB and LO was suppressed more than 12 dB lower than desired output.
  • Keywords
    Broadband amplifiers; Frequency conversion; Gain measurement; MMICs; Performance gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Semiconductor device measurement; Testing; Wideband;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1995. 25th European
  • Conference_Location
    Bologna, Italy
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1995.337132
  • Filename
    4137346