DocumentCode
453146
Title
Low cost compacted Ka-band rat-race mixer
Author
Wang, Chuang ; Gu, Jianzhong ; Sun, Xiaowei
Author_Institution
Shanghai Inst. of Microsystem & Inf. Technol., China
Volume
2
fYear
2005
fDate
4-7 Dec. 2005
Abstract
A Ka-band single balanced Schottky-barrier diode (SBD) mixer has been designed and fabricated. An analyzed method to rat-race hybrid is introduced and testified by EM simulation. Lower LO power as better conversion loss is particularly considered in designing of mixer. When LO signal with the power of 9dBm at 36.5GHz is injected, a conversion loss of 7dB is obtained. LO to IF and RF to IF isolations of 40.5 dB and 31dB are obtained respectively.
Keywords
Schottky diode mixers; microwave mixers; 36.5 GHz; 7 dB; EM simulation; Ka-band rat-race mixer; Schottky-barrier diode; rat-race hybrid method; single balanced mixer; Circuit simulation; Costs; Manufacturing; Microstrip; Power generation; RF signals; Radio frequency; Schottky diodes; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Flip-chip; High Permittivity; Rat-race; Single Balanced Mixer;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Conference Proceedings, 2005. APMC 2005. Asia-Pacific Conference Proceedings
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9433-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/APMC.2005.1606494
Filename
1606494
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