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High‐performance V‐band monolithic quadruple sub‐harmonic mixer with anti‐parallel diode pair
Author(s) -
Uhm WonYoung,
Sul WooSuk,
Lee HanShin,
Kim SamDong,
Park HyungMoo,
Rhee JinKoo
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.11378
Subject(s) - harmonic mixer , subharmonic , microwave , diode , frequency mixer , intermediate frequency , optoelectronics , extremely high frequency , harmonic , materials science , electrical engineering , monolithic microwave integrated circuit , local oscillator , radio frequency , v band , frequency band , engineering , physics , telecommunications , nonlinear system , acoustics , amplifier , cmos , quantum mechanics , antenna (radio)
Abstract A high‐performance V‐band quadruple subharmonic mixer monolithic circuit is fabricated using the millimeter‐wave monolithic integrated circuit (MIMIC) process. Due to the superior features of the anti‐parallel diode pair (APDP) and the utilization of a quarter of fundamental frequency, the proposed subharmonic mixer shows good conversion‐gain and isolation characteristics. Maximum conversion gain of 0.8 dB at an LO frequency of 14.5 GHz and an RF frequency of 60.4 GHz is measured. Both LO‐to‐RF and LO‐to‐IF isolations are higher than 50 dB in the operation mode. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 40: 349–352, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11378