• DocumentCode
    1267993
  • Title

    Resistive SiC-MESFET mixer

  • Author

    Andersson, Karl ; Eriksson, Johan ; Rorsman, Niklas ; Zirath, Herbert

  • Author_Institution
    Microwave Electron. Lab., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    119
  • Lastpage
    121
  • Abstract
    A single-ended silicon carbide resistive MESFET mixer was designed and characterized. The mixer has a minimum conversion loss of 10.2 dB and an input third order intercept point of 35.7 dBm at 3.3 GHz.
  • Keywords
    MESFET circuits; equivalent circuits; intermodulation distortion; microwave field effect transistors; microwave mixers; semiconductor device models; silicon compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; 10.2 dB; 3.3 GHz; IMD; S-band; SiC; SiC MESFET mixer; conversion loss; device model; high-level mixer; intermodulation distortion; intermodulation intercept point; resistive MESFET mixer; single-ended mixer; small-signal equivalent circuit; wide bandgap semiconductors; Dielectric substrates; Dynamic range; Frequency; MESFETs; Microwave devices; Ohmic contacts; Photonic band gap; Power measurement; Silicon carbide; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1531-1309
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/7260.993287
  • Filename
    993287