A 175 GHz HBV Frequency Quintupler With 60 mW Output Power

Author

Bryllert, Tomas ; Malko, Aleksandra ; Vukusic, Josip ; Stake, Jan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

22

Issue

2

fYear

2012

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

78

Abstract

In this letter, we present a fixed tuned 175 GHz frequency quintupler with 60 mW output power. The peak efficiency is 6.3% and the 3 dB bandwidth is 8 GHz. The multiplier is based on a single Heterostructure Barrier Varactor (HBV) diode that is flip-chip soldered into a microtsrip matching circuit. All the matching is done “on-chip” and there is no need for dc bias. The multiplier block is very compact (25 × 9 × 8 mm³).

Keywords

frequency multipliers; millimetre wave diodes; millimetre wave frequency convertors; varactors; HBV frequency quintupler; bandwidth 8 GHz; flip-chip soldered; frequency 175 GHz; heterostructure barrier varactor diode; microtsrip matching circuit; peak efficiency; power 60 mW; Frequency measurement; Harmonic analysis; Integrated circuit modeling; Microstrip; Power generation; Schottky diodes; Varactors; Frequency multipliers; harmonic generation; heterostructure barrier varactor (HBV); millimeter wave; terahertz sources; varactors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2011.2181494

Filename

6140932