Design and modeling of uniplanar double-balanced mixer

Author

Mao, Shau-Gang ; Chiou, Hwann-Kaeo ; Chen, Chun Hsiung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

8

Issue

10

fYear

1998

fDate

10/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

354

Lastpage

356

Abstract

A novel uniplanar double-balanced mixer (UDBM) including coplanar waveguide (CPW)-to-coplanar stripline (CPS) baluns as well as CPS high-pass and low-pass filters is designed and implemented. This mixer is simulated by an equivalent-circuit model, and its measured and simulated results are compared. The proposed mixer has conversion loss ranging from 6 to 10 dB and LO-to-IF and LO-to-RF isolations greater than 30 and 20 dB, respectively, and also provides broader LO and IF bandwidths of 10-35 GHz and 0.15 GHz, respectively

Keywords

baluns; coplanar transmission lines; coplanar waveguide components; equivalent circuits; high-pass filters; low-pass filters; microwave mixers; strip line components; 0.1 to 5 GHz; 10 to 35 GHz; 6 to 10 dB; IF bandwidth; LO bandwidth; LO-to-IF isolation; LO-to-RF isolation; conversion loss; coplanar waveguide-to-coplanar stripline balun; design; equivalent circuit model; high-pass filter; low-pass filter; simulation; uniplanar double-balanced mixer; Bandwidth; Capacitors; Circuits; Coplanar waveguides; Impedance matching; Inductors; Low pass filters; MMICs; Radio frequency; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8207

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/75.735419

Filename

735419