Title :
Design of a millimeter wave frequency tripler at Q-band
Author :
Biswas, B. ; Kumar, A.
Author_Institution :
Circuits & Syst. Div., SAMEER, Kolkata, India
Abstract :
A Q-band frequency tripler with centre frequency at 42 GHz has been developed. It is a Schottky diode based planar frequency tripler packaged in a compact hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit (MIC). A commercially available low cost Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) based amplifier has been integrated at the output of the tripler to enhance the output power to +13 dBm at 42 GHz for a corresponding input power of +10 dBm at 14 GHz. More than 40 dBc of harmonic rejection has been achieved without using any additional output filter.
Keywords :
MMIC amplifiers; Schottky diodes; frequency multipliers; MMIC-based amplifier; Q-band frequency tripler; Schottky diode-based planar frequency tripler; compact hybrid MIC; compact hybrid microwave integrated circuit; frequency 14 GHz; frequency 42 GHz; harmonic rejection; low-cost monolithic microwave integrated circuit-based amplifier; millimeter wave frequency tripler design; MMICs; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave circuits; Microwave communication; Millimeter wave communication; Schottky diodes; MMIC packaging; frequency tripler; hybrid MIC; nonlinear circuit simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bhubaneswar
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3266-5
DOI :
10.1109/AEMC.2013.7045085
