A monolithic broadband doubly balanced EHF HBT star mixer with novel microstrip baluns

Author

Ryu, Y.I. ; Kobayashi, K.W. ; Oki, A.K.

Author_Institution

RF Product Center, TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

15-16 May 1995

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

158

Abstract

This paper describes a planar MMIC HBT Schottky diode mixer utilizing novel baluns fabricated on a 4 mil thick GaAs substrate. The balun is based on the Marchand balun structure and is implemented in a microstrip environment. The balun structure consists of 7 closely coupled microstrip lines and backside vias. Four 10/spl times/10 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ HBT Schottky diodes in a star configuration provide the mixing function. The HBT diodes have cut-off frequencies in excess of 750 GHz. The mixer achieves 8-10 dB conversion loss and very low spurious responses over a 26-40 GHz RF and LO bandwidth and DC-11 GHz IF. This IF bandwidth is broader than a previously demonstrated CPW star mixer using InGaAs HEMT technology, and easier to integrate into an assembly due to its microstrip implementation.<>

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC mixers; Schottky diode mixers; baluns; bipolar MMIC; gallium arsenide; microstrip lines; 0 to 11 GHz; 26 to 40 GHz; 8 to 10 dB; GaAs; IF bandwidth; LO bandwidth; MMIC HBT Schottky diode mixer; Marchand balun structure; backside vias; broadband doubly balanced mixer; closely coupled microstrip lines; conversion loss; cut-off frequencies; microstrip baluns; mixing function; spurious responses; star configuration; Bandwidth; Cutoff frequency; Gallium arsenide; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Impedance matching; MMICs; Microstrip; Mixers; Radio frequency; Schottky diodes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Circuits Symposium, 1995. Digest of Papers., IEEE 1995

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2590-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCS.1995.470969

Filename

470969