A novel balanced frequency tripler for millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave application

Author

Guo, Jian ; Xu, Zhengbin ; Qian, Cheng ; Bi, Bo ; Zhang, Yongjie

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel balanced frequency tripler for millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave application is proposed. This balanced tripler adopts double-sided suspended striplines with two unbalanced tripler on each side of the substrate. The phase and amplitude balance are fulfilled between the top-side and bottom-side unbalanced triplers. This balanced tripler scheme features higher conversion efficiency for strictly balanced configuration, high power capacity introduced by the multiple anodes and good heat dissipation paths, and ease of diode bias free from on-chip capacitor. A W-band frequency tripler is designed with commercial diodes, and the preliminary simulated output power is 14 dBm with 25% peak efficiency at 92 GHz.

Keywords

anodes; capacitors; cooling; diodes; frequency multipliers; millimetre wave circuits; strip line circuits; submillimetre wave circuits; W-band frequency tripler design; amplitude balancing; balanced frequency tripler; bottom-side unbalanced tripler; conversion efficiency; diode; double-sided suspended stripline; efficiency 25 percent; frequency 92 GHz; heat dissipation; millimeter-wave application; multiple anode; on-chip capacitor; output power simulation; phase balancing; submillimeter-wave application; top-side unbalanced tripler; Capacitors; Harmonic analysis; Millimeter wave technology; Power generation; Schottky diodes; Stripline; Substrates; DC bias; balanced; double-sided suspended stripline; frequency conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on Millimeter Wave Wireless Technology and Applications (IMWS), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0903-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS2.2012.6338223

Filename

6338223