Title :
Compact and wideband MMIC frequency converters
Author :
Hirota, Tetsuo ; Okazaki, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
NTT Wireless Systems Laboratories 1-2356 Take, Yokosuka 238-03, Japan.
Abstract :
A V-band MMIC up-converter and a down-converter were designed and tested. The up-converter has novel balanced configuration using uniplanar structure. The down-converter includes RF and LO amplifiers and were integrated into a compact single chip. Measured performance of the down-converter includes conversion gain of 3.9 dB ±1.2 dB for 10 GHz bandwidth. The up-converter showed conversion loss of 14.7 dB ± 1.5 dB and LO was suppressed more than 12 dB lower than desired output.
Keywords :
Broadband amplifiers; Frequency conversion; Gain measurement; MMICs; Performance gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Semiconductor device measurement; Testing; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 1995. 25th European
Conference_Location :
Bologna, Italy
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.1995.337132
