CPW Millimeter-Wave Six-Port Reflectometers Using MHMIC and MMIC technologies

Author

Maurin, David ; Xu, Yansheng ; Huyart, Bernard ; Wu, Ke ; Cuhaci, Michel ; Bosisio, Renato G.

Author_Institution

Groupe de Recherches AvancÃ©es en Microondes et Electronique Spatiale (POLY-GRAMES), GÃ©nie Ã©lectrique et gÃ©nie informatique Ecole Polytechnique, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-Ville, MontrÃ©al (QuÃ©bec), Canada H3C 3A7, Tel: (514)-340-3239, Fax: (514)-340-589

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Sept. 1994

Firstpage

911

Lastpage

915

Abstract

In this paper, a millimeter-wave MMIC six-port reflectometer is introduced. Coplanar waveguide (CPW) is used as transmission medium to make the design more compatible with uniplanar MICs and extend the working frequency to millimeter waves. The new design also includes matched diode detectors and their temperature compensation. The physical dimensions of the circuit are 14 mm Ã— 1.6 mm. To validate the design, a prototype is fabricated using Miniature, Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit (MHMIC) technology and measured. Measured results of different loads by the fabricated six-port are in very good agreement with those obtained from a HP8510C network analyzer.

Keywords

Coplanar waveguides; Envelope detectors; Frequency; Integrated circuit measurements; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 1994. 24th European

Conference_Location

Cannes, France

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.1994.337329

Filename

4138374