Title :
A Miniaturized Uniplanar Singly-Balanced Mixer
Author :
Wang, Chi-Hsueh ; Wang, Huei ; Chen, Chun Hsiung
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. Tel: 886-2-23635251-E221, Fax: 886-2-23638247
Abstract :
A novel miniaturized uniplanar singly-balanced diode mixer is proposed based on a compact multifunction transition structure. By the independence of the coplanar-wavguide (CPW) mode and the coupled-slotline (CSL) mode, a novel compact transition which converts the CPW mode into the CSL mode is realized. This transition structure also has the functions of 180 hybrid, diplexer, and quarter-wavelength transformer, thus the size of the proposed mixer is drastically reduced. In this study, a 1~4.5 GHz uniplanar singly-balanced diode mixer is designed and fabricated on the printed circuit board, with a size much smaller than that of the conventional mixers.
Keywords :
Band pass filters; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Diodes; Grounding; Low pass filters; Printed circuits; RF signals; Radio frequency; Slotline;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 2002. 32nd European
Conference_Location :
Milan, Italy
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.2002.339245
