A W-band channelized monolithic receiver

Author

Lan, G.L. ; Chen, J.C. ; Pao, C.K. ; Herman, M.I. ; Neidert, R.E.

Author_Institution

Hughes Aircraft Co., Torrance, CA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

13-15 June 1989

Firstpage

103

Abstract

Several monolithic integrated circuits with state-of-the-art performances have been successfully developed for a W-band (75- to 110-GHz) channelized monolithic receiver. The receiver comprises one four-channel multiplexer, four balanced mixers, four IF (intermediate frequency) amplifiers, and four Gunn local oscillators. All will be monolithically integrated into only three chips. The authors report on the design, fabrication, and performance of each monolithic component and describe the complete W-band four-channel receiver integration. State-of-the-art performance includes 5-dB insertion loss and 25-dB rejection for the W-band, four-channel monolithic multiplexer, less than 10-dB conversion loss over a 13-GHz bandwidth for the W-band ion-implanted mixers, and 13 dBm output at 63 GHz and 7.7 dBm at 96 GHz for the monolithic Gunn oscillators.<>

Keywords

Gunn oscillators; MMIC; mixers (circuits); receivers; 10 dB; 13 GHz; 5 dB; 75 to 110 GHz; Gunn local oscillators; IF; W-band channelized monolithic receiver; balanced mixers; conversion loss; four-channel multiplexer; insertion loss; ion-implanted mixers; Fabrication; Frequency; Laboratories; Local oscillators; Millimeter wave radar; Millimeter wave technology; Mixers; Monolithic integrated circuits; Multiplexing; Waveguide components;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1989., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1989.38680

Filename

38680