Design of a 114GHz-135GHz passive tripler

Author

Zhang, Shixi ; Zhang, Bo ; Fan, Yong

Author_Institution

EHF Key Lab. of Fundamental Sci., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report on the design, fabrication and testing of a 114GHz to 135GHz passive tripler. No mechanical tuners and the simple circuit topology make it easy and cheap to fabricate the tripler. The circuit design, simulation and optimization of the tripler are carried out by using HFSS and ADS. The tripler comprises waveguide housing, microstrip circuits and a pair of United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) DBES105a GaAs schottky barrier diodes. Test data for the tripler show 3.5mW maximum output power with 3.7% efficiency at 128.7GHz. The conversion efficiency is above 1% from 126GHz to 135GHz.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Schottky diodes; frequency multipliers; gallium arsenide; integrated circuit testing; low-pass filters; microstrip circuits; microstrip filters; network topology; ADS; GaAs; HFSS; Schottky barrier diodes; United Monolithic Semiconductors; efficiency 3.7 percent; frequency 114 GHz to 135 GHz; frequency 128.7 GHz; microstrip circuits; passive tripler; power 3.5 mW; waveguide housing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals Systems and Electronics (ISSSE), 2010 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6352-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSSE.2010.5606975

Filename

5606975