Low Cost Microstrip Subharmonic Mixer in Millimeter Wave Band

Author

Zhao, Mengjuan ; Zu, Xiaotao ; Huang, Jian

Author_Institution

Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 April 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper describes the design and simulation of a millimeter fourth subharmonic mixer using an antiparallel diode pair for a down converter, which was specifically designed for low cost with minimal sacrifice in performance. The component is designed to operate at RF frequentcies of 92-96 GHz, IF frequency of 70 MHz. The microstrip subharmonic mixer with good recovery circuit and a novel RF filter has conversion loss of 12.8 dB-14 dB with 8 dbm LO power and shows significant improvement compared with previously reported microstrip fourth harmonic results.

Keywords

diodes; microstrip circuits; mixers (circuits); radiofrequency filters; RF filter; antiparallel diode pair; down converter; low cost microstrip subharmonic mixer; millimeter wave band; recovery circuit; Band pass filters; Circuits; Costs; Diodes; Microstrip; Millimeter wave technology; Mixers; Power harmonic filters; Radio frequency; Signal design; conversion loss; microstrip; millimeter-wave; subharmonic mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2007. ICMMT '07. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Builin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1049-5

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1049-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2007.381329

Filename

4266088