Design of up/down converters with subharmonic pump for wireless communication at 220 GHz

Author

Chen, Zhe ; Zhang, Bo ; Fan, Yong ; Yang, Xiaofan

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper presents the design and fabrication of a frequency up- and down-converter with subharmonic pump for wireless communication at 220GHz. The converter circuit is based on GaAs Schottky barrier diodes flip-chipped onto a suspended quartz microstrip line. The simulated performance of the circuit exhibits a good conversion loss over a wide frequency range. The preliminary measurement for the down converter application shows good conversion loss and noise performance, with minimum double side band (DSB) conversion loss of 6.5dB and noise temperature of 1310K.

Keywords

Schottky barriers; Schottky diodes; microstrip lines; millimetre wave frequency convertors; GaAs; Schottky barrier diode; converter circuit; double side band conversion loss; down converter application; frequency 220 GHz; frequency down converter; frequency up converter; noise performance; quartz microstrip line; subharmonic pump; temperature 1310 K; wireless communication; Loss measurement; Mixers; Noise; Radio frequency; Schottky diodes; Temperature measurement; Wireless communication; 220GHz; Schottky diodes; Up/down converters; sub-harmonic; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230110

Filename

6230110