DocumentCode :
1083465
Title :
A subharmonic mixer using a planar doped barrier diode with symmetric conductance
Author :
Malik, R.J. ; Dixon, S.
Author_Institution :
US Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ
Volume :
3
Issue :
7
fYear :
1982
fDate :
7/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
205
Lastpage :
207
Abstract :
Planar doped barrier (PDB) diodes with symmetric IV characteristics have been successfully used in a subharmonically-pumped coplanar stripline mixer circuit. A conversion loss around 6 dB has been measured using a 1.2 GHz local oscillator at a pump power of 7 dBm and a 2 GHz signal frequency for large area, 100 µm diameter PDB mesa diodes. The particular advantages of this device structure are that a single PDB replaces two critically matched Schottky barrier diodes in conventionally balanced mixers, and the PDB´s designable barrier height reduces the local oscillator power requirement.
Keywords :
Area measurement; Circuits; Frequency conversion; Frequency measurement; Local oscillators; Loss measurement; Mixers; Power measurement; Schottky diodes; Stripline;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Electron Device Letters, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0741-3106
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/EDL.1982.25539
Filename :
1482644
Link To Document :
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