• DocumentCode
    1645366
  • Title

    A Reliable Ka-band Sub-harmonic Mixer for Satellite Converters

  • Author

    Ådahl, Andreas ; Zirath, Herbert

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol.
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    65
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    A Ka-band sub-harmonic mixer based on a novel zero bias diode is presented. The mixer provides high suppression of in-band spuriouses and is more reliable than mixers implemented with ordinary gate-Schottky diodes. The ZBD is designed in a commercially available enhancement mode MMIC process. A conversion loss of 13.5 dB and IIP3 of approximately +7 dBm is obtained at an LO power of only 4.4 dBm
  • Keywords
    MMIC mixers; Schottky diodes; IIP3; Ka-band sub-harmonic mixer; LO power; MMIC; gate Schottky diodes; satellite converters; zero bias diode; Breakdown voltage; Diodes; FETs; Frequency conversion; Impedance matching; MMICs; Mixers; Radio frequency; Satellites; Threshold voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, 2006. CSIC 2006. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Antonio, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0126-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0127-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSICS.2006.319879
  • Filename
    4109980