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A millimeter-wave 4th-harmonic Schottky diode mixer with integrated local oscillator

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2021

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MDPI
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa

Project identifier

MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/TEC2016-76997-C3-1-R
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-109984RB-C43/ES/

Abstract

In this paper the design and experimental validation of a fourth-harmonic mixer based on Schottky diodes working around 300 GHz is presented. The main novelty of this work consists in the integration of an MMIC-based local oscillator, working around 75 GHz, and a mixer in the same metallic block housing. A prototype has been characterized using the Y-Factor method and yields a best measured conversion loss and an equivalent noise temperature of 14 dB and 9600 K, respectively. This performance is comparable to the state-of-the-art for this type of mixer.

Keywords

Fourth-harmonic mixer, Millimeter waves, Schottky diodes

Department

Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren / Institute of Smart Cities - ISC / Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación

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Funding entities

This research was funded by the Spanish MINECO, Project No. TEC2016-76997-C3-1-R, and by the Spanish State Research Agency, Project No. PID2019-109984RB-C43/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

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