Subharmonic planar doped barrier mixer conversion loss characteristics
Abstract
Planar doped barrier (PDB) diodes have been successfully used in a subharmonically pumped coplanar-stripline mixer circuit. A comparison is made in the conversion loss of the symmetric and asymmetric PDB diodes. A dramatic decrease in conversion loss is obtained when the PDB diode I-V curve is perfectly symmetric. A minimum conversion loss in the order of 5.0 dB is obtained at a signal frequency of 2.0 GHz.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory Techniques
- Pub Date:
- February 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TMTT.1983.1131450
- Bibcode:
- 1983ITMTT..31..155D
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Circuits;
- Mixing Circuits;
- Schottky Diodes;
- Signal Mixing;
- Subharmonic Generators;
- Barrier Layers;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Frequency Response;
- Gallium Arsenides;
- Insertion Loss;
- Intermediate Frequencies;
- Mixers;
- Planar Structures;
- Strip Transmission Lines;
- Volt-Ampere Characteristics;
- Wave Excitation;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering