Trends in mm-wave mixer designs
Abstract
This paper discusses trends in present day mixer designs. Upconversion and downconversion needs are met with balanced and harmonic mixers at frequencies from 30 to 300 GHz in waveguide, finline and microstripline designs. Detailed schemes for the hermeticity, miniaturization, low noise, and wide IF bandwidths demanded for providing superior performance in transmitters and receivers are outlined.
- Publication:
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Microwave Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984MiJo...27...83G
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Circuits;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Mixing Circuits;
- Network Synthesis;
- Schottky Diodes;
- Down-Converters;
- Gallium Arsenides;
- Harmonic Generations;
- Low Noise;
- Signal Mixing;
- Trends;
- Up-Converters;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering