{"title":"A monolithic broadband doubly balanced EHF HBT star mixer with novel microstrip baluns","authors":"Y. Ryu, K. Kobayashi, A. Oki","doi":"10.1109/MCS.1995.470969","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a planar MMIC HBT Schottky diode mixer utilizing novel baluns fabricated on a 4 mil thick GaAs substrate. The balun is based on the Marchand balun structure and is implemented in a microstrip environment. The balun structure consists of 7 closely coupled microstrip lines and backside vias. Four 10/spl times/10 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ HBT Schottky diodes in a star configuration provide the mixing function. The HBT diodes have cut-off frequencies in excess of 750 GHz. The mixer achieves 8-10 dB conversion loss and very low spurious responses over a 26-40 GHz RF and LO bandwidth and DC-11 GHz IF. This IF bandwidth is broader than a previously demonstrated CPW star mixer using InGaAs HEMT technology, and easier to integrate into an assembly due to its microstrip implementation.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":325779,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 1995 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave. Monolithic Circuits Symposium. Digest of Papers","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE 1995 Microwave and Millimeter-Wave. Monolithic Circuits Symposium. Digest of Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.1995.470969","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper describes a planar MMIC HBT Schottky diode mixer utilizing novel baluns fabricated on a 4 mil thick GaAs substrate. The balun is based on the Marchand balun structure and is implemented in a microstrip environment. The balun structure consists of 7 closely coupled microstrip lines and backside vias. Four 10/spl times/10 /spl mu/m/sup 2/ HBT Schottky diodes in a star configuration provide the mixing function. The HBT diodes have cut-off frequencies in excess of 750 GHz. The mixer achieves 8-10 dB conversion loss and very low spurious responses over a 26-40 GHz RF and LO bandwidth and DC-11 GHz IF. This IF bandwidth is broader than a previously demonstrated CPW star mixer using InGaAs HEMT technology, and easier to integrate into an assembly due to its microstrip implementation.<>