{"title":"Low conversion loss Ka-band suspended stripline mixer with low LO power","authors":"G. Kumar, A. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/AEMC.2013.7045079","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Design and implementation of a Ka-band low conversion loss suspended stripline mixer with low local oscillator (LO) power is presented in this paper. Suspended stripline technology with planar beam-lead Schottky barrier diodes has been employed for low loss mixer design. The mixer provides conversion loss of 5.8 ± 0.9 dB over 2 GHz instantaneous RF bandwidth with +6 dBm LO power at 35 GHz LO. The mixer also exhibits 1 GHz instantaneous LO bandwidth with 6.2 ± 1.2 dB conversion loss. LO to RF and LO to IF isolations for the mixer are greater than 25 dB and 45 dB respectively. The proposed mixer provides a low-cost high-performance solution for millimeterwave system design.","PeriodicalId":169237,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AEMC.2013.7045079","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Design and implementation of a Ka-band low conversion loss suspended stripline mixer with low local oscillator (LO) power is presented in this paper. Suspended stripline technology with planar beam-lead Schottky barrier diodes has been employed for low loss mixer design. The mixer provides conversion loss of 5.8 ± 0.9 dB over 2 GHz instantaneous RF bandwidth with +6 dBm LO power at 35 GHz LO. The mixer also exhibits 1 GHz instantaneous LO bandwidth with 6.2 ± 1.2 dB conversion loss. LO to RF and LO to IF isolations for the mixer are greater than 25 dB and 45 dB respectively. The proposed mixer provides a low-cost high-performance solution for millimeterwave system design.