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A K-Band MMIC Subharmonically Pumped Mixer Integrating Local Oscillator Amplifier with Low Spurious Output
Yasushi SHIZUKI Ken ONODERA Kazuhiro ARAI Masaaki ISHIDA Shigeru WATANABE
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Vol.E84-C
No.4
pp.433-442 Publication Date: 2001/04/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Microwaves, Millimeter-Waves Keyword: MMIC, subharmonically pumped mixer, anti-parallel diode pair, low spurious, quasi-lumped stub,
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Summary:
A K-band MMIC subharmonically pumped mixer integrating local oscillator (LO) amplifier has been developed. For up-converter application, it is necessary to reduce the leakage of second harmonic component of LO frequency to RF port, which is generated by nonlinear operation of LO amplifier. A quasi-lumped short-circuited stub using microstrip structure has been successfully applied to the MMIC mixer to enhance 2fLO-suppression. We propose a new configuration of a quasi-lumped short-circuited stub, which reduces the influence of parasitic elements of via-holes. The developed MMIC has a one-stage LO amplifier and it has shown about 10 dB-improvement of 2fLO-suppression compared to conventional configuration using a quarter-wavelength short-circuited stub.
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