Design of a 670 GHz fourth-harmonic mixer based on Schottky diode
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1.Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3.School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

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TN454, TN773.2

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the National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFC0803601Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0803601)

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    Abstract:

    For pre-research on ice cloud detection equipment, the design and test of a low conversion loss (CL) 4th-harmonic mixer working at the central frequency of 670 GHz based on an anti-parallel Schottky diode are presented. In order to improve the mixing efficiency, a two-stage local-oscillator (LO) compact-microstrip-resonate-cell (CMRC) low-pass-filter (LPF) is utilized to suppress the second mixing item (), the third harmonic of LO signal(), and RF signal. The LO frequency is only one-quarter of the RF frequency which significantly reduces the complexity and cost of the LO chain. The measurement result shows that the Single-Side-Band (SSB) conversion loss is between 16.7 dB to 22.1 dB from 640 GHz to 700 GHz at room temperature. The minimum conversion loss is 16.8 dB at the RF frequency of 665 GHz.

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JI Guang-Yu, ZHANG De-Hai, MENG Jin, YAO Chang-Fei. Design of a 670 GHz fourth-harmonic mixer based on Schottky diode[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2019,38(6):695~700

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  • Received:June 10,2019
  • Revised:November 14,2019
  • Adopted:August 19,2019
  • Online: December 06,2019
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