Active mixers operating at 23 GHz are designed and fabricated in SiGe technology. An integrated diode linearizer is used to improve the linearity of the mixer. Measurement and simulation show excellent agreement. Typically, 10 dB double-sideband noise figure, 10 dBm IIP3 and 2 dB conversion gain are measured, featuring low noise and high linearity in a same design.

Rick Sturdivant Hughes Aircraft Company El Segundo, California aluns find wide use in mixer, antenna and balanced amplifiercircuits. Yet balun design is still regarded as if i t were black magic by many engineers, partly due to the fact that practical design information on baluns can be difficult to find. However, many good baluns have been developed over the years and somc are surprisingly sim...

A compact, tunable, ultranarrowband terahertz source, Δν∼1  MHz, is demonstrated by upconversion of a 2.324 THz, free-running quantum cascade laser with a THz Schottky-diode-balanced mixer using a swept, synthesized microwave source to drive the nonlinearity. Continuously tunable radiation of 1 μW power is demonstrated in two frequency regions: ν(Laser) ± 0 to 50 GHz and ν(Laser) ± 70 to 115 GH...

Objective: In this article, a numerical study is conducted on mixing of two fluids in the liquid phase with two different concentrations of a chemical species in the electro-osmotic flow. Methods: The base liquid is an electrolyte which flows in a two-dimensional micro-channel having electrically charged walls. Lorentz electric force, which is used as stimulating flow factor, is created by appl...

Objective: In this article, a numerical study is conducted on mixing of two fluids in the liquid phase with two different concentrations of a chemical species in the electro-osmotic flow. Methods: The base liquid is an electrolyte which flows in a two-dimensional micro-channel having electrically charged walls. Lorentz electric force, which is used as stimulating flow factor, is created by appl...

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Abstract This paper studies how nonlinear distortion is generated in the combination of an inverter-based low-noise amplifier and a passive mixer. The dominant nonlinearity appears to be quadratic $$V_{gs}V_{ds}$$ V gs ds mixing t...

This paper will describe the design and testing of solid-state subharmonically-pumped mixers from 380 GHz to 640 GHz. The main goal has been to develop robust, compact, solid-state room-temperature receivers with state-of-the-art sensitivity and broad IF bandwidths for applications such as airborne and space-based microwave sounding. Testing of a 380 GHz integrated mixer has yielded state-of-th...