The NRAO CDL is preparing to construct test receivers for use in production of the Band-6 mixer-preamps for ALMA. The discussion below applies primarily to the mixer-preamp to test receiver interface, but should also be useful as a guide to the mixer-preamp interface with the cartridges — all the listed connections will be available on the mixer-preamp and can be used as desired by the cartridg...

This paper is a design and implementation of a monitoring and control system for industrial mixer using PLC .This mixer used for an effective, reliable and highly flexible method for the control of processes within an Industrial environment. The objective of this study is to simulate the control an industrial mixer and by doing this we can develop a program that can be used for the actual imple...

This paper presents a 20–32-GHz wideband BiCMOS mixer with an IF bandwidth of 12 GHz. The mixer utilizes an inductive peaking technique to extend the bandwidth of the downconverted IF signal. To our knowledge, the proposed mixer achieves the widest IF bandwidth using silicon-based technologies in -band. Analytical expressions for the conversion gain and output noise of the proposed mixer are pr...

A room-temperature Schottky diode-based WM-86 (WR-0.34) harmonic mixer was developed to build high-resolution spectrometers, and multipixel receivers in the terahertz (THz) region for applications such as radio astronomy, plasma diagnostics, and remote sensing. The mixer consists of a quartz-based local oscillator (LO), intermediate-frequency (IF) circuits, and a GaAs-based beam-lead THz circui...

This work presents the design of a low power upconversion mixer adapted in medical remote sensing such as wireless endoscopy application. The proposed upconversion mixer operates in ISM band of 433 MHz. With the carrier power of -5 dBm, the proposed mixer has an output inferred 1 dB compression point of -0.5 dBm with a corresponding output third-order intercept point (OIP3) of 7.1 dBm. The desi...

A CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) and mixer for a GPS front end is described. At 1.586Ghz the LNA minimum noise figure (NF) is 2.8dB, input third order intercept point (IIP3) is 2.45dB and forward gain is 30dB. With a 1.573Ghz local oscillator (LO) and a 1.586Ghz RF input the mixer minimum NF is 6.1dB, IIP3 is 12dB and a conversion gain of -3dB. The LNA and mixer consume 58mW of power from a 1.8...

Introduction: Recently, the bandpass LC current mirror has been used to increase conversion gain by combining the output differential currents at the high frequency [1, 2]. However, the passive inductors employed in the LC current mirror always occupy large chip area. In this work, the passive inductors in the LC current mirror are replaced by the active inductors consisting of the common-colle...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Mikko Varonen Name of the dissertation Design and characterization of monolithic millimeter-wave active and passive components, low-noise and power amplifiers, resistive mixers, and radio front-ends Manuscript submitted 26.10.2009 Manuscript revised 03.02.2010 Dat...

Effective mixing is vitally important to many microfluidic devices in the areas of biotechnical industries, analytic chemistry and medical industries. However, most micro-mixers require complicated fabrication procedures, possibly inappropriate for practical microfluidic utilization. These mixers generally operate under low Reynolds-number conditions, causing a relatively long reaction time in ...