The complexity of wireless communication integrated circuits is increasing day by day due to the trend of multifunction and multistandard support. This has not only increased the production cost of these RFICs but the testing cost is also increased significantly, as much advanced test equipments and instruments are needed to carry out the sophisticated performance tests. To avoid this higher co...

This paper demonstrates the low voltage operation of a doubly balanced Gilbert mixer fabricated in a 0.8m CMOS process and operating as both a down-converter and an upconverter. As a down-converter with an RF input of 1.9 GHz, the mixer has a single sideband noise figure as low as 7.8 dB and achieved down-conversion gain for supply voltages as low as 1.8 V. As an up-converter, the mixer demonst...

We present the design of ALMA Band 5 sideband separation mixer based on Niobium superconducting SIS junctions and first experimental results for the double side band mixer. In this mixer the LO injection circuitry is integrated on the mixer substrate using a microstrip line directional coupler with slot-line branches in the ground plane. The isolated port of the LO coupler is terminated by a wi...

In this paper, a doubly balanced V-band star mixer has been designed following the design method developed for I-Q modulators applications. The mixer has been designed using a commercial GaAs pseudomorphic HEMT process library. The mixer exhibits RF bandwidth over 45-65 GHz with local oscillator isolation better than 30 dB, and achieved a typical conversion loss of 9 dB. The IF modulation bandw...

Static mixers are becoming increasingly popular because they energy-efficient, cost-effective, and easy to maintain. Mixing is an essential unit operation in many chemical industries. In this study, a modified high efficiency vortex static mixer was used examine laminar flows rectangular duct. To encourage fluid rotation improve mixing with heat transfer, the set rotated by angles of 0?, 5?, 10...

This paper describes an 84-116 GHz Nb/Al-oxide/Nb SIS mixer with multi-octave IF bandwidth and quantum-limited sensitivity. The mixer can be integrated with a three-stage 4-12 GHz HFET preamplifier or fitted with a coaxial connector for operation with an external isolator and IF amplifier. An 84-116 GHz receiver using the mixer with an integrated 4-12 GHz HFET preamplifier has a double sideband...

We developed a confocal microscopic method for a quantitative evaluation of the mixing performance of a three-dimensional microfluidic mixer. We fabricated a microfluidic baker's transformation (MBT) mixer as a three-dimensional passive-type mixer for the efficient mixing of solutions. Although the MBT mixer is one type of ideal mixers, it is hard to evaluate its mixing performance, since the...

Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation is an effective research approach for understanding velocity fields used in process and equipment intensification. It was found that mixer-settler used in rare earth metal extraction process was unsatisfying in large amount of liquid backlogged, high energy consumption and longtime settling process. In this paper, CFD simulations and experiment valid...

material balance around process has been conducted by using mixer output equations. a method based on mason's theory has been proposed to develop mixer output equations.

Identity Mixer is an anonymous credential system developed at IBM that allows users for instance to prove that they are over 18 years old without revealing their name or birthdate. This privacy-friendly technology is realized using zero-knowledge proofs. We describe a formal model of Identity Mixer that is well-suited for automated protocol verification tools in the spirit of black-box cryptogr...