Polymer composites were manufactured using biocarbon particles as a reinforcing filler to improve the mechanical and thermal properties. However, detailed examination of dispersion agglomeration is essential correlate matrix interactions with properties product. We investigated variations mechanical, behaviour fillers, polypropylene coconut shell composites. PP CSB prepared by melt mixing proce...

Here, a self-oscillating mixer is experimentally demonstrated employing both the fundamental and harmonic signals generated by the oscillator sub-circuit in the mixing process. The resulting circuit is a dual-band down-converting mixer that can operate in the C-band, or in the X-band. The oscillator uses the active super harmonic coupling to enforce the quadrature relationship of the fundamenta...

In this paper, we review the four receiver architectures and four methods for multi-standard receiver design. Propose reconfigurable RF block can be used for both low-IF and direct conversion architecture. Also, using reconfigurable mixer method, it can be operated at 2~6 GHz range for multistandard receiver. It consists of wideband mixer, filter, and automatic gain control amplifier and to get...

In this work, design and simulation results of two RF front-ends to be used in direct conversion receiver are presented. The first one uses dual CS differential LNA with folded mixer. The second one uses single-ended LNA with double balanced mixer. Single-ended and fully differential LNA’s provide gains of 16.3 dB and 28.75 dB at 2.4GHz, respectively. Noise Figure of these two LNA’s are 3.34 dB...

Abstract: The effect of using a tuning inductance on the performance of a Gilbert cell-based two level transistor CMOS sub-harmonic mixer is investigated. The tuning inductor used between the RF and LO switching stages causes conversion gain enhancement and noise figure improvement. Additionally, it compensates LO distortion due to the phase mismatch of LO signals in the sub-harmonic mixer. The...

Three-dimensional (3D) microwave imaging reflectometry has been developed in the large helical device to visualize fluctuating reflection surface which is caused by the density fluctuations. The plasma is illuminated by the probe wave with four frequencies, which correspond to four radial positions. The imaging optics makes the image of cut-off surface onto the 2D (7 × 7 channels) horn antenna ...

This paper describes the implementation of the image rejection mixer block in the 5GHz frequency band using 0.18μm CMOS technology. The image rejection mixer block adopts the double-quadrature topology for high image-rejection ratio in the high frequency applications and is designed for the dual-conversion receiver. The loss of the polyphase filter in the signal path can be reduced with simple ...

We propose a non-equilibrium electrokinetic (EK) mixer with a nanoporous membrane fabricated on a microfluidic chip by laser polymerization technique. A non-equilibrium EK mixer had an array of nanochannels to generate a vortex using ion depletion and consequent electroconvection [1]. The nanochannels, however, require expensive and complicated fabrication processes. On the other hand, the lase...

In this paper we present a new circuit design for a 2.4GHz CMOS direct conversion mixer incorporating adaptive offset cancellation. The basic circuit structure is that of a Gilbert cell mixer. Offsets are cancelled by dynamically varying the bias on the loads, which are designed to provide constant impedance independent of the load cancellation current. The bias control is regulated via an adap...