Impact of Diode Geometry on Local Oscillator Breakthrough in Sub-Harmonic Mixers

Impact of Diode Geometry on Local Oscillator Breakthrough in Sub-Harmonic Mixers

An investigation in to the asymmetry of the current-voltage characteristics and the local-oscillator breakthrough in anti-parallel diode sub-harmonic mixers is presented. Twenty nine bare anti-parallel diode pair circuits, have been used to identify those aspects of the diode geometry, that have a s...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Gutta, V., Fattorini, A., Parker, A.E., Harvey, J.T.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Circuits
Current-voltage characteristics
Diodes
Filtering
Gallium arsenide
Geometry
HEMTs
Local oscillators
Mixers
MODFETs
Online-Zugang:Volltext bestellen
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:An investigation in to the asymmetry of the current-voltage characteristics and the local-oscillator breakthrough in anti-parallel diode sub-harmonic mixers is presented. Twenty nine bare anti-parallel diode pair circuits, have been used to identify those aspects of the diode geometry, that have a strong influence on the diode mismatch and consequently the local-oscillator breakthrough. The circuits were fabricated on a six-inch gallium arsenide high electron mobility transistor process.
DOI:10.1109/EMICC.2008.4772310