Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. 2013. V. 16, N 1. P. 084-085.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/spqeo16.01.084/

                                                                 

A subharmonic mixer for the 220–325 GHz frequency range
A.V. Zorenko1, N.V. Kolesnik1, T.V. Kritskaya1, Ya.Ya. Kudryk2, Yu.V. Marunenko1, L.P. Ryzhanovich1

1State Enterprise Research Institute “Orion”, 03057 Kyiv, Ukraine; e-mail: zav456@gmail.com
2V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine E-mail: konakova@isp.kiev.ua

Abstract. We have made a subharmonic mixer (SHM) for the 220–325 GHz frequency range with conversion losses lower than 30 dB at the intermediate frequency 3 GHz. The subharmonic mixer design was based on a GaAs mixer Schottky barrier diode with beam leads on a quartz 25-m thick microwave board. The microwave board was placed in a package with a waveguide channel of local oscillator input (cross-sectional area 1.2×2.4 mm2) and waveguide channel of signal input (cross-sectional area 0.4×0.8 mm2). The IF signal goes out through a subminiature A-connector, wave impedance of which is 50 Ohm.

Keywords: subharmonic mixer, Schottky barrier diode, millimeter wave band, terahertz band.

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