Return to Memolist

MMA Memo #205

A Tunerless SIS Mixer for 200 - 280 GHz with Low Output Capacitance and Inductance

A. R. Kerr, S.-K. Pan [1], A. W. Lichtenberger, H. H. Huang [2]

March 30, 1998

Keywords:

The introduction by Padin et al. in 1996 of an SIS mixer with an integrated IF amplifier eliminates the need for an IF isolator and makes possible SIS receivers with multi-octave IF's. To realize a wide IF bandwidth, an SIS mixer must be designed with low IF capacitance and inductance. This paper describes an SIS mixer in which the RF circuit is effectively decoupled from the IF circuit, and a compact high-impedance RF choke circuit is used, resulting in low output capacitance and inductance.

[1] NRAO-CV
[2] University of Virginia


From here, you can:

View an HTML version of MMA Memo #205.

View a PDF version of MMA Memo #205.

Download a 0.2MB gzipped postscript version of MMA Memo #205 from

here


Last modified: 09 December, 1999

kweather@nrao.edu