A 183-GHz Schottky diode receiver with 4 dB noise figure
Paper in proceeding, 2019

Atmospheric science based on space-borne millimeter wave measurements require reliable and state-of-the art receivers. In particular, the water vapor line at 183.3 GHz motivates the development of sensitive mixers at this frequency. Traditional assembly techniques employed in the production of Schottky diode receivers involve flip-chip mounting and soldering of discrete dies, which prohibit the implementation of reliable and repeatable production processes. In this work, we present a subharmonic 183 GHz mixer implementing a repeatable assembly method using beamlead Schottky diodes. The mixer was integrated with a InP HEMT MMIC low noise intermediate frequency amplifier resulting in a record-low receiver noise temperature of 450 K at 1 mW of local oscillator power measured at room-temperature. The measured Allan time was 10 s and the third order local oscillator spurious power was less than -60 dBm. The proposed assembly method is of particular importance for space-borne missions but also applicable to a wide range of terahertz applications.

heterodyne receivers

Schottky diodes

HEMTs

LNAs

mixers

front-ends

space instrumentation

thin-film circuits

noise characterization

Author

Martin Anderberg

Omnisys Instruments

Peter Sobis

Omnisys Instruments

GigaHertz Centre

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory

Vladimir Drakinskiy

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory

GigaHertz Centre

Joel Schleeh

Low Noise Factory AB

Slavko Dejanovic

Omnisys Instruments

Anders Emrich

Omnisys Instruments

Jan Stake

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory

GigaHertz Centre

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

0149645X (ISSN)

Vol. 2019-June 172-175 8701051
978-1-7281-1309-8 (ISBN)

2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2019
Boston, USA,

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Infrastructure

Kollberg Laboratory

Nanofabrication Laboratory

Subject Categories

Reliability and Maintenance

Other Physics Topics

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/mwsym.2019.8701051

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