A High Power 320-356GHz Frequency Multipliers with Schottky Diodes

YAO Changfei; ZHOU Ming; LUO Yunsheng

doi:10.1049/cje.2016.08.003

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YAO Changfei, ZHOU Ming, LUO Yunsheng, “A High Power 320-356GHz Frequency Multipliers with Schottky Diodes,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 986-990, 2016, doi: 10.1049/cje.2016.08.003

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YAO Changfei, ZHOU Ming, LUO Yunsheng, “A High Power 320-356GHz Frequency Multipliers with Schottky Diodes,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 986-990, 2016, doi: 10.1049/cje.2016.08.003

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A High Power 320-356GHz Frequency Multipliers with Schottky Diodes

doi: 10.1049/cje.2016.08.003

1.
Science and Technology on Monolithic Integrated Circuits and Modules Laboratory, Nanjing Electronic Devices Institute NEDI, Nanjing 210016, China;
2.
Department of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Modules, NEDI, Nanjing 210016, China

Received Date: 2014-08-12
Rev Recd Date: 2014-08-25
Publish Date: 2016-09-10

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A 320-356GHz fixed-tuned frequency doubler is realized with discrete Schottky diodes mounted on 50μm thick quartz substrate. Influence of circuit channel width and thermal dissipation of the diode junctions are discussed for high multiplying efficiency. The doubler circuit is flip-chip mounted on gold electroplated oxygenfree copper film for grounding of RF and DC signals, and better thermal transportation. The whole multiplying circuit is optimized and established in Computer simulation technology (CST) suite. The highest measured multiplying efficiency is 8.0% and its output power is 5.4mW at 328GHz. The measured typical output power is 4.0mW in 320-356GHz.
- Schottky diode,
- Frequency doubler,
- Efficiency,
- Thermal dissipation

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