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Application of CAD load-pull techniques in mixer design

✍ Scribed by Arturo Velazquez; Antonio Lazaro; Luis Pradell; Adolfo Comeron

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
135 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-2477

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Abstract

This work describes the application of a commercial CAD software to implement load‐pull techniques in the design of microwave mixers. This method is used to generate conversion‐loss regions when a diode is pumped and operated as a mixer circuit. Emphasis is placed on the inclusion of image and out‐of‐band terminations to optimize the operating conditions required to obtain low conversion loss. An X‐band 5‐dB conversion‐loss mixer is designed and tested using this method. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 36: 320–323, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10754

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