TY - JOUR
T1 - A 36 GHz HTS MMIC Josephson mixer - simulation and measurement
AU - Zhang, Ting
AU - Gao, Xiang
AU - Wang, Wei
AU - Du, Jia
AU - Pegrum, Colin
AU - Guo, Yingjie Jay
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PY - 2017/6/30
Y1 - 2017/6/30
N2 - Modeling, simulation, and measurement of a compact 36 GHz high-temperature superconducting (HTS) monolithic Josephson junction mixer are presented in this paper. A full HTS microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) simulation was carried out for the circuit combining HTS passive devices and the Josephson junction. Optimal impedance matching and bias conditions were investigated, and the circuit layout was designed accordingly. The HTS circuit has a compact dimension of 5 × 4 × 0.3 mm3, including filters, resonators, and impedance matching circuits. The HTS MMIC mixer was fabricated and packaged with an LNA to realize a receiver front end with a total dimension of 28 × 25 × 15 mm3. Measurement result showed an overall conversion gain around 35 dB, with local oscillator driving power around -45 dBm at operating temperature of 40 K.
AB - Modeling, simulation, and measurement of a compact 36 GHz high-temperature superconducting (HTS) monolithic Josephson junction mixer are presented in this paper. A full HTS microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) simulation was carried out for the circuit combining HTS passive devices and the Josephson junction. Optimal impedance matching and bias conditions were investigated, and the circuit layout was designed accordingly. The HTS circuit has a compact dimension of 5 × 4 × 0.3 mm3, including filters, resonators, and impedance matching circuits. The HTS MMIC mixer was fabricated and packaged with an LNA to realize a receiver front end with a total dimension of 28 × 25 × 15 mm3. Measurement result showed an overall conversion gain around 35 dB, with local oscillator driving power around -45 dBm at operating temperature of 40 K.
KW - high temperature superconductor (HTS)
KW - Josephson junction
KW - mixer
KW - MMIC
KW - receiver front-end
KW - simulation
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2016.2647239
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2016.2647239
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017657846
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 27
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 4
M1 - 1502405
ER -