A low-noise front-end with beamsteering capability at 35 GHz

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作者
Grubinger, Hannes [1 ]
Barth, Helmut [1 ]
Vahldieck, Ruediger [1 ]
机构
[1] ETH, Lab Electromagnet Fields & Microwave Elect IFH, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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2007 EUROPEAN MICROWAVE CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-4 | 2007年
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10.1109/EUMC.2007.4405514
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper presents a novel implementation of a 35GHz front-end for beamsteering applications. The achieved low noise figure of only 2.5 dB enables reception of very low-power signals. The 35-GHz input signal is downconverted to 5 GHz. A controllable phase shift is added by utilizing an injection locked voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) to drive the mixer. The phase noise of the local oscillator's signal is reduced by using a cavity reference oscillator with very low phase noise for locking the VCO. A highly compact prototype has been build on RT/Duroid epsilon(r) = 10.2 substrate and serves as test case for a future LTCC implementation.
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页码:1594 / 1597
页数:4
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