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Subharmonic mixer with improved intermodulation characteristics based on a resonant tunnel diode

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A comparative analysis of the operation of subharmonic mixers (SHMs) based on a resonant tunnel diode (RTD) and a Schottky-barrier diode (SBD) is performed. The dependences of the conversion loss of the RTD- and SBD-based SHMs on local-oscillator power are calculated. The SHM operation modes that allow the performance indices of the RTD-based mixer to be improved as compared to those of the SBD-based mixer are presented. The possibility of increasing the upper intermodulation-distortion dynamic-range limit of the RTD-based SHM as compared to that of the SBD-based SHM is theoretically shown and experimentally confirmed.

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  1. Yu. A. Ivanov
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  2. S. A. Meshkov
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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Ivanov, S.A. Meshkov, I.A. Fedorenko, N.V. Fedorkova, V.D. Shashurin, 2010, published in Radiotekhnika i Elektronika, 2010, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 982–988.

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Ivanov, Y.A., Meshkov, S.A., Fedorenko, I.A. et al. Subharmonic mixer with improved intermodulation characteristics based on a resonant tunnel diode. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 55, 921–927 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226910080103

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