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This chapter describes the design, mixer assembly, experimental setup, and experimentally measured results of the integrated balanced SIS mixers operating near 700 GHz. The new design retains the same fabrication requirements as the single-ended SOI mixers, with all the circuit components integrated onto a single chip using planar circuit technology. This results in a significantly simpler balanced mixer block design than the conventional balanced mixers.
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The 180\(^\circ \) IF hybrid was generated through Ansoft Designer. This can be done using HFSS too, but since the IF hybrid does not operate in a superconducting state and the fringing effects are negligible, it is easier to use the simpler 2-D planar circuit software.
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In fact, we did observed hints of this LO stray reflection effect during experiments, though no further effort had been made yet to completely eliminate these reflections.
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Tan, BK. (2016). Single-Chip Integrated Balanced SIS Mixer. In: Development of Coherent Detector Technologies for Sub-Millimetre Wave Astronomy Observations. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19363-2_6
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