The ALMA Band 6 (211-275 GHz) receivers use sideband-separating SIS mixer-preamplifiers with dual 4-12 GHz IF outputs. The sideband-separating mixers are of the phasing type, with the LO driving two component mixers in-phase and the RF signal connected to the mixers through a quadrature hybrid. The IF outputs of the mixers are amplified, then combined in a quadrature hybrid which separates the ...

In this paper a 3.5 GHz down conversion mixer with 20 MHz IF output signal for location-fixed WiMAX systems is presented. The proposed mixer is implemented with TSMC 0.18μm RF CMOS technology with 1.5V supply voltage which utilizes Current-Bleeding and Current-Reuse techniques to improve noise figure and conversion gain of conventional Gilbert-type structure. This mixer achieves 12 dB of conver...

In this paper, a low-power up-conversion current-mode mixer, designed in the chartered 0.18-μm RFCMOS technology, is proposed to realize the transmitter front-end in the frequency band of 2.4 GHz. The proposed mixer can convert a 10 MHz intermediate frequency (IF) signal to a 2.4 GHz RF signal, with a local oscillator power of 2 dBm at 2.39 GHz. A comparison with conventional voltage-mode up-co...

The transcription factors Fast-1 and Mixer are important terminal components of Smad2-mediated TGF-beta signal transduction. Recent studies demonstrate that Fast-1 and Mixer play critical roles in the formation of endoderm and dorsal mesoderm in zebrafish.

We present the design and measured results for a 60 GHz double balanced sub-harmonic MMIC mixer fabricated using the TRW 0.15μm gate length GaAs pHEMT foundry process. The sub-harmonic mixer architecture eliminates the need for costly mm-wave sources that are usually required with conventional fundamental frequency mixers. The mixer has been integrated into a coaxial package and a measured conv...

In the last decade Micromechanical components for communication applications has been fabricated via IC-compatible MEMS technologies. In fact, its most important impact is not at the component level, but rather at the system level, by offering alternative transceiver architectures that reduce power consumption and enhance performance. In this paper a mixer-filter for AM frequency receiver with ...

Using a nuclease-dead Cas9 mutant, we show that Cas9 reproducibly induces chromatin accessibility at previously inaccessible genomic loci. Cas9 chromatin opening is sufficient to enable adjacent binding and transcriptional activation by the settler transcription factor retinoic acid receptor at previously unbound motifs. Thus, we demonstrate a new use for Cas9 in increasing surrounding chromati...

We describe a new quasi-optical SIS mixer designed for efficient radiation coupling. The mixer uses a twinslot antenna which has the advantages of a good beam pattern and a low impedance. The radiation and impedance characteristics of the antenna were obtained from a moment-method calculation. Tapered superconducting microstrip transmission lines are used to carry the radiation from the slot an...

An electrospray microchip for mass spectrometry comprising an integrated passive mixer to carry out on-chip chemical derivatizations is described. The microchip fabricated using UV-photoablation is composed of two microchannels linked together by a liquid junction. Downstream of this liquid junction, a mixing unit made of parallel oblique grooves is integrated to the microchannel in order to cr...

A DC-offset cancellation scheme in the 5GHz directconversion receiver compliant with IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standard is described in this paper. It uses the analog R~F4~~ i"a I oU feedback loop to eliminate the DC-offset at the output of the double-balanced mixer. The mixer has a simulation voltageA conversion gain of 13dB at 5.2GHz, noise figure of 9.67dB, -. 1) IIP3 of 7.6dBm. The solution...