We have developed a low-noise 850 GHz superconductor–insulator–superconductor quasiparticle mixer with NbTiN thin-film microstrip tuning circuits and hybrid Nb/AlN/NbTiN tunnel junctions. The mixer uses a quasioptical configuration with a planar twin-slot antenna feeding a two-junction tuning circuit. At 798 GHz, we measured an uncorrected double-sideband receiver noise temperature of TRX5260 K...

We designed a waveguide SIS mixer based on NbN for the 900-GHz band. The waveguide mixer block with an MgO substrate was designed using Hewlett Packard's High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) and uses a waveguide-to-microstip transition. Simulation by HFSS showed that a source impedance of around 60 12 can be achieved from 786 to 988 GHz by using an MgO substrate about 30 gra thick. The tun...

Received Jun 12, 2014 Revised Aug 20, 2014 Accepted Aug 26, 2014 The present paper highlights an innovative broadband millimeter-wave single balanced diode mixer which is designed using a newly designed 90 substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) coupler and two cavities (SIW) filter. The mixer covers RF/LO operating frequency range which fluctuates between 10 to 12 GHz and IF port covers 2GHz. The...

In this paper, we proposed a novel bonding technology to fabricate a microfluidic device based on Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). The method, which used chloroform and ethanol as miscible bonding solvent, can complete complex structures rapid assembly (10 min) at 40°C. A bonding strength of 267.5 N/cm2 can be achieved, while the micro channel deformation was less than 7.26%. Then we utilized ...

An active mixing and pumping strategy is proposed to enhance mixing of two fluids through vortex formation and accumulation. A resonant micropump-mixer is designed and fabricated, where an electrostatically activated plate is placed at or in close vicinity of the interface between the two incoming streams at the junction of a Yor T-shaped microchannel. Mixing is enhanced by increased interface ...

A 200-GHz integrated resistive subharmonic mixer based on a single chemical vapor deposition graphene field-effect transistor (G-FET) is demonstrated experimentally. This device has a gate length of 0.5 μm and a gate width of 2× 40 μm. The G-FET channel is patterned into an array of bow-tie-shaped nanoconstrictions, resulting in the device impedance levels of ∼50 and the ON–OFF ratios of ≥4. Th...

This paper presents a high‐conversion gain, low‐power, folded CMOS mixer for ZigBee application in 2.4 GHz of user bandwidth. The proposed mixer adapts current reuse technique to increase the conversion gain while substantially reducing the DC power dissipation. The current from LO stage is reused at the transconductance stage to reduce the power consumption. This mixer is verified in 0.13 μm s...

We report the development of a micromachined magnetic-bar micromixer for microscale fluid mixing in biological laboratory-on-a-chip applications. The mixer design is inspired by large scale magnetic bar mixers. A rotating magnetic field causes a single magnetic bar or an array of them to rotate rapidly within a fluid environment. A fabrication process of the magnetic bar mixer is developed. Res...

This paper describes a 1.5-V 2.4-GHz silicon down conversion mixer with a CMOS gm Cell using 0.35 um process [1]. With a 2.3-GHz local oscillator (LO) and a 2.4-GHz RF input, the mixer minimum double sideband noise figure (DSB NF) is 8.9 dB. The input third-order intercept point (IIP3) is 0.5 dBm, and the power conversion gain is 18 dB.

Zero-IF receiver has some advantages, such as small factor, low cost and easily integrated on a chip. They make it competitive of RF receivers. However, DC Offset and flicker noise, etc., have profound effects in zero-IF receiver, which need not be considered in super-heterodyne receiver. Following a major study of flicker noise, possible solutions are given, especially those based on the passi...