학술논문

Monolithic Integrated Antenna and Schottky Diode Multiplier for Free Space Millimeter-Wave Power Generation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters IEEE Microw. Wireless Compon. Lett. Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE. 30(1):74-77 Jan, 2020
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Schottky diodes
Antenna measurements
Slot antennas
Gallium arsenide
Frequency measurement
Loss measurement
Frequency multiplication
millimeter-wave (mm-wave) circuits
on-chip antenna
Schottky diode multiplier
Language
ISSN
1531-1309
1558-1764
Abstract
This letter presents a novel monolithic integrated frequency multiplier circuit for free space power generation in the ${W}$ -band (75–110 GHz). The circuit is based on a submicrometer GaAs Schottky diode monolithically integrated with a slot antenna on a GaAs semi-insulating substrate. The fabricated diode with an air-bridged Schottky contact and a U-shaped ohmic contact showed an ideality factor of about 1.25 and a zero bias cutoff frequency higher than 1.25 THz. Using input signals between 15 and 50 GHz, the free space power generated in the ${W}$ -band corresponding to $\times 2$ , $\times 3$ , $\times 4$ , and $\times 5$ frequency multiplication was measured and showed minimum isotropic conversion losses (with antenna) of 11.5, 16.9, 23.7, and 26.4 dB, respectively.