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Development of the Fin-Line Superconductive Mixer in the Millimeter and Submillimeter Band

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11554006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section展開研究
Research Field Astronomy
Research InstitutionOSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

OGAWA Hideo  Osaka Prefecture University, Dept. Earth and life Sciences, Professor, 総合科学部, 教授 (20022717)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MIZUNO Akira  Nagoya University, Graduate School of Science, Associate Professor, 大学院・理学研究科, 助教授 (80212231)
HORINAKA Hiromichi  Osaka Prefecture University, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor, 大学院・工学研究科, 教授 (60137239)
YONEKURA Yoshlnori  Osaka Prefecture University, Dept. Earth and Life Sciences, ResearchAssociate, 総合科学部, 助手 (90305665)
MORISHITA Hiroyuki  Daikin Industries Ltd., Semiconductor Equipment Dept., Senior Research Engineer, 半導体機器部, 主任研究員
TAHARA Shuichi  NEC Corporation, Fundamental Research Laboratory, Research Manager, 研究マネージャー
Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥5,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000)
KeywordsSuperconductivity / Millimeter Wave / Mixer / Multiplier
Research Abstract

For a millimeter-wave heterodyne receiver, a sufficient, high-quality local oscillator (LO) power is fairly important to the receiver performance. Particularly for radio astronomical applications, it is one of the major factors driving quality astronomical observations.
Besides a high-quality local source, how to perfectly inject the local signal into mixers is also determinant for a high performance receiver. In general, an ideal LO power injection method should satisfy following conditions : (1) providing sufficient quality LO power to pump nonlinear device ; (2) adding no additional loss to RF signal ; (3) adding no instability to the power from local source ; (4) eliminating local noise ; (5) resulting an injection structure compact and of no heavy duty to receiver system in any aspect.
In millimeter-wave band, cross guide directional couplers are generally used to couple the LO power into mixers, while beamsplitters, which are usually made from a kind of very thin Teflon film or wire grid etc. and are mounted at 45° to the RF/LO paths, are more often used at shorter millimeter-wavelengths as well as submillimeter- wavelengths. Obviously, they all contribute additional loss and are not so compact, sometimes unstable.
Based on SIS mixers' the advantage, we find that the LO power can be injected directly into the SIS junction through the junction subsrate, that is the LO signal shares same path with the dc/IF signal, but not with the RF signal as in traditional method. So conventional cross-guide couplers and beam splitters are not needed. Additionally the LO signal path and the RF signal one are completely separated before the junctions so that the RF insertion loss caused by the LO path can be decreased maximally. This is the basic idea of the new LO power injection method. We propose this method particularly for the applications of (sub)millimeter-wave SIS mixers.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All Other

All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] K.C.Xiao: "A Novel LO Power Injection Method for SIS Mixers"Int. J. Infrared Millimeter Waves. 23. 33-45 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C.Xiao: "A 230 GHz Low Noise Subharmonically Pumed SIS Mixer"2000 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2000) Digest. 1. 573-576 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C.Xiao: "Low Noise SIS Receiver Development at Nagoya University"Proc. 2000 China-Japan Joint Meeting on Microwaves (CJMW'2000). 293-297 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C.Xiao: "A LO path built-in SIS mixer for further improvement of noise performance"Radio Telescope, Proc. SPIE's International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation. 4015. 576-583 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C. Xiao: "A Novel LO Power Injection Method for SIS Mixers"Int. J. Infrared Millimeter Waves. 23. 33-45 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C.Xiao: "A 230 GHz Low Noise Subharmonically Pumed SIS Mixer"2000 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2000) Digest. 1. 573-276 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C. Xiao: "Low Noise SIS Receiver Development at Nagoya University"Proc. 2000 China-Japan Joint Meeting on Microwaves (CJMW'2000). 293-297 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.C. Xiao: "A LO path built-in SIS mixer for further improvement of noise performance"Radio Telescope, Proc. SPIE's International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation. 4015. 576-583 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.,Xiao,K.C.: "A 230 GHz Low Noise Subharmonically Pumped SIS Mixer"2000 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2000) Digest. Vol.1. 573-576 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] K.,Xiao,K.C.: "Low Noise SIS Receiver Development at Nagoya University"Proceedings of the 2000 China-Japan Joint Meeting on Microwaves. 293-297 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report

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