30 GHz HTS receiver front-end based on monolithic Josephson mixer

Ting Zhang; Jia Du; Jia Wang; Dandan Bai; Yingjie Jay Guo; Yusheng He

doi:10.1109/TASC.2014.2379095

30 GHz HTS receiver front-end based on monolithic Josephson mixer

Ting Zhang, Jia Du, Jia Wang, Dandan Bai, Yingjie Jay Guo, Yusheng He

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A compact, high-gain, and low-noise Ka band HTS Josephson junction-based receiver front-end module for wireless communication is presented in this paper. The front-end module consists of biasing circuits, a semiconductor low-noise amplifier, and a monolithic HTS circuit consisting of an Josephson mixer, bandpass and lowpass filters. The semiconductor LNA in the first stage is applied to achieve a low noise figure of the whole front-end module. Integration of the Josephson mixer with a number of HTS passive components on a single chip improves the coupling efficiency and reduces the connection losses between the components. The total dimension of the packaged front-end module is below 25 mm × 20 mm × 15 mm, which is very compact. Measurement result shows that the front-end module has an overall conversion gain around 40 dB, and a low noise figure close to 0 dB with an LO driving power around -38 dBm at 40 K.

Original language	English
Article number	6980125
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume	25
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2014.2379095
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

High temperature superconductor
Josephson mixer
low loss
low noise
monolithic
receiver front-end

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