Simulation and measurement of a Ka-band HTS MMIC Josephson junction mixer

Ting Zhang; Colin Pegrum; Jia Du; Yingjie Jay Guo

doi:10.1088/0953-2048/30/1/015008

Simulation and measurement of a Ka-band HTS MMIC Josephson junction mixer

Ting Zhang, Colin Pegrum, Jia Du, Yingjie Jay Guo

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We report modeling and simulation results for a Ka band high-temperature superconducting (HTS) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) Josephson junction mixer. A Verilog-A model of a Josephson junction is established and imported into the system simulator to realize a full HTS MMIC circuit simulation containing the HTS passive circuit models. Impedance matching optimization between the junction and passive devices is investigated. Junction DC I-V characteristics, current and local oscillator bias conditions and mixing performance are simulated and compared with the experimental results. Good agreement is obtained between the simulation and measurement results.

Original language	English
Article number	015008
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	8
Journal	Superconductor Science and Technology
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-2048/30/1/015008
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

high-temperature superconducting (HTS) devices
Josephson junction
mixer
MMIC
simulation

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