High power W-band monolithically integrated tripler

Vukusic, Josip
Olsen, Arne
Bryllert, Tomas
Stake, Jan

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Publication date

January 2009

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324703

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Abstract

We have designed, fabricated and characterized a Heterostructure Barrier Varactor based monolithic tripler at 97 GHz. The original InP host substrate is used as the microstrip waveguide. Measurement results show efficiencies of almost 20% and a maximum output power of 85 mW. Initial comparison with hybrid (flip-chip) solutions imply that the monolithic approach has superior performance