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Many receivers operating at millimetre wavelengths utilise a frequency downconverter as their first stage. A rugged, low-conversion loss and simplified cross-bar mixer operating at the atmospheric window centered at 33 GHz was designed, developed and tested as a forerunner to mixers operating at atmospheric windows centred at higher frequencies. The cross-bar mixer exhibits a conversion loss of less than 5 dB over a bandwidth of 2 GHz. Design and optimisation procedures of the mixer are outlined.
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Lioutas, N., Fourikis, N. The development of a simplified cross-bar mixer operating at Ka-band. Int J Infrared Milli Waves 12, 845–857 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01008912
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