UWB Sampler for Wireless Communications and Radar

Abstract

An ultra wideband (UWB) sampler, realized using step recovery and Schottky diodes on coplanar waveguide, coplanar strips and slotlines, has been developed for UWB wireless communications and radar systems. The impulse generator, providing signal for the sampling gate, was also included along with a new LO feeding structure. The fabricated circuit shows 16-19 dB conversion loss without amplifier and 1-4 dB conversion gain with amplifier across a 9-GHz RF bandwidth with 500-MHz sampling frequency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA447072

Entities

People

  • Cam Nguyen
  • Jeongwoo Han

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandwidth
  • Circuits
  • Conversion
  • Diodes
  • Dynamic Range
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Generators
  • High Dynamic Range
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Microwave Integrated Circuits
  • Pulse Amplitude
  • Radar
  • Universities
  • Video Amplifiers
  • Wireless Communications

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.