Mixing It Up: A Double-Balanced Mixer with Wide RF and IF Bandwidth

This article presents the design details of a wide-band, high-dynamic-range passive gallium arsenide (GaAs) mixer submitted for the Student Design Competition (SDC) held during the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) 2017 International Microwave Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii, this past May. The target of our research was to achieve a wide-band mixer with high dynamic range and zero power consumption. The "High-Dynamic-Range Mixer" SDC was sponsored by Technical Coordination Committee MTT-22.