A micromechanical resonating RF mixer

Ari T. Alastalo; M. Koskenvuori; Heikki Seppä; James Dekker

A micromechanical resonating RF mixer

Ari T. Alastalo (Corresponding author), M. Koskenvuori, Heikki Seppä, James Dekker

Helsinki University of Technology

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Abstract

An arrangement of microelectromechanical IPSonators is considered as a filtering mixer for RF signals. The mixing is based on the nonlinear (second-order) forcevoltage relationship of capacitive transducers that are used for electrical drive and readout of the resonator. Measured and simulated results are shown for the first prototype devices with a transducer gap of 1 pm. With the gap reduced to 100 nm, the approach is expected to reach a good mixer performance for RF frequencies up to 1 GHz. Namely, with 50 il source impedances, the combined insertion and conversion loss is expected to drop below 10 dB. The loss drops further when impedance transformation is used to raise the RF and LO source impedances seen by the resonator.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	34th European Microwave Conference 2004
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	1297-1300
ISBN (Print)	1-58053-992-0
Publication status	Published - 2004
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	34th European Microwave Conference - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 12 Oct 2004 → 14 Oct 2004

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Conference	34th European Microwave Conference
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	12/10/04 → 14/10/04

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