Matching of active millimetre-wave slot-line antennas
- 30 September 1993
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 29 (20) , 1772-1774
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19931180
Abstract
The matching of a radiating, resonant structure to an active millimetre-wave device is investigated. As an active device, an IMPATT diode is considered to be matched to a planar slot-line structure. An analytical IMPATT diode model and an equivalent circuit of the slot line are used to calculate possible oscillation frequencies and large-signal modulation parametres of the diode. In the case of matching the output power is predicted. The results are in satisfactory agreement with experimental data and suggest a diode design with shorted drift regions and reduced diode area for optimum impedance matching.Keywords
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