passive frequency doubler (HMC-XDB112) for low input signal

Hi Maurice,

This question is pretty vague, could you please be more specific. What is it that your trying to do and what parameter(s) are you hoping to improve?

Best Regards,

Marty

hi Marty,

for tracking bees with a radar a technique uses an harmonic radar (es: http://michaelwylie.wikispaces.com/Harmonic+Radar) where:

- a marine commercial radar is used at tx emitting 100 ns long pulses of 9.410 GHz generated by a magnetron.

- when tx illuminates a diode, the non linearity response of the diode act as a frequency multiplier 2x

- rx chain has lna, filters and sampling of 18.820 GHz reply from diode

this method is called harmonic radar because tx emits at frequency F and target and rx work at 2xF. At the moment the target used is a simple zero bias diode placed over a small wire with a loop (see images in the link).

I was wondering if using (at the place of the diode) some other passive component (small enough to be installed over a bee) as hittite passive frequency doublers, (even if not designed for this application) can increase the conversion gain and produce more efficient targets

best regards,

Maurice

We're still looking into this for you.

You are aware that this part is not packaged(bare die)? For this type of application where weight and robustness are critical additional packaging and / or glob top will be needed.

Best Regards,

Marty

Hi Maurice,

I don't believe the HMC-XDB112 will work for this application as it requires a nominal +13dBm drive level.

Best Regards,

Marty