Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Shinya Yokomizo

Akihito Hirai

Mitsuhiro Shimozawa

Masaomi Tsuru

Takanobu Fujiwara

Kengo Kawasaki

There is provided an active phased array antenna in which power to an Si wafer is separated from power to compound semiconductor chips. An active phased array antenna is an active phased array antenna including a substrate having a plurality of antenna elements; a pseudo wafer containing a group of semiconductor chips including a plurality of semiconductor chips made of compound semiconductors; and a silicon wafer made of silicon, the substrate, the pseudo wafer, and the silicon wafer being stacked on top of each other in this order, and the pseudo wafer includes first feeders for supplying power to the group of semiconductor chips from the substrate; and a second feeder for supplying power to the silicon wafer from the substrate, the second feeder passing through the pseudo wafer in a thickness direction of the pseudo wafer.

Active phased array antenna comprising a pseudo wafer including multiple feeders

A mixer includes a first unit mixer, a second unit mixer, a third unit mixer, and a fourth unit mixer that have the same configuration and a first combiner, a second combiner, and a third combiner that have the same configuration. The first to the fourth unit mixers each include a differential RF signal terminal. Output of the first unit mixer and output of the second unit mixer are combined by the second combiner. Output of the third unit mixer and output of the fourth unit mixer are combined by the third combiner. Output of the second combiner and output of the third combiner are combined by the first combiner. The output of the third unit mixer is input to the third combiner with the polarity being determined.

Mixer

A mixer includes: a VGA () configured to amplify one of divided two portions of an input signal at a gain of cos &#x3b8;; a VGA () configured to amplify another one of the divided two portions of the input signal at a gain of sin &#x3b8;; an IQ generator () configured to input an LO wave, and output an LO wave in phase with the input LO wave and an LO wave having a phase difference of 90&#xb0; with respect to the input LO wave; a mixer () configured to input the signal output from the VGA () and the LO wave which is output from the IQ generator (), to output an RF signal; a second mixer () configured to input the signal from the VGA () and the LO wave which is output from the IQ generator, to output an RF signal; and a combiner ().

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Shinya Yokomizo