Research on Electronic Materials with Design of a Down-Conversion Mixer Based on Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents principles of a down-converted mixer for four sub-harmonic and proposes a particle swarm optimization algorithm as a global search algorithm, and the performance equation is used as the assessment of the mixer circuit optimization method. Dielectric substrate adopts Electronic Materials with RF/Duroid 5880 whose dielectric constant is 2.20 and 5mil in thickness. The optimization algorithm can quickly get optimal results. The simulation results show that this mixer achieves higher 1 dB compression point, loss of frequency conversion which is less than 15 dB and good linearity.