Passive compensation of temperature instability of micro-wave diode power detectors

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Authors: Nechaev V. G., Zagorodniy A. S., Zabolotskiy A. M.

Annotation: The article presents the results of a study of the temperature effect on the characteristics of low-barrier ZB-28 diodes with a cutoff frequency over 100 GHz and diode detectors of micro-wave signal power based on them. A method is proposed to compensate the temperature instability of detectors, implement-ed by including an additional reference diode in the diode detec-tor circuit. The main results presented of experimental studies for the developed detector with passive temperature compensa-tion are presented

Keywords: diode power detector, low barrier diode, temperature testing, output voltage deviation, temperature stability