Yaractor-based microstrip circuits with high frequency agility and low insertion loss
| Autor: | Yi-Cheng Yang, Nan-Wei Chen, Hao-Chen Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
business.industry Electrical engineering 020206 networking & telecommunications Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY 02 engineering and technology Inductor Capacitance Microstrip law.invention Capacitor Balun law Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electronic engineering Insertion loss business Varicap Hardware_LOGICDESIGN Electronic circuit |
| Zdroj: | 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT). |
| DOI: | 10.1109/rfit.2017.8048230 |
| Popis: | The authors present a straightforward and effective approach for minimizing insertion loss (IL) of varactor-based frequency-agile microstrip passive circuits, where varactors are employed as elements of variable reversal capacitances to attain reconfigurabiltiy/tunability on circuit characteristics. Technically, the proposed approach mimics the required capacitances using the varactors together with the SMD capacitors/inductors rather than entirely using the varactors. With the proposed capacitance synthesis, the varactors are able to operate at a higher quality factor so that IL of the entire circuit is minimized. Also, the capacitance tuning range is further extended. With the proposed loss-reduction avenue, the circuit agility could be enhanced, and its effectiveness is experimentally demonstrated with agility enhancement of a reconfigurable bandpass filter (BPF) and a reconfigurable balun BPF. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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