1. Experimental Verification of Microwave Phase Shifters Using Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) Varactors
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Devin Spatz, Kaushik Annam, Eunsung Shin, and Guru Subramanyam
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010302 applied physics ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Coplanar waveguide ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Capacitor ,law ,Transmission line ,0103 physical sciences ,Insertion loss ,Optoelectronics ,Figure of merit ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Varicap ,Phase shift module ,Electronic circuit - Abstract
In this paper, parallel plate varactor based phase shifter circuits using Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) thin films are presented. A cascade of 10, 15 and 20 parallel plate varactors were able to produce (150°, 258°, 297°), (218°, 381°,443°) and (227°, 402°, 464°) phase shift at (5, 10, 12 GHz) respectively. The 360° phase shift is achieved with small device size, low bias voltages (0-8 V), low leakage currents, low insertion loss and high figure of merit (FOM). FOM of 40, 33, 24 Degrees/dB is achieved with 10, 15 and 20 shunt varactors at 12 GHz respectively. The proposed circuit is very easy to fabricate which uses a CPW transmission line configuration and can be easily integrated with other circuits on chip.
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- 2019
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