• DocumentCode
    1647708
  • Title

    Design and characterization of SiC varactor-based phase shifters

  • Author

    Quaglia, R. ; Camarchia, Vittorio ; Anderssony, C.M. ; Pirola, Marco ; Fagery, C. ; Kuylenstiernay, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    897
  • Lastpage
    900
  • Abstract
    Design and realization of two continuously tunable phase shifters for 1.4 GHz band is presented. Both circuits are based on SiC varactors, conceived to enable high-voltage, high-power operation, and suitable for application in the transmitter chain of reconfigurable radios. Experimental characterization shows, for the loaded line phase shifter, 74° maximum phase shift with insertion loss lower than 1 dB, and, for the reflective phase shifter, 90° maximum phase shift and insertion loss lower than 0.6 dB.
  • Keywords
    microwave phase shifters; silicon compounds; varactors; wide band gap semiconductors; SiC; frequency 1.4 GHz; high-voltage high-power operation; insertion loss; reconfigurable radios; reflective phase shifter; transmitter chain; two continuously tunable phase shifters; varactor-based phase shifters; Capacitance; Frequency measurement; Phase measurement; Phase shifters; Silicon carbide; Solid modeling; Varactors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), 2012 7th European
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2302-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-87487-026-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6483946