Chaos in a simple microwave circuit with a PIN diode

Author

Lu, Li ; Du, Zhengwei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 29 2010-Dec. 2 2010

Firstpage

962

Lastpage

965

Abstract

Chaos can cause electromagnetic interference to nonlinear circuits. One typical circuit studied on the chaos in nonlinear circuits is the driven Resistor-Inductor-Diode (RLD) series circuit. This type of circuit can be either a part of low frequency or microwave circuits. The previously published work on this problem has mainly focused on low frequency circuits with ordinary diodes, and only the simplified equivalent circuit model of the diode has been used to carry out in the simulations. This paper studies on whether chaos can arise in the RLD series circuit with a PIN diode at microwave frequency using the drift-diffusion model which is more rigorous. By means of numeric simulations, we find the chaos, and obtain the ranges of the driven voltage frequency and amplitude for the onset of chaos in such RLD circuits.

Keywords

chaos; electromagnetic interference; inductors; microwave circuits; nonlinear network analysis; p-i-n diodes; resistors; PIN diode; driven resistor-inductor-diode series circuit; electromagnetic interference; microwave frequency; nonlinear circuits; simple microwave circuit chaos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas Propagation and EM Theory (ISAPE), 2010 9th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6906-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2010.5696632

Filename

5696632