Title :
A study on RF/microwave tunable inductor topologies
Author :
Turgul, Volkan ; Nesimoglu, Tayfun ; Yarman, B.S.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Westminster, London, UK
Abstract :
Recently, tunable structures gained importance due to frequency agile microwave circuits such as tunable filters, matching networks, amplifiers, etc. that are needed to realize reconfigurable radios. Deploying tunable inductors would increase the flexibility in reconfigurable microwave circuits when used in conjunction with variable capacitors. In this paper we investigate several tunable inductor topologies. Each proposed topology has certain advantages/disadvantages and these are addressed throughout the paper.
Keywords :
inductors; microwave circuits; network topology; varactors; RF microwave tunable inductor topologies; amplifiers; matching networks; reconfigurable microwave circuits; reconfigurable radios; tunable filters; variable capacitors; Inductance; Inductors; Insertion loss; Linearity; Topology; Tuning; Varactors; intermodulation distortion; non-linearity; tunability; tunable inductor; varactor;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2013 13th Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
Saida
DOI :
10.1109/MMS.2013.6663083
