• DocumentCode
    2299131
  • Title

    Compact circulator based phase shifter at C-band in BiCMOS

  • Author

    Mayer, Uwe ; Ellinger, Frank ; Eickhoff, Ralf

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Circuit Design & Network Theor., Dresden Univ. of Technol., Dresden, Germany
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    7-9 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    499
  • Lastpage
    502
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an active BiCMOS circulator based phase shifter suitable for spatial diversity transceivers in the C-band. Up to 10 GHz, a phase control range of at least 90 deg and a gain of 0 plusmn 0.5 dB can be realized. The circuit uses a single supply of 1.8 V and draws a maximum current of 4.6 mA. The proposed phase control principle neither needs inductors nor varactors yielding a simple phase control and very compact core size of only 0.023 mm2.
  • Keywords
    BiCMOS integrated circuits; phase shifters; BiCMOS; compact circulator; current 4.6 mA; phase control principle; phase shifter; spatial diversity transceivers; voltage 1.8 V; Antenna accessories; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Diversity reception; Filters; Phase control; Phase shifters; Radio frequency; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; Tunable circuits and devices; BiCMOS; C-band; Phase shifter; adaptive antenna combining; circulator;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2009. RFIC 2009. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA
  • ISSN
    1529-2517
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3377-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1529-2517
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135589
  • Filename
    5135589