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A novel approach to co-design microwave devices with distributed switches
- Source :
- Microwave Conference (APMC), 2016 Asia-Pacific, Microwave Conference (APMC), 2016 Asia-Pacific, Dec 2016, New Delhi, India. ⟨10.1109/APMC.2016.7931369⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2016.
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Abstract
- This paper deals with a novel approach to co-design a microstrip line associated with a distributed PIN switch in a semiconductor substrate. An High-Resistivity Silicon (HR-Si) substrate was chosen to optimize the trade-off between semiconductor effects and microwave propagation. Indeed, thanks to this particular substrate, the novel co-design concept is illustrated by an integrated and distributed switch based on an N+PP+ junction. This concept offers great flexibility in the design of tunable microwave devices. Moreover, applied to tunable distributed systems (antennas, filters, etc) in planar technology, it makes it possible to avoid the need for reported components or metalized holes. The coupling between semiconductors and microwave devices is taken into account thanks to a new co-design flow. Two demonstrators, with switchable doped microstrip lines, are manufactured and measured to validate the approach. The performances achieved in terms of insertion losses (IL) and isolation (Iso) were lower than 2.8 dB and higher than 40 dB, respectively, over the whole frequency band under consideration (from DC to 20 GHz).
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Frequency band
Integrated circuits
02 engineering and technology
Substrate (electronics)
Integrated circuit
Microwave devices
Microstrip
law.invention
Planar
law
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Semiconductor diodes
RF Switches
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
business.industry
020208 electrical & electronic engineering
Doping
Electrical engineering
020206 networking & telecommunications
Tunable circuits and devices
[SPI.TRON]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electronics
Semiconductor
Optoelectronics
business
Silicon devices
Microwave
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- 2016 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b2902a5b8d70e3a69b0d9e164b4b326d