• DocumentCode
    2169369
  • Title

    Voltage-Controlled Ku-Band PIN Diode Attenuator with a Temperature Compensation Circuit

  • Author

    Jang, Byung-Jun ; Yom, In-Bok ; Lee, Seong-Pal

  • Author_Institution
    Satellite Comm. System Dept., ETRI, Daejon, 305-600, Korea. bjjang@etri.re.kr
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    23-26 Sept. 2002
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    This paper presents voltage-controlled Ku-band PIN diode attenuators and the temperature-compensation method of these attenuators. Measurements over temperature of these PIN diode attenuators were performed. After carefully investigating the temperature characteristics of PIN diode attenuators, we designed voltage-controlled PIN diode attenuators showing the linear attenuation characteristics with input voltage within the temperature range. The fabricated attenuator has demonstrated the improvement of attenuation variation from 15dB to 0.5dB in the temperature range from ¿15°C to 65°C.
  • Keywords
    Attenuation; Attenuators; Automatic control; Capacitors; Diodes; Driver circuits; Radio frequency; Substrates; Temperature distribution; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2002. 32nd European
  • Conference_Location
    Milan, Italy
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.2002.339240
  • Filename
    4140320