• DocumentCode
    1334830
  • Title

    Monolithic Ka-band phase shifter using voltage tunable BaSrTiO3 parallel plate capacitors

  • Author

    Erker, Erich G. ; Nagra, Amit S. ; Liu, Yu ; Periaswamy, Padmini ; Taylor, Troy R. ; Speck, James ; York, Robert A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    10
  • Lastpage
    12
  • Abstract
    Monolithic Ka-band phase shifter circuit that employs voltage tunable BaSrTiO3 (BST) parallel plate capacitors is presented here. The circuit is capable of continuous 0°-157° phase shift at 30 GHz with an insertion loss of only 5.8 dB and return loss better than 12 dB. In addition to promising loss performance (27.1°/dB) at 30 GHz, the circuit reported here has several advantages over previously reported BST phase shifters such as moderate control voltages (20 V), room temperature operation, and compatibility with monolithic fabrication techniques
  • Keywords
    MIMIC; MMIC phase shifters; coplanar waveguides; delay lines; ferroelectric capacitors; losses; millimetre wave phase shifters; varactors; 20 V; 30 GHz; 5.8 dB; BaSrTiO3; control voltages; insertion loss; loss performance; monolithic Ka-band phase shifter; monolithic fabrication techniques; parallel plate capacitors; return loss; room temperature operation; voltage tunable capacitors; Binary search trees; Capacitors; Conductive films; Dielectric substrates; Ferroelectric films; Ferroelectric materials; Performance loss; Phase shifters; Tunable circuits and devices; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1051-8207
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/75.842071
  • Filename
    842071