• DocumentCode
    1783384
  • Title

    Decade bandwidth 4 bits MMIC phase shifter for T/R modules

  • Author

    Ferrari, Mauro ; Piattella, Luca

  • Author_Institution
    Elettron. S.p.A., Rome, Italy
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    6-7 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    245
  • Lastpage
    248
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the design approach and test results of a full passive, decade bandwidth GaAs MMIC, composed by a phase shifter (PS) with a cascaded absorptive SPDT switch, suitable for T/R modules in Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA). The proposed PS - fabricated using a GaAs 0.25 PHEMT process - combines all-pass filters (APF) with high-pass filters (HPF), in order to provide less than 13dB insertion loss, less than ±20° phase error and less than ±2.5 dB amplitude error in the 0.8-8GHz bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; MMIC phase shifters; all-pass filters; gallium arsenide; high electron mobility transistors; high-pass filters; integrated circuit design; wide band gap semiconductors; PHEMT process; active electronically scanned array; all-pass filters; bandwidth 0.8 GHz to 8 GHz; cascaded absorptive SPDT switch; decade bandwidth 4 bits MMIC phase shifter; high-pass filters; Bandwidth; MMICs; Microwave circuits; Microwave filters; Phase shifters; Topology; Broadband; MMIC; Monolithic Phase Shifters; T/R module;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    European Microwave Integrated Circuit Conference (EuMIC), 2014 9th
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EuMIC.2014.6997838
  • Filename
    6997838