Theoretical and experimental characterization of distributed analog phase shifter

This paper describes a theoretical study and experimental characterization of distributed phase shifter based on CPW line loaded by MACOM varactor diode. A circuit simulation combined with electro-magnetic simulation is presented and compared with measurement. In this work, we present also an impedance matching method allows adapting our phase shifter without additional circuit. The expression of phase shifting is obtained through the global ABCD matrix of proposed phase shifter circuit and compared with the measurement. The simulations are carried out on Matlab and ADS (Momentum) software´s, a comparison between two simulations and measurement of fabricated phase shifter is made in order to validate the theoretical modeling and experimental characterization, good agreement is obtained.