DocumentCode
2405642
Title
Broadband microwave PIN diode attenuators
Author
Iordanescu, S. ; Simion, G. ; Anton, C. ; Müller, A.
Author_Institution
Nat. Inst. for Res. & Dev. in Microtechnol., Bucharest, Romania
Volume
2
fYear
1998
fDate
6-10 Oct 1998
Firstpage
601
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to analyse and design variable attenuators equipped with ROV 211 chip PIN diodes. Nonlinear effects in such shunt PIN diode attenuators´ are analysed, too. The attenuators are manufactured as hybrid microwave integrated circuits on soft microwave substrate. Insertion losses less than 2 dB and a dynamic range of 27 dB for two octave bandwidth were obtained
Keywords
attenuators; hybrid integrated circuits; microwave diodes; microwave integrated circuits; p-i-n diodes; 2 dB; ROV 211 chip; broadband microwave PIN diode shunt attenuator; dynamic range; hybrid microwave integrated circuit; insertion loss; nonlinear model; soft microwave substrate; Attenuation; Attenuators; Capacitance; Circuits; Dynamic range; Electric resistance; Insertion loss; P-i-n diodes; Radio frequency; Switches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Semiconductor Conference, 1998. CAS '98 Proceedings. 1998 International
Conference_Location
Sinaia
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4432-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SMICND.1998.733821
Filename
733821
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