• DocumentCode
    643247
  • Title

    A study on RF/microwave tunable inductor topologies

  • Author

    Turgul, Volkan ; Nesimoglu, Tayfun ; Yarman, B.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Westminster, London, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    2-5 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Recently, tunable structures gained importance due to frequency agile microwave circuits such as tunable filters, matching networks, amplifiers, etc. that are needed to realize reconfigurable radios. Deploying tunable inductors would increase the flexibility in reconfigurable microwave circuits when used in conjunction with variable capacitors. In this paper we investigate several tunable inductor topologies. Each proposed topology has certain advantages/disadvantages and these are addressed throughout the paper.
  • Keywords
    inductors; microwave circuits; network topology; varactors; RF microwave tunable inductor topologies; amplifiers; matching networks; reconfigurable microwave circuits; reconfigurable radios; tunable filters; variable capacitors; Inductance; Inductors; Insertion loss; Linearity; Topology; Tuning; Varactors; intermodulation distortion; non-linearity; tunability; tunable inductor; varactor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2013 13th Mediterranean
  • Conference_Location
    Saida
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MMS.2013.6663083
  • Filename
    6663083