A study on RF/microwave tunable inductor topologies

Turgul V., NESİMOĞLU T., Yarman B.

2013 13th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium, MMS 2013, Saida, Lübnan, 2 - 05 Eylül 2013, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/mms.2013.6663083
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Saida
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Lübnan
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: intermodulation distortion, non-linearity, tunability, tunable inductor, varactor
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampüsü Adresli: Evet

Özet

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. © 2013 IEEE.