RF MEMS zipping varactor with high quality factor and very large tuning range
RF MEMS zipping varactor with high quality factor and very large tuning range
An RF MEMS zipping analog varactor with a high-permittivity bismuth zinc niobate dielectric has been fabricated and characterized. The varactor can be continuously tuned from 10 to 280 fF, with a very large tuning range of 2700%. By use of gold electrodes to ensure a low series resistance, the high quality factors of 317 and 63 at 1 GHz were measured for the minimum and maximum capacitances, respectively. The self-resonance frequency of the varactor is estimated to be 16.6 GHz at the maximum capacitance and 87.6 GHz at the minimum capacitance. With a small device footprint of 540 × 130 ?m2, the zipping varactor is suitable for application in portable reconfigurable RF systems.
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Rotaru, Mihai
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1 October 2016
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Wright, Robert
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Kirby, Paul
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Rotaru, Mihai
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Pu, Suan-Hui, Darbyshire, David, Wright, Robert, Kirby, Paul, Rotaru, Mihai, Holmes, Andrew and Yeatman, Eric
(2016)
RF MEMS zipping varactor with high quality factor and very large tuning range.
IEEE Electron Device Letters, 37 (10), .
(doi:10.1109/LED.2016.2600264).
Abstract
An RF MEMS zipping analog varactor with a high-permittivity bismuth zinc niobate dielectric has been fabricated and characterized. The varactor can be continuously tuned from 10 to 280 fF, with a very large tuning range of 2700%. By use of gold electrodes to ensure a low series resistance, the high quality factors of 317 and 63 at 1 GHz were measured for the minimum and maximum capacitances, respectively. The self-resonance frequency of the varactor is estimated to be 16.6 GHz at the maximum capacitance and 87.6 GHz at the minimum capacitance. With a small device footprint of 540 × 130 ?m2, the zipping varactor is suitable for application in portable reconfigurable RF systems.
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 August 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 August 2016
Published date: 1 October 2016
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/404961
ISSN: 0741-3106
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