Using a negative capacitance to increase the tuning range of a varactor diode in MMIC technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2425-2430

  Kolev, Svilen ^a,b,c   Delacressonnière, Bruno ^a,b   Gautier, Jean Luc ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b Equipe Micro Ondes   (France)

^c Corning Inc ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Immitance converters; MMICs; MODFETs; Varactors

Indexed keywords

IMMITANCE CONVERTERS;

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TUNING;

VARACTORS;

EID: 0035687077     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.971631     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. S. Kolev, "Design of active circuits simulating tunable capacitances with wide tuning range in MMIC technology," Ph.D. dissertation, Microwave Eng. Dept., Univ. Paris VI, Paris, France, 1996.
2. S. Kolev, B. Delacressonniere, and J.-L. Gautier, "Novel microwave negative capacitance. Application to a wide-range tunable capacitance," in Proc. 30rd European Microwave Conf., vol. 1, Paris, France, 2000, pp. 87-89.
3. S. Susman-Fort and L. Billonnet, "A NIC-based negative capacitance circuit for microwave active filters," Int. J. Microwave Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Eng., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 271-277, 1995.