Ultrawide-band tunable true-time delay lines using ferroelectric varactors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 6 II, 2005, Pages 2164-2170

  Kuylenstierna, Dan ^a   Vorobiev, Andrei ^a   Linnér, Peter ^a   Gevorgian, Spartak ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Delay line, ferroelectric; Group delay; Tunable; Ultrawide band

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; DISPERSIONS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INDUCTANCE; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MICROWAVES; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

DELAY LINE; GROUP DELAY; TUNABLE; ULTRAWIDE-BAND;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 23144449156     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.848805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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