Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes
Branch-line couplers (BLCs) are commonly used in the wireless systems. To achieve reconfigurable applications, switchable BLCs with p-i-n diodes can be used. Several studies have used diode parasitic reverse-biased capacitor and forward-biased inductor to approach off and on states. Although the cap...
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| author | Pu-Hua Deng Ming-Wei Li Wei-Ting Chen Chen-Hsiang Lin Chieh-Hung Lu Ren-Fu Tsai Kai-Hung Chen |
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| description | Branch-line couplers (BLCs) are commonly used in the wireless systems. To achieve reconfigurable applications, switchable BLCs with p-i-n diodes can be used. Several studies have used diode parasitic reverse-biased capacitor and forward-biased inductor to approach off and on states. Although the capacitance and inductance are usually low, the parasitic effect may degrade predicted switching responses. This study proposes five reconfigurable switching microstrip BLCs. Each of the first two presented BLCs uses shunt to ground diodes for realizing two switching modes. The first mode with reverse-biased capacitors for perfect matching design is equivalent to a conventional branch-line coupler (BLC). The second mode uses low forward-biased inductances to approach shunt to ground, which transfers most signal power from Port 1 to Port 2/4; however, parasitic inductors produce some mismatches. To improve this problem, the proposed third or fourth BLC achieves two perfect matching modes by using shunt stub-loaded diodes. Specifically, by using four stub-loaded diodes, the proposed final BLC exhibits three perfect matching modes and one perfect isolation mode under a lossless ideal circuit condition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e738a9f0575942cb8132dbce1b63a6722022-12-21T22:23:51ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01822308922310010.1109/ACCESS.2020.30434399288675Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N DiodesPu-Hua Deng0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1616-9754Ming-Wei Li1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7987-2287Wei-Ting Chen2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6031-4402Chen-Hsiang Lin3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7976-3478Chieh-Hung Lu4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-3439Ren-Fu Tsai5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9392-0118Kai-Hung Chen6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-1176Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, TaiwanInstitute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TaiwanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, TaiwanCompal Electronics, Inc., Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, TaiwanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, TaiwanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, TaiwanBranch-line couplers (BLCs) are commonly used in the wireless systems. To achieve reconfigurable applications, switchable BLCs with p-i-n diodes can be used. Several studies have used diode parasitic reverse-biased capacitor and forward-biased inductor to approach off and on states. Although the capacitance and inductance are usually low, the parasitic effect may degrade predicted switching responses. This study proposes five reconfigurable switching microstrip BLCs. Each of the first two presented BLCs uses shunt to ground diodes for realizing two switching modes. The first mode with reverse-biased capacitors for perfect matching design is equivalent to a conventional branch-line coupler (BLC). The second mode uses low forward-biased inductances to approach shunt to ground, which transfers most signal power from Port 1 to Port 2/4; however, parasitic inductors produce some mismatches. To improve this problem, the proposed third or fourth BLC achieves two perfect matching modes by using shunt stub-loaded diodes. Specifically, by using four stub-loaded diodes, the proposed final BLC exhibits three perfect matching modes and one perfect isolation mode under a lossless ideal circuit condition.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9288675/Branch-linecouplerdiodematchingparasitic effectreconfigurable |
| spellingShingle | Pu-Hua Deng Ming-Wei Li Wei-Ting Chen Chen-Hsiang Lin Chieh-Hung Lu Ren-Fu Tsai Kai-Hung Chen Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes IEEE Access Branch-line coupler diode matching parasitic effect reconfigurable |
| title | Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes |
| title_full | Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes |
| title_fullStr | Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes |
| title_short | Designs of Branch-Line Couplers by Considering the Parasitic Effects of P-I-N Diodes |
| title_sort | designs of branch line couplers by considering the parasitic effects of p i n diodes |
| topic | Branch-line coupler diode matching parasitic effect reconfigurable |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9288675/ |
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