High Frequency Properties of RF Planar Passive Components

EECS 142 Laboratory # 1 High Frequency Passive Components

Rf Front-end Design with Copper Passive Components

In this paper we evaluate the impact of copper passive components on RF circuit performance. A fully-differential RF Front-end is used as a test vehicle to compare the UMC 0.18 micron copper process with a traditional 0.25 micron aluminium process. The RF Front-end contains a balun and a low noise amplifier (LNA) that are designed with spiral inductors and capacitors. Spiral inductor Q values r...

A generic micromachined silicon platform for high-performance RF passive components

This paper describes the development of a micromachined silicon platform fabricated using the dissolved wafer process that supports: (1) high self-resonance frequency and quality factor inductors suspended on a dielectric membrane, (2) low-loss thin-film capacitors, and (3) polysilicon resistors. The process uses deep boron diffusion to create silicon anchors, which support a stress compensated...

High Frequency Electronics High Frequency Design RF POWER AMPLIFIERS

RF and microwave power amplifiers and transmitters are used in a wide variety of applications including wireless communication, jamming, imaging, radar, and RF heating. This article provides an introduction and historical background for the subject, and begins the technical discussion with material on signals, linearity, efficiency, and RF-power devices. At the end, there is a convenient summar...

Overmoded Waveguide Components for High-Power RF

High-power applications of rf often require the use of overmoded waveguide to reduce the probability of rf breakdown by lowering surface fields, as well as to reduce the attenuation due to ohmic losses in transporting the power from the point of generation to the point of use. This is particularly true in the development of warm linear collider designs, such as NLC, JLC, and CLIC, especially th...